If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large number of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A01, you should quickly become full of the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB stick.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A01? For this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A01.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A01?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A01, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We therefore naively have the impression 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 be quickly saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A01 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A01 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy A01.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A01?
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 Samsung Galaxy A01 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A01?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A01. In fact, if you ever took a look at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to get 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 bought to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy A01 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A01, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A01?
Finally, now that you have integrated 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 Samsung Galaxy A01? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager if the native application of your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A01
- 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 displayed 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 maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Samsung Galaxy A01, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy A01.
