If you ever do not have a PC at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your OPPO Find X5, you can easily reach saturation of the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, sending your files without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly quick solution, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO Find X5? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to plug your USB key into your OPPO Find X5.
Why connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO Find X5?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your OPPO Find X5, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when 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 damn imposing. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, 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 Find X5 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your OPPO Find X5 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your OPPO Find X5.
How to connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO Find X5?
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 Find X5 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an OPPO Find X5?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your OPPO Find X5. In fact, if you looked at the curves of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed quite quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is using 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your OPPO Find X5 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an OPPO Find X5, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from OPPO Find X5?
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 flash drive and your OPPO Find X5? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your OPPO Find X5
- 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
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