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Oct 12, 2010 3:18 PM in response to Fortunyby sdschramm,They are paired in OS X. But that is completely different then in Windows. And windows won't accept the pair. -
Oct 15, 2010 3:50 AM in response to sdschrammby dembow,I have the same problem. I go to Control Panel and select Add Device. I push the Power button on Magic Trackpad and it appears in the list. When I select Next, nothing happens. It keeps saying Connecting but it nevert gets any further than that. I installed Magic Trackpad drivers from Apple for Windows 7 (32-bit). For some reason the Wireless Keyboard works just fine.
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Oct 15, 2010 7:28 AM in response to sdschrammby Albert Ocampo,on another thread, a gentleman suggested to attach a USB keyboard and mouse and then reboot into os x. rename your Bluetooth devices in Bluetooth preferences then delete them. reboot into windows and then try to pair the newly renamed devices. this worked for me. I then rebooted into os x and paired them on that side and everything seemed fine. Unplug USB devices and enjoy the goodness of Bluetooth. Not sure I fully understand why this workaround works, but it did for me right away. wish I had found the answer sooner. -
Oct 16, 2010 4:18 AM in response to Albert Ocampoby dembow,Wow, what an adventure. So, Albert's suggestion worked. After I made my Magic Trackpad work in Windows 7, I went back to Snow Leopard to find it's not working. I immediately began looking for solutions and found out that you need to pull the batteries out. So I did that, restarted my iMac, put the batteries back in and Bluetooth quickly discovered it.
It turns out there's a whole procedure to follow if you want it to work both in Windows and Snow Leopard. Glad I'm finished with all this hustle. -
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Feb 26, 2011 10:22 AM in response to sdschrammby Matthew Johnson3,I'm having a similar problem trying to pair my iphone over bluetooth in windows xp. I'm getting an unknown error as well. -
Apr 10, 2011 10:08 AM in response to Matthew Johnson3by sdschramm,SOLUTION:
Put the devices in "Manual paring mode"
1. Turn device off.
2. Push and hold in power button until the LED starts flashing on and off.
3. Try the paring procedure.
4. It should work.
I went to the apple store and this is what they did. They got the trackpad paired no problem, but the keyboard would refuse to make connection. At first they blamed windows and didn't want to replace the keyboard because it worked fine under OSX. However I made them try one of their keyboards and it paired fine. So they ended up swapping out my keyboard for one of the newer ones and now it pairs with both windows and OSX with no problem! -
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Nov 22, 2013 7:45 PM in response to bigjimsonby smo0f,bigjimson, I was just gonna post the same solution but I hadn't scrolled to the bottom of the page while I was figuring it out. Doesn't make sense why it wouldn't be enabled by default. Just to clarify to everyone, you right click on the keyboard in the window where you are attempting to connect it, instead of clicking connect, right click the keyboard and you should see what bigjimson posted but right in the first tab (there's only two I believe) - check the box and it'll install the keyboard by itself, no further steps necesary.
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Dec 9, 2013 9:26 AM in response to bigjimsonby etudenc12,FWIW, bigjmson's solution did the trick for me as well. Once the drivers were installed, the keyboard was paired with my laptop (running Windows 7) and I didn't have to enter the pairing code etc.
Thanks for posting that, bigjimson!
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Jan 24, 2014 9:47 AM in response to Albert Ocampoby charleshomer,Albert Ocampos soultion worked for me! I have been struggling with this for quite some time. I also had to install the correct Bootcamp version for my Mid 2007 iMac.Once I went through that, my devices still wouldn't connect. That is, until a tried your solution. Thanks a million, Albert!
