If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you usually accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Motorola One Zoom, you should quickly become full of its internal memory . For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB key.

We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a usb stick to a Motorola One Zoom? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Motorola One Zoom.

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What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Motorola One Zoom?

Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Motorola One Zoom, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very important. therefore. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.

One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Motorola One Zoom will be that you can free memory on your Motorola One Zoom by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Motorola One Zoom.

How to connect a USB stick to a Motorola One Zoom?

Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Motorola One Zoom , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.

How to read a USB stick on a Motorola One Zoom?

First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Motorola One Zoom. Indeed, if you have ever looked at the curves of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed 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 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.

To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Motorola One Zoom and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Motorola One Zoom, see our article.

How to transfer files to a USB flash drive from a Motorola One Zoom?

Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Motorola One Zoom? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:

  • Download a data manager if the original application installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
  • Connect the OTG adapter to your Motorola One Zoom
  • 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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