Apple TV 2 has big problems homesharing - fixes? firmware update needed!

After 5 days of having ATV2, (which is lovely when its working) I'm still having problems narrowed down to Homeshare access from ATV2 to my macbook running the latest itunes.
I've just moved house and got a new broadband router and provider the same day as the ATV2, so it has taken a while to make sure it was not the router (BT home Hub 2), the connection, or my macbook itself.
Macbook - (Running Snow Leopard) Internet working fine with router and broadband, (have removed all network settings, removed passwords in keychain and repaired permissions, restarted and re-entered network info - just incase).
Router - works fine all day, with macbook and dell laptop, Have tried restarting a lot just incase
Apple TV 2 - works fine with broadband and router, and I can browse the online selection of videos, youtube etc fine.
Homeshare - When I connect ATV2 using homeshare to my macbooks itunes account, it works for a maximum of 2 minutes then loses connection. And my macbook which still shows full wifi signal can no longer get the internet, and forgets the wifi password and says its wrong when I re-enter it. Only fix is to restart router and delete network settings on macbook and re-enter them.
So is this homeshare technology screwing up, Apple TV 2 screwing up, or my router jumping in after a couple of minutes and saying NO!.
Is anyone else experiencing exactly the same as me?
Its a shame that the only thing I've found left to try (after searching alot of forums) is when turning on 'Homeshare in Itunes' don't press the 'DONE' button. Will give that a try tonight.

Thanks for the reply.
Ok, got home and finally after cooking, bathing and putting our 9 month old daughter to bed I got to play around with the Apple TV 2 problem.
I'm pleased to say the 'not' pressing the 'DONE' button seems to be working, it is keeping the Homeshare connection live, and has done for the past 2 hours. Far better than my previous 2 minute record.
The connection was however very very very very very slow (like 30 seconds to load one video thumbnail), and made the internet very slow on my laptop and on the apple tv. But after now changing my BT home Hub wireless channel to 7, it seems to be working a lot better. If it drops again I will try the other available channels. Worth noting that as soon as homeshare is going the apple tv must start emitting another frequency that was screwing with my router. I've also left my laptop with a static IP, (again may change back if needs be).
This is by no means the end of the problem as having to open itunes and not press 'DONE' doesn't seem very cool and I'm sure Steve Jobs will be quite annoyed that his lovely new Apple tv is a little bit crap.
We shall see if it is still working tomorrow morning, I'll leave it all on and see if it stays connected all night.
Unfortunately my wife is now watching normal crappy TV and will have to wait for her to go to bed to test the connection a bit more thoroughly....Avater in 720P over homeshare is waiting!!! and has been for 5 days!!!

