Bluetooth Mouse dead for first 30s after laptop wakes from Standby

I use a Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 5000 with a Toshiba Portégé R500 running Vista Business SP1. It’s great except for one thing – there’s a delay of about 30 seconds after the R500 comes out of Standby mode before the mouse starts to work.

In contrast the Logitech VX Nano (cordless but not Bluetooth) is ready to go as soon as the computer wakes up.

Does anyone know if this delay is fundamental to Bluetooth itself, or whether there’s some tweak that will make it start working sooner?

 

Check and see if you set "allowing" the mouse to take the comp out of standby.

cheers ...

 

I believe when the comp goes to standby mode, the bluetooth connection is lost and when you come back it takes 30 secs to reestablish connection.

 

I have a RADTECH BT 550.I have never put my lap on stanby however reading post fm DAVIDT I just did it.It took +/- 32 secs to work.

 

Thanks for the several replies and to zimbros12 for testing it on your computer. That does suggest it's the Bluetooth function itself. I'm using the BT stack but I think it was similar when I tried the Windows stack on XP a year ago.

My dream laptop would be instant-on-and-off like my HP Omnibook 425 was in 1994. Vista usually opens in 5-10 sec so it's better than XP but it's annoying to have an artifical 30s wait added on just for the mouse.

Until last week the USB mouse (Log Nano) had an extra 35-60s delay after wakeup from Standby but finally I solved that by applying the Vista fix at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928631/. (I posted this as 'Portege R500 - USB ports unresponsive after Standby - Problem Solved' on the Toshiba Portege forum at http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/home/).

Looks like I'm doomed to either tiny dongle (Log Nano) with no delay, or no dongle plus 30s delay...