Bluetooth (BCM94352Z) isn't working on GA-H170N-WIFI

[AustinFelipe]

Hey guys,

My OSX (El Capitan) is working fine. My problem now is with its bluetooth, which I can turn on and turn off, but I can't detect my devices (Magic mouse and mobile). Recently, I bought the BCM94352Z chip and installed in my GA-H170N-WIFI. The wifi is working fine.

I followed this post here to install the OSX. It was there where I read about BCM94352Z being a good choice.

Thank you for any help!

 

[nobodynose]

Hey guys,

My OSX (El Capitan) is working fine. My problem now is with its bluetooth, which I can turn on and turn off, but I can't detect my devices (Magic mouse and mobile). Recently, I bought the BCM94352Z chip and installed in my GA-H170N-WIFI. The wifi is working fine.

I followed this post here to install the OSX. It was there where I read about BCM94352Z being a good choice.

Thank you for any help!

There's a lot more information about the BCM94352Z in this thread, but the problem could be USB-related. Apple completely rewrote their USB subsystem in El Capitan, which has caused a lot of problems with USB devices. The Bluetooth device on that combo card is USB. This thread has lots of information about various fixes for El Cap. USB problems (the fixes are different depending on your motherboard's chipset), but for 100-series motherboards like yours, the fix is to install USBInjectAll.kext, possibly with a custom SSDT for doing the USB port injection.

 

[Wolfgang12]

Hello AustinFelipe,
same issue here. (How) did you get this solved?
Thx!

 

[seba737]

Hello, try this one it works for me with keyboard, magic track pad 2 and magic mouse 2 for El Capitan.

 

[Wolfgang12]

Hi seba737,

thanks for answering! So you are suggesting, to remove the 4 kext files below first, right?
Just to be sure, you have the same hardware, GA-H170N-WIFI + BCM94352Z?

BTW:
The Hackintosh is visible via BT on my phone, and sometimes it even pairs - then I am able to browse the phones files on the Hackintosh. But the Hackintosh itself doesn't find any BT devices.

Thx!


According to http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-el-capitan-on-the-skylake-h170n-wifi.178197/ the kext files to use are
- FakePCIID.kext
- FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi.kext
- BcrmPatchRAM2.kext
- BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext
and USBInjectAll.kext

According to https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM/ the correct Firmware for my 0A5c_216F is BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1572_v5668.zhx

system.log tells me, that this is actually loading fine - meaning there are no error messages.

Jun 9 20:46:03 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4360::init AirPortFamily_kexts-1110.28 "AirPortFamily_kexts-1110.28" Apr 19 2016 21:16:56
Jun 9 20:46:04 localhost kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Version 2.2.3 starting on OS X Darwin 15.5.
Jun 9 20:46:04 localhost kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Published new IOKit personality for BrcmFirmwareStore.
Jun 9 20:46:04 localhost kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Published new IOKit personality for BrcmPatchRAMResidency.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM: Loaded firmware "BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1572_v5668.zhx" from resources.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM: Decompressed firmware (29651 bytes --> 70012 bytes).
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM: Firmware is valid IntelHex firmware.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: USB [C48E8FFAAE68 v274] "BCM20702A0" by "Broadcom Corp"
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Firmware upgrade not needed.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Published new IOKit personality.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Processing time 0.785 seconds.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Version 2.2.3 starting on OS X Darwin 15.5.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: USB [C48E8FFAAE68 v274] "BCM20702A0" by "Broadcom Corp"
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Firmware upgrade not needed.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Found existing IOKit personality "com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport".
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Processing time 0.2 seconds.

 

[seba737]

Hi seba737,

thanks for answering! So you are suggesting, to remove the 4 kext files below first, right?
Just to be sure, you have the same hardware, GA-H170N-WIFI + BCM94352Z?

BTW:
The Hackintosh is visible via BT on my phone, and sometimes it even pairs - then I am able to browse the phones files on the Hackintosh. But the Hackintosh itself doesn't find any BT devices.

Thx!


According to http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-el-capitan-on-the-skylake-h170n-wifi.178197/ the kext files to use are
- FakePCIID.kext
- FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi.kext
- BcrmPatchRAM2.kext
- BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext
and USBInjectAll.kext

According to https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM/ the correct Firmware for my 0A5c_216F is BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1572_v5668.zhx

system.log tells me, that this is actually loading fine - meaning there are no error messages.

Jun 9 20:46:03 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4360::init AirPortFamily_kexts-1110.28 "AirPortFamily_kexts-1110.28" Apr 19 2016 21:16:56
Jun 9 20:46:04 localhost kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Version 2.2.3 starting on OS X Darwin 15.5.
Jun 9 20:46:04 localhost kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Published new IOKit personality for BrcmFirmwareStore.
Jun 9 20:46:04 localhost kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Published new IOKit personality for BrcmPatchRAMResidency.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM: Loaded firmware "BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1572_v5668.zhx" from resources.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM: Decompressed firmware (29651 bytes --> 70012 bytes).
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM: Firmware is valid IntelHex firmware.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: USB [C48E8FFAAE68 v274] "BCM20702A0" by "Broadcom Corp"
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Firmware upgrade not needed.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Published new IOKit personality.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Processing time 0.785 seconds.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Version 2.2.3 starting on OS X Darwin 15.5.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: USB [C48E8FFAAE68 v274] "BCM20702A0" by "Broadcom Corp"
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Firmware upgrade not needed.
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: [0a5c:216f]: Found existing IOKit personality "com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport".
Jun 9 20:46:05 Hackintosh kernel[0]: BrcmPatchRAM2: Processing time 0.2 seconds.

Just open kext utility and drag the 4 files into the window, check if sip is disabled, it works for me that way...

 

[Wolfgang12]

Sorry for not reading further before posting...

Solution for me is here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-el-capitan-on-the-skylake-h170n-wifi.178197/page-43
Post #425

After attaching the stupid antenna, detection of BT devices also works now.
Checked phone, BT speaker and Apple Keyboard.

 

[wlit]

Sorry for not reading further before posting...

Solution for me is here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-el-capitan-on-the-skylake-h170n-wifi.178197/page-43
Post #425

After attaching the stupid antenna, detection of BT devices also works now.
Checked phone, BT speaker and Apple Keyboard.

Can you guys provide some help in below thread. My Bluetooth is able to discover the Non-Apple branded keyboard but unable to pair. However, I am able to pair it with a Bluetooth speaker and has sound. I am not sure if it is the Bluetooth issue or the keyboard issue? Antenna is attached BTW. Thank you!

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/unable-to-connect-to-bluetooth-keyboard.213089/