[Doron]

Hi @chris

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate the tips. Unfortunately because I’ve been screwing around with other USB-C OTG hubs for the past month or so, I don’t have enough time to try any others from gearbest before my trip (their shipping is just too damn slow and expedite shipping to Australia is twice the value of the hub itself).
I’ve used the Xiaomi original hub (with HDMI) to charge the Mi Pad 2 if I plug the charge cable in first before connecting the hub to the tablet, but then the USB port won’t work. For some reason this also stops the USB port from working for a while, even after disconnecting it and trying it with other devices (such as my Zuk Z2 phone).  It’s quite weird, but it’ll only ever work for one or the other, but not both at the same time. For some reason it often corrupts my USB drive as well, requiring me to plug it into my PC to do a repair before it’ll work again via OTG.. weird..

Looks like I’ll just have to make-do by transferring whatever I need from my HDD over to the tablet’s internal storage while it’s charging on the flight, cycling through files until it’s finished.
If you have any other tips, I’d love to hear them.
Thanks

[Doron]

Damn that’s frustrating as hell…
I’ve also tried quite a few including the official Xiaomi adapter you’ve linked above and I have the same issue.
I’m starting to believe that perhaps this device doesn’t support charge + OTG at the same time.
I’m surprised that @chris  has apparently managed to get it working somehow, and yet wont provide any assistance or advice to us…
If only we could get some input from him.
I’m quite disappointed because I only purchased the Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 over the original one because of his recommendation, had I known this wouldn’t work, I’d have purchased the original as I intend to use it for back-to-back flights where charging will be an issue.  As I understand the performance between the two tablets is on-par, where in some instances the original is up to 25% faster, but locked to kitkat..
I’ve already spent about $80 on different OTG / Charger adapters to try to sort this out… this is getting real stupid real fast.

[Doron]

Has anyone found an adapter that work with OTG + Charging at the same time yet?

@chris
Could you please help us out?
I tried buying a generic one that was designed for Macbook but it didnt work for me (only the OTG ports worked, but no charging).
Thanks!

[Doron]

Would you also say that the MiPad 2 is worth the extra $120 over the original Mi Pad (almost double the price)?
I don’t really care about the support for Windows. Do you think being stuck in kitkat would be an issue?
I’m also not all that fussed about the plastic backing as it would be used in a folio case at all times.

[Doron]

Thanks for your reply, I was thinking along the same lines. Would u opt for the 64Gb for the extra $80 or do you think the 16Gb would be sufficient in this scenario? I know it’s personal preference but still curious about your opinion on that one.

Thanks again     @chris

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