If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your XIAOMI Mi 8, you should easily become full of its internal storage. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a XIAOMI Mi 8? For this, first of all, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your XIAOMI Mi 8.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a XIAOMI Mi 8?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your XIAOMI Mi 8, we are going to summarize the advantages of this solution for you. In general, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos 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 Mi 8 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your XIAOMI Mi 8 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your XIAOMI Mi 8.
How to connect a USB stick to a XIAOMI Mi 8?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a XIAOMI Mi 8 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a XIAOMI Mi 8?
First things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your XIAOMI Mi 8. Indeed, if ever you have analyzed the contours of your phone for a few minutes, you must have realized quite quickly that it does not. there was no USB socket on this one. It is thanks to 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 XIAOMI Mi 8 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a XIAOMI Mi 8, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from XIAOMI Mi 8?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your XIAOMI Mi 8? Either way the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your XIAOMI Mi 8
- 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 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 want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the XIAOMI Mi 8, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: XIAOMI Mi 8.
