In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Sony Xperia L3, you must quickly become full of the internal memory of your PC. -this. For some time now, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You have probably heard of a fairly effective solution, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Sony Xperia L3? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to carry out this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Sony Xperia L3.
What will the connection of a USB key to a Sony Xperia L3 allow?
Before showing you the process for to use a USB key directly on your Sony Xperia L3, we will summarize the advantages of this solution for you. Generally benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Sony Xperia L3 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Sony Xperia L3 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Sony Xperia L3.
How to connect a USB stick to a Sony Xperia L3?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Sony Xperia L3 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Sony Xperia L3?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Sony Xperia L3. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully looked at the curves of your phone, 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 perform this operation. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
To finish, 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 L3 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Sony Xperia L3, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Sony Xperia L3?
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 Sony Xperia L3? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Sony Xperia L3
- 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 a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Sony Xperia L3, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Sony Xperia L3.
