If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Nokia 6, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, sending files without a computer can be complex. You've probably heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB key.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB key to a Nokia 6? To do this, 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 learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Nokia 6.
Why connect a USB key to a Nokia 6?
Before showing you the technique for to use a USB key directly on your Nokia 6, we are going to summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very therefore. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Nokia 6 will be that you can free memory on your Nokia 6 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Nokia 6.
How to connect a USB stick to a Nokia 6?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Nokia 6 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Nokia 6?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Nokia 6. Indeed, if you have analyzed the contours of your phone a little, you must have realized rather quickly that it does not. there was no USB socket on the latter. 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Nokia 6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Nokia 6, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Nokia 6?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Nokia 6? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Nokia 6
- 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
If you are looking for a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Nokia 6, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Nokia 6.
