[SOLVED] Can't get OTG to work - HTC EVO 3D

My Evo 3D won't detect anything i plug into it via OTG cable. i tried with Buttered Toast Kernel, Mac Kernel, and Sarin Gas Kernel.
Here's what i did: opened Kernel Tuner, granted root access, went to misc and toggled OTG on. Apply and then closed the app. plugged OTG cable, plugged something else (mouse, gamepad, etc.), doesn't do anything. unplug, go to Kernel Tuner, check and i see OTG toggled off. i toggle it on and the same keeps happening. plus, sometimes the charging light turns on. but still no go. what should i do?
My phone: CDMA, Rooted, S-off, Eng Hboot.
Thanks for the help

Kite-G said:
My Evo 3D won't detect anything i plug into it via OTG cable. i tried with Buttered Toast Kernel, Mac Kernel, and Sarin Gas Kernel.
Here's what i did: opened Kernel Tuner, granted root access, went to misc and toggled OTG on. Apply and then closed the app. plugged OTG cable, plugged something else (mouse, gamepad, etc.), doesn't do anything. unplug, go to Kernel Tuner, check and i see OTG toggled off. i toggle it on and the same keeps happening. plus, sometimes the charging light turns on. but still no go. what should i do?
My phone: CDMA, Rooted, S-off, Eng Hboot.
Thanks for the help
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On htc phones the Usb OTG works only with an external power-supply. Samsung phones are able to provide even power, so you simply connect mouse/usb sticks/ keyboard and it will be powered up by the phone itself..with HTC no, you need to connect something that is powered by batteries or by external source..for example you can connect an USB hub only if you can connect it with a transformer to the electric line of your house (that's what I mean http://img.dxcdn.com/productimages/sku_33189_2.jpg)

Ohh so that's it. Wow. Can't believe I never heard of that before. I even thought for a moment that my phone was broken. Thanks for the helpful info. I guess its time to look for a power supply for my hub.
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You could also get a powered OTG cable on Ebay for a few bucks. Thats what I did.
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I already have an otg cable. Though mine doesn't have a power port. I tried to see if I could find any cable that fits in my USB hub's power port but had no luck. So I would have to buy one. But now that I think about it. A powered otg cable would be better. Since I would have to use the hub at all times otherwise. Hmm... I don't know. I guess I'll go for whichever is cheaper. Or if not I'll see if I can mod my otg cable to add power port to it.
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Theres a very detailed guide with pics from @mpgrimm2 that shows you how to modify a standard usb cable and turn it into a homemade, powered otg cable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2021776
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The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle said:
Theres a very detailed guide with pics from @mpgrimm2 that shows you how to modify a standard usb cable and turn it into a homemade, powered otg cable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2021776
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Thanks for the shout out on my thread. I actually think @ramjet73 Evo3d OTG Tips & Tricks thread (vs my HP Touchpad thread) where I originally added my notes has better "cable" pictures and links to purchase premade items on ebay (if still active).

