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From: Larry Stoter on 14 Feb 2010 03:31
I start getting reports of low mouse battery levels when the indicated
battery level is just below 30%.

By the time the battery level is down to ~20%, the low battery level
warnings become more frantic and the bluetooth icon starts flashing
continuously.

I really don't think I need to change the mouse batteries even at 20%,
let alone 30%. Perhaps they need changing when below 10% ......

Does this happen because the measurement of battery levels is poor, so
Apple are playing safe?

Can the warning level triggers be easily changed?

Does Apple own battery manufacturers?

Larry
From: Peter Ceresole on 14 Feb 2010 05:00
Larry Stoter <larry(a)666.com> wrote:

> Does this happen because the measurement of battery levels is poor, so
> Apple are playing safe?

Both of the above? It could well be that Apple do want to play safe, and
that the battery level measurement is not very accurate. So you finish
up with an irritatingly large margin.

I have a Renault Scenic diesel automatic. It's a lovely car, but soon
after I bought it new the gearbox started to give trouble. Especially
driving in London traffic in summer, it would start to pop into 'safe'
mode, where it would still work, but harshly and unpleasantly. Restored
to silky working after 20 minutes stopped. The trouble was, the
controlling computer had an instruction to go into safe mode if the
gearbox oil temp went above 40C. The garage tested it, and it was
triggering *just* below. They loaded new software/firmware from Renault,
and now it's fine. Clearly, they'd had a lot of reports of this
happening and written new software.

So maybe if it's a frequently reported problem, Apple will produce new
software. But it would have to be for the mouse itself, wouldn't it? As
that's what is generating the alert. Anyway, very much worth reporting
to Apple.

I have stuck with Logitechs with tails, precisely because of the thought
of Bluetooth and batteries...
--
Peter
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