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Apple IMac 27 has a problem.
Random black screen.
Over 1 year without any successful fix.
IMac 27 10.8.4 (12E55) - bought in 2010
3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1067 Mhz RAM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB
The IMac computer screen goes black randomly but the machine still running beyond.
In order to go back to normal i need to awake the computer by hitting with the pointer a hot corner previously created " sleep mode" ( top left ).
..the black screen would come back after one second again..and then again and then again and then again..with different intervals..sometime 2 seconds after the other, sometime as soon as appears the user login screen.
I took the machine to an Apple Store two times over one year, they opened, cleaned it but they didn't replace anything has they could not understand what they real problem was. I was happy for that because they didn't try to make me spend money on something which was not going to solve my issue for sure.
Last time i kindly asked them to inspect everything meticulously, part by part, i left the machine with them for over 2 months. They couldn't understand why this was happening..after couple of weeks, 5 more machines came in with the same problem.
On some of them., upon request of the client they changed the graphic card but apparently this was not the fix, the problem come back again. Apparently changing the graphic card or the screen or else it didn't solve any problem to anyone. I'm almost thinking to "trough it out of the window"..we all spend money for this machines and i think we need to know if Apple is looking in to this or not.
Lately i tried to do an SMS RESET and PRAM RESET, it feels it got better a little but problem still coming back.
Also, all usb devices are disconnected and the problem still there
Below you will see a copy of the console report. I honestly don't understand much of it as i'm not a computer guy.
27/07/2013 11:03:39.837 WindowServer[119]: Created shield window 0xb3 for display 0x04272d40
27/07/2013 11:03:39.837 WindowServer[119]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x7fad92c79dc0(2000), shield 0x7fad92c34370(2001)
27/07/2013 11:03:39.906 WindowServer[119]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x7fad92c79dc0(2000), shield 0x7fad92c34370(2001)
27/07/2013 11:03:41.701 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: releasing authw 0x7fad92c79dc0(2000), shield 0x7fad92c34370(2001), lock state 3
27/07/2013 11:03:41.702 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: err 0x0
27/07/2013 11:03:41.704 WindowServer[119]: Created shield window 0xb4 for display 0x003f003d
27/07/2013 11:03:41.704 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: releasing authw 0x7fad92c79dc0(2002), shield 0x7fad92c34370(2001), lock state 3
27/07/2013 11:03:41.704 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: err 0x0
27/07/2013 11:03:45.186 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[163]: (com.akamai.client.plist[740]) Bug: 12E55: launchd + 95444 [7DCC9489-2DF5-3807-83FA-EF5666EE8078]: 0xd
27/07/2013 11:03:45.208 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[163]: (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
27/07/2013 11:03:52.117 WindowServer[119]: CGXSetWindowBackgroundBlurRadius: Invalid window 0xffffffff
27/07/2013 11:03:52.118 loginwindow[43]: find_shared_window: WID -1
27/07/2013 11:03:52.118 loginwindow[43]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff
27/07/2013 11:03:52.118 loginwindow[43]: find_shared_window: WID -1
27/07/2013 11:03:52.118 loginwindow[43]: CGSSetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff
27/07/2013 11:03:53.763 WindowServer[119]: Created shield window 0xba for display 0x04272d40
27/07/2013 11:03:53.763 WindowServer[119]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x7fad92c87490(2000), shield 0x7fad92e6eef0(2001)
27/07/2013 11:03:53.838 WindowServer[119]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x7fad92c87490(2000), shield 0x7fad92e6eef0(2001)
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27/07/2013 11:03:53.880 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: err 0x0
27/07/2013 11:03:53.883 WindowServer[119]: Created shield window 0xbb for display 0x003f003d
27/07/2013 11:03:53.883 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: releasing authw 0x7fad92c87490(2002), shield 0x7fad92e6eef0(2001), lock state 3
27/07/2013 11:03:53.883 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: err 0x0
27/07/2013 11:03:55.209 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[163]: (com.akamai.client.plist[742]) Bug: 12E55: launchd + 95444 [7DCC9489-2DF5-3807-83FA-EF5666EE8078]: 0xd
27/07/2013 11:03:55.252 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[163]: (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
27/07/2013 11:04:04.482 WindowServer[119]: CGXSetWindowBackgroundBlurRadius: Invalid window 0xffffffff
27/07/2013 11:04:04.482 loginwindow[43]: find_shared_window: WID -1
27/07/2013 11:04:04.483 loginwindow[43]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff
27/07/2013 11:04:04.483 loginwindow[43]: find_shared_window: WID -1
27/07/2013 11:04:04.483 loginwindow[43]: CGSSetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff
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27/07/2013 11:04:04.726 WindowServer[119]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x7fad92ebdb20(2000), shield 0x7fad92e6eef0(2001)
27/07/2013 11:04:04.795 WindowServer[119]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x7fad92ebdb20(2000), shield 0x7fad92e6eef0(2001)
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27/07/2013 11:04:05.246 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: err 0x0
27/07/2013 11:04:05.253 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[163]: (com.akamai.client.plist[744]) Bug: 12E55: launchd + 95444 [7DCC9489-2DF5-3807-83FA-EF5666EE8078]: 0xd
27/07/2013 11:04:05.249 WindowServer[119]: Created shield window 0xc0 for display 0x003f003d
27/07/2013 11:04:05.249 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: releasing authw 0x7fad92ebdb20(2002), shield 0x7fad92e6eef0(2001), lock state 3
27/07/2013 11:04:05.249 WindowServer[119]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: err 0x0
I'm now thinking to try to take the machine to its original firmware and see if it still does it, does anyone have any sugestion?
I use a lot photoshop and other image software, this computer is essential for my work. For more then one year this issue caused me problems.
Luckly i have a Macbook Pro too and i managed to do some of my work there. At last I was thinking to buy an external screen and attach it to the Macbook pro in order to work on my big images. But who wants to spend money again!!!???? This is not a fixture, this is silly. I wish to have my IMAc working again.
The warranty it's obviously over and this problem happened right after the warranty was over...
I write this post because i'm so tired of this issue and online nothing can be found apart from posts from so many people that have the same problem and no fixture has been found.
The only fixture seams to be to buy a new computer... Ole'!!!..new money flowing in in the cashier!! forget it!!! i would rather change company if apple doesn't respond to this.
For over 10 years i have been a Apple owner..
When this problem appears it's like someone it's playing a joke at you...
Comments welcome..
Thanks

Hi, I've seem to have found out the source of the problem.
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Strange thing is that the monitor connected to the display port gets lit every time. So I can only assume that the heat only interfere with output to the built-in LED screen.
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Itunes wont sync my music on 5S Apple YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM

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Apple YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM !!!!
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All music albums are on my 5S, but marked with this red circle with a red dot in the middle ...
It's a shame that no solutions works & that Apple didn't react to help all the customers to fix this bug!
I hope that someone @ Apple will read this ....

