If you ever don't have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Poco M5, you can easily reach saturation of its internal memory. For some time manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Poco M5? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Poco M5.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi Poco M5?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Poco M5, we will summarize the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty darn big. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films 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 Poco M5 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Xiaomi Poco M5 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi Poco M5.
How to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Poco M5?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Poco M5 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Xiaomi Poco M5?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Poco M5. Indeed, if you have ever analyzed the contours of your smartphone a little, you must have noticed quite quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will need 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 Poco M5 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Poco M5, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from a Xiaomi Poco M5?
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 data between a USB flash drive and your Xiaomi Poco M5? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your phone does not suit you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Xiaomi Poco M5
- 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
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