In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3, you can quickly become saturated with its internal storage. . For some time, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB key.

We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3.

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Why connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3?

Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very therefore. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.

One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3 will be to allow you to free memory on your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 MEDIAPAD M3.

How to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3?

Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.

How to read a USB flash drive on a HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3?

First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3. Indeed, if you have analyzed the contours of your mobile phone a little, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is using 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.

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 MEDIAPAD M3 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3, see our article.

How to transfer files to USB flash drive from HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3?

Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to do so:

  • Download a file manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
  • Connect the OTG adapter to your HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3
  • 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

If you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: HUAWEI MEDIAPAD M3.