If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your ASUS Zenfone 9, you can quickly reach saturation of its internal memory. . In recent years, manufacturers have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, exchanging files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB flash drive.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a USB stick to an ASUS Zenfone 9? For this, first, we will go back to the advantages you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your ASUS Zenfone 9.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to an ASUS Zenfone 9?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your ASUS Zenfone 9, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure. Generally having storage on a phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very substantial. . We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your ASUS Zenfone 9 will be that you can free memory on your ASUS Zenfone 9 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has placed for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your ASUS Zenfone 9.
How to connect a USB stick to an ASUS Zenfone 9?
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 9 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an ASUS Zenfone 9?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your ASUS Zenfone 9. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your phone, you must have noticed rather quickly that it does not There was no USB socket on this one. It is with a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your ASUS Zenfone 9 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an ASUS Zenfone 9, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from ASUS Zenfone 9?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your ASUS Zenfone 9? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to do so:
- 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 9
- 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
If you want a lot of tutorials to become the king of ASUS Zenfone 9, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: ASUS Zenfone 9.
