Wireless Mouse Trouble

Tanabe

I dropped my wireless mouse & after much fiddling around got it to 'click' back into place but it still doesn't work:mad: . The button on the back that I slide down to ensure the mouse is 'discoverable' doesn't seem to be doing the trick. The green lighted dot doesn't flash, therefore the mouse can't be found.

Any help/suggestions?

Oriel

Tanabe wrote:

after much fiddling around got it to 'click' back into place

That sounds dubious. I presume it broke open? Are the batteries being held in place ok?

triple h

when i was buying my mac a few months ago in the apple store, I paused for 20 seconds, i was wondering to myself, should i get a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse or not. 20 seconds is the only time i gave to this thought in the end because, two images came into my mind, an image of a wireless mouse falling to the ground and an image of a wired mouse falling to the ground. I reckoned i would be better off having a wired mouse, cause the wired mouse would just about be able to stay on the table at all times and if he did hit the ground he would hit it slowly. Also a child is less likely to touch a wired mouse and go off somewhere with it.

440Hz

What make is the mouse?

Sad Professor

If it's a wireless Mighty Mouse forget it. Those things are really unreliable, even when they aren't dropped.

Must have been quite a fall to break apart. Admit it, you threw it at someone, didn't you?

Tanabe

Thanks for the replies. It's an Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse. To be honest with you it didn't really hit the floor all that hard, pc is in a bedroom with carpet flooring.

When I say it 'clicked back into place' it wasn't completely smashed open by any means. The removable back piece had come way so I reassembled it obviously. However, I noticed that the part on the side that you can squeeze on (to launch Exposé etc) wasn't exactly parallel with the one on the opposite side so I rectified that but still no go:mad: . The batteries are still perfectly held in place. When I slide the switch on the back to the 'on' position it's useless!

I suppose the warranty is expired now I have it over a year?

Damn it!

Any more suggestions?

Oriel

If it was me, I'd take the thing apart and have my soldering iron to hand.

Tanabe

Oriel wrote:

If it was me, I'd take the thing apart and have my soldering iron to hand.

Yeah but unfortunately it's me & I'd be rendered totally useless in that department!:(

440Hz

Tanabe wrote:

Yeah but unfortunately it's me & I'd be rendered totally useless in that department!:(

Most people would be!

I only pick up a soldering gun when im making cables or fixing audio stuff!
The inside of a mouse would mean nothing to me! Best I can do is open it up and clean the rollerball.

Oriel

I went to play a gig on Saturday night there, my piano pedal wouldn't work from the outset.
Ended up taking it apart then and there to see what was wrong with it. Used a bit of sellotape for a make-shift solution (to hold a wire to where it had broken off from the solder joint!).

Never ever be afraid to take anything apart. Just make sure you're able to put it back together again, or can afford to replace it.

Since you dropped it, chances are something small has been knocked out of place, which should be easy enough to fix.
There are plenty of guides to taking MightyMice (?) apart all over the internet.

Oriel

440Hz wrote:

The inside of a mouse would mean nothing to me! Best I can do is open it up and clean the rollerball.

Get some instructions from Oriel?

I've opened a few normal Mighty Mouses in work due to case sticking etc, I've never personally opened a wireless one, but it shouldn't be too much different.

Also, you don't need to open the mouse to clean the rollerball, btw.

440Hz

Oriel wrote:

Also, you don't need to open the mouse to clean the rollerball, btw.

Actually in certain cases for Mighty Mice you do. Google it!

Oriel

http://www.lifeofram.com/roots/index-0-0-mightymouse-1.html

440Hz

http://web.mac.com/karelgil/iWeb/MacWebSite/MightyMEng.html

if you do decide to open it....

Oriel

440Hz wrote:

Actually in certain cases for Mighty Mice you do. Google it!

To clean the rollerball, you don't need to open the mouse. Anybody who cannot clean the ball without opening the mouse are not doing it correctly.

Oriel

440Hz wrote:

http://web.mac.com/karelgil/iWeb/MacWebSite/MightyMEng.html

if you do decide to open it....

That's for a corded Mighty Mouse, different kettle of fish. The weight and balancing is different for the wireless one, parts have been shifted too.

440Hz

Oriel wrote:

To clean the rollerball, you don't need to open the mouse. Anybody who cannot clean the ball without opening the mouse are not doing it correctly.

Cleaning it without opening it is easy, not a matter of not doing it correctly. However it does not always solve the problem.

Back OT, thanks. Rollerball isn't the issue here.

440Hz

Re corded/wireless. The link I posted was from an article which described disassembling a wireless Mighty Mouse by following the steps in that link.

OP: Sorry about that deviation. Hopefully some information will be helpful

Oriel

440Hz wrote:

Cleaning it without opening it is easy, not a matter of not doing it correctly. However it does not always solve the problem.

Back OT, thanks. Rollerball isn't the issue here.

You posted the link to removing the rollerball on a corded Mighty Mouse, not me. But ok, back on topic.

Oriel

440Hz wrote:

Re corded/wireless. The link I posted was from an article which described disassembling a wireless Mighty Mouse by following the steps in that link.

It's considerably easier to disassemble a wireless one, due to the fact that there is no hole for the cable, and much more importantly, there is no cable to attach to the base of the mouse.
Get a Stanley knife, and you'll be grand.

440Hz

Sorry guys!! Didn't mean for that post-tennis to drag on. I'll stop now

Tanabe

I thought I was watching the Wimbledon of posts on boards.ie for a second there,

On a more serious note, thanks for the links guys, I'll definitely give it a go, nothing to lose now, eh? Plus, I actually miss the little wireless bugger like you wouldn't believe, damn these wires on mice! Lucky I had one as backup though.

I'll explore it's insides yet before I hand over any more hard earned cash to Apple, I should have shares in that company by now I've bought so much!

Oriel

Tanabe, how did it go?
440hz, I take back what I said. Kinda.*
I took apart and cleaned my MightyMouse in work and there were lots of crud that you wound't be able to get to without taking it apart.

* I still stand by what I said though - if you clean it properly (ie, often enough and well enough) then you shouldn't need to take it apart.
Neglected mice though - that's a different story.

But then - the advantage about optical mice is that you don't have to clean them, so Apple need to sort something out.

Creamy Goodness

sorry a bit off topic but how well does the wireless mighty mouse work? was thinking of buying one there for my new macbook for when i'm at home.

Oriel

I've just bought one (had a wired Mighty Mouse for more than a year), and it's a lot heavier than the wired one, due to the batteries.
I prefer the wired one, to be honest. I wouldn't buy a wireless one again.

440Hz

Wireless one is crap. wouldnt have gone for it. have a few at work and they all die very quickly. Im happy out with my wired. Hopefully yours will have a longer life Steve!