In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Huawei Nova 5i, you may quickly run out of memory. internal of it. In recent years, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a pretty quick fix, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5i? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 5i.
Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5i?
Before showing you the technique for to use a USB key directly on your Huawei Nova 5i, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. Most of the time, benefiting from storage on a mobile 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 the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Huawei Nova 5i will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Huawei Nova 5i by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a friend has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Nova 5i.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5i?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Huawei Nova 5i , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Huawei Nova 5i?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 5i. Indeed, if you have ever looked carefully at the curves of your mobile phone, you must have quickly noticed 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 buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these little accessories are simply available 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 5i and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Nova 5i, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Nova 5i?
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 Nova 5i? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Nova 5i
- 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 are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Huawei Nova 5i, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Nova 5i.
