From this article, you will learn how to quickly connect a flash drive to an android phone. This process causes little difficulty for many users, as it is different from connecting a USB flash drive to a PC.

Let's check the version of the device. It must be from Android 3.1 and above. Otherwise, connecting the flash drive becomes impossible. Open the settings and go to the section "About Smartphone" . Among the various options, you can see information about your version of Android. Other specifications are available.

We buy an OTG cable . If you look closely at mobile devices, you will notice the absence of a classic USB input. Therefore, each phone uses a microUSB port. To connect a USB flash drive, you need to get an adapter called an OTG cable. It is available for sale in any specialized store.

We connect the flash drive to the smartphone . It is very easy to do this. Take the cable and plug it into the microUSB connector. After that, the flash drive will be connected. Thanks to any file manager, all data on it will become available. They are in the folder mnt/sda/sda1 .

However, if you have a Google Nexus smartphone, you will need to download the app Nexus Media Importer. It is completely free.

Unfortunately, not all Android smartphones do everything so simply. There are times when the connection is already made, but there is no access to the phone. This occurs for various reasons. One of the most popular is the inability to mount an external drive. To fix the problem, you need to install the application Stick Mount. It works with all types of equipment, including camcorders and cameras.

To install, you need to have Administrator rights (ROOT). After that, the screen will pop up whether you agree to the terms of use. Click "Yes", after which the drive will be automatically detected and mounted. It will be available at /sdcard/usbStorage/sda1 . Eject the flash drive in safe mode by clicking "Unmount" .

There are other reasons why the device does not see the drive. For example, a number of file systems are simply not readable. Among them may be NTFS. To fix this, reformat your drive to FAT32 format on your PC.

Thanks to the OTG cable, you can connect various devices, not just USB flash drives. These include:
· keyboard;
mouse
USB modem.

The first two devices can be wireless.