If you ever do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Huawei Nova 9, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal memory of this last. For a few years now, brands have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB key.

We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 9? For this, first of all, we are going to review the advantages that you are going to have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you are going to learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 9.

connect-usbhuawei-nova-9

Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 9?

Before showing you the process for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Nova 9, we will review the advantages of this technique. Most of the time taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than enough, 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 9 will be to allow you to free memory on your Huawei Nova 9 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Nova 9.

How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Nova 9?

Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Huawei Nova 9 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.

How to read a USB flash drive on a Huawei Nova 9?

First of all things to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Nova 9. Indeed, in the event that you have looked carefully at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB port on it. It is thanks to a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to buy 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Huawei Nova 9 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Nova 9, see our article.

How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Nova 9?

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 9? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to achieve this:

  • Download a file manager in the event that the original application installed on your smartphone is not suitable for you
  • Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Nova 9
  • 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 displayed in the storage locations
  • Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations

In the event that you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Huawei Nova 9, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Nova 9.