How to see everything thats on my iphone 4 screen on my tv?

I have the iphone to hdmi adapter and i want to see everything that is on my iphone screen to show up on my tv.right now the only time anything shows up is if i do a slide show from the "photos" app.

i want to see EVERYTHING.

You can buy a cable from apple that is just like when you plug in your camera/camcorder. Or there's an app in the appstore

You used to be able to get cables but I got one and newer devices aren't compatible with them. As far as I know, the only way is to get an Apple TV but that will only show media. I don't think there's a way to get your TV to act as a monitor (and how would you control it unless you have a touch screen TV with an output function - I don't even think these exist).

That's not how it works. How it works now is how it is supposed to.

If you had an Apple TV & an iPhone 4S or 5 you'd be able to AirPlay the display on the TV whereby everything is displayed.