If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Honor View 10, you must quickly become full of its internal storage. In recent years, brands have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB stick.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a USB stick to an Honor View 10? For this, to begin with, 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 View 10.
Why connect a USB stick to an Honor View 10?
Before explaining the process for to use a USB key directly on your Honor View 10, we will come back to the advantages of this procedure. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone 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 naively get 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, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor View 10 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor View 10 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Honor View 10.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor View 10?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to an Honor View 10 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Honor View 10?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor View 10. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your smartphone you must have rather quickly 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.
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 View 10 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor View 10, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Honor View 10?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Honor View 10? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Apply the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager if your smartphone's native app isn't right for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor View 10
- 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 appear 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 looking for a lot of tutorials to become a master of Honor View 10, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Honor View 10.
