Magic Mouse Wifi issue

When I connect my magic mouse, my wifi slows down dramatically and then stops working completely shortly afterwords. Has anyone else run into this? Is there a work around for it?

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Magic Mouse connectivity issue

Magic Mouse after power on button is switched on, no light indication at all. Frequent connection timed out before it becomes totally unusuable. I bought the Magic Mouse only for 7 months and had changed the mouse once. I had also changed the batteries to alkaline ones but didnt help reviving the mouse. Is this a hardware quality issue or setup issue? please advise.

HellO:
No light at all seems to indicate a faulty mouse. I suggest you contact Applecare (or an Apple store) for a warranty replacement.
Barry

Magic Mouse intermittent issues moving side to side

The Magic Mouse is connected and it will scroll up and down and also, I can move the mouse up and down. The problem is, sometimes it gets stuck and will not move to the right.
This has actually been an issue for some time now. Since it happens intermittently, it's more of a nuisance than anything else because ti will always eventually start working again....
I bought a brand new mousepad thinking that, perhaps, it was the surface causing the inconsistency; but it persists. It always has working batteries in it. Not quite sure what it is.
Anybody want to take a stab at a diagnosis? Maybe the sensor? If it's the sensor, how would I clean it?

Go to bluetooth menu, and delete all previous mice, then try to re-pair again.
Make sure you turn off mouse AND computer. Then boot up computer, THEN turn on mouse when you get to the MOUSE preferences to add it.

Magic Mouse connectivity issues

My magic mouse has been losing its connection lately. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina display with the latest version of Yosemite. Could it be that the mouse is nearing the end of its life? I bought this mouse when the magic mouse first came out maybe 5 years ago. Any suggestions?

I've followed several threads and agree with Seventy One, the problem is mechanical and simple to solve. Cleaning the terminals is sensible, but I also did this which has made my mouse connection robust.
My Solution:
I took a thick rubber band cut it to about 1 inch in length. I placed it across the negative end of the batteries between the batteries and the compartment lid (not between the batteries and the terminals as that would cause a different problem). When I close the lid, without forcing it, the rubber band holds the batteries firmly in place. The batteries last longer and there is no drop in connection. You might need to experiment a little with the thickness of the rubber band.
I can now lift the mouse, tap it on the mouse pad, turn it upside down and use it on the ceiling, although I do need a ladder and it does make my arm go to sleep after a while.
I've read about resetting parts of the operating system, but I really don't like doing that because of the law of unexpected consequences.
The words "glue" and "precision piece of electronic equipment", should not usually be used in the same sentence and are not natural companions, but in this case, now that I have the right thickness and position, I'll glue the band or a similar piece of foam to the inside of the compartment lid. I expect a future Magic Mouse may have this built in as it is such a common issue.

Magic Mouse lag issue.. new insight

Hey guys, as many of you i've purchased new magic mouse and been having problems with lag, and unresponsiveness.. I own a 24' imac which i bought a month before the latest update.. This whole situation is so bad for me that it really renders the mouse useless. However, i did find out few interesting things.. First off it only happens during the time HD is working overtime... For example if i am using apps that load up the cpu after a while it will start to lag. As soon as i turn them off, it all back to normal.. Games as well.. I recently tried to play world of warcraft with the mouse and it worked fine until the game made the imac go into overdrive and fans began spinning fast. The mouse started acting up again.. And most recently I realized it lags like **** when my time capsule is doing a back up.. As soon as time machine finishing working its all back to normal.. Very strange.. still no fix but that's what i could figure out so far.. Try it and see if you have those same symptoms.

