In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your HUAWEI Mate Xs 2, you must quickly reach saturation of the internal storage of it. this. For some time now, brands have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. That said, transferring data without a computer can be a hassle. You may have heard of a fairly effective solution, through a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI Mate Xs 2? To do this, first, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate Xs 2.
What will connecting a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 allow?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI Mate Xs 2, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. Most of the time taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when 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 the photos and videos gets pretty damn awesome. We therefore 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 Xs 2 will be to allow you to free up memory on your HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to 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 Xs 2.
How to connect a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate Xs 2?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a HUAWEI Mate Xs 2?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI Mate Xs 2. In fact, in the event that you have looked carefully at the curves of your mobile phone, you must have noticed quite quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It's thanks to 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 simply 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 Xs 2 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI Mate Xs 2, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from HUAWEI Mate Xs 2?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain to you how to transfer data between a USB key and your HUAWEI Mate Xs 2? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your HUAWEI Mate Xs 2
- 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
If you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the HUAWEI Mate Xs 2, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Mate XS 2.
