If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Honor 8C, you can quickly become full of its internal storage. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be problematic. You have no doubt heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 8C? For this, first, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor 8C.
What will connecting a USB key to an Honor 8C allow?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Honor 8C, we will review the advantages of this operation. Generally benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially as 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 damn impressive . We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor 8C will be giving you the possibility to free memory on your Honor 8C by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download 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 8C.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 8C?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to an Honor 8C , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Honor 8C?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 8C. Indeed, if ever you have analyzed the curves of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will need to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply available 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 8C and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor 8C, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Honor 8C?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Honor 8C? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor 8C
- 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 want a lot of tutorials to become a master of Honor 8C, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Honor 8C.
