If you don't have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Pocophone M5, you must quickly reach saturation of its internal storage. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. That said, transferring data without a computer can be a hassle. You may have heard of a technique that is fast enough, via a USB key.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a usb key to a Pocophone M5? To do this, first of all, we are going to review the advantages that you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Pocophone M5.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Pocophone M5?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Pocophone M5, we will review the advantages of this technique. As a general rule, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty darn big. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 Pocophone M5 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Pocophone M5 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Pocophone M5.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Pocophone M5?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Pocophone M5 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Pocophone M5?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Pocophone M5. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully analyzed the curves of your smartphone, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Pocophone M5 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Pocophone M5, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Pocophone M5?
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 files between a USB key and your Pocophone M5? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to do so:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Pocophone M5
- 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
If you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Pocophone M5, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Pocophone M5.
