If you do not have a PC at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your LG W30, you can easily become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, through a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a usb stick to an LG W30? In this context, first of all, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your LG W30.
Why connect a USB stick to an LG W30?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your LG W30, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. Most of the time, benefiting from 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 volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K they can be very quickly saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your LG W30 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your LG W30 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your LG W30.
How to connect a USB stick to an LG W30?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to an LG W30 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an LG W30?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your LG W30. Indeed, if you have looked at the curves of your phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly 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 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 LG W30 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an LG W30, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from LG W30?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your LG W30? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if your smartphone's native app isn't for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your LG W30
- 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 displayed in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the LG W30, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: LG W30.
