If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Honor 8, you may quickly become full of its internal storage. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring data without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fast enough technique, using a USB key.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 8? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor 8.
What will the connection of a USB key to an Honor 8 allow?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Honor 8, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors on our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor 8 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor 8 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to 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 8.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 8?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to an Honor 8 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an Honor 8?
First of all things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 8. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the curves of your smartphone you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of a technology called OTG that you can 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.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Honor 8 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor 8, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Honor 8?
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 files between a USB key and your Honor 8? Either way the process is similar. Apply the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager if the app originally installed on your smartphone is not right for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor 8
- 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 an Honor 8 master, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Honor 8.
