Dropped my Mighty Mouse. Anyway to fix it?

My sister actually dropped my mighty mouse. Now when I shake it there seems to be a loose spring or something. Is there anyway to open it up and try to fix it?
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  • Mighty mouse scrolls up only

    hello,
    i love using the mighty mouse but today i read an email and scrolled as usual.
    suddenly i only was not able to scroll down anymore in any application. scrolling up, left and right works as always. it's really strange.
    rebooting my powerbook and unplugging the mouse did not resolve the problem.
    any hints?
    thanks a lot,
    michael

    Welcome to Apple discussions, Michael.
    Occasionally I have a very similar problem as well. It will not scroll in up or down but scrolling in all the other directions (left, right or diagonally) will be fine.
    What I have found (with my own Mighty Mouse anyway) is that I just need to press and hold the scroll wheel harder, almost as hard as I would need to 'click-drag' something on the screen. After that it will work normally again.
    Fortunately it doesn't happen all that often - but often enough to be memorable.
    Don't know if it will help with your problem, but probably still worth a try.
    15" 1.25GHz/12" 1GHz PBs, PPC Mac minis, 12" iBooks G3/G4,   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   Cube, TAMs, iPods 2G/4G, iPs, AEBS, AX

  • Resetting bluetooth may fix your mighty mouse scroll button

    I have had this problem with the scroll button on my mighty mouse for months and months, and the only advise I have managed to get from here when I complained was to clean it. But I tried that many times and I have had nothing but problems with it, so much so that I recently called Apple and they agreed straight away to send me a new one.
    What made me call them today was the clicking action and side buttons on my mighty mouse also failed completely, and I thought the thing was totally broke. Whilst I was on the phone I happened to mention that my wireless keyboard also keeps losing its connection, and the advisor told me to do this following...
    This advise was used on my MacBook 13.3inch model from last year.
    Turn off Mac, removed the power and battery and hold down the power button for 5 seconds. Then turn it back on, but while you turn it back on hold down the altcmnd+RP buttons together. You will hear it ching two times as it turns on, let go after the second ching.
    This apparently resets the bluetooth and it fixed my mouse, it now works perfectly.
    Anyway, I called apple back to say that this reset not only fixed my keyboard, but also my mouse. Everything now works perfectly. The problem was bluetooth all along and not that the button needed cleaning.
    But they said they would still send me out a new one, and so long as they received a mouse back in the post they wouldn't charge me. I accepted that offer and I'll see how it goes with the one I have. I feel that I may have damaged the scroll button trying to clean it and feel that I probably should get a new one anyway on account of that.

    Hello stu:
    What you apparently did (based on the feedback you got from from Apple) is reset the SMC (system management controller) and the PRAM. When one has odd problems that do not appear software related, those are sometimes suggested as troubleshooting steps.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
    Resetting the SMC should not, however, be used until other avenues have been exhausted (based on Apple guidance)
    Barry
    Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill

  • Dropped my canon rebel t4i,broke off canon symbol under flash is there anyway to fix this???

    dropped my canon rebel t4i camera,broke off canon symbol just under flash hard plastic piece.Is there anyway to fix this???

    Depending on the extent of the damage (and if you're sure that's all it is) then Canon service likely can pop on a new part. 
    BUT... parts don't necessarily break down to the component level you and I might imagine.  I've heard of people needing a new "dial" on the camera and what they have to get is a whole new top-assembly (not just the one little bit that they need.)
    The only way to know is for you to contact Canon service.  I'm not sure if you can get a price quote over the phone.  You may have to send it in.  The only way to know is to call.
    Tim Campbell
    5D II, 5D III, 60Da

  • Mighty Mouse and keyboard bluetooth drop

    I have spent the past 2 days restarting my computer to get it to recognize bluetooth mighty mouse and keyboard for imac. Now it see's neither, even with brand new batteries in each. Have had to revert to older keyboard and mouse (both bluetooth). Ideas?