A quick update to the jumpy mouse saga:
After a year of problems with a jumpy mouse (see videos below) *I purchased a Magic Mouse to see if the Magic Mouse would solve the jumpiness issue. It did but the tracking speed was very slow. Therefore, I installed MouseZoom to increase the tracking speed. After installing MouseZoom I started noticing the jumpy mouse problems again.*
_*This finding is very interesting!*_
_*It implies that the faster the mouse movement the more likely one is to see an erratic mouse with the pointer making unrequested jumps around the screen.*_
My hypothesis is that the operating system or processor is not allocating enough resources to the mouse if the tracking speed is set to a high level.
_*The "jumpy mouse" problem seems to be far worse when the hard disk is running - either copying or downloading a large file*_. Some users are reporting that watching a high resolution flash video will also cause the mouse to skip and jump.
I have tried three routers (two linksys, one Airport Extreme, three bluetooth mice, unplugging all peripherals still the same result.
I am certain the problem is software related because the same exact mice work perfectly in Bootcamp 2.1 and Bootcamp 3.0 in Windows XP SP3.
_*Youtube now has two videos showing the problem*._ You can view the videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxLY3-pH-rs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBzisliiVpg
If you are suffering from similar problems may I suggest three actions:
* Use the Quicktime X screen recording function to record a video of the problem.
* Post the video to YouTube.
* Contact Apple Care and share your video problem description with them.
* Send a note referencing the video and description to www.apple.com/feedback
Category: Mac OSX Feedback
Feedback Type: Bug Report
Feedback Area: Peripheral/Device Support
I will update this video to let you know if the problem has been solved. I am hopeful that Apple will be able to find the source of the problem and solve it quickly. I really like my Mac and I can hardly wait for the problem to be resolved.
Here is hoping that 10.63 will resolve this issue once and for all!

IMac G5 iSight and the new Magic Mouse - WiFi dropping out.

The G5 with iSight seems to be unique amongst Apple computers, in that it shares the WiFi with the Bluetooth on a single compound card. I have not tested this out completely but it certainly seems to be the case that the Magic Mouse when left, having finished a session on the iMac, will after a few hours 'power down'. When it does so, sharing the WiFi, it will disable the wireless communication. I can find no known settings to avoid this from happening.
If I had dropped my iMac into sleep mode and woken it with a click of the mouse, all would be fine, however with my G5 downloading a file in the background, to come back and find the wireless has 'dropped out' is disconcerting to say the least.
Usually the WiFi can be re-established by turning it off and on again, then re finding my router (a TC in the other room) and all is well again for another 'period of time', which I can only guesstimate to be a couple of hours. However occasionally I will have to 'Restart' the iMac to get back to a working system. This is something I only ever really have to do with my work PC; I have NEVER had to do this on the iMac before. This is a quaint but annoying Windows thing and should not occur on a Mac. (This last phrase is slightly tongue in cheek!).
The WiFi link to my work PC via the TC is never compromised, which pointed the finger to the new magic mouse. I run the last version of Leopard for the PPC processors, 10.5.8 and have loaded the magic mouse driver software.
Has anyone else seen this happen?
Has anyone else got a solution, other than not using the Magic Mouse?

I did not see resetting PRAM mentioned yet, so if not done already, do that
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
plus this procedure to reset SMU (power management)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1767
Be sure to follow it precisely. When you reconnect the power cord, if you are using a crowded or old power strip, connect it directly to a wall outlet for this test. Power it up with nothing connected except power cord and once it starts up, connect only your keyboard/mouse (no other USB/FireWire peripherals). Try using it that way to see if the problem still recurs.
The only other suggestion I have is, if you have a external FireWire drive that you can erase (or create a small partition on), install a fresh Leopard installation on it. Start up from it and see if this problem still recurs.
Alternately, back up your data, erase (re-partition and reformat) the interal drive, and reinstall Leopard on the internal drive, then give it a try. If you clone (using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) to an external FireWire drive as your backup, you can still boot from your current installation (on the external drive). If the fresh installation test does NOT work, you can clone your clone back to the internal drive. If it does work with a fresh installation, you can keep using it and transfer just your user data back from the clone.

Magic mouse scrolling issue

- I am having a weird problem with my magic mouse; it scrolls through pages with no problem, but will not function within flash games. It used to, beautifully in fact..now no response other than the page itself moving. i am running lion, 10.7.5 on a macbook pro. i have downloaded all updates since original purchase (about 7 mos ago)..i don't play flash games every day so i can't pinpoint when this started..???

Possible clues...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2522669?start=0&tstart=0

Ultimate solution to Magic Mouse connection issue?

