If you ever don't have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large number of data, photos, or videos on your Sony Xperia Pro 1, you can quickly reach saturation of its internal storage. In recent years, brands have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging files without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a sufficiently effective technique, via a USB key.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to connect a usb key to a Sony Xperia Pro 1? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your Sony Xperia Pro 1.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Sony Xperia Pro 1?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Sony Xperia Pro 1, we will summarize the advantages of this solution. Most of the time taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of the photos and videos gets pretty damn awesome. We suddenly have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone 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 Sony Xperia Pro 1 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Sony Xperia Pro 1 by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Sony Xperia Pro 1.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Sony Xperia Pro 1?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Sony Xperia Pro 1 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Sony Xperia Pro 1?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Sony Xperia Pro 1. In fact, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your mobile phone a little, you must have had enough quickly realize that there was no USB socket on this one. It is with 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 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 Sony Xperia Pro 1 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Sony Xperia Pro 1, see our article.
How to Transfer Files to USB Drive from Sony Xperia Pro 1?
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 flash drive and your Sony Xperia Pro 1? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Sony Xperia Pro 1
- 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
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