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 Oppo A3, you must quickly reach the saturation of its internal storage . In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a fairly fast technique, through a USB key.

We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a usb stick to an Oppo A3? For this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to carry out this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Oppo A3.

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What is the point of connecting a USB stick to an Oppo A3?

Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Oppo A3, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. Generally, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very important. therefore. We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone 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 Oppo A3 will be that you can free memory on your Oppo A3 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve 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 Oppo A3.

How to connect a USB stick to an Oppo A3?

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 an Oppo A3 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.

How to read a USB flash drive on an Oppo A3?

First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Oppo A3. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your smartphone a little, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply 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 bought to the micro or nano USB socket of your Oppo A3 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Oppo A3, see our article.

How to transfer files to USB stick from Oppo A3?

Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Oppo A3? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following instructions to do so:

  • Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
  • Connect the OTG adapter to your Oppo A3
  • 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 ever want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Oppo A3, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Oppo A3.