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MHL to HDMI adaptor cable

Hello all,
Today I was excited to find a cable that I'd ordered last week from Hong Kong on ebay had arrived.
Micro USB MHL to HDMI Cable Adapter HDTV For Samsung Galaxy S2
Well if it works on the S2 then it probably works on the Note. Well I plugged an HDMI cable into my Dell 1920 x 1200 monitor, that cable into the adapter and then a micro USB power cable into the micro USB power socket of the device.
Doesn't work
Hmm. Its a pretty simple device. Well I tried swapping micro USB cables in case it works differently with MHL or non MHL cables. Still does nothing. Damn.
Maybe it requires particular software to drive the video. Well no joy yet. If anyone has some suggestions then I'm happy to hear them. It was pretty cheap. But I wish it worked...
In case you were thinking of getting one of these. Here is the one that I bought.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/140672291111?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_1020wt_1141

Are you aware that it needs power? In your case, your device needs to be connected to computer usb (as it said in item description)
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my try as power source an other mirco usb cabel and use the AC - usb adapter

Cable can't too long.
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I have a similar one to that from China or somewhere and works great, do need to plug in your mains charger for it to work though. Only issue I had was you I needed to screen fit on my telly because it wasn't fitting properly but after I ran that it fit to te screenproperly.

Good news that MHL is working on the note, especially after the news of the Pioneer AppRadio 2.

adidie said:
Are you aware that it needs power?
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PurpleMelbourne said:
and then a micro USB power cable into the micro USB power socket of the device.
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I wasn't clear enough in what I wrote. I plugged in the micro USB power cable into the devices micro USB power socket just like in that picture, so yes I gave that a go but still didn't work

I bought a Menotek brand adapter off Amazon, and it works great for me. My TV luckily had a USB port (for firmware updates), and it powered the device just fine.

i bought one off ebay and according to the seller it is the original one
it works great
but you need to turn off the data (3g) because it causes disconnects on the lcd

Video out!?

...who has done this yet?
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link
http://htcpedia.com/news/HTC-One-X-S-TV-Out-Connect-HDTV-MHL-HDMI-Cable.html

I have of course, MHL works fine.

What I wonder is if it will be possible for any dev to make a rom where you can disable mirroring and only use external display at higher resolution. T3 can do 1080 or more but maybe specific drivers are needed.
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Didn't have to media link works great.
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Does the phone have to be plugged in? Does/will otg work with the hdmi adapter?
Reason being instead of carrying around my PO BOX I just bring a HDD and the mhl cable.
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nikorette said:
Does the phone have to be plugged in? Does/will otg work with the hdmi adapter?
Reason being instead of carrying around my PO BOX I just bring a HDD and the mhl cable.
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OTG will NOT work with MHL, they are mutually exclusive connections in this first MHL-spec (they are looking at things like that in it's first revision).
The phone has to be plugged in to a power source unless you have an MHL television/monitor, several are available on the market now, but most people will have to use a power connection simultaneously in order for it to work.

In the revision you talk about. Will that be hw and sw or just sw. Will our phones be capable of otg and mhl in the future?
Thanks for your reply
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I've got one of these but it's only giving me 720 resolution.
WHen I plug an Evo 3D in, it gives 1080
Why is this?

nikorette said:
In the revision you talk about. Will that be hw and sw or just sw. Will our phones be capable of otg and mhl in the future?
Thanks for your reply
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Bit of both, software changes but hardware requirement also.

phone won't charge, but will connect to pc

i tried wall charger, usb 2.0 and 3.0 ports. everytime i plug in it will show charging for like 3 seconds then stop. i can connect to pc and share storage just fine however.
when i turn off the device and charge, it shows me this
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anyone know what that sign means?

I think that's the international symbol for broke ass battery.
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RTFOP said:
I think that's the international symbol for broke ass battery.
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rofl, thanks, it is 100% just the battery right? guess time to buy another.

You might wanna try a different charging cable/usb wire. I had a USB cable go bad and it would mount the phone but it wouldn't charge it. Then I would check the charger itself, then consider a battery issue
Process of elimination

mrgodai said:
rofl, thanks, it is 100% just the battery right? guess time to buy another.
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Most likely. While it's not a bad idea to keep trying other chargers, I've never had a bad charger show a battery warning like that. Looks to me like the device isn't connecting to it, so it's either a bad battery or a bad connection in the phone.
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rlee008 said:
You might wanna try a different charging cable/usb wire. I had a USB cable go bad and it would mount the phone but it wouldn't charge it. Then I would check the charger itself, then consider a battery issue
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i have cables and chargers from motorola, samsung and htc, all of them gave me the same thing. Galaxy S3 on the other hand works fine with all those cables and chargers

mrgodai said:
i have cables and chargers from motorola, samsung and htc, all of them gave me the same thing. Galaxy S3 on the other hand works fine with all those cables and chargers
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Look at your actual USB plugin on the phone. I just sent mine in to samsung for repair because some of the metal contacts on the USB plugin itself got bent up and back into the phone so they would not make contact to the USB cable anymore. I think that certain contacts control data while others control charging.
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I had the opposite of what happened to you, phone would charge but not connect to PC. I cleaned out my USB hub and pushed around the pins inside with a very, very small precision flathead screwdriver. What do you know, it started working all of a sudden!
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HDMI out on AOSP ROMs

Just curious if anyone knows how to do this. I have a usb to hdmi adapter which I used for hdmi out on the stock Rom, but I have not figured out a kernel/Rom or program which lets me use it on aosp. Any help would be appreciated.
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I have mhl cable and it works with vanilla rootbox.

