IPad won't connect to personal hotspot

I have an iPhone 4S that I use as a personal hotspot for my iPad when I'm away from home. My bf has an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1 that will automatically connect to my personal hotspot without me having to do anything with my 4S. My iPad however requires that I unlock my 4S, go to the personal hotspot settings page and then it'll connect. I'm trying to figure out why the iPhone 4 connects to the personal hotspot automatically when the iPad won't. Both connect via wifi. Bluetooth is too slow with the personal hotspot, so I just don't use it.

I was having the same issue. I starting searching and found a few people who suggested turning up the brightness on your iPad. I thought what in the world would that have to do with connection to my hotspot but I tried I and it worked. My brightness was set to about 50% and I uped it to around 75% and it worked. Try it anyway. Hope it will work for you as well .........

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