If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T, you can quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T.
Why connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T, we will summarize the advantages of this operation for you. Generally benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very important. therefore. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K they can be quickly saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download 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 Redmi Note 8T.
How to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully looked at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are very easily found for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T?
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 8T? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T
- 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
If you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T.
