If you ever don't have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large number of data, photos, or videos on your Pocophone F4, you can easily reach saturation of its internal storage. For some time now, brands have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, sending data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB key to a Pocophone F4? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Pocophone F4.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Pocophone F4?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Pocophone F4, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure. As a general rule, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, 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 F4 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Pocophone F4 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 Pocophone F4.
How to connect a USB key to a Pocophone F4?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Pocophone F4 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Pocophone F4?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Pocophone F4. In fact, in the event that you have carefully analyzed the curves of your mobile phone, you must have noticed fairly 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 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 F4 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Pocophone F4, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB key from a Pocophone F4?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 Pocophone F4? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Pocophone F4
- 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
If you are ever looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Pocophone F4, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Pocophone F4.
