Anyone else having issues with Bluetooth peripherals losing their connection in Mavericks?
I have a mid-2008 iMac (the oldest machine capable of running Mavericks,) along with the original Aluminum Apple Bluetooth Keyboard (the one that takes 3 AA batteries instead of 2,) plus a Magic Mouse and Trackpad.
As long as my computer stays on, all work fine. Never any problems.
But if the computer goes to sleep, turns off, or restarts, invariably at least one of the peripherals stops working. Most often the keyboard. The device will wake the computer up (from sleep,) or will work during pre-boot (to launch the boot selector,) but won't work in the OS. This makes it rather difficult to type in my password.
Once this happens, the only way to get it back is to de-pair all Bluetooth devices, turn Bluetooth all the way off, then re-pair them.
What's odd is that the Bluetooth preference pane says the missing device(s) is/are connected! Turning the device off doesn't even help. It says it is still connected.
But on the login screen, if the keyboard is the one that isn't working, it DOES say that there is no keyboard connected, and tries to pair - but the pairing always fails. Even if I turn the keyboard all the way off and back on, it will go as far as having me type in the code, claim it accepted the code, then get a connection error.
I have a mid-2008 iMac (the oldest machine capable of running Mavericks,) along with the original Aluminum Apple Bluetooth Keyboard (the one that takes 3 AA batteries instead of 2,) plus a Magic Mouse and Trackpad.
As long as my computer stays on, all work fine. Never any problems.
But if the computer goes to sleep, turns off, or restarts, invariably at least one of the peripherals stops working. Most often the keyboard. The device will wake the computer up (from sleep,) or will work during pre-boot (to launch the boot selector,) but won't work in the OS. This makes it rather difficult to type in my password.
Once this happens, the only way to get it back is to de-pair all Bluetooth devices, turn Bluetooth all the way off, then re-pair them.
What's odd is that the Bluetooth preference pane says the missing device(s) is/are connected! Turning the device off doesn't even help. It says it is still connected.
But on the login screen, if the keyboard is the one that isn't working, it DOES say that there is no keyboard connected, and tries to pair - but the pairing always fails. Even if I turn the keyboard all the way off and back on, it will go as far as having me type in the code, claim it accepted the code, then get a connection error.