How to Connect USB Storage Devices to Your Android Phone

Many of the best Android phones use USB-C ports for charging and transferring files back and forth with your PC, but what if the files yous need to email your boss are sitting on a Flash drive or a full-size SD card?

Fortunately, with an inexpensive adapter cable, you can attach a USB key or carte reader directly to your handset. Yous tin can even go a USB-C flash bulldoze for an even easier process.

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Either way, yous will need one of these things to get started if yous can't upload the files from the storage medium to a cloud storage provider. So hither's how to connect your Android phone to a USB storage device.

What yous need

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A USB Type-C male to USB Type-A female adapter OR

A USB Blazon-C flash bulldoze

How to Connect with a USB OTG cable

1. Connect a flash bulldoze (or SD reader with card) to the total-size USB female end of the adapter.

2. Connect USB-C end to your phone

iii. Swipe down from the top to show the notification shade. No need to practise this if your file manager automatically appears.

4. Tap USB Drive.

You can now browse the files on the flash bulldoze and copy them to the phone storage. If you desire to re-create from the phone storage to the wink bulldoze, follow steps v to 9.

5. Tap Internal Storage to view the files on your telephone.

six. Find the file you'd similar to share. Hold down on it to select information technology.

7. Tap the three dots push.

eight. Select Re-create.

9. Navigate to your USB drive and tap Washed to copy the file.

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