Bluetooth woes (again)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On 29 October 2015 at 04:13, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> >> As I said, the mouse works on another system. I should also mention
> >> that the mouse light is on, i.e. it does have power.
>
> If it wasn't too late to bother, I would have asked whether it stayed
> lit continually, or you only saw a light some of the time.
>

The light is continuous and has never flickered. In fact it stays on even
when the battery is almost dead and it won't connect any more.

>
> >> I'm leaning towards thinking the problem isn't with the mouse but
> >> with the dongle (if in fact it's a hardware issue at all).
>
> > I found an old dongle lying around and tried it. It works. The
> > conclusion seems obvious (though not clear).
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who tried to help. I don't think it's worth
> > pursuing this any further. I just wonder why my logs show repeated
> > problems loading the driver (going back months) but nevertheless the
> > old dongle seemed to work until now.
>
> I would guess an intermittent fault that grew into becoming permanent.
> Most likely component failure, or the soldering.
>
> Now you've got a working replacement, you could try being brutal to the
> bad one.  Bang it a few times, hard, see if the thing suddenly starts
> working again.  You often see that with soldering faults.  And you know
> the device deserves it for messing you about.  ;-)
>

Maybe I'll try that :-)

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