Bluetooth problem with OSX Yosemite: Magic Mouse and Keyboard

Thank goodness you guys have some ideas

I've got a 2012 Core i5 Mac Mini with a Micron M4 SSD and 8GB of RAM and its felt horribly sluggish, the mouse and keyboard have been skipping all over and the sound to my Creative D200 bluetooth speaker, which I have always used as my primary speaker, is now .5-6 seconds off (yes that much delay), it's terrible

I'll try the PRAM/SMC

Hopefully Apple can quickly release a patch to fix this! I'm on a Mac Mini I don't need any particular power savings on my bluetooth, thanks

Maybe a setting in System Prefs, so when I'm using my mini from a DC->AC inverter on a raft in the middle of the ocean I will be able to conserve its power

Did the SMC and PRAM, still really unusable

*sigh* it seems like a real waste of these nice bluetooth components, the keyboard, mouse, speaker..They worked so nicely in 10.9, I wish I never upgraded 😟

This seemd to work on my mac mini:

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport

sudo kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport

I have the same problems. After the update to OS 10.10, the Apple keyboard and the touchpad are dropped the connection to my macbook pro early 13" retina.

I don´t undertand that Apple have a problem with there own products.

Tried this on my macmini but it just says Bluetooth unavailable now.

Since upgrade to Yosemite bluetooth on macmini won't connect to iPhone 6 or to my Bose Soundlink mini speaker.

Hope Apple fix this quickly. With iOS 8.0 Bluetooth on the iPhone 6 wouldn't connect to car kit but they fixed it with iOS 8.1 so hoping the can come up with a quick fix for OSX too.

in reply to:

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport

sudo kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport

that helped smooth out the mouse, there's still a one second delay on the bluetooth speaker

maybe apple doesn't understand I use my bluetooth speaker for VLC, Quicktime, Skype, everything? Out of sync is super bad.
One thing that's always been cool is how instant the bluetooth stack is on MacOS in previous versions, 10.8 and 10.9 always had bluetooth audio that had no perceptible delay, lips were right, keypresses and mouse presses that elicited a beep were in time...Now its so annoying pressing a bunch of buttons and hearing a million beeps seconds later, its disorienting

I have partial success. I ran:

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport

sudo kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport

But after running this Bluetooth was left disabled.

So I rebooted and now the macmini can connect to the Bose Soundlink mini speaker.

Still can get the iphone 6 to connect to the macmini though so no handoff.

Turn off FileVault. I did and I haven't had a Bluetooth problem since.

Hi, I have this problem too... Have you tried to switch wifi off when the problem occur? I think is a sort of wifi and bluetooth coexistence problem.

What do you think?

It's something related to the energy safer policy on YOSEMITE. I don't think is related to FileVault or Wireless/Bluetooth coexistence.

All I can say is that after reading all about this on the web in this forum and others, I turned off FileVault and I have not had any more trouble with my BlueTooth. You can say it isn't related all you want but at least for me this is what fixed it.

Prior to turning it off I had intermittent BlueTooth connectivity, devices would disconnect if idle, the mouse was 'sticky', pauses, everything that was described here and elsewhere.

same problem: 13'' Retina MacBook and the Magic Mouse. The bt connections drops. If I disable bt and switch it on again, the mouse gets connected again.

FileVault is off and was off all the time.

It's odd because I have problem even with macbook pro charging... I have fileVault turned off since I upgraded to Yosemite 😟

I've switched off wifi and I have a cable lan, bluetooth doesn't disconnect and mouse does' stutter...

I don't know, but I had same problem when I installed Windows 7 in boot camp. See this: Is anybody else struggling with an intermittent connection when using the Magic Mouse/Trackpad ONLY on Boot Camp?

I can confirm the issue is power-related. The Bluetooth lag/delay immediately stops when I plug my MBP in. If I unplug, the issue returns. If I re-plug, the issue disappears. (and on, and on).

FileVault is on. Power saving and graphics switching is off.

