Fix for wireless keyboard that won't turn on

I replaced my batteries after the low warning. It wouldn't turn on. Looking into the battery compartment, I saw that the bottom didn't appear like that on my wife's keyboard. Mine was like looking down on a cup with a shiny button in the middle. My wife's had the shiny button, but the plastic wasn't cupped. I used a wooden dowel to loosen mine, removed it, replaced the batteries, and it worked! Then I replaced the plastic so that the cupped side went in first. Again replaced the batteries, and I'm using it right now. The piece is designed to keep the keyboard contact centered for the battery.
Apparently, changing the batteries can result in the plastic piece getting turned around. The cupped area prevents the positive battery contact from contacting the shiny button at the bottom. It appears to be a design flaw. My wife's keyboard is much younger than mine, so it seems that they are still being produced like that. Be careful when you remove the batteries!
YMMV
Bill

Did you ever back up your phone using iTunes on your computer?
If you can use iTunes on your computer but don't have your device:
Go to iTunes > Preferences (Mac) or Edit > Preferences (PC).
Click the Devices tab.
Hold your mouse over a backup to display the serial number for that device. You'll also see the IMEI/MEID and CDN for your iPhone or iPad (cellular model).

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Thanks this was useful. I have been ripping my audiobooks and I was finding that they would get uploaded to iCloud in the process, which in itself was fine, but then iTunes would not let me change the media type to Audiobook, which is annoying as it effects how iTunes treats the media. Like showing you the skip back 10 seconds button.
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I got my first wireless Apple KB with a new iMac last November (2011) and, disliking the abbreviated design for desktop use, bought a wired board for the iMac and appointed the wireless to be the travel keyboard for my MacBook Pro. I used it on a routine basis and the battery level stayed at 100 percent until June, when it suddenly read 50 percent. Today it's still 50 percent. Makes absolutely no sense but it works.
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Revision: 12994
Revision: 12994
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-16 06:44:45 -0800 (Wed, 16 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
Fixes for two issues that were showing up in FB.
QE notes:
Doc notes:
Bugs: SDK-24669, SDK-24686
Reviewer: Corey
Cycloner: George
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: yes, fixes two FB issues.
Code-level description of changes:
modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/tools/PreLink.java
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