In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Honor V30, you can quickly become saturated with its internal memory . In recent years, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, sending your data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, going through a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor V30? For this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor V30.
Why connect a USB stick to an Honor V30?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Honor V30, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone 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 V30 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor V30 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 V30.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor V30?
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 V30 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Honor V30?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor V30. Indeed, if you have analyzed the contours of your device a little, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will need to get 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Honor V30 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor V30, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Honor V30?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Honor V30? Either way, the process is the same. Use the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor V30
- 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 absolute master of the Honor V30, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Honor V30.
