If you ever don't have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your OnePlus Nord 2, you can quickly reach saturation of the latter's internal storage. For some time, brands have become accustomed to additionally integrating a micro SD port. However, sending data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a technique that is fast enough, through a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb key to a OnePlus Nord 2? 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 discover all the steps to plug your USB key into your OnePlus Nord 2.
Why connect a USB key to a OnePlus Nord 2?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your OnePlus Nord 2, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. As a general rule, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty darn big. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your OnePlus Nord 2 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your OnePlus Nord 2 by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your OnePlus Nord 2.
How to connect a USB key to a OnePlus Nord 2?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a OnePlus Nord 2 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a OnePlus Nord 2?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your OnePlus Nord 2. In fact, if you have ever analyzed the contours of your phone for a few minutes, you must have realized quite quickly that it does not there was no USB port on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will need to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your OnePlus Nord 2 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a OnePlus Nord 2, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from a OnePlus Nord 2?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 Nord 2? Either way, the process is the same. Follow these guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your OnePlus Nord 2
- 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 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 want a lot of tutorials to become the king of the OnePlus Nord 2, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: OnePlus North 2.
