If you don't have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Pocophone F3, you can easily reach saturation of its internal memory. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. Despite everything, exchanging data without a computer can be problematic. You've probably heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB key to a Pocophone F3? To do this, to begin with, we are going to review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your Pocophone F3.
What will the connection of a USB key to a Pocophone F3 allow?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Pocophone F3, we will come back to the advantages of this procedure. Generally 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 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 records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Pocophone F3 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Pocophone F3 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 Pocophone F3.
How to connect a USB key to a Pocophone F3?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Pocophone F3 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Pocophone F3?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Pocophone F3. Indeed, in the event that you looked at the curves of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly 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 get 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Pocophone F3 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Pocophone F3, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a Pocophone F3?
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 data between a USB key and your Pocophone F3? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Pocophone F3
- 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
In case you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Pocophone F3, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Pocophone F3.
