In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Huawei Y6, you may quickly become full of the internal memory of the last. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a usb stick to a Huawei Y6? In this context, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to carry out this action, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Y6.
Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Y6?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Y6, we will come back to the advantages of this procedure. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos 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 Y6 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Huawei Y6 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 Y6.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Y6?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Huawei Y6 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Huawei Y6?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Y6. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have rather 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 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Huawei Y6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Y6, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Y6?
Finally, now that you have integrated 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 Y6? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Y6
- 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 appear 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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