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, you should easily become full of its internal storage. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a sufficiently fast technique, through a USB key.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to connect a USB stick to an Honor? For this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Honor.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to an Honor?
Before showing you the process for use a USB key directly on your Honor, we are going to summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. 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 records videos 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 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Honor by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download 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.
How to connect a USB stick to an Honor?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to an Honor , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on an Honor?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Honor. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully analyzed the contours of your smartphone, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Honor and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an Honor, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from an Honor?
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 data between a USB key and your Honor? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Honor
- 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 absolute master of Honor, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Honor.