mpgrimm2 said:
Thanks for the shout out on my thread. I actually think @ramjet73 Evo3d OTG Tips & Tricks thread (vs my HP Touchpad thread) where I originally added my notes has better "cable" pictures and links to purchase premade items on ebay (if still active).
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Thanks for correcting me. I knew there were 2 threads that I was looking at back when I considered doing this. But search was down so I just went to your profile because I remembered you were the main contributor of info. Great guides, although I bought 1 on Ebay, I still want to try to make my own. I have the tools, and you supplied the knowledge! Thanks again
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Took me a few hours but its done. I took a broken USB charger I had laying around. I just attached red and black from said cable and connected it to the red and black from the otg cable. I took that long because I was being really careful with the cuts. Its interesting that when I disable otg in Kernel Tuner the plugged otg cable charges the phone. I thought it wouldn't.
Anyways, a new problem came up. I can't get neither my Ps3 controller or mouse to work. Everything I plug gets detected by USB host controller, but nothing works.It even detects it all simultaneously trough on the hub. The only thing I have been able to do was pairing my Ps3 controller with the SixAxis controller app. Its strange since I tried this same cable and peripherals on a Xoom and they worked just plug and play.
Is this because of the ROM not supporting it? Or is it the Kernel or something else? I'm currently using CM 10.1 w/ Sarin Gas Kernel. I'm going to try with a different ROM/Kernel but just wanted to know if its that not all Roms support it.
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Kite-G said:
Took me a few hours but its done. I took a broken USB charger I had laying around. I just attached red and black from said cable and connected it to the red and black from the otg cable. I took that long because I was being really careful with the cuts. Its interesting that when I disable otg in Kernel Tuner the plugged otg cable charges the phone. I thought it wouldn't.
Anyways, a new problem came up. I can't get neither my Ps3 controller or mouse to work. Everything I plug gets detected by USB host controller, but nothing works.It even detects it all simultaneously trough on the hub. The only thing I have been able to do was pairing my Ps3 controller with the SixAxis controller app. Its strange since I tried this same cable and peripherals on a Xoom and they worked just plug and play.
Is this because of the ROM not supporting it? Or is it the Kernel or something else? I'm currently using CM 10.1 w/ Sarin Gas Kernel. I'm going to try with a different ROM/Kernel but just wanted to know if its that not all Roms support it.
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I'm actually on the same ROM and kernel myself. I tried to use OTG a while back, and it didn't seem to work. So I flashed Buttered Toast and OTG worked. That is the only kernel that has always had working OTG for me. But I prefer the performance of Sarin Gas so I flashed back to that.
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I just gave it a shot and had the same results as you. I guess I'm gonna stay with buttered toast for now
Thanks for all the help
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[Q] evo3d mhl and no video/audio output to lcd tv.

ok, so I connect the cable/adaptor to my tv/evo3d and get nothing. I tried the mirror app I had on my og evo and it doesnt work. All i wanna do is watch netflix and youtube on my tv from my phone. Its a factory htc mhl adaptor and I know the hdmi cables are good and the tv works with my ps3 on the same hdmi port it just wont display from the phone. Im rooted and running the gbsense-e3d-deck-0.2 rom. Im thinking im just a noob and cant figure out a setting somewhere? so I come here and ask the almighty gurus for some type of direction, because my head is spinning and I havent found much info on the mhl/evo3d mirroring when searching google, any help is appreciated.
Do you have it plug into an electrical outlet as well? Its has to be plugged to the phone,tv and electricity to work
Along with having power plugged in, I also had to reset the phone for it to connect. Took a while for me to figure that out. Maybe didn't have enough memory available.
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sheesh, I cant believe I didnt check that first! It was the power not being plugged in. Sometimes its the simple stuff that gets overlooked! Thanks
subliminaltrips said:
sheesh, I cant believe I didnt check that first! It was the power not being plugged in. Sometimes its the simple stuff that gets overlooked! Thanks
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Ha Ha nice one. i got the cable this morning and was cracking because i couldnt figure out how to work it.
Only the stock charger will work. No USB, no 3rd party charger. Remember, stock charger.
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Yeah found that out earlier. I use the usb on my xbox to charge the phone and had to plug in mhl to get it going. Love playing games on big screen.
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Yeah. The quality on video is kinda grainy sometimes, but games are solid
Albert Poon said:
Only the stock charger will work. No USB, no 3rd party charger. Remember, stock charger.
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Not true. I can run it from the USB on my desktop media center PC next to my 37" LCD.
I want to add, for anyone else having problems or will later. I had a problem with this too once and once I reinstalled the stock transfer app for data transfer it worked again too - if you have the bloat removed. Not exactly sure why but what worked for me.
But I tried USB, twin USB, A/C charger and no good. Only stock charger works for me.
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I have an EVO 3D GSM, a Micro USB TO HDMI MHL ADAPTER and a Samsung LE40C750 3DTV LCD but i can not get it working...
i tried the stock wall charger and the one comes with the mhl adapter (both have 1 Amp output)...
The TV recognizes that there is something plugged in but i get no video and no sound... i allways get "No Signal, Please Check the Power and Datacables correctly plugged in..."
Do i have to enable the hdmi output on the evo 3d? is there a special app needed? hmm
EDIT: i also tried it on my hdmi capable LCD Monitor... also "no signal"...
as i read the phone should notify me with: "HDMI video out connected" but i never does
i am using Villian ROM
EDIT2: ok i have tried to install a stockrom: 1. i've made a nandroidbackup before that 2. tried to install a stock rom (but failed) 3. did factory reset in bootloader and restored nandroid backup
4. rebooted the phone and i dont know why... now i can use the MHL adapter and see the EVO screen on my TV !?!?!? but why?
I had the same problem: TV recognized the connection but said check cable.
For me it worked just to restart the phone (stock rom) while connected to the mhl-adapter (not turn off and on, there seems to be a little difference).
Maybe this helps others to save a lot of time for not having to backup the whole configuration.

