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This Device Does Not Have The Necessary Services

I recently purchased a macbook air with mountain lion. I'm trying to connect to my wireless mouse (mighty mouse) and keyboard (mac keyboard). I get the message: This Device Does Not Have The Necessary Services. I have no idea what this means. It worked on my mbp running snow leopard. What do I do to connect up to my mouse and keyboard?


Thanks!

Tom

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion, 8MB Memory, i7

Posted on Aug 14, 2012 8:08 AM

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Posted on Dec 2, 2017 11:15 AM

I tried that advice and didn't work for me, I mean, it worked to send files from my Mac to my Samsung Galaxy S4, but not the other way around. Then I went to Preferences and found out the my Bluetooth Sharing option was unchecked, so I checked it and now it works beautifully.


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Nov 21, 2012 6:47 AM in response to tomplant

I have a Linux partition on my iMac. I paired my magic trackpad to it last night.


I am currently using my mac as a mac and the bluetooth will not pair with it. Error: This device does not have the necessary services.


Someone mentions to delete the pairing on the other computer (which I assume would be my Linux distro) -- but I don't understand how my bluetooth will know I deleted it? Does he mean to delete it while I'm using my Linux distro?


There has got to be a way to use this with both my mac and linux. It's the same exact computer -- same bluetooth hardware being paired.


Any suggestions?

Dec 3, 2012 9:24 AM in response to Barry Hemphill

I am using a Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad as well as BT keyboard all at the same time on my Macbook running Mountain lion.


when I tried to set up the BT device from the browse menu... that is when I got "This device does not have the necessary services."


However after it showed up in the device list I clicked cancel and went into the set up BT device and highlighted whichever device I wanted set up and clicked continue. the only interaction I needed from there was from the Keyboard.. as it wanted me to type in a key code and the return key. Done.


Hope this helps!

Mar 16, 2013 1:26 PM in response to absimoes

That's it man!! Thank you so much!! I've been looking for one week how to connect my Belkin Bluetoogh audio receiver to my Macbook Pro with no luck. "Set Up Bluetooth Device" is the key.

Still my problem is that it doesn't sound as good as conected. It's like if it would be mono instead of stereo. The voice in every song is like a bit faded. Some else had this??
Thanks!

Mar 25, 2013 7:13 AM in response to absimoes

Thanks for this. I had a Bluetooth mouse that simply stopped working with my MBP over a year ago. I was able to pair it to my desktop fine but since it's a portable mouse, I need it more for the laptop. After trying to pair it with another machine and getting the error, I used the Bluetooth setup and it paired just fine. Maybe the time away helped.😝

This Device Does Not Have The Necessary Services

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