Re: Bluez killing Apple Magic Trackpads

[Andrejs Hanins <andrejs.hanins@ubnt.com>]

Hi Kirill,

On 05/31/2015 11:32 PM, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I like using an Apple Magic Trackpad instead of a mouse but there is a
> major inconvenience: they keep dying. Another one just died five
> minutes ago, and it is the third to die during the last 1.5 years.
> During this period of 1.5 years I switched a number of kernel versions
> (having 3.19.1 right now) and Bluez 5 versions (5.25 now). I’m not
> sure, it might be that the first one died while I was using Bluez 4.
> 
> The first one lasted for three months, the second one was working for
> almost a year, and this last one has been with me for a month or two.
> 
> I am surprised that I couldn’t find anything about this in Google, so
> I decided to ask here, has anyone heard of such a problem? They die
> unexpectedly: one day I will try to connect it to my laptop or desktop
> and it won’t do anything, and will start blinking its LED in an
> unusual manner.
Just FYI: I've been using Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and Magic Trackpad for
a year or so on Ubuntu, no any problems. Usage is on daily basis.
> 
> That’s definitely Apple’s fault that their trackpads react this way to
> some probably unexpected event, but I just wonder, does anyone have an
> idea what might cause this? I don’t know how to diagnose the problem
> as they die after random periods of time and become absolutely
> unresponsive.
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