HDMI out works sometimes, what's up with that?

Just like the post says my hdmi works sometimes and most of the time it doesn't. I had it working last night watching nerflix and it just stopped, same thing happened today. I am running a Zone23 Rom and bcblend 02 kernel. The mhl adapter I am using is from T-Mobile. Does this happen to anyone else, is the a solution I can try? I just ordered the htc adapter to try that and I have already switched hdmi cars to see if that was it and it wasn't. Any help I would appreciate.
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did you connect the power cable as well?
Yes, I know I didn't mention it but yrs the power cable is attached and working, I guess it was my fault for not clarifying it better, it use to work whenever I plugged it in not it is hit in miss with a mostly miss.
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sounds like a loose connection. probablly a faulty hml adaptor.
Also, sometimes when it kind of was acting like it wanted to work it would cut on cut off like someone was flicking a light switch on and off.
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Well I ordered a HTC mhl adapter and the same thing happen. So I ended up restoring a rooted stock rom, re-applying all my apps, backing up my new setting, wipeing and re-installing my Zone 2.3.4 ROM and re-applying my new setting and it still didn't work.....LOL
But it now works on my 55 inch vizio but not my 46 inch Sony in my bedroom where I would use it the most.
I don't know what the problem is with the Sony because it use to work flawlessly but now it doesn't even read it. I know its the tv because I have swapped everything else, hdmi cable, charger, and mhl adapter. If anyone knows what may have caused my tv to stop reading my mhl adapters please let me know?
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Your TV port probably failed. I know hdmi ports look robust like a usb port but they really aren't.
Well my tv has 5 ports and none of them are working with the mhl adapter but the still work with my DVD player though.
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Old thread but I may be able to help others.
I have a generic HML adapter from ebay and I found that you need to connect things in the correct order to make it work reliably. I had the best results following these steps.
1. Connect power to the adapter
2. Connect the adapter to the phone
3. Connect the HDMI cable to the adapter
With the stock rom I found a reboot of the phone between step 2 and 3 sometimes helped but generally it was not needed. With the leedroid rom I using now I've never needed to reboot.
Unfortunately my 52" Samsung LCD (2008) has no audio but my 24" Samsung LED (2011) works perfectly every time. I got audio to work 2x on the 52" but I can't for the life of me figure out how.
Just to further update....
I found a firmware update for my 52" Samsung TV on their website. After applying the update I found the HDMI to slightly more reliable with my audio issues but it still did not correct it 100%. I have audio issues 1 out of 4 times now so by my best guess the TV has to comply with the newer HDMI specs in order to operate with the MHL adapters.
Hopefully this helps someone out there.
Appreciate the tip, so how does one update their tv
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[Q] i777 att phone PLEASE is the OTG option

