In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Google Pixel 3a, you can quickly become full of the internal storage of this one. For some time now, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, through a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb stick to a Google Pixel 3a? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for plug your USB key into your Google Pixel 3a.
What is the point of connecting a USB stick to a Google Pixel 3a?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 3a, we will summarize the advantages of this solution for you. Most of the time, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors on our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 3a will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Google Pixel 3a by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Google Pixel 3a.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Google Pixel 3a?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the manipulation for plug a USB key into a Google Pixel 3a , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Google Pixel 3a?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Google Pixel 3a. Indeed, if ever you have analyzed the contours of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply 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 Google Pixel 3a and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Google Pixel 3a, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Google Pixel 3a?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Google Pixel 3a? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your smartphone does not suit you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Google Pixel 3a
- 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 maximum of tutorials to become a master of the Google Pixel 3a, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 3a.
