If you ever don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Wiko Power U20, you should easily reach saturation of the latter's internal memory. In recent years, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port in addition. However, transferring files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, going through a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB key to a Wiko Power U20? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Wiko Power U20.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Wiko Power U20?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Wiko Power U20, we will review the advantages of this technique. In general, 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 mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 Wiko Power U20 will be to allow you to free up memory on your Wiko Power U20 by uploading 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 Wiko Power U20.
How to connect a USB key to a Wiko Power U20?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Wiko Power U20 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Wiko Power U20?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Wiko Power U20. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your mobile phone a little, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It's thanks to a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Wiko Power U20 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Wiko Power U20, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB key from a Wiko Power U20?
Finally, now that you understand 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 Wiko Power U20? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- 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 Wiko Power U20
- 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 ever want as many tutorials as possible to become a Wiko Power U20 master, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Wiko Power U20.
