If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you usually accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Lenovo A6 Note, you can 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 files without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a sufficiently fast technique, through a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a usb stick to a Lenovo A6 Note? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Lenovo A6 Note.
What will connecting a USB key to a Lenovo A6 Note allow?
Before explaining the procedure for to use a USB key directly on your Lenovo A6 Note, we will review the advantages of this technique. Generally taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn impressive . We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Lenovo A6 Note will be to allow you to free memory on your Lenovo A6 Note by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Lenovo A6 Note.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Lenovo A6 Note?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Lenovo A6 Note , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Lenovo A6 Note?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Lenovo A6 Note. Indeed, if ever you have carefully analyzed the contours of your mobile 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 perform this operation. 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.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Lenovo A6 Note and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Lenovo A6 Note, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Lenovo A6 Note?
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 files between a USB key and your Lenovo A6 Note? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your smartphone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Lenovo A6 Note
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the files 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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