In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and that you are used to accumulating a large number of data, photos, or videos on your Motorola Moto G31, you can quickly reach saturation of the storage internal to it. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly quick technique, via a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb stick to a Motorola Moto G31? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto G31.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Motorola Moto G31?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Motorola Moto G31, we will review the advantages of this operation. Generally having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very therefore. We suddenly have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Motorola Moto G31 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Motorola Moto G31 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover 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 Motorola Moto G31.
How to connect a USB stick to a Motorola Moto G31?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Motorola Moto G31 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Motorola Moto G31?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto G31. Indeed, in the event that you 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 will be able to achieve your ends. 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 Motorola Moto G31 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Motorola Moto G31, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Motorola Moto G31?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain to you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Motorola Moto G31? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the directions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Motorola Moto G31
- 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 case you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Motorola Moto G31, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Motorola G31.
