In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your OPPO A57, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal storage of this last. For some time manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. Despite everything, exchanging files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a fairly effective solution, through a USB flash drive.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO A57? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your OPPO A57.
What is the point of connecting a USB flash drive to an OPPO A57?
Before showing you the process for use a USB key directly on your OPPO A57, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, 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 smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, 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 OPPO A57 will be to allow you to free up memory on your OPPO A57 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download 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 A57.
How to connect a USB key to an OPPO A57?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to an OPPO A57 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on an OPPO A57?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your OPPO A57. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your smartphone, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called 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 OPPO A57 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an OPPO A57, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from OPPO A57?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your OPPO A57? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a file manager if the app originally installed on your smartphone is not right for you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your OPPO A57
- 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
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