How To Use External Storage Devices With Your Android Devices

With top of the line equipment's, for example, HD showcases and quad center processors, cell phones today are fit for playing 1080p features locally without the need of any feature transformation. You should do nothing more than duplicate the feature records and your cell phone can play them specifically. 

On Android gadgets with capacity limit extending from 8 to 32 GB, you can doubtlessly have twelve of HD motion pictures,  yet in the long run you will use up storage room. While you can contribute on an extra expandable media, for example, SD cards and expand your gadget's capacity limit, yet on the off chance that you officially utilizing an expandable stockpiling media, you ought to go for the USB On The Go peculiarity on your Android gadget.

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USB OTG( On The Go)  is a peculiarity on Android gadgets that permits your Android gadget to go about as a host, permitting other USB gadgets like a USB glimmer drive, advanced cam, mouse, or console to be appended to them. This peculiarity is a help for some whose android gadgets don't have the backing for expandable stockpiling. 

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For a case, Google's Nexus arrangement of Android cell phones and tablets have no backing for expandable stockpiling. It may appear a bit early, however Google is depending all the more on distributed storage, which is something that may take a few more years to get standard. Because of the USB OTG characteristic, you can utilize outer capacity gadgets, for example, USB glimmer drives and outside hard circles with your Nexus gadget and effectively expand your telephone's capacity limit. 

Albeit most android cell phone producers, for example, Samsung, Motorola, Google and LG give the USB OTG drivers inbuilt into their cell phones, tablets and different gadgets, there may be a couple of makers who don't. On the off chance that your Android Phone doesn't have the drivers needed for the USB OTG characteristic, you will need to ROOT your android gadget and introduce the USB OTG aide application on your Android gadget and empower the USB OTG characteristic. 
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I have been utilizing the Samsung Galaxy S3 which upholds the USB OTG emphasize as a matter of course Without the need of Rooting. Here is the way you can utilize outside capacity gadgets, for example, USB blaze drives and outer hard plates with your PC. The directions underneath will be the same for all android gadgets which help the USB OTG characteristic without the need of Rooting.

What you will need?

1. USB OTG Cable ( You can get it from Amazon or any online retailer in your country)

1. An external storage device such as a USB flash drive or a External hard disk.
2. And definitely a Android phone.

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How to use External storage devices with Supported Non Rooted Android device

• Step 1: Connect any external storage devices such as an USB flash drives or external hard disk with the USB OTG cable.
• Step 2: Connect the Micro USB end of the USB OTG cable with your android device.
• Step 3: You will see USB connector connected notification which will be followed by USB mass storage connected notification and then the newly attached external storage media will open up automatically open up in the file explorer.

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In case your device doesn’t have the USB OTG drivers, you will need to ROOT your android device and follow the instructions below.

How to use External storage devices with your Rooted Android device

• Step 1: Connect any external storage devices such as USB flash drives or external hard disks with the USB OTG cable.
• Step 2: Install the Stickmount Android app on your Rooted android device.
• Step 3: Connect the Micro usb end of the USB OTG cable with your android device. Within seconds Stickmount will mount the external storage device and open it up in the file explorer.

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