If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you usually accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite, you may quickly become full of the internal storage of your XIAOMI Mi AXNUMX Lite. this last. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted a habit of integrating a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, through a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite.
What will connecting a USB key to a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite allow?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite, we are going to summarize the advantages of this operation for you. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, 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 A2 Lite will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to 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 A2 Lite.
How to connect a USB key to a XIAOMI Mi A2 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 A2 Lite , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite. Indeed, if you have ever carefully analyzed the contours of your device, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. 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.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager if the original application installed on your smartphone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your XIAOMI Mi A2 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 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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