Wireless keyboard batteries have short life

Recently, I think about the time I installed iOS7 on my iPad2, my battery life for my aluminum apple keyboard is very short, only a week or two. what's happening?

Battery life is a function of usage - there is no setting (that I am aware of) that would affect battery life.
Barry

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I would think you'd have to change the language to British English to get the pound sign. THat or turn off your wireless keyboard and get the pound sign from the on screen keyboard, then turn your wireless board back on.

What causes double letters with a single keystroke while in Calendar. I am using vs 10.10.2 with wireless keyboard. Have closed/opened Calendar, switching keyboard off/on, took out batteries on keyboard and have restarted computer.

What would cause double letters with a single key stroke while adding information to Calendar? Version: 10.10.2 wireless keyboard 27" iMac 3.4 GHz i5. Have restarted computer, have closed/opened Calendar, switched on/off keyboard and taken batteries out/in of keyboard. The problem only happens while typing in Calendar.
Not sure if I am accidentally hitting an unknown key to cause the problem or if it is a Calendar issue.........paul

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New wireless Keyboard with terrible battery life

Is this how they all work?
I recently bought a wireless keyboard for my mac mini that's in a closet functioning as a media server. It seems that the battery life is terrible. I used the keyboard for about one hour one day and didn't touch the device for two weeks. After this two week interlude the batteries were dead. This is the 2nd time I have noticed this.
So should I remove the batteries when not using the keyboard. I can't seem to tell if the keyboard is on or off by pushing the button since the keyboard light doesn't stay on when in use.
I have other wireless keyboards that seem to have battery life that go and go and go

One Possible EXPLANATION For Apple Wireless Keyboards Or Mice GOING THROUGH BATTERIES In A Matter Of Weeks is as follows:
When you shut down or sleep your Mac, if there is a second Mac running at some distance away (up to 100 meters distance), and this distant Mac has bluetooth switched on, and was, for some reason, previously been paired with your wireless keyboard or mouse, then I believe the keyboard or mousewill try to link to the distant Mac after you have shut down the local Mac, using all its available transmission power to overcome the distance, and thereby wearing down the batteries.
This happened to me. I have two Macs in the house, and paired my new wireless keyboard with both computers, just so that I could use this keyboard with either Mac.
But when I shut down the Mac I was using, without me realizing, my wireless keyboard that I had in front of me would then link up to my other distant Mac (which was usually always running), located at the other side of my house, and in doing so, my wireless keyboard would wear out its batteries in weeks from the power drain due to long distance transmission and reception.
Whether this battery draining from long distance transmission and reception can also occur when the wireless keyboard or mouse has not been paired with the distant Mac, I am not sure. It's conceivable that in the bluetooth polling mode, where the distant computer is trying to link up to the wireless keyboard or mouse, there could also be substantial power draining from long distance transmission and reception (especially if bluetooth is set to discoverable).
Someone may want to test this: seeing if bluetooth polling over distance can drain power. Who knows, it may be that your neighbor has a Mac, and so when you switch off your computer, your wireless keyboard or mouse spends all night trying to link to your neighbor's Mac.

Warning about wireless keyboard batteries for HP Touchsmart IQ504 and iQ506

I wanted to post this information in hopes others will not have to go thru what I just did. HP wireless keyboards will not work properly with AAA Duracell batteries.
We have both an IQ504 & IQ506 and they are both a year old. The keyboard began omitting letters when typing, so I decided to change the batteries in the IQ504 wireless keyboard.
I pulled out both the old AAA Energizer batteries and popped in 2 new Duracell AAA batteries. Spent about an hour trying to reconnect the wireless keyboard to the wireless receiver on the computer. No way could I get the two to pair. Got out the manual and everything, I ran thru the steps over and over, restarted the computer over and over and pulled he USB wireless receiver out of the computer, over and over.
I ended up taking the whole unit, keyboard, mouse and power supply to Best Buy as I had an extended warranty. The Geek Squad guy spent another 1/2 hours trying all of this over and over. Left it there for Best Buy to order a new keyboard.
The next morning, the wireless keyboard on the IQ506 began omitting letters, so I took out the Energizer batteries and popped in Duracells. Guess what, repeat of previous day. Now I have 2 Touchsmart computers without functioning keyboards.
Finally, in desperation, I dug the old Energizer batteries of of the trash, put them back in and poof, the keyboard connects instantly. So a quick trip to the store for new Energizers, good to go, instant connection.
Drove over to Best Buy, handed him 2 Energizers, problem solved.
HP wireless keyboards will not work properly with AAA Duracell batteries. You've been warned !
What was I thinking when I bought an HP ?
Oh yea, I wasn't !
IQ504 & IQ506

