Windows 8.1 and Apple Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard connection

I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8.0 Home and as a result I'm experiencing the following problems:


  • Apple Bluetooth Mouse - randomly dis/connects or freezes where I cannot move the mouse or it's very jerky or very slow.
  • Apple Bluetooth Keyboard - the keys will stick or freeze causing the redundent key presses (eg. yyyyyyyyeeeeeee).


I've done the following to fix the problem with no success:

  • Reinstall Boot Camp 5.0.5033 drivers
  • Reinstalled Bluetooth drivers from Boot Camp 5.0.533 individually
  • Unistalled both devices on OS X and reinstall them only on Windows 8.1
  • Reinstalling both on OS X and reinstalling them on Windows 8.1
  • Uninstalling all the drivers from the Device Manager and reinstalling them


One thing I have noticed is that under Devices and Printers I have two new devices (HID-compliant mouse and HID Keyboard Device) that were not there under Windows 8.0 in addition to my bluetooth devices. I have tried removing the new devices but they keep reinstalling themselves.


I have USB mouse that's connected and I've been able to use that without problems so I think there's a problem with the Apple driver or the Windows 8.1 bluetooth drivers.


Has anyone fixed this?


Thanks!

Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard-OTHER, Other OS, Windows 8.1

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:37 PM

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Nov 9, 2013 2:50 PM in response to nordj

Just to point out the "Bluetooth Collaboration" setting I've found this:


Bluetooth Collaboration enables general purpose input/output transmit suppression protocol between the IEEE 802.11 media access control (MAC) and an external Bluetooth chip to minimize transmit interference. Bluetooth Collaboration is enabled by default.


And it is not enabled by default on some devices like on mine!


http://chasms.com/wireless_utilities/broadcom/props.htm#toc_51

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