If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you usually accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Huawei Y6s, you may quickly become full of its internal storage. . For some time now, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB key.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a usb stick to a Huawei Y6s? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Y6s.
Why connect a USB stick to a Huawei Y6s?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Y6s, we will summarize the advantages of this operation for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors on our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, 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 Y6s will be that you can free memory on your Huawei Y6s by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Y6s.
How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Y6s?
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 Y6s , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Huawei Y6s?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Y6s. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the curves of your smartphone, you must rather quickly have noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Huawei Y6s and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Y6s, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Y6s?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Huawei Y6s? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Y6s
- 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
In case you want a maximum of tutorials to become a master of the Huawei Y6s, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Y6s.
