In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your OnePlus 5T, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of this last. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB stick.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a OnePlus 5T? 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 OnePlus 5T.
Why connect a USB stick to a OnePlus 5T?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your OnePlus 5T, we will review the advantages of this technique. Generally benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K, they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your OnePlus 5T will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your OnePlus 5T by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your OnePlus 5T.
How to connect a USB stick to a OnePlus 5T?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a OnePlus 5T , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a OnePlus 5T?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your OnePlus 5T. Indeed, in the event that you have 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. It is with a technology that we call 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.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your OnePlus 5T and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a OnePlus 5T, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a OnePlus 5T?
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 files between a USB key and your OnePlus 5T? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow these guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a file manager in the event that the application originally installed on your phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your OnePlus 5T
- 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 displayed in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
In case you are looking for a maximum of tutorials to become a master of the OnePlus 5T, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: OnePlus 5T.