I have found that many users of Magic Mouse are experiencing frequent connection dropouts. I am another user who has been having trouble with this but unable to find a permanent solution.
I know that whenever this happens, usually by switching off the bluetooth on the computer and switching it back on would make it work again, but sometimes when this problem gets intensified, within a minute after I switch back on the bluetooth and reconnect the mouse, the mouse would appear laggy again (and disconnect too at times).
I would like to know if there is a permanent solution to this problem.

I would add the Magic Mouse to bluetooth favorites. I use Snow Leopard but I think the process is the same for Leopard.
Go to System Preferences > Bluetooth > Highlight the Mouse on the left > click the gear icon below the list > check "show more information" if not already checked. > return to the gear icon and select "add to favorites".
That should help with a speedy reconnect.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21371
Regards,
Captfred

Magic Mouse scrolling issues in Yosemite

Ever since updating to Yosemite (10.10.1) on my MacBook Air (2014 - 1.4 GHz i5, 4GB ram), my Magic Mouse has been exhibiting some odd behavior. Often times when I try scrolling up and down a page in Chrome with a one-finger vertical motion, it decides to interpret the gesture as a one-finger right swipe instead, and ends up browsing back to the previous page. I have checked carefully and the scroll gesture I am making is definitely vertical, not at all horizontal or diagonal. Usually if I remove my hand from the mouse and try again it will be correct, though sometimes it takes a few tries. It's very annoying and only started happening after I updated to Yosemite.
Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix it?

UGH my mouse is doing the same thing and it's ******* me off, I keep going back/forward between webpages when I only want to scroll. It seems 50/50 though...sometimes it scrolls, sometimes it just goes back but it's super annoying. Anyone have a fix?!?!?

Magic mouse driver issues

I have a magic mouse and wireless keyboard that i am using on windows 7. After what feels like 15 seconds of inactivity, both devices will go to sleep and take 5 seconds to wake. I have tried reinstalling the drivers and i am running the latest version of bootcamp. Both products work fine on mac. Any help?

Both. Wired trumps wireless until you have driver support for wireless devices which are no-starter.
Or, to put it another way, seems like common sense if you can't use wireless deivces.
Take everything with a grain of salt, it will help. And not everything written was probably technically proofed and checked by someone that knows Windows as well as Windows on Mac. Probably written by different people even.

Suggestion for Apple Magic Mouse scrolling issue...

I have a Magic Mouse, approximately 3 years old. Recently, and suddenly, the horizontal scrolling stopped working. I tried every fix I saw suggested, here and on other sites, with no success. I had resigned myself to the fact that I would have to part with another $80 to get another one (because I really do like it), or try a different type of mouse (but none other seems to offer what this one does). This mouse has lasted through 3 years of heavy use, 3 young boys learning how to use it, several drops, 1 complete non-Genius tear-down and re-build, a couple of liquid spills, etc. So I figured I had nothing to lose; it didn't owe me anything.
So I dropped it. I banged it on the desk. Pretty hard. 3 times.
And now the horizontal scrolling works. Just fine.
When all else fails, try the inconceivable (what, bang or drop an Apple product on purpose??!!). It worked for me.

Love to watch you do that with your computer or your TV. Be sure to post the video.

Problem with magic mouse gestures in safari

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,
It does not work and I cannot scroll on this page anymore.
Shutting down Safari and restarting it works.
I read a lot about this, it seems to be a known problem.
I did not use terminal to use direct command for remedy, but tried everything else I read:
power own the mouse, taking battery out, switching off BT for Mouse, several restarts of the iMac etc.
Nothing helps.
As I am so used to the gestures for a very long tome, it takes only seconds, before I swipe back-- and that´s it!
I have to restart Safari.
I would be very thankful for your help!
best,
Fred

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.
So, my problem is solved too!!
Many thanks

