Apple Wireless Keyboard won't power up

HI folks

My alu wireless KB was doing same I used a small ball of tin foil following advice on here and it works:-)

As of Feb 7, 2012, this aluminum ball of life trick still works. I have a 2007 wireless keyboard and the darn thing gave me about 1.5 nanoseconds of warning before it stopped working (it did make for a short day at work yesterday, though).Either way, I did have to do it three times to get it to work out. I am also using Energizer Max (the green ones) rechargeable batteries... whether this helped or not, I rubbed each end of each battery on my fleece pullover prior to layering in on top of the Reynolds-God-like creation and this time was the charm... it fired right up, green light a-go-go and all systems cool. That's a (Reynolds) wrap! ...now if I just don't run out of aluminum before Dec 12... this thing will have worked for the rest of my life! haha

I am also happy again after solving my dead keyboard with a bit of Alufoil.

The guys at the macstore told me to ditch it, I am happy I looked up the fora. Thanks to all the people out there sharing their magic tricks! 🙂

Yes, the tiny ball of foil works great! I used foil from a chocolate bar. Love these old school fixes. Thanks!

So this failed keyboard thing happened to me again today (newer - titanium kb). I tried all sorts of batteries and then came to this site. After a while I remembered it happened to me a year or so ago. Then I remembered I fixed it by dropping in a little spring from a cheap ballpoint pen. This had obviously dropped out today in my battery changing frenzy. I looked around and found the little spring and dropped it in again and all was OK. So for those of you who dont have steel wool, a 3/4 inch ballpoint pen spring works just fine. Just dont forget that you need it next year ...

Great suggestion! I just got my keyboard working again using aluminum foil as suggested in an earlier post.

Excellent solution and worked like a charm for my 4 years old BT Keyboard 🙂

Yippee! Thank goodness for this exchange. Even nicer than saving the $$ for a new keyboard is the reassurance that simple works and I figured it out myself. Confirmation from this group makes me feel a bit less silly for putting that stupid little plastic ring in backwards. Nice to know it's bad design and not stupid me!

Wow, this thread goes back a few years... Thanks everyone for your work on this issue!

I have the "mini" bluetooth keyboard, requiring 2 AA batteries. After replacing them the

first time, guess what? Yes, the keyboard didn't work properly. Trying a bunch of things

that I read here, I was about to try the "aluminum foil ball" trick, when my husband said

"Why don't you just reboot and see if that fixes the issue?"

I was thinking "reboot? but this is mac, not windows!". ha ha ha.

I rebooted and the keyboard sync'd up with the mothership and all is well.

I have MacOS Lion. I've noticed that this version of OS is less Mac-like, and more Windows-like

(argh!) in some ways. And this is another example....

When in doubt, reboot. It can't hurt. That is all.

Yep! The aluminum foil did the trick for me. I had two wireless keyboards laying around, and it worked. I created a disk of foil about the size of a flat battery in a HP calculator. I'm typing on it right now. Great tip!

OK - aluminum ball worked for awhile.... steel wool worked for awhile.... now all I get is a blinking green light... and it is not discoverable. Is it junk?

ALSO- is the green light supposed to stay on the whole time?

hi Mary, the green light only shows up when the keyboard is powering on...do you have any other devices with which you can try to link the keyboard, like an iPad/Pod/Pad? see if you can get it recognized by another device. If so then you can at least know whether it's an OSX recognition issue or ?

did you try new batteries at this point?

good luck.

RosieinWA

oops, cancel that 2nd iPad in my list and try iPhone 😐

you are so sweet! (RosiefromWA) Thank you! Since my post...determined to make it work... HA..... I did get my keyboard to work again... wonder how long it will last this time but sure love the freedom the wireless keyboard and mouse offer. Using my bluetooth nouse again too but it wont work like it shoud... (the scrolling features) but regardless happy it is cooperating this time. Thanks again and Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, and glad your keyboard is working again. Now that the keyboard is working again go up to the bluetooth icon and see what your battery % is...