In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A33, you can quickly reach saturation of the internal memory of this one. In recent years, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be a problem. You have probably heard of a fairly effective solution, through a USB key.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A33? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A33.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy A33?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A33, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty darn big. We suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A33 will be to allow you to free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A33 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend sent you, for example, to a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy A33.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A33?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A33 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A33?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A33. Indeed, if you have looked carefully 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 will be able to perform this operation. You will need 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 A33 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A33, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A33?
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 data between a USB flash drive and your Samsung Galaxy A33? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A33
- 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 displayed in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
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