    Hello:
    Reset the SMC and PRAM.
    Barry

  • Mighty Mouse Random Clicking

    OK, so the search function is disabled until tomorrow, so please don't flame me for not searching...
    Starting this morning, my mighty mouse (wired) started clicking (second button clicking, I think) randomly, preventing me essentially from using it as it would continuously click while I tried to work, pushing my current application into the background. Am using a wireless Microsoft mouse as a backup currently.
    I have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the mouse numerous times, and have even unplugged and replugged the power supply (UPS) in case there was some kind of "lost ground" issue.
    I am a new iMac user about to drop my Windows machine altogether, and this clicking problem is driving me crazy! Any suggestions?

    I might have found the solution to your problem.
    I just purchased an iMac for a friend, and was telling them how Mac's are a lot better than PC's. We removed his old PC, threw it aside and set-up his new Mac. When it was all set-up the mouse started to do this crazy clicking and entering Exposé randomly, also the right click function would not work.
    My friend was not impressed with his first experience with Mac.
    Anyway, we called Applecare to no avail, they didn't have a clue of what was happening. I then took the whole computer back to the store and they set it up at their shop to test it and it worked perfectly. I stood there scratching my head. I took the computer to my place and it worked perfectly there all day.
    Later I took it back to my friends house and guess what? They mouse is going all crazy again.
    We tried setting it up in different rooms in his house, also to no avail.
    At this point we where going to return the whole system and get another one. Then I decided to use trusty Google search and I found this article in some forum www.macintouch.com/readerreports/mightymouse/topic4048.html I scrolled down and read many others with the same problem and what they did to solve the problem.
    From the forum I gathered that there is a design flaw in the mouse that Apple doesn't know about. It makes the mouse extremely sensitive to your body's static electricity because it doesn't have proper grounding. That is why your Microsoft mouse works and the Mighty Mouse doesn't. I further gathered that the reason it worked at my house and not at my friends is probably due to bad earth connection at his house or to some appliance interfering with the static in the air.
    The bad earth connection theory was pretty much proved by people stating that when they touched the metal case or the metal keyboard with one hand, and using the mouse with the other, the erratic behaviour would stop. Why? because you are earthing the static in your body through the metal on the iMac. Try it yourself, it should work.
    There are 2 solutions to this:
    1. Get an qualified electrician to come to your house and check that the earth is 100% at your house.
    2. Get another mouse until Apple acknowledge the problem and fix it in their next batch of Mighty Mouse.
    I didn't want to spend big buck to get an electrician to check the whole house, so I am opting for the second solution and taking the wired mouse that came with the iMac and swapping it for and unwired version, hopefully that will solve the problem. I'm going into the shop today, I will let you know how I went.
    Sorry for the long response, but the more info you are armed with the better a fight you have to get Apple to solve the problem at minimum cost to you.
    I hope this helps you

  • Mighty Mouse scroll ball problem

    I have had this Mighty Mouse for about a year and a half and the only problem has been the scroll ball. Every once in a while it won't scroll down. I was told to hold it upside down and rub the ball good with a wool cloth. Basically every time it did the trick. Now it won't scroll down anymore (it scrolls everywhere else though). Is there something broken inside? Is there anyway to take it apart? Not being able to scroll down is quite annoying and I'd love to be able to do it again.
    Scrolling down, the ball moves but doesn't make the little clicking like sound like it does in any other direction. Any advice?

    Hi. Sometimes using a clear spirit such as denatured alcohol (or vodka...) instead of the water suggested here
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302417
    helps - but I've had one that wouldn't be fixed, and was replaced. Good Luck.

  • Mighty mouse laser too powerfull !