SPECS:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Yosemite 10.10

BLUETOOTH SYSTEM REPORT:

Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 4.3.0f10 14890

Hardware, Features, and Settings:

Name: Brian’s MacBook Pro

Address

Bluetooth Low Energy Supported: Yes

Handoff Supported: Yes

Instant Hotspot Supported: Yes

Manufacturer: Broadcom

Transport: USB

Chipset: 20702A3

Firmware Version: v147 c5799

Bluetooth Power: On

Discoverable: Off

Connectable: Yes

Auto Seek Pointing: On

Remote wake: On

Vendor ID: 0x05AC

Product ID: 0x821D

HCI Version: 0x6

HCI Revision: 0x16A7

LMP Version: 0x6

LMP Subversion: 0x2293

Device Type (Major): Computer

Device Type (Complete): Mac Portable

Composite Class Of Device: 0x38010C

Device Class (Major): 0x01

Device Class (Minor): 0x03

Service Class: 0x1C0

Auto Seek Keyboard: On

Devices (Paired, Configured, etc.):

Brian's Keyboard:

Address

Major Type: Peripheral

Minor Type: Keyboard

Services: Apple Wireless Keyboard

Paired: Yes

Configured: Yes

Connected: Yes

Manufacturer: Apple (0x3, 0x31C)

Battery Level: 53%

Firmware Version: 0x0050

Vendor ID: 0x05AC

Product ID: 0x0255

Class of Device: 0x05 0x10 0x2540

AFH: On

AFH Map: 000000F8FFFF7F

RSSI: -49

Role: Master

Connection Mode: Sniff Mode

Interval: 11.25 ms

Host Connectable: Yes

EDR Supported: No

eSCO Supported: No

SSP Supported: No

Brian's Mouse:

Address

Major Type: Peripheral

Minor Type: Mouse

Services: Apple Magic Mouse

Paired: Yes

Configured: Yes

Connected: Yes

Manufacturer: Apple (0x3, 0x31C)

Battery Level: 25%

Firmware Version: 0x0306

Vendor ID: 0x05AC

Product ID: 0x030D

Class of Device: 0x05 0x20 0x2580

AFH: On

AFH Map: 000000F8FFFF7F

RSSI: -62

Role: Master

Connection Mode: Sniff Mode

Interval: 11.25 ms

Host Connectable: Yes

EDR Supported: No

eSCO Supported: No

SSP Supported: No

Brian's iPhone:

Address

Major Type: Phone

Minor Type: Smartphone

Services: PAN Network Access Profile, AVRCP Device, Handsfree Gateway, Audio Source, MAP MAS-iOS, Wireless iAP, AVRCP Device, Phonebook

Paired: Yes

Configured: Yes

Connected: No

Manufacturer: Broadcom (0x6, 0x410D)

Firmware Version: 0x0610

Vendor ID: 0x05AC

Product ID: 0x12A8

Class of Device: 0x02 0x03 0x7A020C

EDR Supported: Yes

eSCO Supported: Yes

SSP Supported: No

Services:

Bluetooth File Transfer:

When receiving items: Accept all without warning

State: Disabled

Bluetooth File Exchange:

When other items are accepted: Save to location

When receiving items: Accept all without warning

State: Disabled

Bluetooth Internet Sharing:

State: Disabled

Incoming Serial Ports:

Bluetooth-Incoming-Port:

RFCOMM Channel: 3

Requires Authentication: No

Outgoing Serial Ports:

Bluetooth-Modem:

Address:

RFCOMM Channel: 0

Requires Authentication: No

That might be how it is manifesting for you, but I cannot confirm that. I do not have FileVault active and I barely ever remove the MBP from the mains.

I turned off "Allow Bluetooth devices to Wake this computer" as I wondered if the MBP was continually polling the Bluetooth port. Now I notice that when they connect post warm up that the wifi connection gets switched off and I have to manually connect to wifi.

The issue seems more like wifi or usb conflicting with Bluetooth or some power trimming exercise that is stretching the ability of Bluetooth to perform properly.

I would still be interested in knowing why my MBP is wanting to pair with itself.