The wireless keyboard that came with my mid-2010 iMac seems to be reading the battery charge wrong. I bought some Enelopes and cycled through them twice, but according to Bluetooth, they are only 68% charged. The set of batteries are brand new. Any ideas?
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Apple Wireless Keyboard Charge Problem
- Thread starter synergyo1
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Try some other batteries. If that doesn't help, just contact Apple, they'll take care of you since you're in warranty.
See if normal AA's give you 100%.
Going to try this tomorrow. Thought it was kind of wierd that two different fully-charged sets of Enelopes would be reading 68% max. The keyboard has also been eating through batteries pretty quick; Lasts 1-2 weeks with the Energizers it shipped with plus the Enelopes. It's been two months and the Apple Trackpad & Magic Mouse still have the original Energizers in them.
I've found it can be finicky. Last week it was reading at 17% and eventually got into the sub-10% territory where I was getting low battery warnings. However, shutting the keyboard off and turning it back on resolved it. I'm now sitting at 27%.
I'm getting months out of standard Duracells, though. Getting one week out of the included Energizers is curious, to say the least.
I'm getting months out of standard Duracells, though. Getting one week out of the included Energizers is curious, to say the least.
my 2010 kb does the same thing, I have some 2700mah eneloops on a full charge (according to my btc) my keyboard reads them at 83% (btc reports 100%). Some cheapo ikea batteries read as 72% on my keyboard. The same eneloops in my other wireless mouse read at 98%, its retarded.
Whats odd is my ikea batteries last longer in the kb than my eneloops do, and I have like 20~30 eneloops that I use for my camera's flash. I don't understand it.
Whats odd is my ikea batteries last longer in the kb than my eneloops do, and I have like 20~30 eneloops that I use for my camera's flash. I don't understand it.
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Going to try this tomorrow. Thought it was kind of wierd that two different fully-charged sets of Enelopes would be reading 68% max. The keyboard has also been eating through batteries pretty quick; Lasts 1-2 weeks with the Energizers it shipped with plus the Enelopes. It's been two months and the Apple Trackpad & Magic Mouse still have the original Energizers in them.
I have the Apple Magic mouse since like last year. The original Energizer batteries are still in it and running fine. I put the mouse through moderate use but not used as often.
Well.. put some Energizer Maxs in and they show full charge. Weird that fully charge Eneloops would show 68% max (Conspiracy theory? Maybe Apple is detecting the Eneloops and falsely showing the wrong charge, in order for you to go buy their rebadge Eneloops. HINT: I'm being sarcastic).
The Eneloops show fully charge in other devices, so not sure what the deal is.
The Eneloops show fully charge in other devices, so not sure what the deal is.