In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Oppo A8, you can easily reach the saturation point of its internal memory. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be problematic. You've probably heard of a fairly effective solution, going through a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a usb stick to an Oppo A8? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Oppo A8.
What will connecting a USB key to an Oppo A8 allow?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Oppo A8, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors on our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, 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 A8 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Oppo A8 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Oppo A8.
How to connect a USB stick to an Oppo A8?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to an Oppo A8 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Oppo A8?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Oppo A8. Indeed, if you have ever looked carefully at the curves of your phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. 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 Oppo A8 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Oppo A8, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Oppo A8?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain to you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Oppo A8? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Oppo A8
- 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
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