In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Poco M5S, you should easily reach saturation of the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. Despite everything, transferring your data without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a fairly effective technique, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Poco M5S? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Poco M5S.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi Poco M5S?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Poco M5S, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we don't 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 big. We suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, 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 M5S will be to allow you to free up memory on your Xiaomi Poco M5S by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague 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 M5S.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi Poco M5S?
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 Poco M5S , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Xiaomi Poco M5S?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Poco M5S. In fact, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. You will need to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small 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 Poco M5S and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Poco M5S, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Xiaomi Poco M5S?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Xiaomi Poco M5S? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Xiaomi Poco M5S
- 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 appear in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become a master of the Xiaomi Poco M5S, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Poco M5S.
