In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of this last. In recent years, brands have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You have probably heard of a fairly effective solution, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to accomplish this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite.
Why connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite, we will review the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that 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 9 Lite will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite.
How to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite. In fact, if you looked at the contours of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite
- 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
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