If you ever do not have a PC at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large number of data, photos, or videos on your Crosscall core M5, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, manufacturers have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. Despite everything, sending files without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB key to a Crosscall core M5? In this context, to begin with, we will come back to the advantages that 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 Crosscall core M5.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Crosscall core M5?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Crosscall core M5, we will review 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 weight of photos and videos becomes very substantial. . We therefore 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 you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Crosscall core M5 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Crosscall core M5 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has put on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Crosscall core M5.
How to connect a USB key to a Crosscall core M5?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Crosscall core M5 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Crosscall core M5?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Crosscall core M5. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the curves of your device, you must have rather quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is using 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Crosscall core M5 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Crosscall core M5, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB key from a Crosscall core M5?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 Crosscall core M5? Either way, the process is the same. Follow these guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the original application installed on your phone is not suitable for you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Crosscall core M5
- 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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