    I bought my first mighty mouse and had a right-click problem with it (not working an intermitant way, I had to reset to get it back).
    Then I changed it, the right-click is okay, but I have another issue :
    It is difficult to "drag & drop" the mouse on the table the regular way you do with a mouse. The laser still "see" the table when I lift the mouse to move my arm, the cursor does move with it at the beginning of my movement.
    The solution is to lift my hand a bit more, but it is not confortable for me.
    I have the sensation I did not have this issue with my first mighty.
    Any one do have the same experience ?

    Hmm I can't quite imagine that someone could gain access and make that happen... unless you are set up for remote desktop access and someone has discovered your password?
    There was meant to be a bluetooth exploit that this guy claimed to have created a worm for a while back but this was aparently patched quite a while ago, and tbh i'm not really sure how genuine that threat was. there seems to be an increacing amount of people claiming to have found exploits just to try and get paid off by apple and the security companies seem to focus there efforts on creating viruses to make their software worthwhile.
    Anyway, i think this is more of a slight glitch which is what we get for the forbiden act of purchasing prety much a 1 gen product... i know there was a bluetooth mouse before this one but it was pretty different.
    hopefully therer will be a firmware update in the near future to iron out these little snags for us.

  • Mighty Mouse Can't Scroll Down?

    I am having trouble with the Wireless Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. For some odd reason the Scroll Ball will no longer scroll Down? Has anyone else had any of these problems? Does anyone know how to fix them? If so please let me know.
    ~Benjamin Spence
    Message was edited by: Benguitar

    Hmm well I have seen the first article...
    I just now tried the second article I cleaned it and everything but I am still unable to scroll down...
    I do not have Vertical Scrolling Disabled.
    Like I said this mouse is a Hand-Me-Down from my Dad and he has gone through about 5 of them because of this problem. ALTHOUGH His doesn't clean his Apple products that much (it gets on my nerves) BUT I tried Cleaning it and I am still unable to scroll down wards...
    The retail price for Mighty Mouses are?
    $50.00 or $60.00 for the BlueTooth?
    and $30.00 for the Wire Mighty Mouses?
    I am thinking maybe I should purchase anther one and have it be MY Mighty Mouse and clean it regularly.
    I am using the Mighty Mouse now and it works fine except I can scroll down but I would hate to but another because this one works very well.
    I am wondering if Apple could "clean" it if I dropped it off at my local Apple store? Although I could just buy another if I did that?
    But if anyone has any other ideas or any other help they could give me that would be great.
    ~Benjamin

  • Thanks for the advice - mighty mouse is actually quite mighty

    so a while ago I started a thread looking for opinions on what mouse to get to replace my HORRIBLE kensington bluetooth optical pilot mouse. incidentally, DO NOT buy one of these mice. they are wrong. I had it for ages because I got it to go with my little PB 12", back then I didn't really know much about what was out there. I liked the small size, it had a good grip and felt good quality. however, it always would drop out of connection, and it was so fickle with tracking, sometimes the pointer would just jump all over the screen, other times it would hardly move at all unless you shook it. I just figured this was the tradeoff for having a wireless mouse and that one was probably just as bad as the next. plus, I wasn't using it with logic, just web browsing and email, so it wasn't really mission critical.
    anyway, I didn't really do anything about replacing the mouse till now. I am currently working on a TVC, with a big production sound involving far too many tracks of vocals and so on. and trying to edit takes and just do my thing in logic with this mouse was as close to torture as I am ever going to want to come. a couple of times I nearly threw it across the studio, and I definitely did smash it on the desk a couple of times. then, I also considered plunging my head in a bucket of kerosene and lighting a match. so I figured, no let's not do that. let's get a better mouse. I was actually using the trackpad instead of the mouse out of preference, so I figured this is not a good sign, there must be something better out there by now.
    so I looked around on the web, read some reviews. thought about advice I had gotten here and elsewhere. then today, after having some trouble finding a dealer that would actually let me try the mouse before buying it, I went in with my MBP and logic key and sat down to test out the wireless mighty mouse.
    one thing I hadn't realised till I started reading reviews was that it is a laser mouse, not an optical one. I had no idea just how much better this meant the tracking would be. to be honest, till now I always thought I'd go with a logitech or something because I just thought I'd hate the scrollball thingy, and the size and shape of the mighty mouse always seemed like it was just about clean apple design and not ergonomics.
    I still have to say that in terms of grip, I'd probably prefer one of the more sculpted logitechs or so on, also because I have big hands. but.. after using it for a while, and seeing just how many millions of times better the tracking is on this mouse than on my previous piece of sh*t kensington, I can't tell you how good it feels to actually be in control of the pointer again.. as opposed to feeling like a ******** amputee with a tourette's syndrome twitch, muscle spasms and up/down left/right dyslexia. and I apologize to any logic users who may in fact be ******** amputees with a tourette's syndrome twitch, muscle spasms and up/down left/right dyslexia. that's just the best way I could describe trying to cludge my way through logic using that RUBBISH mouse.
    I also downloaded the mouse zoom preference pane because I found the maximum tracking speed in the mac mouse control panel a little too slow.
    but anyway.. thanks again to everyone who suggested the mighty mouse. I honestly wasn't really considering it cos it always looked a little too design-ey and not ergonomic enough for me. but, I'm rather pleasantly surprised and no longer feeling like setting fire to my own head.
    btw for anyone out there looking for a mouse.. make sure you try out the wireless one, not the wired one, because it has laser tracking as opposed to optical.. and for precision in logic for editing and manipulating miniscule knobs and faders on software synths (CS-80V leaps to mind...) it really does ease your pain.
    ok I'm really just procrastinating now. back to work..

