In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you usually accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Huawei Maimang 8, you can quickly become full of the internal storage of this one. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging files 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 a Huawei Maimang 8? For this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Maimang 8.
Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Maimang 8?
Before showing you the process for to use a USB key directly on your Huawei Maimang 8, we will review the advantages of this solution. Most of the time, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, 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 Huawei Maimang 8 will be to allow you to free memory on your Huawei Maimang 8 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Maimang 8.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Maimang 8?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Huawei Maimang 8 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Huawei Maimang 8?
First of all things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Maimang 8. In fact, if you have looked at the contours of your mobile phone a little, you must have quickly noticed that it does not. there was no USB socket on this one. It is with a technology that we call 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 Huawei Maimang 8 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Maimang 8, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from Huawei Maimang 8?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Huawei Maimang 8? Either way, the process is similar. Apply the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Maimang 8
- 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
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Huawei Maimang 8, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Maimang 8.
