If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X, you may quickly run out of memory. internal of it. For some time now, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You have probably heard of a sufficiently effective technique, through a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI Mate 20 X? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for plug your USB key into your HUAWEI Mate 20 X.
What will the connection of a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate 20 X allow?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. 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 of our 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 you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X will be that you can free up memory on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend 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 X.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate 20 X?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate 20 X , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a HUAWEI Mate 20 X?
First things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 20 X. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your phone a little, you should rather quickly notice that it does not there was no USB socket on this one. It is thanks to a technology that we call 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 20 X and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI Mate 20 X, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from HUAWEI Mate 20 X?
Finally, now that you understand 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 Mate 20 X? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your HUAWEI Mate 20 X
- 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
In the event that you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the HUAWEI Mate 20 X, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: HUAWEI Mate 20X.
