In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A12, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal memory of this last. In recent years, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. Despite everything, sending your files without a computer can be problematic. You have no doubt heard of a rather fast technique, via a USB key.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A12? In this context, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A12.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A12?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A12, we will summarize the advantages of this operation. As a general rule, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, 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 Samsung Galaxy A12 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A12 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also 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 Samsung Galaxy A12.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A12?
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 Samsung Galaxy A12 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A12?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A12. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to 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.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy A12 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A12, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A12?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer data between a USB flash drive and your Samsung Galaxy A12? Either way, the process is the same. Use the following instructions to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A12
- 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 want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Samsung Galaxy A12, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy A12.
