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 Play 8, you can quickly become full of its internal storage. For some time now, brands have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, exchanging files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a pretty effective solution, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor Play 8? To do this, first of all, we will come back to 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 Play 8.
Why connect a USB stick to an Honor Play 8?
Before showing you the procedure for to use a USB key directly on your Honor Play 8, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however 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 therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, 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 Play 8 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor Play 8 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve 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 Play 8.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor Play 8?
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 Play 8 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Honor Play 8?
First of all things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor Play 8. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your phone a little, you should rather quickly notice that 'there was no USB socket on this one. It is with a technology that we call 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.
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 Play 8 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor Play 8, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Honor Play 8?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Honor Play 8? Either way, the process is similar. Apply the following instructions to do so:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor Play 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 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 as many tutorials as possible to become a master of Honor Play 8, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Honor Play 8.