This may sound like a terrible solution, but have you tried switching the file format to .m4a (itunes default format) on all of your music?
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After updating iphone 4s to 6.1 version my battery percentage stood at 1 percent. Does anyone has same problem? Or its update bug?

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THIS is "quite a few": https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3391947
As are these:
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3518760?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2755090?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3507356?tstart=30
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3482083?tstart=60
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3492588?tstart=60
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3397244?tstart=90
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4.0.1 battery life
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One Apple ID two phones big problem.

Hi guys,
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I deleted user and created my user which was synced with iCloud and worked without any problem.
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Just left the Apple store with an official answer. You can have two phones one Apple ID, turn off auto updates so you don't automatically get apps on both phones. Then you need two different iCloud accounts.

I have just purchased an iMAC. O/S is Lion. I just cannot access the files in my Microsoft network drive which my macpro snow leopard has no problem. Looks like it is just the Lion O/S has the problem. The file I needed to access are my photo files.

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Apple has no plans to change their currrent behavior as all they care about is selling new hardware with a shiny new OS X verison on it.
If you wait to move, what will happen is you'll lose that full 8 years and will have to swtich to a newer Windows sooner
Windows 7 machines are still widely avaialble, despite Windows 8 (a failure) being pushed currently.
Running three OS X operating systems on one machine is quite a chore reserved for only seasoned computer geeks, then it's only going to last X months as the next OS X version will be released, then the next a year after that.
Another method would be to get a virtual machine software (virtualbox is free) and install Windows 7 into that to ease your transitition if you cant' spring for a Windows 7 machine, preferablly a tower that will last a long time.
Here is a method to run Snow Leopard in Parallels, however it's a unapproced hack and not for the comptuer newbie.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
We have no control over Apple's OS X release cycle, nor the third party developers who make their own decisions what to support.
Our only choice as users to stop using both products and seek software/hardware stability.

Big problem with photos after update to iOS 4.3

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I have a big problem with the photos on my iPhone 4 after updating to 4.3
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According to this article, your EFI firmware is up to date:
Computer
Model identifier
EFI Boot ROM version
SMC version
Mac Pro
Mac Pro (Late 2013)
MacPro6,1
MP61.0116.B04 (EFI 2.0)
2.20f18 (SMC 2.0)
Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
MacPro5,1
MP51.007F.B03 (EFI 1.5)
Mac Pro (Early 2009)
MacPro4,1
MP41.0081.B07 (EFI 1.4)
Mac Pro (Early 2008)
MacPro3,1
MP31.006C.B05 (EFI 1.3)
Mac Pro (8-core)
MacPro2,1
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Mac Pro (Original)
MacPro1,1
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In the end I'm forced to hold down the start up button and force a shut down.
Anyone else having this? This doesn't seem to happen when I wake from sleep at any other time than when I take the computer from work to home which makes me think it's something to do with maybe my Bluetooth mouse or wireless network?
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Can anyone help?
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I forgot to mention, DenverEagle, some more details.
My iMac would do the same thing: if it went to sleep, it either just shut down, or restarted, instead. If I turned off sleep, all was OK (for awhile. Eventually it had an episode where I turned it off and it would not start back up. Eventually, it did start back up [after about a day's rest]. That was when I took it in).
So it might be the same problem I had.
The software steps I was told to do, in attempt to resolve it, were:
1) Delete my power settings preferences file, and;
2) Reset the SMU, and;
3) Reset the PRAM/NVRAM.
None helped, but they're easy, so you might try them. I don't think I they have any nasty side effects, but buyer beware.
I'm a little hazy on #1, and I can't find the tip online, but I think it just involved deleting the file:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
Number 2 is outlined here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733
Number 3 is outlined here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
I took my iMac to the Cherry Creek Apple store, and they fixed it really fast (it was 4 days, including a weekend, IIRC).
iMac G5 17" 1.6 GHz Rev. A Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1 GB Ram

BUG: text rendering problems after keyboard firmware update

Hey all!
Just letting you know that today, after installing the keyboard/mouse firmware update 1.0, the font rendering in many applications become weird, letters may overlap, see some screenshots:
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http://artemio.net/tmp/apple/bug2.png
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Just to clarify, that was a software update, not a firmware update. I don't think the keyboard has any resident firmware.
Since this is a new update from Apple, and there have been very few posts about problems after it was installed, (I have seen a couple here) I think that you should call and speak directly with an Apple Customer Service rep. That way Apple knows some have issues with the update and they may have suggestions.
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Problem with SMC firmware update.

