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 20, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of this device. latest. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI Mate 20? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 20.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate 20?
Before explaining the procedure for to use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 20, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. 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 Mate 20 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your HUAWEI Mate 20 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 Mate 20.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate 20?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate 20 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a HUAWEI Mate 20?
First things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 20. Indeed, if you have ever looked carefully at the curves of your mobile phone you must have noticed quite quickly that there is no had no USB socket on the latter. It is with a technology called 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.
To finish, 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 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI Mate 20, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from HUAWEI Mate 20?
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 Mate 20? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your HUAWEI Mate 20
- 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
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