If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you usually accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your XIAOMI Redmi 6, you should easily become saturated with the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. Despite everything, exchanging data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a XIAOMI Redmi 6? To do this, to begin with, we will come back to the advantages that you are going to have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your XIAOMI Redmi 6.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a XIAOMI Redmi 6?
Before explaining the process for to use a USB key directly on your XIAOMI Redmi 6, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. Most of the time, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 Redmi 6 will be to allow you to free memory on your XIAOMI Redmi 6 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover files that a friend has put on a USB key for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your XIAOMI Redmi 6.
How to connect a USB key to a XIAOMI Redmi 6?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a XIAOMI Redmi 6 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a XIAOMI Redmi 6?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your XIAOMI Redmi 6. In fact, if you've ever looked at the contours of your device for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on the latter. It is thanks to a technology that we call OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your XIAOMI Redmi 6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a XIAOMI Redmi 6, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB stick from XIAOMI Redmi 6?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your XIAOMI Redmi 6? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your XIAOMI Redmi 6
- 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
If you are ever looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the XIAOMI Redmi 6, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Redmi 6.
