If you do not have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot, you must quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a quick enough solution, through a USB stick.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a USB stick to an Asus ZenFone Max Shot? To do this, first of all, we will come back to 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 Asus ZenFone Max Shot.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to an Asus ZenFone Max Shot?
Before presenting the process for to use a USB key directly on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot, we are going to review the advantages of this operation. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile 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 Max Shot will be giving you the possibility of free memory on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover files that a friend sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Asus ZenFone Max Shot.
How to connect a USB stick to an Asus ZenFone Max Shot?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to an Asus ZenFone Max Shot , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Asus ZenFone Max Shot?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Asus ZenFone Max Shot. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the contours of your smartphone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. 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 Max Shot and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Asus ZenFone Max Shot, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Asus ZenFone Max Shot?
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 Max Shot? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Asus ZenFone Max Shot
- 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 absolute master of the Asus ZenFone Max Shot, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Asus ZenFone Max Shot.
