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.

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On the iBook g4 the usb ports are both on the left side, but i am right handed, and the mighty mouse's cable is very short making it hard to use...Anyone else find this or have any suggestions?
Thanks

Dustin Cook1:
i On the iBook g4 the usb ports are both on the left side, but i am right handed, and the mighty mouse's cable is very short making it hard to use...Anyone else find this or have any suggestions?
An extension cable would more than likely work, especially since the mouse operates at 1.5 Mbit/sec. A mini hub with separate or captive cable would theoretically work better as an extension since you're not directly transmitting across two different (full and mini sized) cable configurations and a connector. You could also relocate a bunch of your devices to the right side as long as all your stuff plugged in uses less than 500 mA.
If you live near a Fry's Electronics, they often have cheap (sub $4) USB mini hubs on sale. There's also no reason why a full-spec USB cable or extension should cost more than $1. They're made by the boatload in China for 20 cents each, and I've bought them in bulk at online retailers for $1 each.

Mighty mouse moves too slow

Does anyone know how to increase movement speed?
I've already set Tracking speed to the maximum in Preferences, but it's still not enough.
Is there any other way to increase movement speed except using third party software like SteerMouse?

Hello again:
I do not know of any setting in OS X (besides the one you mention) that will affect the mouse tracking speed.
Barry

Bluetooth not working = wireless mighty mouse not working too

I've received an apple wireless mighty mouse from my gf and it's not responding to anything. and my bluetooth icon in the top right of the screen says it's not enable everytime since. So it's surely in my imac the problem. Is there a way i can fix it buy myself or i have to send it to an apple store?
N.B. i have the same problem as the rest of the peps who have the latest update of Leopard

"can you tell my why it says that while 2 weeks ago my WIRELESS mighty mouse
was working and that i was able to go into bluetooth icon and it was active???"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86496 Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse: Troubleshooting Connection Issues
If the above Article is of no help and DaddyPaycheck does not have any more solutions then I suggest that you cross-post over in the Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse Forums where the Bluethooth users hang out.

Mighty Mouse and Kensington Laser Mouse Mini

Is it possible to have both active simultaneously? I mean install Kensington MouseWorks v2.9 and have both mice connected? I know it sounds silly to have two but ...

I'll answer my own questions. I have both Mighty Mouse and Kensington's MouseWorks AND Microsoft Mouse all co-existing harmoniously.

Apple Mouse (mighty mouse?) Right clicks too often

I have the Apple Mouse (former Mighty Mouse) and I have right click turned on. The mouse is constantly doing "right click" when I click left. I look and my finger is well to the left of the little scroll wheel.
I thought "Oh maybe it's sensing the whole panel and I'm pushing in a funny angle" but no, I paid attention and I was not.
I'm just wondering, is this a common problem with this mouse? Or is my particular mouse defective?

I have a 2011 iMac and the batteries in my Magic Mouse need changing every couple of months. In contrast, my wireless keyboard only needs a battery change every 10 months or so. I bought an Apple battery charger and keep the spare set of batteries always charged.
I think that is the way it is - mouse uses more juice than keyboard (or gets more use so runs down faster). However, if it gets worse than 2 weeks life, it may be time to invest in a new mouse.

Randomly jumpy mighty mouse (bt) pointer and trackpad too (once only)

Gents,
I have recently noted that, sometimes (randomly and rarely for the time being), the pointer of my bluetooth MM (Mighty Mouse) moves farther than what I was expecting it to move. This happened probably in concomitance with the opening of some application, as Iphoto. In other words, it appeared to me that the pointer accelerated more than what I demanded it to move with the displacement of the mouse. It was not really a jump but almost one, like a transitory, but contained, loss of pointer control.
I believe that a similar event occurred also once with the trackpad pointer when I went to the bottom of the screen to make dock appear in concomitance with a skype call launch....the pointer seemed to move fast to the right although I am quite sure it was not my finger to command this motion on the pad.
I have tried (with respect to MM) to delete and recreate the bluetooth .plist but it did not prevent from having this occurrence (note also that the batteries are OK).
I have read in some other forum that this might be due to OSX pointer acceleration (not perfect) management, but I would like to be comforted by any similar feedback / experience of yours.
Thanks
Cheers

I had a similar problem. I would move my mouse across the screen but randomly it would "catch" or "get stuck" very briefly throughout its movement. Like something was holding it back. I tried replacing mousepads, deleting the Bluetooh connection and re-pairing, deleting preference files...nothing. I even tried buying two new mice but they all had the same problem.
I headed to an Apple Store and a Genius reproduced the problem. He had not heard of this before but it was clearly reproducible in front of his eyes. And sure enough, my Mighty Mouse was working fine on other Macs. So they set up repair job to replace my Bluetooth chipset (which is integrated into the display so they had to replace the display). A day later I picked it up and it works perfectly!
I suggest going to an Apple Store and getting your Bluetooth chip replaced!

