If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Huawei Mate 10 Pro, you can easily reach saturation of the internal memory of the latter . In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly effective solution, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 10 Pro? For that, 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 Mate 10 Pro.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Huawei Mate 10 Pro?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Mate 10 Pro, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Generally benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very significant. . So we naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, 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 Huawei Mate 10 Pro will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Huawei Mate 10 Pro by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague 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 Mate 10 Pro.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 10 Pro?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first of all see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Huawei Mate 10 Pro , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Huawei Mate 10 Pro?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Mate 10 Pro. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully looked at the contours of your telephone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will need to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply available for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Huawei Mate 10 Pro and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Mate 10 Pro, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Mate 10 Pro?
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 Huawei Mate 10 Pro? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Mate 10 Pro
- 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 appear in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
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