If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your ASUS Zenfone 2, you can quickly become full of its internal memory. For some time now, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a fairly quick solution, through a USB key.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a USB stick to an ASUS Zenfone 2? To do this, to begin with, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your ASUS Zenfone 2.
Why connect a USB stick to an ASUS Zenfone 2?
Before showing you the technique for to use a USB key directly on your ASUS Zenfone 2, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your ASUS Zenfone 2 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your ASUS Zenfone 2 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your ASUS Zenfone 2.
How to connect a USB stick to an ASUS Zenfone 2?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to an ASUS Zenfone 2 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an ASUS Zenfone 2?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your ASUS Zenfone 2. In fact, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your device, you should rather quickly realize that it there was no USB socket on this one. It is with the help of a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your ASUS Zenfone 2 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an ASUS Zenfone 2, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from ASUS Zenfone 2?
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 data between a USB key and your ASUS Zenfone 2? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the app originally installed on your phone is not right for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your ASUS Zenfone 2
- 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 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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