Today we are going to see how to use and connect a USB pendrive to my Android mobile in this way you can transfer files to your device or copy the ones you have in it to generate a backup copy or transfer these files to a computer among other very interesting things .
How to Use and Connect a USB Pendrive to my Android Mobile
What we are going to do is use an OTG cable . These cables work not only to connect a pendrive to our phone. If not, they also allow us to connect our device with almost anything that has a USB connection.
How to connect USB on my Android cell phone
Before having to buy the cable, you need to check if your device is OTG compatible . For this there are applications that allow us to corroborate it. The problem is that, if you do not use these apps, it is generally not specified in the characteristics of the mobile when we buy it.
That is why it is important that you download either of these two options: USB OTG Checker or OTG USB HOST Checker. Any of these two options will help you to check if your device is compatible with OTG.
The only problem is that even these apps have a fault range. The way to be completely sure is to purchase a cable and test. What we do have to make clear is that it is very likely that phones that are quite old are not compatible.
Such USB OTG support was introduced in Android Honeycomb so newer phones may be supported.
After this we will need the USB OTG cable. What kind of cable is this? Basically it is a cable that on one end has a USB type C connector and on the other a microUSB which would be directly connected to the phone while the first one can go to a computer, SmartTV, Pendrive, etc.
How to use a USB pendrive on my Android
Once you have the cable and are sure that your device is compatible with it. The only thing left to do is simply connect it to the phone and from the USB type C connector connect the pendrive.
A notification may appear on your mobile device informing you that a storage drive has been connected via USB. In this way you will be able to copy all the files you want to the pendrive or vice versa.
Another thing that would be recommended is that you have a high-quality file browser to be able to browse all the files on your cell phone. For this we recommend the ES File Explorer application which is quite complete in every way.
Something that we must mention is that the USB OTG connection can consume a large amount of battery so we recommend that you connect it, use the prudent time and then disconnect, do not leave it connected if you are not going to do anything because you will see how the battery starts to go down pretty fast.
Another recommended thing is that you disassemble the pendrive and do not disconnect it from one. Because this can corrupt all the files that are in it and you will lose this information unless you have a backup copy of it.
For this you will have to go to the notification that appears at the top of your device or from Settings> Storage and you will be able to see the USB drive that you connected . From here you can unmount it and once the operating system confirms you can safely disconnect it from your device.
As we discussed a little above, with a USB OTG cable you can connect your device not only to a USB pendrive, but you can also do it to a SmartTV, connect a controller, keyboard, mouse, etc. Just as you can connect it to your Android cell phone, it is also possible to connect a mouse or a USB memory to your Android tablet.
