[HELP] USB-C dongle DAC constantly disconnecting - General Questions and Answers

Phone: Poco F1, DAC: Jcally JM6 Pro
I'm playing music, it stops and there is "Preparing USB device..." toast. Sometimes it reconnects a few seconds later and I can start playing music again, sometimes I need to reconnect it physically. Sometimes it disconnects once in 5 minutes, sometimes it starts disconnecting every 5 seconds. Upon disconnection sometimes the music player crashes and a few times even the whole system went into a restart.
It's not the fault of the music playing app, I tried many and whether the player has direct USB access doesn't make a difference. The phone's USB-C port is new and clean. The dongle works perfectly fine on any other device. The connected earphones make no difference. The DAC is relatively weak and it should easily receive enough power from the port.
I tried 3 different Android 13 ROMs with different kernels and same things would happen. I went back to stock fastboot rom, flashed Android 12 PE+ on top of it and initially it was working fine but then disconnects started and I couldn't figure out the trigger. Interestingly, upon reflashing the ROM, disconnects would happen even in the beginning.
The only ROM that solves my problem is stock MIUI A10 ROM, no disconnects whatsoever. But it's old and not that usable. Anyone have any idea what's causing this and what can I do?

May be phone's USB port your DAC is plugged into is a low-power one. Hence try to add an externally powered USB hub between your phone and your DAC. This will supply ample power to the DAC that the underpowered USB port just can’t deliver.

jwoegerbauer said:
May be phone's USB port your DAC is plugged into is a low-power one. Hence try to add an externally powered USB hub between your phone and your DAC. This will supply ample power to the DAC that the underpowered USB port just can’t deliver.
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Thanks for the response. As I said, the DAC is relatively weak, people drive dongles over 2 times as powerful with no issues with this phone. Also, everything works flawlessly on the old MIUI fastboot a10 ROM but it's not good for daily use.

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