Magic Trackpad makes Lion crash

Same issue here.

Started weirdly:

1- trackpad behaving erratically and loosing gestures

2- tried disconnect / reconnect: wouldn't do anything

3- de-paired it, re-paired it: got the crash screen

That's the 3rd time in a row now. I cannot use my i5 laptop with it now.

It is Not solved. After I Updated to 10.7.1 the Problem started. Cant use my iMac currently everytime it Starts it crushes when trying to connect to the Magic trackpad, restarts and crushes again

Got the same problem with my trackpad. my macbookpro crashed 3 times while my trackpad was trying to connect.

Just removed the trackpad and everything seems to be fine right now.

I am having the same problem with my iMac and Lion. I recently bought a magic trackpad, I have been having occasional crashes since. All hardware tests pass, disk check is clean. I finally took the batteries out of the trackpad last night, hopefully that helps.

@NYC_Stephen

Hi,

What type of crash do you have?

1-A sudden (black) screen machine turned off

or

2-The dimmed screen with the "restar" message in the center?

Thank you,

@givemeabrake,

The latter - dimmed screen with restart message.

Spoke with AppleCare. They had me remove the bluetooth setup for the trackpad and add it back, as well as remove a file or two. Seems to have helped. I am able to use the trackpad and have not had a crash since making the changes.

Thanks...

Thank you very much NYC-Stephen,

Could you share with us exactly what you did?

How did you remove the BT setup and which files did you remove?

Thank you,

I wish I could remember the files! I found com.apple.Bluetooth.plist and com.apple.Bluetooth.plist.lockfile in my trash, was most likely those.

For the bluetooth settings I went to the bluetooth preference panel, highlighted the trackpad and clicked the "minus" sign to remove it. Thankfully I still have a mouse so I was able to navigate after that. Once the setup was removed I turned the trackpad to discoverable by pressing the button, after a minute or so the iMac discovered it and I was able to add it back to the bluetooth pairings.

I think it was in that order - delete files, delete pairing, repair.

I hope that works for others.

Thank you so much NYC_,

Tha sounds good to me.

I'll do as discribe.

It either works or doesn't, it will help me, because it will be an aproach by process of elimination.

Cheers,

This is still an issue for me in 10.7.2 - I have a Magic Trackpad and MacBook Pro. The trackpad appeared to be the cause of a number of freezes and crashes over the last couple of months (since installing Lion? Not sure as I bought the Trackpad in anticipation of Lion only weeks before). I didn't believe it at first but then a series of crashes convinced me. I just deleted the trackpad from the bluetooth preferences and set it up. As soon as it recognised the trackpad my macbook immediately crashed. I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74). Could it be the Trackpad? Anyone have any ideas?

p.s. it is an intermittent issue. I'd be keen to know if the original poster has experienced the issue again.

I am having the same issue all of a sudden. I am using an iMac and OSX 10.7.2

I have been resorting to unpairing my trackpad at night and then re-pairing in in the mornings. Have you had any luck in resolving this issue? I can't find the files that NYC Stephen mentioned either.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

I too am having the same issue. I got the trackpad on boxing day and today was the first time it crapped out like this.

I'm running an early 2008 MBP with 10.7.2. Any feedback would be great 🙂

I'm running 10.7.3 on a 2010 iMac and have been having black screen freezes for the better part of a year along with other random hangs. Also there is a large lag in loading Trackpad. Only recovery that works is to turn off Mac and reboot. I have been struggling with this forever. Tried all kinds of system tools to check hardware with no luck and did a couple of reinstalls for good luck to no avail. Finally did a clean install and reload -wasted 4 days waiting to get everything back. This was after the 2010 recall for iMac harddrives that resulted in the Geniuses installing Leopard over Lion that totally trashed the iMac and required a clean install. Had come to the conclusion that Lion was the most unstable OS since OS 1.0 (yes, I have been using Macs since 1985). Things were even worse than when OS X was first introduced and I was still ignorant. Ran across this post about the Trackpad the other day and have turned off the Trackpad for the time being and have gone back to mouse. If this appears to stabilize Lion I will try the various Trackpad fixes mentioned above. I ran across another blog where Apple replaced a Trackpad for a customer.

Keeping my fingers crossed.