Thanks Peter. > I am interested to know what battery life you get between recharges. Would it > measure in days, weeks, months?
Depending of course on how long it's used for each day, but if I use it solidly for successive days, the battery life would be no longer than a few days - a week maybe? I was aware of the possibility of frequent battery replacement before buying, and so ran with one of the WAMUG subscribers suggestions to use rechargeable batteries. There does seem to have been some improvement in battery life over time, but I'm saying that without having kept any stats. It's just that when I first bought it the batteries seemed to last only a couple of days, whereas a now much longer. The batteries were new also, so it's probably got more to do with the batteries needing a couple of recharge cycles to reach optimum power. I've just checked my battery level indicator again and it's calling me a liar. Now 57%. Yet it was definitely at 61% for a period long enough to assume it was stuck on that figure. Maybe the batteries had an extra bit of oomph at the 61% level?? But I'm talking about it being there for a few days, and also they went flat shortly after I checked the power level, which had indicated 61%. Unless there's something which needs to be done to refresh the battery level indicator, which maybe I didn't do, like turn the mouse on and off or something? Just before last battery changeover, the cursor started tracking really slowly and unresponsively. Initially I thought it can't be the batteries because I would have received a 'low battery' warning flash up on my screen. I think that was when I checked the level only to see 61%, a level I recalled it being at the last couple of times I'd checked. But the jittery cursor persisted, so I swapped the batteries anyway to see if that changed anything. It did. Problem solved. Some time after that change, I checked the battery level indicator again - 61%. In hindsight, the post changeover check could have been pure coincidence that right at that time the battery life had reduced to 61%. Regards the jittery cursor, it could be that I wasn't looking at the screen at the time a low battery level warning flashed up, but then on previous occasions, once the battery goes flat, the cursor just stops moving (and I think a disconnection messages flashes up?), there has been no period of poor performance. For the time being, no problem. I would be peeved without rechargeables though. Cheers, Steven On 18/04/2010, at 5:00 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: > > Hi Steven, the battery issue with the Magic Mouse is a well documented > one - ie excessive consumption of batteries. I have retired my Magic > Mouse for the moment, hoping there will be a patch to sort out why the > horrendous consumption - at best one week between battery replacement. I > am unsure why the indicator in System Preferences should say 61% when in > fact flat. Perhaps the Magic Mouse has a high voltage threshold and when > the state reaches 61%, they have dropped off the curve far enough to dip > below the required threshold. > > I am interested to know what battery life you get between recharges. > Would it measure in days, weeks, months? > > Since retiring the MM, I got myself a Logitech Nano VX mouse and it is > still on the FIRST set of batteries from then! It is a great wireless > mouse despite not having the features of the MM - but it was getting a > bit tiring replacing batteries less than every week. The MM despite its > great features, if they don't work reliably and consistently, it's a > dud. > > Regards > > Peter.. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steven Knowles > Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2010 4:16 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61% > > > Anyone know why the mouse battery level in System Preferences > Mouse > would stay on 61% constantly fr my Magic Mouse, even when the batteries > go flat? I'm using Energizer rechargeables in case that makes a > difference (OSX 10.6.3). > > Same deal when using the Mouse with a Macbook Pro and an iMac, so it > seems to be a battery or mouse issue rather than a computer issue. > > Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