Mighty Mouse's side buttons too sensitive...

Hi there,
Every two seconds, the fonction of the side button gets activated because I press them by mistake... It's been two weeks and I still hit them by mistake.
How do I make the Mighty Mouse's side buttons less sensitive?
Thanks!
Chris.

for me it's actually static that makes the side buttons operate all on their own just if my hand is barely touching. i don't have this problem when i'm on tile flooring with my new iMac, but in my bedroom on carpet, the mouse and computer act weird becasue of dry climate and static. if i keep my hand on the metal base of the imac i have no problems. as soon as i remove my hand, problems. i'm now working on grounding my computer but that hasn't worked yet. i need to be de-static in some way i think.

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.

Restoring function to Mighty Mouse

I once found a post here to temporarily restore vertical scrolling function to a Mighty Mouse by cleaning the scroll ball with a paper towel moistened with rubbing alcohol.
That worked for a while, but after 6 month of just working, it went to needing periodic cleaning to lately needing daily cleaning to a point where that doesn't seem to be doing the trick any more.
Anybody have a suggestion as to how to deep clean this thing? I seem to recall there once being some sort of stuff in a spray can that cleaned the potentiometer in an old analogue volume knob to fix the dead spots that would come in over time. Is there something like that available for a Mighty Mouse scroll ball?
That scroll ball can be a real spoiler, but that makes the apparent death of the function seem more frustrating and even infuriating.

Hi, I sympathize with your trouble, I had two MM's and both lost the use of their trackball's. I decided to crack them open and see what could be done. It's not so difficult to do, requires only a bit of courage, steady hands and a stanley blade. There is a good website giving full instructions but it seems to have gone, some pix though...http://www.flickr.com/photos/shirster/sets/1447737/
But basically, using a razor blade or stanley blade, the white rim can be gently prised off, from there it's a careful dismantle. The trackball is set in a small white plastic case, that can be popped open very easy. You will find the rollers are miniscule and it's no wonder they clog up. This not a very clever design, it just attracts far too much muck from our fingers. A far, far better design is to use four laser/LED's and a reflective ball, never gets clogged and works just as good. Having said that, the whole principle is right on, just not executed that good. Maybe v2 will improve things.
i wrote a full essay on cracking an MM in MacinTouch website.

Wireless Mighty Mouse or Radtech BT500?

i've been using the touchpad on my macbook and it seems not as efficient as using a mouse (especially in widescreen!) so i decided to spend MORE money on my macbook (on which i already spent over $2500). i already have a wired logitech laser mouse which works great, but i am in need of a portable bluetooth mouse.
i know that the wireless mighty mouse came out recently and looks stylish (as usual) but does not really go along with my blackbook in terms of color.
i've heard GREAT things about the Radtech BT500 (but seems too small?).
both are the same price (including the case for the radtech). i do not play games or do any sort of crazy tasking. i am just a college student who types and browse the web on most occasions.
any suggestions?

I've been using the Logitech V270
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2135,CONTENTID=109 16
Not rechargable but the battery life is great.
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Mighty Mouse Battery Life

Hey there - what's the battery life like on the Mighty Mouse? Also, what's the battery life like on the Apple Bluetooth keyboard. I'm currently weighing up between those or the Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse pack.
Thank you!

Hello,
I have been using a Microsoft Notebook Laser Mouse until it recently started acting erratically with my MacBook Pro. I had used it for some months with an older iBook with mostly good results. It was less than 9 months old when it went bad for good.
I looked at many alternatives and read user reviews of all wireless and bluetooth versions. In the end I too went with the Apple Mighty Mouse. Quality, like pretty much all of the rest of Apples offerings is first-rate (been a Mac user for 8 years now).
I've only had it for a short time but I feel the response and solid connection make it worth the extra cost. The old saying "you get what you pay for" applies here. I have not noticed any strange behavior that others have reported and don't expect to. Apple's hardware just works in my humble opinion.
Good Luck
Cheers.

My Mighty Mouse is driving me mighty nuts!

