In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Huawei P Smart, you must quickly run out of memory internal of it. For some time, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a quick enough solution, via a USB stick.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a Huawei P Smart? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei P Smart.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Huawei P Smart?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Huawei P Smart, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. 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 smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Huawei P Smart will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Huawei P Smart by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend sent you for example on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei P Smart.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei P Smart?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Huawei P Smart , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Huawei P Smart?
First of the things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei P Smart. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully analyzed the curves of your device, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to get 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Huawei P Smart and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei P Smart, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB flash drive from Huawei P Smart?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Huawei P Smart? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the directions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your smartphone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei P Smart
- 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
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