In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Alcatel 1, you can easily become saturated with the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging data without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a sufficiently effective solution, via a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB key to an Alcatel 1? In this context, first, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Alcatel 1.
Why connect a USB key to an Alcatel 1?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Alcatel 1, we will review the advantages of this technique. Most of the time, benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K, they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Alcatel 1 will be that you can free memory on your Alcatel 1 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Alcatel 1.
How to connect a USB key to an Alcatel 1?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to an Alcatel 1 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on an Alcatel 1?
First of all things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Alcatel 1. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the curves of your device, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on the latter. This is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are very easily found for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Alcatel 1 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Alcatel 1, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Alcatel 1?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Alcatel 1? Either way the process is similar. Follow the directions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Alcatel 1
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the data you want to transfer to one of the two directories, you should see your USB key appear in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become an Alcatel 1 master, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Alcatel 1.
