How to Enable OTG Support on Huawei P9 Lite

March 5, 2023 Modified date: March 12, 2023

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Huawei P9 Lite is a popular Android smartphone which was launched in April 2016. This device comes with a large touch screen of 5.2 inch with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and is powered by a powerful 1.7 GHz octa-core Kirin processor and 3 GB of RAM. Moreover, the phone has an internal storage of 16GB that can be expanded up to 128GB through Micro SD card.

As far as multimedia features are concerned, the Huawei P9 Lite comes with a 13 MP rear and the front camera of 8 MP for capturing ultimate selfies. The device is quite slim and beautiful and comes with all the amazing features. Unfortunately, Huawei P9 Lite doesn’t come with Huawei OTG feature officially but there is a way to enable Huawei OTG support on P9 Lite. Some third party Android developers have found a way to enable OTG on Huawei P9 Lite and the success rate of this method is 100%. We at Android Tutorial have tested this feature and it worked perfectly.

So, if you are interested and want to enable OTG on Huawei P9 Lite then follow the steps.

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How to Enable OTG Support on Huawei P9 Lite:

Requirements:

Before proceeding make sure your device is fully rooted and have a file explorer installed. We recommend that you either have ES file manager or Root Explorer installed.

Steps to Enable OTG on Huawei P9 Lite:

Extract the OTG Enabler package on your PC.
Now connect your Phone to PC and copy the extracted files in your phone storage or in SD card.
Once placed, Open Root Explorer and move OTG Folder to SYSTEM.
Now set the permission of OTG folder to ‘755‘.
Now install the Script Runner APK on your Phone.
Once installed, open the script runner APK and follow the instructions.
That’s it. You have successfully enabled OTG support on your Huawei P9 Lite.

If you have any questions do let us know in the comments.

21 COMMENTS

Martin Pawlowsky April 18, 2017 At 10:58 pm

Hallo,
I couldn’t extract the “script-runer”, the .apk was 0 Byte. I downloaded an app scriptrunner on Android play, and applied it to the “otg on” script. It works. I tested with an 8 GB mp3 player with FAT32 and a 32 GB stick with ntfs. Also a keybord and a wireless mouse worked. Nice! Thanks.

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- Evangelos Galanis May 6, 2017 At 4:18 pm
  
  Hello when i set the permissions to 755 it gives me an error changing permissions was not succesful.Please note that some file systems do not allow permissions changes.What to do please?
  
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  - Zunair Nasir May 6, 2017 At 9:38 pm
    
    @evangelosgalanis:disqus Which file manager are you currently using?
    
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    - Evangelos Galanis May 7, 2017 At 9:41 am
      
      Hello thanks for the reply.I’m using Root Browser from JRummy Apps playstore.What you suggest to use another application?
      
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      - Zunair Nasir October 8, 2017 At 8:41 am
        
        Root Browser is fine @evangelosgalanis:disqus
  - Martin Pawlowsky May 7, 2017 At 8:31 pm
    
    Hello,
    I used fx explorer and accessed the ‘otg on’ or ‘otg off’ scripts via the system(root) folder (system/storage/sdcard/… ) (then i could change permissions and run the scripts. This is for Android 6, on Android 7 it seems to be different.
    
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    - Evangelos Galanis May 8, 2017 At 9:33 am
      
      Thanks for the reply with fx explorer however i cant see the option of permission
      
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      - Martin Pawlowsky May 8, 2017 At 11:31 am
        
        hi,
        I can’t test it in the moment. But I remember that it worked. Navigate through the red system folder to the otg on/off files. I think a long touch will bring up a menu. Then in “properties” there is a graphical display of the permissions. You have to change some small sqares to “execute”. If you have succes, don’t forget to switch off otg after using because else You cant’ charge Your phone.
      - Evangelos Galanis May 9, 2017 At 9:24 am
        
        Ok ill try it thank you for all the informations you gave me.
Afiq Firdaus May 29, 2017 At 8:52 am

I’m on Android 7.0 EMUI 5. didn’t work

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- Zunair Nasir October 8, 2017 At 8:41 am
  
  Share the device model?
  
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  - Afiq Firdaus October 8, 2017 At 8:45 am
    
    P9 lite vns L31C636B390
    
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Suzane Peters June 12, 2017 At 11:09 am

how to set the permission 755on otg?

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- Acnologia July 30, 2017 At 7:39 am
  
  Suzane, You need to change the permission using Root Explorer. The method is mentioned in the article.
  
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manolo fdez July 25, 2017 At 2:45 pm

Will this work with an Honor 7?

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- Acnologia July 30, 2017 At 7:39 am
  
  Hi Manola,
  
  This method is for P9 lite. We will do the testing for Honor 7
  
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Tomás Monteiro August 24, 2017 At 6:45 pm

Hello, I have tried to use the fx explorer to change the folder to the System folder, but it seems that I do not have the required permission to do so. I get this message “The folder “” could not be written to.”
How can I get past this issue? Thanks

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Sofia Ribeiro September 22, 2018 At 2:30 pm

i cant find system file?

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paq March 15, 2019 At 1:52 am

Hi, the files downloaded, OTG and script runner apk, are empty. Can you upgrade that? Thanks.

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- Acnologia March 15, 2019 At 4:49 am
  
  Hi Paq,
  
  It’s not empty at all. Download it and follow the steps and if you stuck at any step, please let us know 🙂
  
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Eric March 10, 2023 At 11:09 am

any free of costs alternative for Root-explorer (now € 4,99) ?

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