In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A, you can quickly reach the internal storage capacity. of the last. In recent years, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, exchanging files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A? For that, to begin with, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A?
Before explaining the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has put on a USB stick for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A.
How to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A?
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 RedMi Note 5A , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your phone for a few minutes, you must rather quickly have noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A? Either way the process is similar. Apply the following guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A
- 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 ever want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Xiaomi RedMi Note 5A, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A.