Hi i brought an otg cable for my phone however when i plug it in the cable is not showing up as usb host on notification bar like some youtube videos that show that. I just want to plug in a small usb flash drive that does not need power to boot up. I can't find a way to make the phone recognize the cable. I running ics by SHOstock v2.2.6. thank you for any help. Also did numerous searches on google and here with no results on getting this thing to work.
Have you tried toggling on/off usb debugging?
My OTG cable works fine. The odds are either your cable is not true USB OTG cable (it must short out one of the PIN at the microUSB connector side) or the custom ROM you are runing does not have USB OTG support. I'm running leaked UCLD3 ROM.
What??? There is an OTG cable? For real?
I got the regular male-microUSB to female-standardUSB cable and it works just fine with AOKP
votinh said:
What??? There is an OTG cable? For real?
I got the regular male-microUSB to female-standardUSB cable and it works just fine with AOKP
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Yes there is. IIRC, the PIN5 must be shorted to ground on the microUSB port on the cable to trigger the phone into USB host mode. AOKP ROM might be created to ignore suck requirement but that's not how USB OTG works.
Well I brought the cable 2 days ago off eBay and I send an email to the vendor and he's sending me another one I hope it works for me. If not I was planning to buy the official brand name Samsung one on Amazon and I hope it works with that.
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I just tried my hopes went I the roof and down I again I toggle USB on and off as u said and nothing. I just wait the new cable.
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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...ro+usb+a,aps,127&rh=i:aps,k:micro+usb+adapter
Everyone of those should work
votinh said:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...ro+usb+a,aps,127&rh=i:aps,k:micro+usb+adapter
Everyone of those should work
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Nope. Generic adapters usually don't work. You need a specially made cable with proper PINs shorted.
This is the one I bought http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QX7KYU/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
Thank you so much I'm going to try the second because after noticing the Motorola one on the list didn't work I think fox is right thank you all for all your help.
Do you now of an HDMI adapter that would work
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I don't own any MHL adapter (HDMI adapter). But it should be standard as long as you properly supply power to the adapter externally.
I've had the official Samsung MHL adapter since the phone came out and it still works flawlessly. There pretty cheap now you can find one for about 22$. Or you could try a generic but some people love em some people throw em in the garbage
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Some of them are made pretty badly which causes some odd issues.
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[Q] (Sprint) USB OTG broken

So I had a USB OTG cable from Motorola, it works on my Xoom, but when I try to use it on my (Sprint) SGSIII, nothing happens. I don't get any "USB Connected" messages, I don't get any prompts to mount anything, and My Files doesn't show any new devices. I've tried the cable with two different flash drives, a camera, a camcorder, and a hard drive. All of them work on the Xoom, but none work on the SGSIII. I am rooted and have a custom recovery, but everything else is stock. I downloaded USB Host Diagnostics, and it says that the phone claims it should work (Kernel, Android API, Rooted API all claim support, but no device detected). I don't know if its that the Motorola cable is unique to the Xoom, or if it is just slightly different on the Xoom such that it doesn't work with Samsung's new connector. I don't have any other OTG hosts to test the cable with. Is there any way, without flashing a new kernel (just got my phone up and running, OTG would be nice but not worth the trouble of reinstalling everything, esp if it isn't going to work), to get the OTG working?
Thanks!
You must use a samsung otg cable duh
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jbadboy2007 said:
You must use a samsung otg cable duh
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That's not true. I have a cable that works with my Sprint SGS3 and I'm sure it's not a samsung cable.
@OP: This is also with the stock kernel so the support is there.
Hmmm, yeah I've been looking everywhere to see what's wrong, but all I get is that it should just work. My guess is either my phone is broken, or the OTG cable I have is just slightly different and the phone doesn't recognize it, but the Xoom does cuz it was made with the Xoom in mind. Can someone suggest a cheap OTG cable that you know works on the SGSIII? Thanks!
i got mine from buy.com for like 4 dollars shipped came from Cali got here in 2 days :highfive:
Had that problem but then I pushed it all the way in until it clicked, thought it was in before but it wasn't it should click when it's in.
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Ashunte said:
Had that problem but then I pushed it all the way in until it clicked, thought it was in before but it wasn't it should click when it's in.
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Its definitely all the way in, the plastic casing of the cable is flush with the bottom of the phone. No luck =(
Just bought a cheap one from Amazon that qualified for prime 2 day shipping that I ordered along with my SanDisk 64GB card. Worked fine on the thumbdrive drive I tested. It fits in real tight though, I'm going to file down the two tings so it's easier to unplug.
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tapanther said:
Hmmm, yeah I've been looking everywhere to see what's wrong, but all I get is that it should just work. My guess is either my phone is broken, or the OTG cable I have is just slightly different and the phone doesn't recognize it, but the Xoom does cuz it was made with the Xoom in mind. Can someone suggest a cheap OTG cable that you know works on the SGSIII? Thanks!
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I have a home made one that works on my coworkers xoom and my s3.
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the Ebay one I bought!
This:http://www.ebay.com/itm/160770945683?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
There is no "samsung" or "moto" OTG cable, Its either wired right or not. Micro USB has 5 pins, not 4 like normal USB. The extra pin is what determines if its an OTG cable, a "factory" cable, and so forth and with OTG, that pin is wired to ground. I have a handful of $3 OTG cheapo adapters that work with everything I have thrown at them with my S3 and that includes class complaint, bus powered 5 in 5 out midi interfaces so unless the sprint device is horribly crippled in this regard, I'd say OTG works like a champ on the S3
personally, i bought a few of these: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005QX7KYU/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
just tested them with a whole range of devices (mouse, keyboard, usb drives, an ipod, another s3, a ps3 remote, a dslr) and works flawlessly
It was the Moto cable
So I had to go exchange my S3, there was dust on the camera sensor, and the Moto OTG cable didn't work on the replacement. I got one of the cheap amazon OTG cables, and lo and behold it works now. The Moto one works on the Xoom with no issue, as does the generic one I bought, but only the generic works on the S3. My guess is Moto did something slightly different with their cable, maybe used a pull-down resistor on the sense pin instead of shorting it to ground or just something that causes the S3 not to recognize it.

