If you ever do not have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro, you must quickly reach saturation of the internal memory of the one. -this. In recent years, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. That said, sending your files without a computer can be complex. You've probably heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro? In this context, first, we are going to come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Most of the time having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro will be to allow you to free memory on your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to 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 40 Pro.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro. Indeed, in the event that you looked carefully at the curves of your mobile phone, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It's thanks to a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will need 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro?
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 40 Pro? Either way, the process is the same. Use the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro
- 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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