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Battery level indicator frozen at 100% since10.6.7 update

Before I upgraded to 10.6.7 my Magic Mouse battery indicator showed around 60%. Since the upgrade it seems fixed at 100%. I turned off the mouse for a while and even took out the batteries and then replaced them. After turning the mouse back on It reconnected and the battery indicator still shows 100%. I upgraded the OS yesterday and the Mac "slept" well last night. Any clues to how I can get the battery indicator to reflect the true state of the battery?
Thanks,
Larry

2008 2.8G MacPro 8GB RAM 3x500GB WD Drives, Mac OS X (10.6.7), NVIDIA 8800GT GPU 23" ACD RS1500 UPS iPod Touch

Posted on Mar 22, 2011 4:31 PM

36 replies

chesleyn

Level 1

9 points

Aug 19, 2011 6:21 AM in response to Larry from VA

I'm having the same problem. I bought the mobee inductive charger. At night when the computer indicates 15% or so battery life, I charge all night, only to wake with 15% battery life. Turning the mouse off and back on again, the battery life jumps to 100%.

Aug 19, 2011 8:25 AM in response to Larry from VA

Looks like toggling the power on the mouse does in fact reset the battery life indicator in Lion. I also noticed this same issue with my home iMac running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) - had charged the mouse all night and was still getting warning that battery was low until I removed and reinstalled the battery. After which the battery level indicated 100%.

Sep 12, 2011 4:49 PM in response to emageester

Lion 10.7.1 and nothing changed...

I receive the message "Low Battery" just few seconds before the magic mouse stop working because of the battery.

chesleyn

Level 1

9 points

Sep 13, 2011 5:51 AM in response to Larry from VA

Found a great little menubar app to show battery percentage. Even if I have to turn my mouse and keyboard off and on every morning to know where they are on battery life. Here is the link.

Sep 13, 2011 6:57 AM in response to chesleyn

Yhank you for your link chesleyn, but I'm sure that some Apple engineer can fix this little stupid bug.

Do we have to downgrade to 10.6.6 to have a proper battery level indicator? :-)

jetleets

Level 1

8 points

May 28, 2012 1:45 AM in response to Larry from VA

This bug is back again in Mac OS X 10.7.4

Very distressing. The magic mouse battery indicator was at 100% even after using for a month, and suddenly yesterday I got a low battery warning for my magic mouse, then it suddenly died.

I do hope Apple fix this bug with the next release...

The quality of software and hardware from Apple is dropping sharply... Very disappointed with Apple...

Battery level indicator frozen at 100% since10.6.7 update