An update to the problem - - I installed the Dashboard widget "Mighty Monitor" which shows the same battery levels as the Terminal ioreg command. Hasn't fixed the real problem, but it does help in monitoring battery life.
Next step - get the widget on to the desktop! Cheers Alan Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> > Date: 12 February 2016 at 7:08:21 PM AWST > To: wamug@wamug.org.au > Subject: Re: Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard Battery Level Permanently 100 > percent > Reply-To: wamug@wamug.org.au > > Hi Ronni > > No change in indicated battery levels after re-pairing. > The recent Mavericks "upgrade" installed was just an OS X security update! > > Cheers > Alan > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 12 Feb 2016, at 5:08 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Alan, >> >>> On 12 Feb 2016, at 4:14 PM, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>> >>> A few days ago the Bluetooth devices battery level indicators (for Apple >>> mouse and keyboard) suddenly changed to show 100 percent. Late 2009 iMac; >>> OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks. >>> >>> I changed the Magic Mouse batteries for some old ones. Still 100 percent. >>> Did Restart then SMC reset. No Change. >> >> Have you tried re-pairing your devices? >>> >>> Precursor to the problem - neither keyboard nor mouse would wake the iMac >>> from sleep - I had to use the Power button. Bluetooth “wake” function >>> has worked since. >>> >>> By the way, I checked “About This Mac” to get the OS X version, but I was >>> sure I had installed an update (10.9.6) fairly recently. >> >> There is no 10.9.6 update! Development of Mavericks OS X 10.9 was finalized >> on 10.9.5, the next release was Yosemite 10.10.5 and the most current >> version of OS X is 10.11.3 El Capitan. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >>> >>> Regards, >>> Alan >>> >>> Alan Smith >>> Late 2009 iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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