I had this problem as well. After reading all the posts, I turned the
mouse over, turned to OFF position, pressed the reset button and placed
back on the charge cradle.

Before it was going red after the initial 8 or so green pulses. Now
(it's been 45 minutes), it is pulsing green, and seems to be charging.

Hope this helps.

Cybernaut


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hey mark.

dont worry im here to help.

before i had this same problem but now i fixed it.

all you guys have to do is open the battery slot.roll the battery to
the other side then it will charge again

ihope i helped

please reply!!! :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP


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There is a much easier fix that will only require you to open the
battery compartment once and only once.

Microsoft and whomever they have contracted to build the batteries had
the same issue with the 7000 series as well and this is a fix Ive used
on all the 7000 series Ive ran across.

First take a piece of paper and cut a strip slightly under the length
of the battery itself

Then wrap this strip around the battery 2 to 3 times and cut off the
excess length and tape it into place to keep it from unrolling

Replace battery into compartment and test - it now should be the
appropriate thickness needed to depress the sensor switch within the
compartment and verify to the mouse itself a battery is indeed
installed, THAT is the reason for the flashing red light, Microsoft
contracted with a company that built a series of batteries that are too
thin and do not depress the switch and the wonderful QA department never
caught it and obviously marketing figures it is more cost efficient to
continue to sell these units with an improperly designed battery than
re-build and replace all of them already shipped

Hope that helps

Doug


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Last week (after 400+days from the day of the original posting) the
problem reappeared and rolling the battery and cleaning the contacts did
not help. So, what I have discovered is that this is the battery that is
going flat and does not respond well enough.

To solve the problem you need to repeat the procedure of removing the
mouse from the charging cradle and placing it back and waiting until
after green light, the red goes on, until the green finally stays and
charges till the end. As far as I understand, the short charges that the
battery gets during these times makes it finally get enough energy to
respond and keep the charging process on. Otherwise it is too weak to
tell to the cradle that it actually there. A manufacturing flaw but at
least I find a workaround.


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