1. Find Your Phone Supports OTG and If Yes, Use It as a PC
USB OTG or USB ‘On The Go’ is a feature fast gaining popularity as its usability has increased with more and more people using their mobile phones as portable computer. If you have OTG Host support on your device, then you can connect an OTG cable to your phone which has USB female port and can connect your phone with USB devices like flash drive, keyboard and mouse.
Unfortunately, even though smartphone cameras are now capable of recording 4K videos, a number of premium smartphones do not include a slot for expanding storage.
To make it more seamless, storage solution companies have now introduced USB drives that feature a micro- USB port in addition to supporting USB on-the-go functionality.
The drive is available in 8, 16, 32 and 64GB storage capacities, with prices starting at Rs 490 and going up to Rs 3,000. The USB on-the-go drive offers write speed of up to 5MB per second and read speed of 15MB per second.
One of the biggest advantages of USB on-the-go drive is that it can be used for expanding storage capacity of devices that don't feature external storage slots.
You can buy an OTG cable from various online retailers like Flipkart. These cables is designed for you device to act as host. Once you have the cable follow the following steps.
USB OTG or USB ‘On The Go’ is a feature fast gaining popularity as its usability has increased with more and more people using their mobile phones as portable computer. If you have OTG Host support on your device, then you can connect an OTG cable to your phone which has USB female port and can connect your phone with USB devices like flash drive, keyboard and mouse.
Unfortunately, even though smartphone cameras are now capable of recording 4K videos, a number of premium smartphones do not include a slot for expanding storage.
To make it more seamless, storage solution companies have now introduced USB drives that feature a micro- USB port in addition to supporting USB on-the-go functionality.
The drive is available in 8, 16, 32 and 64GB storage capacities, with prices starting at Rs 490 and going up to Rs 3,000. The USB on-the-go drive offers write speed of up to 5MB per second and read speed of 15MB per second.
One of the biggest advantages of USB on-the-go drive is that it can be used for expanding storage capacity of devices that don't feature external storage slots.
You can buy an OTG cable from various online retailers like Flipkart. These cables is designed for you device to act as host. Once you have the cable follow the following steps.
you have the cable follow the following steps.
- Connect the cable in the Micro USB slot and attach a flash drive or USB keyboard at the other end.
- Now if a pop up appears on your display, you are good to go. But if not it could mean either your device lacks software support or hardware support or it is missing necessary drivers.
- Now download USB Host Diagnostic App from Play Store (Free)
- Run the app. tap on “start diagnostic” It will ask you to remove USB devices and reconnected them when prompted
- In the summary screen you will see if your device has necessary Hardware and Software to support USB host mode.
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