If you don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large number of files, photos, or videos on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, you can easily reach saturation of its internal storage. For some time now, brands have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. Despite everything, transferring your data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly quick fix, using a USB flash drive.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro? To do this, first of all, we will 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 50 Pro.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, we will review the advantages of this technique. As a general rule, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when 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 gets pretty damn awesome. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 50 Pro will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a friend has sent to you on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro?
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 50 Pro , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro. Indeed, if you have ever analyzed the curves of your mobile phone a little, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is using 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 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 50 Pro and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 50 Pro? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro
- 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 50 Pro, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro.
