If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Honor 8S, you should quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly fast technique, through a USB stick.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 8S? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor 8S.
What will connecting a USB key to an Honor 8S allow?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Honor 8S, we will review the advantages of this technique. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors on our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films 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 8S will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor 8S by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Honor 8S.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 8S?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to an Honor 8S , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on an Honor 8S?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 8S. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must rather quickly have 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 get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply 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 8S and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor 8S, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Honor 8S?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Honor 8S? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor 8S
- 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 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 ever looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Honor 8S, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Honor 8S.
