In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Honor 6X, you should easily become saturated with the internal memory of this one. For some time now, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a fairly fast technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 6X? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor 6X.
What will the connection of a USB key to an Honor 6X allow?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Honor 6X, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. In general, benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K, they can quickly get saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor 6X will be that you can free memory on your Honor 6X by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has put on a USB key for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Honor 6X.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 6X?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to an Honor 6X , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Honor 6X?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 6X. Indeed, if you have looked a little at the contours of your phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Honor 6X and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on an Honor 6X, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Honor 6X?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Honor 6X? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if your phone's native app isn't right for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor 6X
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the data 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 are ever looking for a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Honor 6X, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Honor 6X.
