If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Infinix, you must quickly become full of its internal storage. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging data without a computer can be problematic. You've probably heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB stick.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB stick to an Infinix? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Infinix.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to an Infinix?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Infinix, we will summarize the advantages of this solution for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, 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 Infinix will be to allow you to free memory on your Infinix by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Infinix.
How to connect a USB stick to an Infinix?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first of all see the manipulation for connect a USB key to an Infinix , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an Infinix?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Infinix. Indeed, in the event that you have looked at the contours of your phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call 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 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Infinix and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Infinix, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from an Infinix?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Infinix? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Infinix
- 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
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