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May 25, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Ag. Trouble in paradise.
It wakes up from sleep, but only clicking works – scrolling goes away until you restart.
My hunch is that it’s not reading the preferences properly, because it wakes up with tracking speed a lot faster. I’ve deleted the preferences but no help.
May 26, 2010 at 4:45 am
Work out how much time you have spent already. Just order an antenna and cable, spend 30 mins to fit it, enjoy doing it and after enjoy Magic mouse.
June 2, 2010 at 12:29 am
I’ve done that, but it takes a while for those parts to get here. Believe me, I didn’t buy the adapter from Staples because I’m afraid of plugging in an antenna and drilling a hole in a PCI slot cover, I bought it because that was the one I could find in town and I could return it if it didn’t work.
Meanwhile the D-Link one is no longer compatible with Macs, apparently. But at least PC Mall agreed to pay the return shipping.
In the meantime I’m using adapter I have and shutting down the computer at night. Not a terrible inconvenience for the short term.
By the way, I am concerned about one thing, which is that all my computers are on the other side of a wall (sitting on shelves behind a trap door). Hopefully I’ll be able to mount the antenna on the PCI slot cover like yours, but if I have to use an extension cable to bring it to the front of the room then I hope it doesn’t affect the wavelength of the antenna’s reception.
June 2, 2010 at 12:31 am
Sorry, I meant if I have to use an extension cable to move the antenna to the front of the *machine* (because the PCI slots are behind the computer), and I can’t turn it around.
June 2, 2010 at 5:14 am
Hi Nick,
I don’t think there will be much difference between the antenna being at the back of the case or the front. How far is your case from your mouse? Mine antenna is at the back of my case and works about 5 metres away. If your worried buy an antenna with a higher Db gain. Mine is a 6Db but you can get a 9Db which is longer. If for some reason you want to add an extension cable to fit the antenna at the front of you case you will maybe gain a little distance in antenna position but lose Db by having extra cable.
June 2, 2010 at 2:04 pm
The distance is about 2-1/2 meters, but it’s behind a wooden trap door. That shouldn’t matter (these signals go through walls), but we’ll see whether the computer itself masks the signal.
And I don’t know what the gain is. I’ve stolen the antenna from a wi-fi router I’m not using anymore.
May 25, 2010 at 3:32 am
I should add that I had the mouse working with a generic $5 BT adapter from Fry’s, but waking up from sleep was a freaking ordeal. You had to unplug and re-plug the adapter, turn the mouse off and on, and wait about a minute…and then it would usually work.
So the issue is supporting BT wake from sleep. I’m glad this one works, because nobody around here has the D-Link one Apple recommends in stock.
May 25, 2010 at 3:29 am
As I posted on the Apple Support Forum, the really tiny Targus USB adapter that Staples sells for $25 works perfectly with the Magic Mouse, including BT wake from sleep. Yay!
8 x 2.8GHz Mac Pro, 10.6.3.
The only thing is that the wired keyboard’s USB ports when plugged into a 30″ Cinema Display don’t supply enough power, so you have to plug it in somewhere else (in my case one of my hubs).
Thanks for this blog – it was very helpful. The built-in BT works, just not very well – my computers are on the other side of a wall, where they don’t make a noise if nobody’s there to hear it. So i’d thought about the wi-fi antenna solution. But this is much simpler, and it works.
May 25, 2010 at 5:03 am
HI NIck.
Glad to hear you got it sorted and you found my blog useful