Sluggish drunk stumbling Magic Mouse

Help!   As we all have, we paid alot for quality and we are not receiving it.   Mac has done nothing to resolve the 10,000 help requests when it comes to their product, the magic mouse.
Issue: Magic Mouse performing with sluggish, drunk, lagging.
What has been tried:
Reseting PRAM
Deleting Plists
rebooting after resting SMS
uninstalling & reinstallng blutooth devices
Changing the frequency on my router to 1 & 3.
I've done it all and...... I've performed 2x a complete system reinstalls.   It works until the OS wants the updates and then the issue resolves all overagain. ITS SOFTWARE RELEATED!!!!!!
SO, if anyone has other suggestions, help and new suggestions would gratefully appreciated.
The Macfrauds have spend a few hours and then they send me to the tech guys at the store, who over and over again say eventualy for a reinstall, which I'm not going to perform for a 3rd time.
Please help.   THANK YOU!

kostas
I had this problem too. heres what I did... its like a checklist:
ok first, make sure you have really good batteries in it, "low" won't cut it.
2nd) if you have a desktop Mac (like MacPro etc) there is a T shaped antenna at the back. this sometimes gets loose and effects the signal between the mouse and the machine. take it out, clean off the plug part, reinstall it, make sure its making a good connection.
3) clean out the scroll ball with rubbing alcohol, cotton ball, and one of those blowguns helps too. make sure there is no debris caught in the ball. hod it upside down, blow the airgun into it etc. this usually works for me.
worst case, buy a new mouse.

Magic Mouse fix-it-yourself ~ right click/left click Design solution.

May 5, 2011
I initially admit that I am a genuine, bonafide Magic Mouse un-coordinated user or retard. I’m habitually right-clicking with my Magic Mouse on matters that I meant to be left-clicking on; and had even thought, (w/o looking) that I was left-clicking accurately on. Until the pesky, tell-tale, rectangular dialog box appears on my Mac mini, flat-screen desktop ... Informing me immediately that I just screwed up again and right-clicked where I thought that I was left-clicking. It’s obviously a Magic Mouse disorientation issue, and it’s up to me or my action to resolve it. And that is what I end up always scolding myself with, because I hadn’t first felt for the mouse’s side edge to secure an accurate click. Well this ‘my bad’ self-denigration flogging is over! ‘It’s not just mine alone spaz condition to blame!’ is my claim. There is an obvious void, error or design flaw of the hollowed Magic Mouse ~ that I beg to share in responsibility, along with my personal malfunctions. Doy! The humpbacked, Apple Magic Mouse simply doesn’t even have a right-click/left-click divider or embossed spine on it at all, which is the obvious, inherent problem. Such as PC mice have always had, haven’t they? So I’ve do-it-yourself, (or done-it-myself) solved it by merely cutting a precise three-sixteenth inch, slightly-tapered sliver of black (my preference entirely) duct tape approximately 2” long and have successfully adhered it into it’s pre-determined, center position, (like cleavage), to achieve a resounding, accoladed victory!
My summation is that the spineless Apple Magic Mouse is not for everyone. But can be easily and inexpensively remedied to be so!
Thank you,
http://LSDexitOzAmerica.org

Hi Eric,
Thanks for trying to help, but this isn't a configuration problem, nor I want a workaround.
Actually, I just solved it. I swapped the Apple Rechargeable Batteries for regular ones and it is now working as it should. Probably it's a bad charge problem with the batteries.
Cheers!

WiFi, Magic Mouse and a MacBook...

Hi All,
I have a weird issue. I'm using my Magic Mouse and Aluminum MacBook 13" for months now. I'm also using TIme Capsule as my Wifi-N router.
I got myself external display couple of weeks ago, and am using my MacBook in close clamshell mode since. Also from that time I noticed, that as soon as my laptop performs some sort of heavy network operation (Time Capsule backup, copying files over local network) my mouse starts being unresponsive and rather unpleasant to work with. As soon as the heavy wi-fi job is done - mouse comes back to regular performance.
I read a bit about issue (altough no one mentioned working in close clamshell mode) and tried to reset all the settings (SBM or whatever it's called in macbook), change wi-fi channels etc... with no luck
Thanks in advance.

Well, what do you know, just five days ago Apple released 7.5.1 firmware update for Time Capsule which solved my issue

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