If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Google Pixel 4 XL, you can easily end up with saturation of the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, through a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb stick to a Google Pixel 4 XL? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for plug your USB key into your Google Pixel 4 XL.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Google Pixel 4 XL?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 4 XL, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 4 XL will be that you can free memory on your Google Pixel 4 XL by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover 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 Google Pixel 4 XL.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Google Pixel 4 XL?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first of all see the manipulation for plug a USB key into a Google Pixel 4 XL , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Google Pixel 4 XL?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Google Pixel 4 XL. Indeed, if you have ever looked at the curves of your phone for a few minutes, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Google Pixel 4 XL and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Google Pixel 4 XL, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Google Pixel 4 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 4 XL? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Google Pixel 4 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
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Google Pixel 4 XL, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 4 XL.
