In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Pocophone F1, you can quickly become full of its internal storage. . For some time now, brands have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB key to a Pocophone F1? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Pocophone F1.
Why connect a USB key to a Pocophone F1?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Pocophone F1, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as 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 the photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone 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 Pocophone F1 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Pocophone F1 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Pocophone F1.
How to connect a USB key to a Pocophone F1?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Pocophone F1 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Pocophone F1?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Pocophone F1. Indeed, if you have ever looked carefully at the curves of your device, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Pocophone F1 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Pocophone F1, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a Pocophone F1?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Pocophone F1? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager if the original application installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Pocophone F1
- 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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