If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your LG K40S, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, brands have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB stick.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a usb stick to an LG K40S? In this context, to begin with, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to carry out this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your LG K40S.
Why connect a USB flash drive to an LG K40S?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your LG K40S, we'll come back to the advantages of this technique. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your LG K40S will be that you can free memory on your LG K40S by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your LG K40S.
How to connect a USB stick to an LG K40S?
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 an LG K40S , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an LG K40S?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your LG K40S. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your mobile phone a little, you must have quickly realized 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 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your LG K40S and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an LG K40S, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from LG K40S?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your LG K40S? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your LG K40S
- 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 displayed 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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