In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite, you can easily reach saturation of the internal memory of the latter. . For some time now, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, going through a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite? To do this, to begin with, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite.
What will the connection of a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite allow?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite, we will summarize the advantages of this operation for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors on our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover 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 HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite. In fact, if you have looked at the curves of your phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply 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 Mate 20 Lite and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to do so:
- Download a file manager if the originally installed application on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the files 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
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the HUAWEI Mate 20 Lite, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Mate 20 Lite.
