If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large number of files, photos, or videos on your Huawei Mate 30, you can quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 30? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Mate 30.
Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 30?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Mate 30, we are going to summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. 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 films in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Huawei Mate 30 will be to allow you to free memory on your Huawei Mate 30 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Mate 30.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Mate 30?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Huawei Mate 30 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Huawei Mate 30?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Mate 30. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your device for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed that 'there was no USB socket on the latter. It is with a technology that we call 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Huawei Mate 30 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Mate 30, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Mate 30?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Huawei Mate 30? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Apply the following guidelines to get there:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Mate 30
- 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 king of the Huawei Mate 30, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Mate 30.
