New MHL Dongle

[Suntan]

Check the receipt to make sure that he ordered the right one. Unlike the idiot who ordered mine.

I didn't order anything.

After they proclaimed they didn't see anything in their warehouse that fit the discription and then went on mumbling that I should be able to use a universal cord from a different manufacturer so they would see what they had I politely told the couple of reps that it was a propietary cable. When they were completely befuddled by the notion of a propretary cable working in a standard USB port I told them to take it easy and walked out.

I'll order it from the VZW website some other time.

-Suntan

 

[Suntan]

I eventually ordered the mhl adaptor from vzw and it arrived today.

The adaptor works fine for outputting to the TV, but using a double ended usb cable, I can't get the OTG part to work with it.

Has anyone been able to get a usb peripheral to work with the mhl adaptor?

-Suntan

 

[dpham00]

I eventually ordered the mhl adaptor from vzw and it arrived today.

The adaptor works fine for outputting to the TV, but using a double ended usb cable, I can't get the OTG part to work with it.

Has anyone been able to get a usb peripheral to work with the mhl adaptor?

-Suntan

That's what I was afraid of. By looking at the unit, I could not figure out how to get usb otg to work.

 

[Suntan]

The dongle works for mirroring and all, but overall it is a giant PITA. The one truly deficient spec on the GS3 is the use of an NHL connector instead of doing like moto does and putting separate USB and micro HDMI connectors.

-Suntan

 

[dpham00]

Sucks that the mhl doesn't work with usb otg. other than that, i don't really see an advantage for changing the mhl pin configuration. Paying $40 (less with discount) for essentially an adapter that isn't much different than the ones in the market (other than pins) is hard to swallow. I bought my lapdock for $70 (less with discount, and I know others have gotten it cheaper, but $70 is the current price) and it has a lot more to offer than a lousy adapter.

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