Samsung Galaxy S4 OTG problem

[NickLeStrange]

Hi All,

So I recently purchased a second hand Galaxy S4 for some VR goodness. The phone works brilliantly, and has Lollipop 5.01 installed.

I purchased a USB OTG cable so that I can connect a controller to it. Problem is, the phone sees that the OTG cable is plugged in, then a second or two later the notification goes away. Thus I am unable to see my flash drive that I am testing with, nor does it pick up my mouse, keyboard, Xbox 360 controller.

I tested the OTG cable in my Nexus 7 2012, and it works 100%.

The common denominator according to my Google searches is that after the handset is updated to Lollipop from 4.2.2, the OTG functionality breaks. However, no one has come forth with a fix. One person suggested going back to 4.2.2, which I don't really want to do, so saving it as a last resort.

Has anyone had this issue in the past, on the S4 or any other Samsung phone? It seems that it is only the Samsung phones which suffer from this issue. Was there a fix?

Edit:

I have done a factory reset, and also cleaned the cache. Issue persists.

 

[NorthPole]

Maybe install another ROM... but that's probably on the same level of going to 4.4.2

 

[NickLeStrange]

Maybe install another ROM... but that's probably on the same level of going to 4.4.2

Yep, would basically be the same as reverting to the original.