Battery-problem Magic Mouse

It is now happening again (second time). The magic mouse goes from 90% battery level to 19% during a day suddenly after about 2 months of use. What is happening?

I figured out the problem for my Magic Mouse. I collect high end LED Torches. I have a DMM, so I test batteries constantly. My first set of batteries lasted about 3 weeks. Replaced them with two energizer lithiums.
After about two weeks the mouse went from 100% to 26% in about 1 day. So, I tested the batteries. The left compartment battery was at 1.6. - 1.7 and up is brand new. The right compartment was .26. Light Bulb going off. Just replaced the right side battery. Two weeks later, batteries need replaced. The left was 1.5 the right .20
The Magic Mouse is defective in some units in my opinion. It is only using one side of the power source. I will be visiting a genius at the Apple Store in South Hills on Thursday.

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Cross posting:
Perhaps inquire directly of Apple Care. Gizmodo's review (http://gizmodo.com/5386202/apple-magic-mouse-review ) relays a claim about the Magic Mouse battery life saying, "it's powered by two AA batteries, which get up to four months of use per charge, according to Apple."
Engadget's preview (link follows) included the same reference, the related headline read, "Apple's Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life."
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/apples-magic-mouse-multitouch-gestures-blueto oth-four-month/
Finding support for Gizmodo's reference ("according to Apple") and Engadget's headline may be a little more difficult. Perhaps I haven't read the press release carefully enough. Clip below, from that Apple press release:
"Apple Introduces Magic Mouse," press release, 20 Oct 2009, Apple.com (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/10/20magicmouse.html : accessed 24 Nov 2009), in part, "Magic Mouse uses Bluetooth wireless capabilities to create a clean, cable-free desk top and its secure wireless connection works from up to 10 meters away. To extend battery performance, Magic Mouse includes an advanced power management system that works with Mac OS® X to automatically switch to low power modes during periods of inactivity. The wireless Magic Mouse is powered by two AA batteries which are included."
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Hi Kenichi Watanabe:
Would seem some Apple reference reported the Magic Mouse batteries should last four months. I've only found items that report the reference (have not located the reference itself). Clips below are cross posted, but if you search the Internet for the terms ["Magic Mouse" four months] (without the brackets), you'll find a whole series of early reviews and comments containing the same reference to four month battery life.
Perhaps inquire directly of Apple Care. Gizmodo's review (http://gizmodo.com/5386202/apple-magic-mouse-review ) relays a claim about the Magic Mouse battery life saying, "it's powered by two AA batteries, which get up to four months of use per charge, according to Apple."
Engadget's preview (link follows) included the same reference, the related headline read, "Apple's Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life."
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/apples-magic-mouse-multitouch-gestures-blueto oth-four-month/
Finding support for Gizmodo's reference ("according to Apple") and Engadget's headline may be a little more difficult. Perhaps I haven't read the press release carefully enough. Clip below, from that Apple press release:
"Apple Introduces Magic Mouse," press release, 20 Oct 2009, Apple.com (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/10/20magicmouse.html : accessed 24 Nov 2009), in part, "Magic Mouse uses Bluetooth wireless capabilities to create a clean, cable-free desk top and its secure wireless connection works from up to 10 meters away. To extend battery performance, Magic Mouse includes an advanced power management system that works with Mac OS® X to automatically switch to low power modes during periods of inactivity. The wireless Magic Mouse is powered by two AA batteries which are included."
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It might be one of the software that you might be using.
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Thanks for the link David. I used the Community Forums because I've found in the past that Apple Support do monitor them and do pick up problems with Apple gear and pass the info back to their developers. Mostly I used the Community Forums because I just couldn't find the link you provided, so thanks again.
ps Apple & Macintosh are one in the same. My Apple Wireless Keyboard & Apple Magi Mouse are actually performing as per the descriptions in their respective user manuals, especially in terms of how they report battery state through their built in LED lights. So I deduced this as a problem with the Mac-mini Bluetooth Stack, so beleive it is appropriate to this forum.
I'm sure other users have noticed this, or similar problems, so perhaps they will add their experience of this issue to my original post. When I did a search of the Community Forums using the search term "Keyboard OR Mouse AND Battery" I found plenty of similar issues.
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Not using any mouse pad, I have a very smooth desktop. But I just tried to use a sheet of A4 printing paper, but no result, the problem persisted.
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iMac 27", mid 2011
16 GB 1333Mhz
Using OS X Yosemite, Safari, Magic Mouse
one day no problem at all, the next day, without any new installations:
Whenever I use the swipe gesture to go back to a previous page,
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Shutting down Safari and restarting it works.
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Hi seventy one,
many thanks for your efforts to help me!!
but I just solved my problem doing the exact same as someone else did:
I cite him here:
BidgeMar 10, 2015 7:05 PM Re: Magic Mouse Scrolling Issue
Re: Magic Mouse Scrolling Issuein response to Linc Davis
Hi Linc
Thank you for the extremely detailed response.
I think I have the issue solved for the minute at least.
I not only disconnected every cable from the Mac, as I had previously done, I also disconnected every cable from my peripherals and powered down every peripheral as well, then re-wired my set-up. This seems to have solved the issue. Not sure of the technical reason that this would have fixed my problem, but it seems to have fixed the issue for the moment anyway.
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Thanks for the info, though it seems my magic mouse is fixed, after i posted my problem here, i decided to let it rest till next mornig to see if whether it was definitively spoiled or it was an isolated event, so this mornig as soon as i was able to check it out i turned on my mac and it worked as good it allways did, no traces of the tracking problem i had a few hours before, though i checked the green light underneath and to my surprise it still acted as i described before. As soon as the lasser is covered the green led goes off but this time the tracking still worked as it should, so i think its something every magic mouse does in order to save battery and to extend this led light life. The truth is that i never paid attention to this behaviour before.
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Thanks den.thed. That discussion was LONG one! It did however cover a lot of areas and there did seem to be valid links indicating that Apple indicated the batteries would last up to 4 months. Someone indicated that it doesnt do any good to turn the mouse or keyboard off as they go into some type of auto sleep if not in use. I may try rechargeable batteries Nimh after these present alkalines run out. I have used Sanyo Eneloop in my camera after recommendations on a camera site and have found them extremely long lasting in the camera so that may also be the case in the mouse. They are only 2000 maH but are real performers.
The mouse problem isnt really a big one and I can live with it, but thought if I was doing something wrong, I could rectify it. Thanks for the links.

