In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large number of files, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, you can quickly reach saturation of the storage internal to it. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, sending your files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick solution, via a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite.
What is the point of connecting a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very therefore. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, 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 Mi 11 Lite will be to allow you to free memory on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite.
How to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite. In fact, if you looked carefully at the curves of your smartphone, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It's thanks to a technology called 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite? Either way, the process is the same. Follow these guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the files 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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