lizard wrote:
I wanted to post this information in hopes others will not have to go thru what I just did. HP wireless keyboards will not work properly with AAA Duracell batteries.
I pulled out both the old AAA Energizer batteries and popped in 2 new Duracell AAA batteries. Spent about an hour trying to reconnect the wireless keyboard to the wireless receiver on the computer. ......
Drove over to Best Buy, handed him 2 Energizers, problem solved.
HP wireless keyboards will not work properly with AAA Duracell batteries. You've been warned !
LOL - there are 4 batteries not 2 batterys - I initially only replaced 3 because I only had 3 new duracell batteries at the time, later i found 4 duracell ultra battereis and replaced them all - keyboard worked fine.
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My Imac is not finding my wireless keyboard, i have replaced batteries with no luck. My wireless mouse works fine.

My keyboard wasnt responding so i changed the batteries and still got no response. i rebooted and mac still doesnt show if is finding the keyboard. my wireless mouse is working fine. But becuase i rebooted, now i cant type in my password and am locked out of the system. Not sure if keyboard is bad or if it is problem with the imac?

Can you borrow a wired keyboard? And / or take the keyboard into an Apple Store and ask if you can try it on one of their Macs.

Wireless keyboard needs pairing with my iMac

I changed the batteries in my wireless keyboard and now need to pair it again with my iMac. However I need to type in my password to wake up the computer - which I can't do without the keyboard! Any ideas?

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OS X Lion: Change Apple wireless keyboard batteries
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4463
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Apple Wireless Keyboard woes...

Has anyone heard of this problem before...?
I was typing away on my wireless keyboard. Have had it for over a year. Zero problems before.
I was attempting to copy/paste text in Quark and discovered a couldn't (using the keyboard commands).
I could type sentences/characters. I just couldn't cut/paste.
Then I discovered when I hit the Delete key it would enter an equal sign "=" or "an equal sign and a zero "=0" instead of deleting.
Very strange behavior. Thinking it might be a quark problem I tried editing text in Word. Same thing.
Then I tried renaming/deleting text in file names on my desktop. Same thing.
I rebooted and now my Computer won't pair with the keyboard. It sees it in Bluetooth set up and gives me a code. But when I type it in and hit return -- I get a "can't pair" with device error.
I've changed batteries. I've left the keyboard sitting without batteries for 30 minutes.
Still can't pair.
Is my keyboard dead/dying?
Again the computter sees the keyboard via bluetooth. It just can't pair with it.
Light on the keyboard does the blink-blink pause blink blink thing showing it's discoverable.
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Just an update. Since my keyboard is out of warranty I figured I was out of luck and fixing to buy a new one. Then my wife mentioned she had wiped it down the other day with windex. Doh!!!
That made me think perhaps moisture had gotten down inside.
With nothing to lose I grabbed a T-screw driver (and an 000 phillips) and decided to open the thing up and see waht could be done.
When I got to the membrane/circut board under the key board and the metal grounding plate they were very damp with condensation.
I peeled the two layers of the membrane apart and blow dryed them gently. Wiped off the metal plate with a cloth sprayed with tuner cleaner and put it all back together.
It works!!!
Always a chance corrosion could bite me later. But so far so good. Everything is up and runnng.

Tricks w/ new wireless keyboard

Here are the following "tricks" I have found out about the new wireless keyboard from Apple.
1. To get Page UP and Page DOWN function => fn + UP Arrow ; fn + DOWN Arrow
2. Forward delete => fn + delete key
3. Power off keyboard => Press and hold power button until the green light turns off. It'll turn on first, and then a few seconds of holding the button will turn the keyboard off.
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I just received my new Mac mini server 2011 and bought an Apple wireless keyboard (already have a magic mouse). At first start up of my Mac mini picks up my magic mouse and I can use it but does not pick up my wireless keyboard? Is this normal? Am I missing a trick with the keyboard? Do I first need to use a normal USB keyboard to configure my Mac mini and then when Lion is setup it will install the driver for the wireless keyboard?
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Apple's new wireless keyboard - why no numeric pad?????

I wanted to go buy one of those new sleek keyboards a while ago and I wanted it to be wireless. But then I found out that the wireless keyboard doesn't have a numeric pad! Why? Really, I don't see the purpose of this! I hope someone at Apple reads this and that they will start producing wireless keyboards with a numeric pad again because until then they won't see my money going to them. Anyone else who shares my opinion about this?
Stef

I agree, the numerical keypad is not useful for me. However, I miss the delete, home, end and page up/down keys. It is annoying with the wireless keyboard to have to use backspace to delete.
Apple should either expand the current wireless model to include these keys or offer the current wired keyboard in wireless version.
/p

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