If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Google Pixel 3a XL, you must quickly become full of its internal storage. For some time now, manufacturers have taken the habit of integrating a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You have undoubtedly heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a usb stick to a Google Pixel 3a XL? In this context, first of all, 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 for plug your USB key into your Google Pixel 3a XL.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Google Pixel 3a XL?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 3a XL, we will come back to the advantages of this procedure. Usually taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K they can quickly be saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 3a XL will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Google Pixel 3a XL by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Google Pixel 3a XL.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Google Pixel 3a XL?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for plug a USB key into a Google Pixel 3a XL , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Google Pixel 3a XL?
First things to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Google Pixel 3a XL. In fact, in the event that you took a look at the contours of your phone, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply available for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Google Pixel 3a XL and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Google Pixel 3a XL, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB flash drive from a Google Pixel 3a XL?
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 Google Pixel 3a XL? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Google Pixel 3a XL
- 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 appear 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 ever want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Google Pixel 3a XL, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 3a XL.
