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iPhone 4S finicky mirroring to AppleTV

Having issues with mirroring iPhone 4S (iOS5) mirrored to AppleTV2 (4.4). The mirroring feature doesn't seem to work as advertised for me. It stutters a lot or the image freezes and the sound continues to play. So, mirroring becomes pretty much useless and unstable.

I tried mirroring several different games. I thought it might be a bandwidth or signal issue. The wireless signal on the iPhone 4S does seem to fluxuate the local wireless signal, but the ATV stays consistent at 4 out of 5 bars. My iPhone 3GS within the same room even holds a consistent full wireless signal.

Even when I'm streaming content from the internet, my download speed is ~15 mbps.

Otherwise, the normal AirPlay feature of sending HTML5 videos from iPhone to ATV works flawless as long as it's not streaming VUDU content.

On a side note, sometimes AirPlay abruptly drops video streaming over a specific period of time. This seems like a bug. I found shutting of autolock within settings solves the issue. But, then disabling autolock completely defeats the purpose of having an autolock option.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

AppleTV 2, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 12:19 PM

44 replies

vazandrew

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Nov 11, 2011 5:22 PM in response to barclaysd

Mirroring uses the local network so internet speed wouldn't be relevant. I would have the router close to the ATV and make sure to check for interference. Also try to not have other things going on while mirroring.

Nov 11, 2011 5:29 PM in response to Dan Radmacher

Dan, I agree with you totally on this issue. My home network runs fine in every way apart from Air Play mirroring. I hope this is an issue Apple have acknowledged and are looking to resolve in the near future.

vazandrew

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Nov 11, 2011 5:31 PM in response to barclaysd

It is not an issue with that, but if you choose to disagree and disregard that's up to you.

Nov 11, 2011 5:32 PM in response to vazandrew

Um, streaming video from the router to the AppleTV also uses the local network. How do you think the Internet gets to the wireless AppleTV?

vazandrew

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Nov 11, 2011 5:35 PM in response to Dan Radmacher

Ok fair enough. But my point is mirroring requires more than simply streaming video over the internet to the ATV.

Nov 13, 2011 10:00 AM in response to Scott Konradt

I am also having the same problem and was thinking it could be a problem with my time capsule as when playing a game and it frezes the screen the my time capsul reboots !!

bmwjs

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Nov 16, 2011 3:45 AM in response to Bensphoto

I have problems with my Iphone 4s mirroring everything works fine. then when I mirror lag freezes and all types of stuff. so I send my phone in then it was on it's way back fed ex can't find it may as well say stolen. but yea I think it need to be fixed even the guy at apple say that's a impressed by the high grade of my router. soooo I'm sure a lot of people having this issue wish I knew before I sent it in lol....... and now I wait for a new phone. btw (white 64 gb 4s sprint)

Jan 2, 2012 12:40 PM in response to Scott Konradt

ok suppose it is the network. how does one fix the network. I have a router provided to me by my cable company (telus). I don't think I can replace it.

vazandrew

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Jan 2, 2012 1:32 PM in response to Grimace888

Make sure there are no other major tasks utilizing the network. Check for interference (www.istumbler.net) Refer to your router manual on how to change channels.

zerg445

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Mar 6, 2012 8:47 AM in response to Scott Konradt

Many people are having this issue. I don't think it is network related since my ATV2 is connected via Cat5 cable. I think the A4 processor is underpowered and cannot handle AirPlay. False advertisement if you ask me...

Mar 6, 2012 9:34 AM in response to Scott Konradt

I have found that when you connect to the appleTV with no other computers on the network the iPhone 4 works fine

vazandrew

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Mar 6, 2012 1:00 PM in response to zerg445

It is the network that would be the cause, either by interference or other activity.

Mar 21, 2012 4:27 AM in response to Scott Konradt

I have the same problems with the new Apple TV bought on 16.03.12 with a lot of stuttering in the image and sound and especially in cornes image freezes and a half a second after that I can continue to play. This ist not very nice.

My WiFi router is right beside the Apple TV (50cm maybe) I'm sitting 3.5m away from the WiFi router.

Apple TV connected with LAN cable to the router doesn't help.

SO either the new Apple TV is underpowered or Mirroring is just not like it should be. My WiFi router supports 150MBit/s connections so this shouldn't be the problem. I have only one iMac, one MacBook Air, two iPhones and the iPad 2 connected to the WiFi. It should work....

Like Steve said: "It just works" doesn't apply to the Mirroring feature....