If you do not have a PC at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Honor 50, you can quickly reach saturation of its internal memory. In recent years, brands have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 50? For this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Honor 50.
What will the connection of a USB key to an Honor 50 allow?
Before showing you the process for use a USB key directly on your Honor 50, we will summarize the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, nevertheless, with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty damn awesome. We suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor 50 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor 50 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has for example put on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Honor 50.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 50?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to an Honor 50 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an Honor 50?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 50. Indeed, if you have analyzed the contours of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have noticed quite quickly that there is no had no USB socket on this one. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are very easily found for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Honor 50 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor 50, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Honor 50?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Honor 50? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the guidelines below to get there:
- Download a file manager if your mobile phone's native app is not right for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor 50
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the files you want to transfer to one of the two directories, you should see your USB key appear in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
If you want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Honor 50, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Honor 50.
