If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Alcatel 3X, you can quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, through a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB key to an Alcatel 3X? In this context, first of all, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Alcatel 3X.
What will the connection of a USB key to an Alcatel 3X allow?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Alcatel 3X, we will go through the advantages of this procedure. Most of the time, having storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our 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 you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Alcatel 3X will be that you can free memory on your Alcatel 3X by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Alcatel 3X.
How to connect a USB key to an Alcatel 3X?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to an Alcatel 3X , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on an Alcatel 3X?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Alcatel 3X. In fact, in the event that you looked carefully at the contours of your phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will need to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply available for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Alcatel 3X and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Alcatel 3X, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Alcatel 3X?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Alcatel 3X? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to do so:
- Download a file manager in the event that the originally installed application on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Alcatel 3X
- 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 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 want as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Alcatel 3X, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Alcatel 3X.
