Why does Magic Mouse sleep in Bootcamp?

After several seconds it will act as if it has gone to sleep.  A left click wakes it back up but it's such a nuisance that I may have to go back to my previous wired Apple mouse.

I could not get Bluetooth to connect correctly by letting Windows do the pairing automatically but had to assign four zeros as my code.  I've had to do that on otter stubborn Bluetooth and Windows connections.  Four zeros is a common set to get it done.
This report is on a Windows 7 Professional BootCamp.  When I go back and forth between partitions both the Mac and Windows recognize the Magic Mouse.  However the sleep condition on the Windows partition is driving me crazy.  I may have to give it up ad go back to my past mouse.  It kills productivity having to fight it every time you stop mouse activity for just a few seconds then have the left click to wake the mouse.  gggrrrr

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    Hello c:
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    I thank you for your help, Ascendi, but I have no idea what you're saying.  I'm guessing I stand alone, because others do understand.  What I got from it was that the batteries don't fit snuggly, and to shove aluminum foil... somewhere.  I'm don't have a PhD in battery terminal dimensions and their terminonolgy.  But I do appreciate that you helped.
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    I bought my iMac 2 years ago, it came with a Magic Mouse, within several months I started having the same battery issues. I looked here, and on the Internet to find out if the problem was already known about, but found only people guessing wrongly at what the problem is. I do hope Apple has fixed this, but unfortunately many of got stuck with a junk Magic Mouse. As an Engineer with 25+ years of experience in the design of electrical contacts & connectors which includes over 2 dozen patents ... believe me when I say the problem here is that the recessed positive contacts (at the on/off switch end) are too deeply recessed to make contact with the industry allowed variation in AA batteries. Those contacts are too deeply recessed because the plastic is too thick (in the hole that forms the recess) and the metal contacts are not tightly up against the backside of that plastic wall, in fact it looks like they are installed with a gap and/or can deform/bend away further opening that gap even larger. As mentioned above many industry AA battery standards define the positive button contact height as being 1.0mm or larger ... however that plastic wall is about 1mm thick, add the gap for the metal contacts and you have no electrical contact no matter how much contact spring force there is at the negative end. Unfortunately, there is no simple good fix for the average person to perform, the recessed contacts can't be accessed to bend them to remove that gap and the pastic is too thick anyway .. leaving us with a "duct tape" fix, like wadding some tin foil into that positive terminal recess and swearing when it falls out during battery changes. A nice elegent fix, would involve disassembling the mouse, machining plastic, backing up those terminals... absurd right?... would be easier if Apple sent us a new mouse that works.
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    I have two Magic Mouse(s) and both worked fine from day one - early last year, and both now act up constantly with the same symptoms. I am among those who believe it has something to do with Lion. When I boot up, they don't get recognized and when I go to Mouse and search for bluetooth devices - sometimes they are found and most of the time they are not. I can reboot and sometimes get the mouse but often do not.
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    I think I have solved my own problem. My wife's Mac is just on the other side of the wall in the adjacent room. She came in to my room to tell me her cursor was moving all over the screen without her control. Guess what? My mouse was paired to her computer and while I was moving mine around to see if it would work, it was moving around on her screen! Not sure exactly how that happened but I went in and removed the mouse from her's and now my computer pairs with it as it is supposed to. Case closed for now.

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    In case it is a connectivity problem I close everything except the operation I'm using and the mouse continues to frequenty lose connection.

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  • Why does my mouse loose connection?

    why does my mouse loose connection?

    Hi rayf43,
    Welcome to the Support Communities!
    The article below may be able to help you with this.
    Click on the link to see more details and screenshots. 
    Troubleshooting wireless mouse and keyboard issues
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3048
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1365
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