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From scanning the forums, there seem to be two suggested approaches to fixing this.
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Remove any possible sources of interference in the 2.4Ghz band- Move your DECT phone further away. Switch to 5GHz wifi for the macbook and phones or ipad if you can. If needs be, turn off possible sources of interference in this frequency range in your location one by one until you can isolate the problem.
This has been a problem on and off for a year or so.
I've just tried the bit of paper, and it does seem to be helping so far- fingers crossed.
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I have an iMac 27" that my Wireless keyboard came with and a 15" 2.2ghz i7 Quad and go between using both the keyboard and magic mouse with both of the machines.
However on the iMac the new keyboard shows 40% while the MBP shows 67%
the mouse is the same.
Magic Mouse on iMac is 87% and the MBP 100%
a few weeks ago before i picked up the rechargable battery kit from Apple, i had duracell batteries in the magic mouse and it said 100% for weeks straight which never made sense then randomly said there was 6% left and prompted to replace the batteries.
is this a hardware issue with the MBP bluetooth or just some glitch in software?
the iMac is 27" fresh out of the box 10.6.4 while MBP was updated using the 10.6.7 for MBP update.
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For me the late 2009 Aluminium Keyboard firmware update seems to have had a positive effect on the battery life of the Magic Mouse as well. Anyone else noticed this?
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Good to hear. I still have the same batteries in my keyboard since I bought the iMac on Dec. 28. Almost 2 months and they're at 58%. I obviously did the update so I don't know how its affected the battery life. I put lithium batteries in the mouse a week ago and they're still at 100%. Looking forward to seeing how long they will last. I was getting a month with alkalines before the update and I was fine with that but this should blow that away.

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