10.5.7 - Bluetooth keyboard and mouse not working anymore

In hopes of fixing this problem I also have periodic mouse hesitations and keyboard problems using my wireless units.

I notice they mostly misbehave when I am on the internet and a page is loading or a video is playing. It appears to be worse at these time and is most repeatable at these times.

Hope this help get this fixed quickly, because my Mac is now behaving like it is a windoze machine.

Sincerely,
Franklin Miller, M.S.

Do your mouse disconnects as soon as you stop moving it or as soon as you lift the mouse? For me it's the latter. If the mouse stays in contact with the table, it doesn't disconnects, but when I lift it a few millimeters, it disconnects at once.

I guess the update (10.5.8) didn't fix it for you either? I wonder if we must wait for Snow Leopard...

Well, I installed 10.5.8 yesterday morning and it seems to be an improvement, but not perfect. Today I got the bluetooth bug where my mighty mouse will move, but mouse clicks won't register (the wireless keyboard continues to work). Usually, clicking something with the laptop trackpad will then allow my mighty mouse buttons to start registering clicks, but this time it didn't work. When the trackpad thing doesn't work I restart my bluetooth, but this time, after restarting bluetooth, my might mouse and keyboard stopped working completely. I tried everything (kill -1 blued, etc...) but it wouldn't fix the issue. I had to reboot then everything worked fine.

I'm starting a blog to follow this issue:
http://funkinetics.org/klink/osx-bluetooth-problems/

It seems Apple's dancing around some deeper issue with their bluetooth (probably a chip issue) and playing the Dutch boy with his finger in the dike. If only they had a open bug tracking system we could see what's going on instead of this wall of silence.

Not my idea of fun for a $1500 laptop with a primary claim to fame 'it just works'... maybe it should be like 'it just works, except occasionally with our own peripherals.'

Message was edited by: raymond.plante

Aug 8 08:11:29 XXX kernel[0]: E:[AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController][BulkInReadHandler] Received kIOReturnNotResponding error - retrying: 1.
Aug 8 08:11:29 XXX kernel[0]: E:[AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController][BulkInReadHandler] immediate error (-536854449) queueing next read.
Aug 8 08:11:29 XXX kernel[0]: [InterruptReadHandler] Received kIODeviceNotResponding error - retrying: 1.
Aug 8 08:11:29 XXX kernel[0]: E:[AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController]WARNING !!!! [DeviceRequestCompleteHandler] error e00002ed
Aug 8 08:11:29 XXX kernel[0]: E:[AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController][BulkOutWriteCompleteHandler] ERROR1: 0xe00002ed; sizeRem=00000000; isInactive = 0, suspended = 0
Aug 8 08:11:34 XXX kernel[0]: [[0xb21b000] Req OpCode 0c19 from: kernel_task (0) status: 0 state: 2 timeout: 5000] Bluetooth warning: An HCI Req timeout occurred.
Aug 8 08:12:04 XXX kernel[0]: Broadcom2045FamilyUSBBluetoothHCIController::setPowerState(0x703fe00, 2 -> 0) timed out after 35129 ms
Aug 8 08:12:04 XXX kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::terminateWL .. done
Aug 8 08:12:05 XXX kernel[0]: USBF: 18172.367 [0x6f67c00] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 1 of hub @ location: 0x1a000000)
Aug 8 08:12:08 XXX kernel[0]: USBF: 18176.203 [0x6f67c00] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.


Sigh...

10.5.8 looks to have solved the issue for me, not one drop out since. I've also noticed connection time is quicker.

Just updated to 10.5.8 which did not solve the issue...

correction: after rebooting all is solved and working as it should.

10.5.8. update did the job in my case.