If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Huawei Nova 5, you can easily become full of its internal storage. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly effective solution, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5? In this context, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 5.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Huawei Nova 5?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Nova 5, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. Generally 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 phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn impressive . We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, 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 Nova 5 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Huawei Nova 5 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has for example put on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Nova 5.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5?
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 Nova 5 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Huawei Nova 5?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 5. Indeed, if ever you have analyzed the contours of your device a little, you must have quickly noticed that it does not. there was no USB socket on this one. It is with the help of 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 Nova 5 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Nova 5, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Nova 5?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Huawei Nova 5? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if your phone's native app isn't right for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Nova 5
- 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 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 are ever looking for a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Huawei Nova 5, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Nova 5.
