In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you have a habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your LG X4, you could easily reach saturation of the internal memory of the latter. For some time, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, going through a USB key.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to connect a usb stick to an LG X4? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your LG X4.
What will the connection of a USB key to an LG X4 allow?
Before showing you the procedure for to use a USB key directly on your LG X4, we will go through the advantages of this technique. Most of the time, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photosensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, 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 LG X4 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your LG X4 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your LG X4.
How to connect a USB stick to an LG X4?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to an LG X4 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an LG X4?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your LG X4. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the contours of your device, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with 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 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 X4 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an LG X4, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from LG X4?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your LG X4? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your LG X4
- 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
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the LG X4, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: LG X4.