USB OTG

Ok so today i got my usb otg adapter and im on buttertoast 14.4,i have enabled otg on kernel tuner and when i check the mode file with connected adapter it shows -host ,and after disconnect shows -none,so it should be working. Tried it on cm10 ,didnt work ,now im on elegancia rom and still nothing ,any good ideas how to get my flash working?
Gmobilize said:
Ok so today i got my usb otg adapter and im on buttertoast 14.4,i have enabled otg on kernel tuner and when i check the mode file with connected adapter it shows -host ,and after disconnect shows -none,so it should be working. Tried it on cm10 ,didnt work ,now im on elegancia rom and still nothing ,any good ideas how to get my flash working?
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Does your adapter allow for power to be supplied to the device? What type of USB peripheral are you trying to connect?
There's a lot of OTG related information available in this thread.
ramjet73
I think that you need to have external power source. I tried with only OTG adapter but it havent worked. But when i connected external power source (USB) It worked like a charm.
No power supply,its a simple otg cable and what I'm trying to connect is simple 2gig flash drive. And I think I looked through that thread. So you think I need to modify my cable ,is it the only way?
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I tried the 2 Gig flash drive and it didn't work. But when i modified the cable it worked. So i think that only solution is to modify the adapter.
Gmobilize said:
No power supply,its a simple otg cable and what I'm trying to connect is simple 2gig flash drive. And I think I looked through that thread. So you think I need to modify my cable ,is it the only way?
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You have to supply power either from a powered USB hub or an OTG adapter like this one that allows you to use your HTC charger in order to use flash drives and portable hard drives, or any other USB peripheral that requires power.
ramjet73
Well with the power supply it looses its portability. :/
Guess I will have to solder an otg cable with attached battery to it ,or even put it all in a little box so there isn't wires everywhere.Cause I saw a video on youtube with a guy who had attached another HTC battery to the adapter.
So basically its explained as EVO doesn't give out enough power to run the device?
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Gmobilize said:
Well with the power supply it looses its portability. :/
Guess I will have to solder an otg cable with attached battery to it ,or even put it all in a little box so there isn't wires everywhere.Cause I saw a video on youtube with a guy who had attached another HTC battery to the adapter.
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That should work and I think other users have been successful with an external battery to supply power.
So basically its explained as EVO doesn't give out enough power to run the device?
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Yes. Unlike some of the Samsung Galaxy models the Evo 3D wasn't designed to support OTG.
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