How To Connect A Usb Keyboard To Your Android Phone

How to connect USB storage devices to your Android phone

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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 you need to electronic mail your boss are sitting on a Wink drive or a full-size SD card?

Fortunately, with an cheap adapter cable, you can attach a USB key or carte du jour reader directly to your handset. You can fifty-fifty get a USB-C wink bulldoze for an even easier process.

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

What you demand

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

A USB Type-C flash drive

How to Connect with a USB OTG cable

ane. Connect a wink drive (or SD reader with card) to the full-size USB female end of the adapter.

ii. Connect USB-C terminate to your phone

3. Swipe down from the top to evidence the notification shade. No need to do this if your file manager automatically appears.

4. Tap USB Drive.

You can now scan the files on the flash drive and re-create them to the phone storage. If you want to copy from the phone storage to the flash bulldoze, follow steps 5 to 9.

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

6. Find the file you lot'd like to share. Hold down on it to select it.

7. Tap the three dots button.

8. Select Re-create.

ix. Navigate to your USB bulldoze and tap Done to re-create the file.

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Jordan is the Phones Editor for Tom's Guide, covering all things phone-related. He'south written almost phones for over five years and plans to continue for a long while to come. He loves nothing more than relaxing in his home with a book, game, or his latest personal writing project. Jordan likes finding new things to swoop into, from books and games to new mechanical keyboard switches and fun keycap sets. Outside of piece of work, you lot tin find him poring over open-source software and his studies.