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 5T, you should easily become saturated with the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted a habit of integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending your data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB stick.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5T? In this context, to begin with, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 5T.
Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5T?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Nova 5T, we will go through the advantages of this procedure. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films 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 5T will be to allow you to free memory on your Huawei Nova 5T by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague 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 5T.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 5T?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Huawei Nova 5T , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Huawei Nova 5T?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 5T. Indeed, if you have analyzed the contours of your smartphone a little, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is 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 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 5T and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Nova 5T, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Nova 5T?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Huawei Nova 5T? Either way the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Nova 5T
- 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 king of the Huawei Nova 5T, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Nova 5T.
