If you ever don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi 12X, you can quickly reach saturation of its internal memory. In recent years, brands have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending your files without a computer can be a problem. You have no doubt heard of a rather fast technique, via a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a usb key to a Xiaomi 12X? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi 12X.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi 12X?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi 12X, we will summarize the advantages of this operation. In general, having storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have 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 they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Xiaomi 12X will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Xiaomi 12X by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a friend has sent to you on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi 12X.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi 12X?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi 12X , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Xiaomi 12X?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi 12X. Indeed, in the event that you looked at the contours of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed quite quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi 12X and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Xiaomi 12X, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Xiaomi 12X?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer data between a USB flash drive and your Xiaomi 12X? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Xiaomi 12X
- 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 as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Xiaomi 12X, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi 12X.
