If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your ASUS Zenfone 4, you should easily become saturated with the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, through a USB key.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to connect a USB stick to an ASUS Zenfone 4? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to accomplish this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your ASUS Zenfone 4.
What will connecting a USB key to an ASUS Zenfone 4 allow?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your ASUS Zenfone 4, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Most of the time, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight 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 they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your ASUS Zenfone 4 will be that you can free memory on your ASUS Zenfone 4 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your ASUS Zenfone 4.
How to connect a USB stick to an ASUS Zenfone 4?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to an ASUS Zenfone 4 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an ASUS Zenfone 4?
First things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your ASUS Zenfone 4. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your smartphone a little, you must have quickly noticed that it does not 'there was no USB socket on the latter. It is with 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.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your ASUS Zenfone 4 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an ASUS Zenfone 4, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from ASUS Zenfone 4?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your ASUS Zenfone 4? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the guidelines below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your ASUS Zenfone 4
- 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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