jon’s blog. » Blog Archive » Mac Mini keeps losing my Bluetooth peripherals

Mac Mini keeps losing my Bluetooth peripherals

My Mac Mini keeps losing my Bluetooth peripherals. right now, thought i’d pop out a CD before i headed off to work, but i’ve been waiting 5 minutes now for it to “update” my bluetooth mouse. I haven’t even tried to see if it can still find the keyboard. :(

This is after already trying to get the screen to come up, out of sleep, without success–it required a hard shutdown/restart (vnc didn’t work, ssh didn’t work).

another reboot, now it doesn’t even bring up the Bluetooth connection manager dialog. i just want my stinking disc back at this point. argh.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 9th, 2005 at 6:44 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

jon

I use a dongle on my iBook; The mac mini is using built in bluetooth. I am having the problems on my mini, not my iBook. It is indeed flaky.

I'm generally somewhat of a power user and a tinkerer; I usually *always* find a way to "break" things that are allegedly stable. (see earlier post on hosing my mini). However in this situation, i'm doing nothing but merely using the product as i thought it was intended. For now, i keep my peripherals turned on.

and when i mention "the implementation" earlier, i'm refering to the implementation of bluetooth, of which since i've heard is less than superb.

The only product i'm extremely unhappy with at the moment is the half-baked iPhoto 5.

j.

Chris

Just an FYI....I have a Mac mini with built-in bluetooth with an Apple wireless keyboard and a Logitech MX900 mouse and have had zero trouble with either of them. I should also mention that I'm using it next to my tv as a media mac. Could it be that the dongle you are using is the problem? Anyways, I have always been happy with Apple's products and had virtually no problems. I hate to sound harsh, but sometimes it comes down to a little knowledge and a little patience.

scott

in my iMac g5, i couldn't eject a cd because os x didn't know it was in there or something. i tried the open firmware thing:

1. Restart the computer.
2. When you hear the startup sound, press and hold the Command-Option-O-F keys. (The Command key has an Apple on it.)
3. Release the keys when you see a white screen that says "Welcome to Open Firmware."
4. At the prompt, type:

eject cd
5. Press Return, then wait a few seconds. The disc drive should eject the disc, and "ok" appears on the screen when the action is complete.
6. Type:

mac-boot
7. Press Return.

jon

argh, so you're having that issue too. i believe has to do with the implementation on OS X. i've not had it this flakey in the windows world.

for now, i'm trying keeping my peripherals turned on--however, i can't put the thing to sleep that way...any tiny movement by my mouse and it's awake again.

here's to them getting bluetooth right. if anyone's going to really use this thing next to their television, as their "web tv/media centre" they have to really really get the bluetooth more solid. i feel like i'm beta testing their product!

Tara

Y'know, I really like Bluetooth in theory, but it really annoys me when I leave the bluetooth dongle plugged into my work mac, and shut down, and come in the next day and attempt to sync my phone -- and I have to re-pair the whole thing, and start over like I'd never paired the phone to that mac before.

Then again, my work Mac could REALLY benefit from a wipe & clean install... that one's so picky, and every year and a half I end up having to do something like that to clean everything up and make it behave again.