In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Motorola Moto Z4, you should quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. Despite everything, exchanging files without a computer can be problematic. You have no doubt heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB key.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a usb stick to a Motorola Moto Z4? In this context, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto Z4.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Motorola Moto Z4?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Motorola Moto Z4, we will review the advantages of this solution. Most of the time, 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 smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K they can be quickly saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Motorola Moto Z4 will be that you can free memory on your Motorola Moto Z4 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Motorola Moto Z4.
How to connect a USB stick to a Motorola Moto Z4?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for plug a USB key into a Motorola Moto Z4 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Motorola Moto Z4?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Motorola Moto Z4. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your device, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. 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.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Motorola Moto Z4 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Motorola Moto Z4, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Motorola Moto Z4?
Finally, now that you understand 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 Z4? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Motorola Moto Z4
- 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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