If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your OPPO A74, you must quickly reach saturation of the internal memory of your computer. -this. In recent years, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB flash drive.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO A74? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to carry out this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your OPPO A74.
Why connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO A74?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your OPPO A74, we will summarize the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when we don't 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 very therefore. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone 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 OPPO A74 will be to allow you to free up memory on your OPPO A74 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your OPPO A74.
How to connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO A74?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to an OPPO A74 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an OPPO A74?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your OPPO A74. In fact, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your smartphone, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your OPPO A74 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an OPPO A74, see our article.
How to Transfer Files to USB Drive from OPPO A74?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain to you how to transfer data between a USB key and your OPPO A74? Either way the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if your smartphone's native app isn't for you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your OPPO A74
- 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
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the OPPO A74, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: OPPO A74.
