In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large number of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T, you can easily reach saturation of the internal memory of this last. In recent years, brands have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, sending your files without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, going through a USB key.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T.
Why connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T, we will review the advantages of this operation. Generally benefiting from storage on a smartphone 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 photos and videos becomes very therefore. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, 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 9T will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T by transferring 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 Note 9T.
How to connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB key on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T. In fact, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your device for a few minutes, you must have noticed quite quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you can 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T, see our article.
How to transfer files to a USB drive from a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T?
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 data between a USB key and your Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to do so:
- 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 9T
- 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
In the event that you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T.
