Iphone mirroring reverts to appletv menu after a few minutes
When mirroring my iphone 4s display, the apple TV reverts to the menu after a minute or two. How do I return to the mirroring display? Even better, how do I keep the mirroring going "forever"?
Okay, I found the answer. The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our ATV but in ourselves - that is, in the iphone. In Settings>General>Auto-Lock, disable autolock.
Of course, you want to re-enable it when you turn mirroring off.
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When I am at home, I can get a really good signal, it stays on the network for more than a few minutes, but if I am in a coffee shop or something like that, it drops. So it is either the Access point (bad location) or an older 802.11 standard they are using (probably a g) that does not support that many connections. Or a more finicky problem that is going to require a future patch to address...
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I sync my iphone ios 4 to another iphone ios5, sync was completed but after a few secs, the iphone with the IOS 5 firmware will auto restart and freezes at the home screen which I can't unlock. It will then freeze for a few secs before repeating the restart phase again and again and again.
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