If you do not have a PC at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal storage of this one. In recent years, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a usb key to an ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro? 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 discover all the steps to plug your USB key into your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro.
What is the point of connecting a USB flash drive to an ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone 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 ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro will be to allow you to free up memory on your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague has sent to you on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro.
How to connect a USB flash drive to an ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro?
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 ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your mobile phone, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these little accessories are simply available 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer files between a USB flash drive and your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your ASUS ROG Phone 6 Pro
- 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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