In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your OnePlus 6, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a pretty effective solution, going through a USB stick.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB stick to a OnePlus 6? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your OnePlus 6.
Why connect a USB key to a OnePlus 6?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your OnePlus 6, we will review the advantages of this technique. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos is getting pretty darn awesome. So we 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 quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your OnePlus 6 will be to allow you to free up memory on your OnePlus 6 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 6.
How to connect a USB stick to a OnePlus 6?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a OnePlus 6 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a OnePlus 6?
First things to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your OnePlus 6. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your phone a little, you must have rather quickly noticed that there is no had no USB socket on the latter. It is with a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these little accessories are simply available 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 6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a OnePlus 6, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a OnePlus 6?
Finally, now that you have integrated 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 OnePlus 6? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your OnePlus 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
In case you want a maximum of tutorials to become the king of OnePlus 6, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: OnePlus 6.
