In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Alcatel 3L, you must quickly become full of the internal storage of your Alcatel XNUMXL. this one. In recent years, brands have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly fast technique, through a USB stick.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB key to an Alcatel 3L? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Alcatel 3L.
What will the connection of a USB key to an Alcatel 3L allow?
Before revealing the process for to use a USB key directly on your Alcatel 3L, we will come back to the advantages of this procedure. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile 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 weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Alcatel 3L will be that you can free memory on your Alcatel 3L by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Alcatel 3L.
How to connect a USB key to an Alcatel 3L?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to an Alcatel 3L , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on an Alcatel 3L?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Alcatel 3L. In fact, if you have analyzed the contours of your phone a little, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will need 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Alcatel 3L and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Alcatel 3L, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Alcatel 3L?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Alcatel 3L? Either way the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager if the originally installed application on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Alcatel 3L
- 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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