If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Mi 9T, you should easily run out of its internal memory. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick fix, through a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Mi 9T? For this, first, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for plug your USB key into your Mi 9T.
What will the connection of a USB key to a Mi 9T allow?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Mi 9T, we will review the advantages of this operation. Most of the time, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors on our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos is getting pretty darn awesome. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than sufficient, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K they can be quickly saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Mi 9T will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Mi 9T by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a friend has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Mi 9T.
How to connect a USB stick to a Mi 9T?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the procedure for plug a USB key into a Mi 9T , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Mi 9T?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB stick to your Mi 9T. In fact, in the event that you have carefully analyzed the curves of your smartphone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology that we call OTG that you can perform this operation. 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 Mi 9T and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Mi 9T, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a Mi 9T?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will simply show you how to transfer data between a USB stick and your Mi 9T? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Apply the instructions below to get there:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Mi 9T
- 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
If you are looking for a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Mi 9T, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: I 9T.
