If you ever do not have a PC at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large number of files, photos, or videos on your Alcatel 1b, you can easily reach saturation of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, manufacturers have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, exchanging files without a computer can be complex. You've no doubt heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB flash drive.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a usb key to an Alcatel 1b? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Alcatel 1b.
Why connect a USB key to an Alcatel 1b?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Alcatel 1b, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Alcatel 1b will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Alcatel 1b by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Alcatel 1b.
How to connect a USB key to an Alcatel 1b?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to an Alcatel 1b , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on an Alcatel 1b?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Alcatel 1b. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to get 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Alcatel 1b and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Alcatel 1b, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB key from an Alcatel 1b?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain to you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Alcatel 1b? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to achieve this:
- Download a file manager in the event that the original application installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Alcatel 1b
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the files you want to transfer to one of the two directories, you should see your USB key displayed in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
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