If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Sony Xperia 8, you can quickly become full of its internal storage. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be complex. You've probably heard of a pretty quick fix, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Sony Xperia 8? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Sony Xperia 8.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Sony Xperia 8?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Sony Xperia 8, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors on our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile 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 Sony Xperia 8 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Sony Xperia 8 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Sony Xperia 8.
How to connect a USB stick to a Sony Xperia 8?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Sony Xperia 8 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Sony Xperia 8?
First of the things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Sony Xperia 8. Indeed, if ever you have analyzed the contours of your smartphone a little, you must have quickly noticed that there is no had no usb plug on this one. It is with a technology that we call OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to buy 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 Sony Xperia 8 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Sony Xperia 8, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Sony Xperia 8?
Finally, now that you understand 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 Sony Xperia 8? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the guidelines below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Sony Xperia 8
- 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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