How to connect a USB flash drive to your Android

As we all know that data transfer from one device is very much important. In the olden days data transfer from one computer to other is done by transferring data from one computer to floppy disk and carrying data in it an than transferring to other computer. After sometimes CDs where invented, which carries large amount of data than floppy. Further increase in the modern technology, use of floppy disk and CDs is minimized to large extend by invention of the flash drive in market. Use of the floppy is almost closed in present days. Flash drive are the device which can carry data without power supply. An USB flash drive such as pendrive and memory card are use to carry and transfer the data such as a music, videos, documents, and many things. An USB flash drive are widely used because of its light weight and tiny size, which makes comfortable to carry anywhere by keeping it in pocket.

Flash drives are mainly used for carrying data from one device to other device. A few year back, use of USB flash drive is done to carry data only from computer to computer data transfer. As we know that if we want to import data from usb pendrive to our phone then we have to first transfer data to computer and then we have to transfer to our phone by using usb cable. But, now a days this problem is almost dismissed. In android smart phones android usb port is provided for both charging and data transferring purposes. So android phone with usb port makes possible android usb connection. One can connect usb to android phone by connecting android pendrive to OTG (on the go) cable or using usb flash drive and inserting it to usb port of android phone. In android tablet usb port are provided in-built so one can connect usb to tablet by direct inserting pendrive and here otg cable is not used. In older version of android operating system this facility of connecting usb to android phone are provided to very few numbers of phones via USB host program. But in android version of lollipop this facility is provided to large numbers of android phones as a in-built feature. An OTG flash drive is a type of a flash drive with inbuilt otg, means this device is provided with both male port and female port on either side of it, which can be directly inserted to an android phone or tablet. Here image below shows OTG USB Flash Drive.

In order to transfer data from memory card, one can use in android usb adapter. An android usb slot is also used for connecting android usb key board. In android flash drive are mainly used for data transfer operation only. we can also use in android, thumb drive which comes with size similar to human thumb. An image of thumb drive is provided below.

Part 1: How to connect a USB flash drive to your Android using OTG cable

Here we will see, ‘How to connect USB flash drive to android device?’. Illustration is done using Lenovo k3 note which is android operated phone running on android lollipop. Step by step process is given below.

Step 1 For android to USB connection you will require following equipments such as USB OTG (on-the-go) cable, flash drive (pendrive) and an android phone. These required instrument are shown in the image given below.

Step 2 now insert your pendrive into an OTG cable as shown in the image provided below.

Step 3 now insert the USB OTG in the android phone as shown in the image provided below.

Step 4 after inserting it you will see that your usb is mounted automatically and you will be able to see ‘ OTG UDisk mounted’ in the notification center as shown in image given below. In some phone android mount usb option is provided for mounting the usb flash drive.

Step 5 after mounting of a flash drive, open the ‘file browser’. In that click the button provided at left top corner of the screen by pressing on it as shown in the image provided below.

Step 6 now you will be able to see screen s shown in the image provided below. In that external storage 1 is a USB flash drive. And you have to press external storage 1.

Step 7 after pressing on external storage 1 you will be able to see the content which are present in the connected USB flash drive as shown in the image provided below. You can now able to transfer the file from pendrive to phone and also from phone to pendrive as computer.

Step 8 after completing all the process, if you want to remove the USB flash drive from your android phone then you have to unmounts it first before removing out an OTG cable from your phone. So for this process slide down the notification center by swiping screen from top to bottom with only one finger, then you will see image as shown in the image provided below in that select ‘click to unmount’ to unmounts the flash drive.

Step 9 After following above step you can remove OTG cable from your android phone as shown in the image below .

So in phone with android usb flash drive can be connected in this manner.

From all above things we have come to know that we can also connect USB flash drive for data transfer operations like computer. Infact, by using this method use of computer can be eliminated by using OTG cable. We can also use different types of flash drive such as thumb drive and OTG ( On-The-Go ) flash drive , in OTG flash drive can be used without OTG cable as shown in image provided above. So in this way our android phone is also useful in connecting USB flash drive and we can transfer data such as music, videos, documents, and many more things with safety and security. In above article we have learn, how to connect flash drive to Lenovo k3 note. So if this article seems to be helpful to you in connecting usb flash drive then please don’t forget to like us on Facebook and kindly follow us on Twitter.