If you ever don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 10, you should easily reach saturation of the internal storage of the latter. For some time, brands have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB key.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10? In this context, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 10.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10?
Before explaining the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 10, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 Redmi Note 10 will be to allow you to free memory on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 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 Redmi Note 10.
How to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10?
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 Note 10 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 10. In fact, if you have looked a little at the curves of your smartphone, you must have noticed quite quickly that it there was no USB port on it. It is using 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 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 Note 10 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Xiaomi Redmi Note 10? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the guidelines below to achieve this:
- Download a file manager if the originally installed application on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 10
- 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 are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Note 10 Redmire.