    ok as I continue working with this mouse.. let me just say.. people: if you haven't used a mouse with laser tracking yet with logic, seriously, try one. the precision and accuracy of these things is alarmingly good. it's one of those didn't even know there was a problem till you tried it kind of things..
    unless you are one of those people who has managed to train your brain to use a trackball or whatever, seriously, try out a mouse with laser tracking. night and day.
    there are some logitechs that have it, and also the wireless mighty mouse, not the other mighty mice. that is such a stupid name.

  • HT2845 why doesn't my mighty mouse track ball scroll up or down vertically?

    why doesn't my mighty mouse track ball scroll up or down vertically?

    Hi:
    New ones are not that expensive, but I would try running it up and down (vigorously) on microfiber cloth or a towel or something.
    If that does not fix it...yes I would buy a new one.  I like wireless ones anyway
    Barry

  • Mighty mouse sensitivity

    First of all... why isn't there a Mighty Mouse category?
    I'm not sure where this post fits. It's kind of a hardware and maybe software issue.
    Anyway. Here goes...
    I have three things about my mouse that are bothering me:
    First, Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of the side squeeze buttons on the Mighty Mouse? I have mine set to activate expose all windows when I squeeze it which I love and use all the time. I just wish that the squeeze buttons weren't soooo sensitive. It seems like I sometimes don't even have to squeeze it and expose will go into effect. It happens quite a bit without me wanting it to.
    The second thing is sometimes when I do squeeze the mouse to activate expose, all of my open windows will swoop like they're supposed to but will just spring right back to where they were without me clicking on any of them. Drives me crazy.
    The third thing is, sometimes when I move my cursor with my mouse and pick it up and put it down on my mouse pad, the impact will make my screen jump (scroll) and/or zoom depending on the application I'm in (some apps I use can zoom in and out when I roll the scroll ball). It's screwed me up a few times. I am not a heavy handed mouser either. I learned to hold a mouse very delicately with my fingers, like I'm holding an egg, to avoid fatigue and wrist injury.
    It just seems like my mouse is super sensitive and the adjustment settings in System Prefs. doesn't really change anything.

    I noticed a similar problem but was able to fix it.
    I just started using the Mighty Mouse a few days ago and it seemed great, though I did disable the right click function. The side buttons were working fine. Then this morning I came in and found that every time I touched the mouse it launched Expose. At first I thought I was going crazy because I didn't recall it being that way before. Finally, I simply unplugged the mouse and then plugged it back in. Problem solved! Now it is completely back to normal. Just curious now whether I'll have to keep doing this every few days.