I can't seem to run it. Everytime I go to, it never installs. I have a feeling that it has to do with bootcamp. Whenever I restart my computer, it runs Windows (I don't know how to fix that.) so I can't just press restart, I have to actively start OSX.
I go to install it, my computer starts up, and then the installer pops up again. I press restart, start up the computer, same thing. I've done this 4 or 5 times and the same thing happens everytime. What should I do?

Sheir,
Go to System Preferences>Startup Disk and verify that OS X is the Startup OS that is selected for your Mac. If it is not the one selected, select it and restart your Mac a couple of times to verify that it will restart into OS X. If it won't then we need to figure out what is going wrong.
If it successfully restarts into OS X then go to Applications>Utilities and look for the SMC Firmware Update.app that should have been placed there and trash it. Also trash the SMC Firmware Update.dmg if you have it. I don't think you will because Software Update has been doing the install. Empty the trash.
Then go to Apple Downloads and manually download a fresh version of the iMac (early 2006) SMC Firmware Update released on 16 MAY 2006.
Shut down all your other programs except the Finder and Dashboard. Unplug everything from your Mac except your USB keyboard and mouse. Turn off Airport and Bluetooth if they're on.
Make sure you are completely familiar with the SMC Firmware installation instructions.
Try to do the install again.

Mid 2006 iMac Boot Problem (Since latest firmware update)

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Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Actually, I think it'san early 2006.

Major problems with iOS4 firmware update on my 3GS iPhone! Anyone else?

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First, it appears to have reset my home wireless router in the midst of the
update to the default settings,
How is this the fault of the update? your router crashed. Deal with that separately, Was it an Apple router?
Then the new wallpaper don't allow you to set your home screen to none or blank
or plain old black.
This has never been an option in any version. You could create a solid background in any color, save as an image and use that.
I ended up deleting my old lock screen wallpaper (a photo that I loved)
Just reset your background to that image again. You can use any picture you want.
And what's with the instand messaging not popping up on the screen when you get one?
That is in Settings::Messages
the email options default is set on "threading" which is very confusing
All it does is stick a little number on the right of messages in the thread. Pretty easy to use IMO, but obviously you can just turn it off if you don't like extra level it creates.
In my opinion this has been the easiest and fastest update to apply of any, and I have been here since 1.0. Clearly obvious that a huge effort was placed it getting the GUI to work elegantly. +

Problem with the firmware update...

Now I have a new problem... I had the Xserve on my intranet so long that when I went to update it and plugged it into the Internet, there seems to be a firmware update. I started the update, and its supposed to come up with a status bar, but so far nothing. It's been 4 hours, and the screen is not getting a signal. I'm afraid that if I turn the system off and the system is actually upgrading the firmware that will mess up the system royally. I'm going to leave it for the next 24 hours, but if it's still sitting there chugging away with the blank screen, I'm going to have to turn it off.
Have any of you seen this problem? I may try and reset the firmware. I never had these problems until now... it's starting to get aggravating...

Clearly I have to answer my own questions in the server forums...
For anyone who may end up with a similar issue and finds this. Your firmware update probably didn't work correctly, download the Apple Firmware Restoration CD. Make sure you find the correct version for your computer, like my version was 1.4.
Dave

Having problems with SMC Firmware Update 1.8

I installed the MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.8 yesterday and have since experienced a number of problems. I am running a 15 inch, Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, btw. First, after the intial install the sytem would not reboot. I had to do a physical reset of the SMC controller to get the system to power on again (sft-cntl-option-power key sequence). Once the system rebooted, the fan in stuck on high and the battery meter in the controll bar does not show status, just displaying an "X" in the battery. I went into the Software Update utility and the SMC update is still listed as available, I tried reinstalling it, and the situation has not changed. The fan noice is annoying and I'm aftraid to disconnect the laptop from the AC adapter. Please advise.
-cp

Firmware updates don't affect to Windows and OS X. The firmware makes your hardware work, not the operating system, so you won't have any problem doing this

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