If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Honor View 20, you should easily become saturated with its internal memory. For some time now, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a fairly fast technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor View 20? To do this, to begin with, we will come back to 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 View 20.
Why connect a USB stick to an Honor View 20?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Honor View 20, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Generally 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 phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Honor View 20 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor View 20 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Honor View 20.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor View 20?
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 View 20 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on an Honor View 20?
First things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor View 20. Indeed, if you have ever analyzed the contours of your smartphone a little, you must have realized quite quickly that there is no had no usb plug on this one. This is using 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Honor View 20 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor View 20, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Honor View 20?
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 data between a USB key and your Honor View 20? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor View 20
- 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 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 are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of Honor View 20, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Honor View 20.
