In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, you should easily reach saturation of the internal memory of this last. For some time now, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB stick.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha? For this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha.
Why connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha?
Before showing you the process for to use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, we will review the advantages of this solution. Generally, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very therefore. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 Mix Alpha.
How to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha. Indeed, in the event that you have looked at the contours of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have realized rather quickly 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 buy 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 Mix Alpha and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB stick from a Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha? Either way, the process is the same. Use the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha
- 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
If you are looking for a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha.
