In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi 11T, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal storage of this last. In recent years, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a usb key to a Xiaomi 11T? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from carrying out this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi 11T.
What will connecting a USB stick to a Xiaomi 11T allow?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi 11T, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Most of the time having storage on a phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty darn big. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone 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 Xiaomi 11T will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Xiaomi 11T by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has placed for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi 11T.
How to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi 11T?
Now it's time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi 11T , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Xiaomi 11T?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi 11T. Indeed, if you have looked carefully at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to get 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi 11T and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi 11T, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from a Xiaomi 11T?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB flash drive and your Xiaomi 11T? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Xiaomi 11T
- 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
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Xiaomi 11T, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi 11t.