Works for me as well but I'm only getting 720p output for games and apps, haven't tried vids yet, but can anyone confirm that they get 1080p while running an app or game?

fuzzylax said:
I have mhl cable and it works with vanilla rootbox.
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I'm using rootbox myself and the cable I use isn't working. Is the cable you're using one continuous cable, or is it an adapter which u plug a usb cable into one end which changes the other end to hdmi?

Its a straight through with battery supply. Got it off amazon for $13

Mine has a slot for a usb charger. Fuzzy does your cable output 1080p for games and apps?

I will get back to you on that after I put my son to bed
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K. so I checked it out and it's only 720

fuzzylax said:
Its a straight through with battery supply. Got it off amazon for $13
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That sounds like the same cable I'm using. But mine doesn't output anything. Is there a setting on the ROM somewhere I'm missing to make it display?
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I didn't do anything except plug it in and checked out movie I have on phone and I DL HD game from playstore and everything worked. If you go to amazon and search for mhl cable. the one I have has spot to plug in charge to mhl cable and like I said b4 was like $13.

fuzzylax said:
I didn't do anything except plug it in and checked out movie I have on phone and I DL HD game from playstore and everything worked. If you go to amazon and search for mhl cable. the one I have has spot to plug in charge to mhl cable and like I said b4 was like $13.
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Is this the same cable you're using? I got this one from Amazon myself in November when I bought my phone.
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Nope.it has the plug like the charger that goes to a y one part of cable is HDMI and other cable is to plug phone charger into..go to amazon type in mhl cable its called cable matters gold plated USB to HDMI mhl cable for Samsung and few others. Some reason I'm having hard time copying and pasting link

fuzzylax said:
Nope.it has the plug like the charger that goes to a y one part of cable is HDMI and other cable is to plug phone charger into..go to amazon type in mhl cable its called cable matters gold plated USB to HDMI mhl cable for Samsung and few others. Some reason I'm having hard time copying and pasting link
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Never mind, I got mine to work. Seems it needs the power supply attached for it to work on aosp. But I remember using it without the power supply on stock, oh well as long as it works I'm cool.
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Glad you figured it out

fuzzylax said:
Nope.it has the plug like the charger that goes to a y one part of cable is HDMI and other cable is to plug phone charger into..go to amazon type in mhl cable its called cable matters gold plated USB to HDMI mhl cable for Samsung and few others. Some reason I'm having hard time copying and pasting link
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I found it...thanks! Just search ASIN B006V7F380 on amazon

Charging

Maybe it's just me, but seems like my charging has slowed down. When I'm plugged in in doesn't say fast charging like my Note 4 did, it just says cable charging. Does everyone else's just say cable charging.

Disconect and conect

Same trouble here, unplugging and plugging back in fixes it, but I am returning it for a new one. I shouldn't need to do that
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Looks like this recent tmobile update might have fixed the charging issue
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I switched the cable not fast charging plug I have a whole bunch of samsung cables even ones that work on s6 edge but same thing happened to me.I switched cable that u connect to fast charging plug and tried lg g4 cable and now it works all the time.I ordered usb cables that are for lg phones and now it works all thee time.Try changing cable to a non samsung one I tried lg ones and they work.Before had to press hard or try a few times but now I put in once normally and works everytime.
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raw2000j said:
I switched the cable not fast charging plug I have a whole bunch of samsung cables even ones that work on s6 edge but same thing happened to me.I switched cable that u connect to fast charging plug and tried lg g4 cable and now it works all the time.I ordered usb cables that are for lg phones and now it works all thee time.Try changing cable to a non samsung one I tried lg ones and they work.Before had to press hard or try a few times but now I put in once normally and works everytime.
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This seems odd.. I take your word for it but at the same time, are you sure it's actually "fast charging"?
How long does it take for your phone to go from 0-5% up to "complete charge"? And also, how long does it then take to go from 100% to dead?
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It says fast charging with new cables every single time before would only say cable charging and had to mess with it a few times before it changed.I just bought a second set of cable from ebay and works every single time.
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I'm sure maybe another cable besides lg would work but i tried samsungs usually dont work not aure why but the lg g4 cables do work as it should out of the box.
I notice the lg cables have one level before goes down on tip samsungs are flat on tip like these pics thats the only ones I buy
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If you need the ebay info on here from where I buy it on ebay hit me up.