In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a large quantity of files, photos, or videos on your Motorola Moto G51, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal memory of this last. For some time, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb stick to a Motorola Moto G51? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to carry out this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto G51.
What will connecting a USB key to a Motorola Moto G51 allow?
Before explaining the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Motorola Moto G51, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, having storage on a phone is essential, especially since we don't 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 therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a 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 G51 will be that you can free memory on your Motorola Moto G51 by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover files that a colleague has sent to you on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Motorola Moto G51.
How to connect a USB stick to a Motorola Moto G51?
Now it's time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Motorola Moto G51 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Motorola Moto G51?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto G51. In fact, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your phone, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Motorola Moto G51 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Motorola Moto G51, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Motorola Moto G51?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Motorola Moto G51? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Use the following instructions to achieve this:
- Download a file manager if your phone's native app isn't for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Motorola Moto G51
- 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 ever looking for a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Motorola Moto G51, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Motorola G51.
