If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi Redmi Y3, you must quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, sending files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a quick enough solution, going through a USB stick.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Y3? To do this, 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 discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Y3.
What will the connection of a USB key to a Xiaomi Redmi Y3 allow?
Before explaining the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Redmi Y3, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as 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 consequent. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K, they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Xiaomi Redmi Y3 will be that you can free memory on your Xiaomi Redmi Y3 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi Redmi Y3.
How to connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi Redmi Y3?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi Redmi Y3 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Xiaomi Redmi Y3?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi Redmi Y3. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully looked at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is with 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 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi Redmi Y3 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Xiaomi Redmi Y3, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Xiaomi Redmi Y3?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Xiaomi Redmi Y3? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a file manager in the event that the originally installed application on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Xiaomi Redmi Y3
- 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 a master of the Xiaomi Redmi Y3, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Redmi Y3.
