In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your HUAWEI P20 Pro, you may quickly become full of the internal memory of it. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly quick solution, going through a USB key.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a HUAWEI P20 Pro? To do this, to begin with, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your HUAWEI P20 Pro.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI P20 Pro?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your HUAWEI P20 Pro, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors on our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very consequent. 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 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 P20 Pro will be allowing you to free memory on your HUAWEI P20 Pro by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your HUAWEI P20 Pro.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a HUAWEI P20 Pro?
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 P20 Pro , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a HUAWEI P20 Pro?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB drive to your HUAWEI P20 Pro. Indeed, if ever you have looked a little at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your HUAWEI P20 Pro and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a HUAWEI P20 Pro, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from HUAWEI P20 Pro?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your HUAWEI P20 Pro? Either way, the process is similar. Use the following instructions to get there:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your HUAWEI P20 Pro
- 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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