Make my own HDMI cable with micro usb end

Question

Can anyone please tell me how I can splice different cables together to make a HDMI cable with a micro USB end? I need to do this to connect my HTC Desire 626 to my Emerson HDTV to watch Netflix.

Solution

To my surprise such connectors do exist, as for example in Amazon : Generic Micro USB to HDMI MHL Adapter for $9. I can also see it has a processor housed in the big box.

So you cannot splice these cables - you need an adapter. Just buy a ready-made one with its dedicated processor.

Comments

[Admin]

Your question is off-topic here. Google "MHL wiring" or, even better, buy that $2 cable.

[Admin]

You don't. Depending on the device "USB" cables that connect to HDMI can use a special USB connector that has extra pins embedded in it to allow the transmission of the HDMI signals. You cannot simply cut and splice a standard USB cable to a HDMI in many cases. Buy a cable suitable for your device.

[Admin]

5 pin 11 pin? To splice to a regular HDMI cable

[Admin]

No such (passive) cable could work, because it's not a matter of connectors nor the number of wires. USB is a protocol for a bus, whereas HDMI is a point-to-point protocol for video+audio. You are looking for either a USB video adapter or a MHL adapter (or active "cable"), and your phone will have to support such an external device (but for 65% of the Amazon buyers the generic adapter didn't work).