Wow, what a caring and helpful response to a problem that was not at all my fault. My memory of living in Northwest Indiana was that everyone was so friendly and hospitable. Maybe you are just from Gary
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Fixed Apple TV 6.0 Update Reinstated After Being Pulled for Bricking Issues
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Wow, what a caring and helpful response to a problem that was not at all my fault. My memory of living in Northwest Indiana was that everyone was so friendly and hospitable. Maybe you are just from Gary
Updated 1 of my ATV3's on Friday and bricked my 2nd one on Saturday. Restored it with iTunes, but had to manually restore all my settings. Argh!
That's two updates Apple screwed up for me - iPad3/iOS7 - what a laggy pile of crap that was but while Apple was still signing 6.1.3 updates I got it back to nice and fluid territory, and now this crap about ATV2/6.0.
After AirPlay from AirFoil was broken by the 6.0 update I had to roll my ATV2 back to 5.3 - fortunately that worked at least until yesterday. Now that I know I am not going to be doing any iOS updates whatsoever - it's also jailbroken with XBMC!
After AirPlay from AirFoil was broken by the 6.0 update I had to roll my ATV2 back to 5.3 - fortunately that worked at least until yesterday. Now that I know I am not going to be doing any iOS updates whatsoever - it's also jailbroken with XBMC!
Seriously I love the ATV... but its the worst Apple hardware/software ever.
My ATV2 bricked in an update. Couldn't recover at all.
My ATV3 dropped WiFi constantly. It's placed in the exact same place as the 2 was.
I had it replaced. The new one does the same thing. Drives me absolutely nuts.
I'm scared to actually download the new update as sometimes the new versions have even more WiFi issues.
Such a good little POS.
My ATV2 bricked in an update. Couldn't recover at all.
My ATV3 dropped WiFi constantly. It's placed in the exact same place as the 2 was.
I had it replaced. The new one does the same thing. Drives me absolutely nuts.
I'm scared to actually download the new update as sometimes the new versions have even more WiFi issues.
Such a good little POS
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No, because I don't have that special cable. Apple phone support was not willing to help and the Apple store is practically across the street so I decided to pack it up and take it in.
Short on talented programmers. The NFL could expand into 30 more cities and has plenty of money to play 30 more teams, but they are going to have a hard time finding enough talented players to field good teams.
At a certain point there finate amount of resources and all the money in the world can't fix it. It was clearly all hands on deck to get iOS 7 shipped. I would imagine it won't be long until Apple apps are updated.
iCloud Photos? What's new there? I could view my Photo Streams in the previous version (5-point-whatever)?
That was fast indeed!
You keepin' a close eye on Infinite Loop ..?
I subscribe to that policy, but at the same time am grateful to the early adopters who 'blaze the trail', and without whom we wouldn't find out those pesky and annoying glitches before they inconvenience us.
I guess have a different definition of 'critical error', cause to me a glitch that causes the need to restore a device that holds basically no data and takes less than ten minutes to set up from scratch is an annoyance not a critical error
Wow, what a caring and helpful response to a problem that was not at all my fault. My memory of living in Northwest Indiana was that everyone was so friendly and hospitable. Maybe you are just from Gary
HA alright a little harsh maybe didn't mean to come across that way. (okay maybe a little) , but you can get a Intel iMac for less then $300 on craigslist. May be worth considering. Close but defiantly not Gary
Highland.Best description of this feature I've read so far! Well done. The line about 'authentication' is what brings it home.
My AppleTV choked a bit on the update on Friday. But a restore via iTunes got me squared up again, and it took the update second time around. Took today's update just fine too.
ATV2 issues (Wifi?)
EDIT: Now that I've submitted this message, and continued using my ATV2, networking seems to be much better - so, I guess there isn't a problem, or it's intermittent.
I just updated my ATV2 (after update was pulled/restored).
There seems to be some sort of network issues.
After the update, using the "Remote" app to enter passwords (to connect to iTunes/icloud), there was a lot of "lag" (on screen "dots" for password entry were seconds behind what I typed).
Then, it didn't seem to want to login to either iTunes or iCloud (just "spun").
I eventually rebooted - no difference. I did a "reset settings", re-entered my wifi password after the reboot, and it took several seconds (too many) to connect to my AirPort access point.
Then it took minutes to "activate", before asking if I wanted to share info with apple. I said "no", and got a "main menu" showing only "computers" and "settings"". Minutes later, I get the normal main menu.
I'd blame Apple servers, except that it took a long time to even associate with my AirPort access point.
I wonder if there are general wifi issues?
My ATV3 updated fine/no problems (I did that *before* Apple pulled the update)
EDIT: Now that I've submitted this message, and continued using my ATV2, networking seems to be much better - so, I guess there isn't a problem, or it's intermittent.
I just updated my ATV2 (after update was pulled/restored).
There seems to be some sort of network issues.
After the update, using the "Remote" app to enter passwords (to connect to iTunes/icloud), there was a lot of "lag" (on screen "dots" for password entry were seconds behind what I typed).
Then, it didn't seem to want to login to either iTunes or iCloud (just "spun").
I eventually rebooted - no difference. I did a "reset settings", re-entered my wifi password after the reboot, and it took several seconds (too many) to connect to my AirPort access point.
Then it took minutes to "activate", before asking if I wanted to share info with apple. I said "no", and got a "main menu" showing only "computers" and "settings"". Minutes later, I get the normal main menu.
I'd blame Apple servers, except that it took a long time to even associate with my AirPort access point.
I wonder if there are general wifi issues?
My ATV3 updated fine/no problems (I did that *before* Apple pulled the update)
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Just updated my AT3 over wifi & it took 5 mins to download, then 10mins for each of the 2 steps.
Located in Sydney, Australia for all the international viewers out there.
Things running very smoothly so far.
iTunes Radio is freaking incredible, the genre matches are better then any other service I've ever seen or used. It's better then choices even I would think to make!
Located in Sydney, Australia for all the international viewers out there.
Things running very smoothly so far.
iTunes Radio is freaking incredible, the genre matches are better then any other service I've ever seen or used. It's better then choices even I would think to make!
You know Apple will never do that. They want you to purchase everything in iTunes. There's a lot of software targeted at filling iTunes with your incompatible videos. For example VideoDrive.
I downgraded to 5.3 yesterday as I was having major issues with streaming from iTunes. Anyone having these issues with the new 6.0 as I want to hold off updating in the mean time.