  • BT Mighty mouse in apple stores

    Is the BT mighty mouse available in apple stores yet, or is it still just online. By the way im in england and im planning on going to an apple store next week, and would rather buy one there then online and have to wait for it etc.
    By the way, im VERY VERY happy at the moment, as I have 2 BT mighty mouses and both of the scroll wheels have broken. Someone posted a link in another thread (sorry cant remember who) and it fixed them both, so thank you!
    PS sorry I know this isnt stricty about a macbook, but im going to be using it on the macbook and didnt know where else to post it.

    Sorry should have made it more clear haha. I have 2 wired ones, one when they first came out,then got fed up with the scroll wheel not working, so got a new one about 2 months ago which also went funny (again scroll wheel).
    Anyway, I have a mac mini and a macbook so will use the wired one for the mini (which I am selling soon anyway) and then the wireless one for the macbook.
    Does anyone know if they are as heavy as the last wireless mouses? Blimey they were heavy!
    Will be buying one when I go to the apple store next week. Thanks for the responses guys.

  • Odd Wireless Mighty Mouse  behavior with new Mac Pro?

    Hi,
    I have a brand new Mac pro and Wireless Apple Mighty Mouse & Keyboard.
    The mouse however is not operating properly, it is jerky and slow to respond on a intermittent regular basis. I can move the cursor around the screen but it will stutter and jerk slowly then pick up ok?
    I had the mouse and keyboard with my iMac and it worked fine. I have run all updates and re-installed but to no avail. The keyboard is fine.
    I suspect it's a hardware issue with my new mac Pro but i'd love it if someone has any other possible causes.
    Thanks.

    Hi, there's a quite a few people with similar problems, including myself.
    My keyboard likes to drop it's connection for no apparent reason, which in turn likes to mess up my mouse and cause it to stutter for a while. Pairing up new devices can do this too, I've found.
    It's been thought that some Mac Pro's came with their WiFi and BT wires incorrectly fitted, if you have a search you should find a link to the tutorial if you want to try switching them around.
    That said, it didn't make any difference to my BT keyboard and wireless Mighty Mouse, so I switched them back.
    I've been hoping for a software fix, but no joy so far, glad I got a three year warranty as standard.

  • Mighty Mouse driving me nuts...please help

    Howdy,
    Just since last night, my mighty mouse (at least I think it's the mouse, but maybe it's something w/ the Op Sys--I dunno for sure) has been freaking out a bit. My cursor keeps jumping up to the exact top-center of my screen (NOT the upper left corner where it normally appears when you restart). It is extremely annoying. Sometimes it takes me like 30 secs. and a couple of dozen tries to get it to stay anywhere else on the screen in order to do any actual tasks with the mouse. But it will jump back up there within a min. or so at the max (usually it'll go back there just a few moments after getting it to stick somewhere else). It will even jump back up there in the middle of tasks (like when dragging & dropping...very, very annoying).
    Just FYI...I ran a permissions repair and shut down completely (including pulling the plug from the wall) and restarted. Obviously...it didn't help.
    Does anybody have any idea what is going on here? --Does my mouse need replacement? Is there any software fix I could try (my iMac is less than a yr. old and I bought the Apple Care Protection Plan)?
    Please help...Thanx a lot!

    Hey thanx a lot man! --There's a very good possibility it's just dirty. I'm pretty sure my mouse pad is ok as it's the same one I've been using for almost a year though.
    But I will definitely check out that link and do what I can as per it's advice also.
    I will be sure to come back and mark your post as solving the prob if everything comes out all right...otherwise, I might be asking you for more help...hehe!
    Thanx very much!
    P.S. I always liked Maryland's flag better than any other state...even mine (Hawaii). ~Seeya.

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