In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Huawei Mate 10, you can easily reach the saturation point of the internal memory of this device. latest. For some time now, brands have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You have probably heard of a fairly effective solution, through a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 10? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Mate 10.
Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 10?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Mate 10, we will review the advantages of this operation. Generally taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn impressive . So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone 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 Mate 10 will be to allow you to free memory on your Huawei Mate 10 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Mate 10.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 10?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Huawei Mate 10 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Huawei Mate 10?
First things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Mate 10. In fact, if you have ever analyzed the contours of your device a little, you must have realized quite quickly that it is not 'there was no USB socket on the latter. This is thanks to 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 Huawei Mate 10 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Mate 10, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Mate 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 data between a USB key and your Huawei Mate 10? Either way the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Mate 10
- 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
If you want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Huawei Mate 10, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Mate 10.
