If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Honor 7, you must quickly become full of its internal memory. In recent years, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be a problem. You have undoubtedly heard of a sufficiently fast technique, via a USB key.

We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 7? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor 7.

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What is the point of connecting a USB key to an Honor 7?

Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Honor 7, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. 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 volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.

One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor 7 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor 7 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Honor 7.

How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 7?

Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to an Honor 7 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.

How to read a USB stick on an Honor 7?

First of all things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 7. In fact, in the event that you have looked a little at the contours of your device, you must have gone rather quickly to account that there was no USB socket on this one. It is with a technology that we call 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 7 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor 7, see our article.

How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Honor 7?

Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Honor 7? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to get there:

  • Download a file manager in the event that the original application installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
  • Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor 7
  • 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 displayed 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 looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Honor 7, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Honor 7.