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I have the Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard (bluetooth only). I notice it falls asleep after a few minutes of me not using it (while I'm on a phone call for example). When I go to type it has to wake up after I hit a key one/two times. This is frustrating, obviously. Is there a way to keep the bluetooth always on? I don't care if battery runs down. NOTE: I'm using the keyboard with MacOS Sierra 10.12.2.
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that would seem to be a Mac OS issue. Perhaps
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7282309?start=30&tstart=0 for an earlier
version of OS 10 might help. If not, suggest you post in the Apple Mac forums
and ask about Bluetooth issues with a bluetooth keyboard. This would not be
specific to the Surface bluetooth keyboard AFAIK.
>> I'm using the keyboard with MacOS Sierra 10.12.2.
That's not the case, I'm using it on Windows 10 and have the exact same behavior. I only recently started noticing it I think because when I with it, I'm using a Logitech G13, so not using the keyboard itself as much.
WHen I got chat in game, and I touch the keyboard, the whole PC stops like when a BT device connects, then the keyboard/pc respond and I can type. Seems like it's less than 5 minutes of "idle" time before it happens. It'd be nice if it could tie itself to the window state/screen state.
