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  • Re: Old wireless mouse acting up

    From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Tricky Dicky on Tue Mar 25 13:04:30 2025
    On 25/03/2025 12:49, Tricky Dicky wrote:
    Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have this old-ish Logitech M180, which accidentally acts up, that is,
    the left button sometimes doesn't work.

    I open it apart and spray some compressed air, unplug and replug the
    receiver, nothing.

    Then, maybe 30 minutes later, it start working again.

    Time to bin it or is there anything else I can do?



    Bin it they are not that dear to replace and stops all the frustration
    trying to make it work.

    Absolutely. If a new battery doesn't make it work its time to buy *two*
    more, so that when the next one goes you still have a mouse to buy
    another one with online.
    no 2 mouse can be USB if you are cheapskating

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  • From Ottavio Caruso@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 12:43:28 2025
    I have this old-ish Logitech M180, which accidentally acts up, that is,
    the left button sometimes doesn't work.

    I open it apart and spray some compressed air, unplug and replug the
    receiver, nothing.

    Then, maybe 30 minutes later, it start working again.

    Time to bin it or is there anything else I can do?


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  • From Tricky Dicky@21:1/5 to Ottavio Caruso on Tue Mar 25 12:49:19 2025
    Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have this old-ish Logitech M180, which accidentally acts up, that is,
    the left button sometimes doesn't work.

    I open it apart and spray some compressed air, unplug and replug the receiver, nothing.

    Then, maybe 30 minutes later, it start working again.

    Time to bin it or is there anything else I can do?



    Bin it they are not that dear to replace and stops all the frustration
    trying to make it work.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Tricky Dicky on Tue Mar 25 14:00:04 2025
    Tricky Dicky wrote:

    Ottavio Caruso wrote:
    I have this old-ish Logitech M180, which accidentally acts up, that is,
    the left button sometimes doesn't work.

    Bin it
    Yep, my scrollwheel has recently started making noises like a dolphin click/squeak ... I take that as a sign it's going to die soon and it's
    time to pay the next instalment of logitech tax ...

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Ottavio Caruso on Tue Mar 25 14:47:02 2025
    Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have this old-ish Logitech M180, which accidentally acts up, that is,
    the left button sometimes doesn't work.

    I open it apart and spray some compressed air, unplug and replug the receiver, nothing.

    Then, maybe 30 minutes later, it start working again.

    Time to bin it or is there anything else I can do?

    The switches wear out after xxx,000 clicks and become erratic. I've re-switched mice that use a microswitch and a laptop touchpad that used a tactile membrane switch - made them as good as new. They're usually easy to desolder once you've got inside and the switches are often fairly generic
    and easy to get hold of.

    Theo

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  • From Thomas Prufer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 17:10:56 2025
    On 25 Mar 2025 14:47:02 +0000 (GMT), Theo <[email protected]> wrote:

    The switches wear out after xxx,000 clicks and become erratic. I've >re-switched mice that use a microswitch and a laptop touchpad that used a >tactile membrane switch - made them as good as new. They're usually easy to >desolder once you've got inside and the switches are often fairly generic
    and easy to get hold of.

    One could swap left & right and see if the problem moves, or not. I'd be surprised if the mouse didn't use the same switch on both sides...

    Thomas Prufer

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  • From SteveW@21:1/5 to Theo on Wed Mar 26 22:37:25 2025
    On 25/03/2025 14:47, Theo wrote:
    Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have this old-ish Logitech M180, which accidentally acts up, that is,
    the left button sometimes doesn't work.

    I open it apart and spray some compressed air, unplug and replug the
    receiver, nothing.

    Then, maybe 30 minutes later, it start working again.

    Time to bin it or is there anything else I can do?

    The switches wear out after xxx,000 clicks and become erratic. I've re-switched mice that use a microswitch and a laptop touchpad that used a tactile membrane switch - made them as good as new. They're usually easy to desolder once you've got inside and the switches are often fairly generic
    and easy to get hold of.

    I had the switches on a Kingston trackball fail around 12 months ago. I
    finally got around to replacing the switches a couple of weeks ago, only
    to find that while the switches work, the trackball doesn't. I've looked
    into it and it seems it is a common problem and the trackball needs a
    firmware update. However the software to update it won't run on Windows
    11, even in compatibility mode. It does run and see the trackball in an
    XP virtual machine, but loses connection part way through. Grrrr!

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