Problems with Lion Bluetooth Connection

Yes, most Bluetooth settings are global, and not driven by a user account. I am glad it helps you out for the short term.

When you say "Flaky Bluetooth connection" what do you mean? That sounds different. Ever look in the Console (kernel.log file) when things get "flaky"? That might give a clue.

I totally agree with Stephen. I switched fairly late to wireless; March 2009 to be exact. When BT works, it works wonderfully, when it doesn't, well, I have to also drag out the wired mouse and keyboard. I consider them both as much a part of my "troubleshooting" kit as I do a copy of Disc Warrior.

This is across three major versions of OS X, untold number of point releases for each, three differant computers and at least 5-6 different-branded mice and keyboards. It's not anywhere near frequent enough for me to want to go back to wired, but as I said, I don't think I can ever ditch the wired backups.

Well, the problem occured again. Same circumstances as before-neither mouse nor keyboard worked after a kernel panic. However, gtmagnet's tip I used before made it no fuss, no bother to repair.

At least the next two point upgrades can't come soon enough for me.

I'm now running OS X 10.7.3 on a mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13" and have had problems with the Bluetooth connection ever since installing 10.7.2. The connection to my Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 cuts out randomly in the middle of mousing around the screen (I've checked kernel.log after this happens and have seen no errors). My MacAlly bluetooth keyboard, oddly enough, will always wake the machine from sleep but then the connection will cut out immediately thereafter. It often takes several tries to reconnect the keyboard. Both mouse and keyboard have "Allow this device..." turned on and both are Favorites. I've tried shutting off computer, keyboard, and mouse and then bringing everything back up -- to no avail. I find this exceedingly aggravating. It's good to know that I'm not the only one having Bluetooth problems, but I'm a little bent that Apple hasn't seen fit to address something that is plaguing a lot of users, judging from this and other threads.

I am having these same issues since the update as well, but on my 3 month old iMac using the MacAlly bluetooth Keyboard. It usually happens after the machine has been asleep for a few hours and I have to end up shutting it down with the power button and restarting it completely.

Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b)

FWIW, I had very similar issues with my MBP and the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard/Trackpad and resetting the SMC seems to have fixed it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

I am running an imac with Lion 10.7.4 with a Macally Bluetooth Keyboard and an Apple Bluetooth Mouse. The mouse works well but seems to use up batteries fairly quickly. The Macally keyboard has massive troubles connecting and sometimes disconnects for no particular reason. The dialog box for bluetooth shows the keyboard connected when it is not. it is sometimes difficult to disconnect in the bluetooth module so I can try to connect so that it works. I am typing with it now.

It is very frustrating to try and use the system. A dump of the errors in Console kernel.log follows. I sure hope Apple fixes this problem much sooner than later. It appears to have been a problem since 2005 according to the posts in this forum.

Jun 21 23:52:38 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_sysctl: unknown error 61, unmounting vol

Jun 22 09:00:26 localhost kernel[0]: SMC::smcInitHelper ERROR: MMIO regMap == NULL - fall back to old SMC mode

Jun 28 10:55:38 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: request could not be found!

Jun 29 20:16:38 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x0408] (Create Connection Cancel) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0002 (kBluetoothHCIErrorNoConnection))

Jun 30 06:58:25 localhost kernel[0]: SMC::smcInitHelper ERROR: MMIO regMap == NULL - fall back to old SMC mode

Jul 1 06:59:43 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff80133e4000][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 1 07:59:45 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff80133e4000][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 1 08:59:49 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff80133e4000][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 1 09:59:52 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff80133e4000][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 3 08:07:20 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8016300c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 3 09:07:24 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8016300c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 3 10:07:27 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8016300c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 3 11:07:31 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8016300c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 3 12:07:34 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8016300c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 3 13:04:22 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHIDDriver][handleStart] staticPrepControlChannelAction returned error e00002c0

Jul 3 13:05:03 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHIDDriver][handleStart] staticPrepControlChannelAction returned error e00002c0

Jul 3 13:05:25 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x0413] (Set Connection Encryption) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0016 (kBluetoothHCIErrorConnectionTerminatedByLocalHost))

Jul 3 13:05:25 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x0406] (Disconnect) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Jul 3 13:05:25 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: ### ERROR: send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Jul 3 13:05:27 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x0C37] (Write Link Supervision Timeout) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Jul 5 03:41:28 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 04:41:32 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 05:41:35 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 06:41:38 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 07:41:42 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 08:41:45 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 09:41:48 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 10:41:52 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 11:41:55 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 12:41:58 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 13:42:02 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 14:42:05 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [ffffff8024a23c00][BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][70.12] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0047

Jul 5 14:54:50 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHIDDriver][handleStart] staticPrepControlChannelAction returned error e00002c0

Jul 5 14:56:38 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHIDDriver][handleStart] staticPrepControlChannelAction returned error e00002c0

Jul 5 14:56:43 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x0406] (Disconnect) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Jul 5 14:56:43 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: ### ERROR: send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Jul 5 14:57:13 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x0406] (Disconnect) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Jul 5 14:57:13 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: ### ERROR: send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Jul 5 14:57:31 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x080D] (Write Link Policy Settings) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0002 (kBluetoothHCIErrorNoConnection))

Jul 5 14:57:31 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: ### ERROR: Exit sniff failed (probably already unsniffed) (err=2)

Jul 5 14:57:31 Steve-Dunlaps-iMac kernel[0]: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0x080D] (Write Link Policy Settings) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0002 (kBluetoothHCIErrorNoConnection))

I had been using my wireless keyboard and trackpad for years until this morning. Clicking on the bluetooth icon would show the spinning ball and be very sluggish. The mouse was erratic and I couldn't use two fingers to scroll, even though it was set up for that. I reloaded several times, disconnected and reconnected my keyboard/trackpad several times. It was still happening. I reset the SMB and it works fine now.

Thanks!!!

I had a similiar problem and reported it July 5. I solved this problem with my imac and macbook by completely uninstalling mackeeper.

Steve