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 9X, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging files without a computer can be problematic. You have undoubtedly heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor 9X? 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 see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor 9X.
Why connect a USB stick to an Honor 9X?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Honor 9X, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Generally, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 9X will be that you can free memory on your Honor 9X 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 9X.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor 9X?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to an Honor 9X , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Honor 9X?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor 9X. In fact, if you have looked carefully at the curves of your smartphone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. 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 9X and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on an Honor 9X, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Honor 9X?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Honor 9X? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager if the original application installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor 9X
- 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 the king of the Honor 9X, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Honor 9X.
