In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Honor 9, you can quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 9? In this context, to begin with, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor 9.
Why connect a USB stick to an Honor 9?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Honor 9, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. 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 films in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor 9 will be that you can free memory on your Honor 9 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Honor 9.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 9?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to an Honor 9 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an Honor 9?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 9. In fact, if you have ever analyzed the curves of your mobile phone a little, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on the latter. This is using a technology called 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.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Honor 9 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor 9, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Honor 9?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Honor 9? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines 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 9
- 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
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