If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Lenovo K10 Plus, you may be able to saturate the internal memory of the latter in a short time. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB stick.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a usb stick to a Lenovo K10 Plus? To do this, to begin with, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Lenovo K10 Plus.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Lenovo K10 Plus?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Lenovo K10 Plus, we will review the advantages of this solution. In general, 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 on our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, 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 Lenovo K10 Plus will be that you can free memory on your Lenovo K10 Plus by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover files that a friend sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Lenovo K10 Plus.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Lenovo K10 Plus?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Lenovo K10 Plus , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Lenovo K10 Plus?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Lenovo K10 Plus. Indeed, if you have looked at the contours of your phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these little 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Lenovo K10 Plus and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Lenovo K10 Plus, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Lenovo K10 Plus?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 K10 Plus? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Lenovo K10 Plus
- 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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