If you ever don't have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Motorola Moto G71, you can easily reach saturation of the internal storage of the latter. For a few years now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You've probably heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a usb stick to a Motorola Moto G71? For this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto G71.
Why connect a USB drive to a Motorola Moto G71?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Motorola Moto G71, we are going to summarize the advantages of this operation. Most of the time having storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty damn awesome. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone 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 G71 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Motorola Moto G71 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend sent you, for example, to a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Motorola Moto G71.
How to connect a USB stick to a Motorola Moto G71?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Motorola Moto G71 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Motorola Moto G71?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto G71. In fact, if you looked carefully at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have noticed quite quickly 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 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Motorola Moto G71 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Motorola Moto G71, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Motorola Moto G71?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Motorola Moto G71? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your smartphone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Motorola Moto G71
- 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
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