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I’ve raged a lot on my networks about how crap my Apple Magic Mouse<\/a> battery life has been and how it keeps constantly disconnecting. I would get constant disconnects and I have done research and found one suggesting that the battery contacts were getting bumped so I jammed a piece of paper in there and it appeared that it was doing a better job, for about a week, then back to the old tricks.<\/p>\n

To diagnose the problem I wondered if the OS was logging anything. I opened up the Console app to see if the OS was logging anything about the mouse and sure enough it was. I was able to see my mouse disconnect and reconnect in real-time as it logs\u00a0with entries like this:<\/p>\n

\n11\/08\/11 8:48:12 AM\tkernel\t[12a53600][AppleMultitouchHIDEventDriver::start] entered\n11\/08\/11 8:48:12 AM\tkernel\t[1723e400][AppleMultitouchDevice::start] entered\n11\/08\/11 8:50:04 AM\tkernel\t[1723e400][AppleMultitouchDevice::willTerminate] entered\n11\/08\/11 8:50:04 AM\tkernel\t[1723e400][AppleMultitouchDevice::stop] entered\n<\/pre>\n
Ok, so it’s disconnecting, what does that mean? I saw these in the logs months ago but googling the error nothing came up. I decided to give it another go today and came across this post<\/a> on the Apple Discussion Forums<\/a>. \u00a0With its first post in 2009 which is weird cause I didn’t find that in my searches earlier in the year. It’s got 5 pages of people mostly saying ‘I got the same problem’ but one guy sparklelellama<\/em> suggested it could be the batteries themselves and specifically mentions Duracell<\/a> batteries and other cheap batteries. He hypothesizes that the magic mouse requires a 1.5V constant power output and that cheaper batteries can’t handle it.<\/p>\n
So I decided to give his idea a bit more thought. I pulled out the multimeter and sure enough he was right. A brand new Eveready ‘Super Heavy Duty’<\/a> was outputting 1.68 V while one that has been in my magic mouse for a week was only outputting 1.46V after a week of moderate use it dropped 0.24V, that’s massive! Not so super heavy-duty it would seem.<\/p>\n
\"Cheap<\/p>\n
I put some Duracell’s back into the Magic Mouse<\/a> and the disconnect problems seem to have disappeared. If it changes in a week I’ll report back. Otherwise don’t skimp on your batteries and get the best you can, cause I can finally talk about the magic of the Apple Magic Mouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n
UPDATE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
I’ve purchased an Apple\u00a0rechargeable\u00a0battery pack and all my issues with my mouse have gone for good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve raged a lot on my networks about how crap my Apple Magic Mouse battery life has been and how it keeps constantly disconnecting. I would get constant disconnects and I have done research and found one suggesting that the battery contacts were getting bumped so I jammed a piece …<\/p>\n
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