If you ever don't have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Mi 11, you can easily reach saturation of its internal storage. In recent years, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending data without a computer can be complex. You've probably heard of a fairly effective solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a usb key to a Xiaomi Mi 11? To do this, to begin with, we are going to come back to the advantages that you are going to have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to plug your USB key into your Xiaomi Mi 11.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi Mi 11?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Mi 11, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure. Generally having storage on a phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, but 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 suddenly have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone 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 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Xiaomi Mi 11 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi Mi 11.
How to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Mi 11?
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 Mi 11 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Xiaomi Mi 11?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Mi 11. Indeed, in the event that you looked at the curves of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you had to quickly realize that there was no USB socket on this one. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small 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 Xiaomi Mi 11 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Mi 11, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from a Xiaomi Mi 11?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Xiaomi Mi 11? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to get there:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your phone is not suitable for you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Xiaomi Mi 11
- 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 the event that you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Xiaomi Mi 11, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Mi 11.
