In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your ZenFone Max Pro M2, you can quickly reach the saturation of its internal memory. . In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB stick.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB key to a ZenFone Max Pro M2? In this context, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your ZenFone Max Pro M2.
Why connect a USB key to a ZenFone Max Pro M2?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your ZenFone Max Pro M2, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, 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 mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel 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, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your ZenFone Max Pro M2 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your ZenFone Max Pro M2 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your ZenFone Max Pro M2.
How to connect a USB key to a ZenFone Max Pro M2?
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 ZenFone Max Pro M2 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a ZenFone Max Pro M2?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your ZenFone Max Pro M2. Indeed, if you have analyzed the curves of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small 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 ZenFone Max Pro M2 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a ZenFone Max Pro M2, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a ZenFone Max Pro M2?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your ZenFone Max Pro M2? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Use the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your ZenFone Max Pro M2
- 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
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the king of ZenFone Max Pro M2, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: ZenFone Max Pro M2.
