If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Motorola E6 Play, you can easily end up with saturation of its internal memory. 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 may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, going through a USB key.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a usb stick to a Motorola E6 Play? For that, to begin with, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Motorola E6 Play.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Motorola E6 Play?
Before showing you the procedure for to use a USB key directly on your Motorola E6 Play, we will review the advantages of this solution. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, 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 Motorola E6 Play will be that you can free memory on your Motorola E6 Play by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has for example put on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Motorola E6 Play.
How to connect a USB stick to a Motorola E6 Play?
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 Motorola E6 Play , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Motorola E6 Play?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Motorola E6 Play. Indeed, if you have looked a little at the curves of your phone, 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 have 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 cable that you purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Motorola E6 Play and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Motorola E6 Play, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB flash drive from a Motorola E6 Play?
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 Motorola E6 Play? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager if the original application installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Motorola E6 Play
- 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
If you are looking for a maximum of tutorials to become a master of the Motorola E6 Play, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Motorola E6 Plus.
