Originally Posted by PolloLoco (Post 563772)

Yes, that's why I'm proposing the test I did. If it registers as headphones, then you'll still get audio out of the red and white plugs of the camcorder cable.

If you're getting audio out in that way - that means you didn't break the pin as far down as necessary. Provided you didn't break any adjacent pins.

I had that happen to me the first time I tried it with this adapter. I looked closely at the jack in bright light - and saw that the pin needed breaking further down. So I dragged a clothespin deeper down to do so.

I didn't have to do anything else besides break that pin. I've made 2 tv out cables, though the second one was made with a different extusb adapter, twining the wires together. But on the extusb end - all I had to do was break that one pin - I didn't need to ground anything else. That's what most others have done as well.

Originally Posted by Raging Idiot (Post 563863)

The 2.5 lyra video cable didn't work very well... It seemed to need to be pushed a bit to the side for it to register the connection. Also, the red/yellow swap was still needed on the connection to the TV just like the camcorder video cables others have posted here.

Originally Posted by PolloLoco (Post 563443)

The adapter itself WILL trigger it. That will tell you before you do anything else - that you have broken pin 4 adequately. Is it possible you bent the other pins and killed your adapter? Otherwise, you may not have broken pin 4 down far enough. You can test by pluggin in your camcorder cable to a tv, and seeing if sound is played through the tv speakers. Play a song in WMP to test.

Edit: Sorry I took so long replying, my computer died last Friday and I had to build a new one.

Originally Posted by OsirisFael (Post 563889)

In my case, When I snipped the blue wire, the adaptor didn't make the phone register tv out mode, I had to plug in the wire first.

Originally Posted by PolloLoco (Post 563963)

That's pretty weird. I wonder why it worked otherwise for so many others.

As for picture quality, mine's pretty decent. Actually, better than I expected. On my SDTV, I can easily make out text on my screen. Videos are good but not great through Coreplayer. Black levels are fairly bad - but I think Coreplayer bears most of the blame. The video quality is a full grade below a PMP (compared to an Archos 605), but it's still a useful gadget.