Is Apple's Mighty Mouse sensitive to heat? I am getting the impression it is. After using it for a few minutes while working on an image and holding it under my hand, the cursor movement gets erratic, uncontrollable. Makes it hard to paint masks or even select something from the menu.
After letting it go for a few minutes it will work normal again, until I had it under my hand for a little while. It seems that the laser is affected by the heat radiated by my hand. Apple praises it as being more sensitive than any other optical mouse. Is that what they mean?
I use an identical mouse for my MacBook, without any problems. But I don't hold that mouse in my hand for long periods, since its only for control documents, e-mail, web and such.
Do I need a refrigerated mouse pad?

I can't comment too much on the heat issue, although if it really is responding to heat then you have a broke mouse. Maybe a broken solder joint since all the new lead free solder processes produce a much less reliable and failure prone bond than the good old fashion true lead solder (IMHO RoHS was a liberal stupidly inspired waste of time and money, because there is still nasty stuff caste into the environment when a RoHS board is improperly discarded: how about do correct recycling of ALL our garbage, and then RoHS would be completely unnecessary and we would end up with a REAL clean environment instead of just pretending we did something! OK, off my soap box .
But you might also be masking the true problem. The Mighty Mice are capacitive sensing devices. This makes then very sensitive to... your fingers for example. But it also makes they sensitive to noise. In particular, I found (and proved) that a particularly inexpensive and popular (Best Buy) phone charger produced a huge amount of low frequency noise. Many/most/all of these chargers are cheap switching power supplies, and they are often poorly designed and filtered, resulting in copious low frequency noise emissions. This noise radiated through the air and power cords and got picked up by my Mighty Mouse and drove it nuts! Made it completely unusable. Until, I discovered the culprit. Unplugged the phone charger, the Mighty Mouse was fine. Plugged it in (typically near the iMac or in its same power strip) and poof! Problem back! I ended up just making sure my charger was always plugged in on the other side of the room, distancing it from the Mouse. Apple was informed of this and they may have since added more filtering to the Mighty Mouse But it might be hard for them to filter out the switching power supply noise and also still pick up the desired signals associated with your fingers. It might just be one of those compromises necessary to have a cool technology.
So, before you send your Mouse back for replacement, make sure there are none of these nasty little switching power supplies near your Mac (they are used with almost all peripherals). Might want to get a good filtered power strip too. I now use a Tripplite Model TLP810NET which filters and robustly protects everything (AC, LAN, Coax, Phone, got mine from Digikey). This won't prevent interference from over the air noise, but it will knock out most of the over the power line noise.
Hope this helps

Mighty mouse alternative for OSX and XP

Just ordered a Mac Pro - upgrading from G5 Powermac. I got the mighty mouse with the G5 and of course the MP comes with the same. I have gotten used to the mighty mouse to a point but part of the reason for getting the MP is for Windows and gaming. For this I think another mouse with 'real' buttons might be better. What are your recommendations for a quality wired multi-purpose mouse (XP and OSX) and are there any mouses (mice/moose/meece) that have a scroll wheel similar to the might mouse one (very useful in PS etc). I'm not keen on trackball types btw.
Thanks

The Logitech MX510. Love it w/ Mac and Windows.
I'm a QA engineer w/ Avid and purchased this mouse for multi-button assignment mouse testing on mac and pc. I have one at home now too, it's the cat's meow. (sorry bad joke).
I just couldn't get use to the mighty mouse. Don't dig the "Touch-sensitive top shell".
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Mac Mini and Bluetooth Recent Problems (Mighty Mouse, Wireless Keyboard)

Hello there,
I have an issue with my Mac Mini.
We had a storm here recently, so I switched my Mac off. After that, I turned it on, but to my surprise my Wireless Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keybord do not function any more. The green dot under the mouse nad keyboard flashes for a few seconds and turns off. I tried to plug my regular mouse and keyboard but it seems the do not work too. Any solutions?

i dont know if you have another mac around but have you tried repairing the disk by putting it into Target disk mode and hooking up another mac to it? if nothing else, try putting the install CD/DVD and boot from there by holding down "c" as it boots. if that works then it may just be a bad BT card. if it doesnt work then you may have bad usb ports. i hope you have applecare!
a tip for bluetooth HIDs, spread them apart. you will experience problems on occasion where their signals get crossed and they fail to sync right.
by the way, if you went the extra mile to turn off your mac because you were concerned about it, then why didnt you just unplug it from the outlet?

Mighty mouse laser too powerfull !

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