In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A40s, you may quickly become full of the memory internal of the latter. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a fairly quick solution, via a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A40s? To do 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 discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A40s.
What is the point of connecting a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A40s?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A40s, we will come back to the advantages of this procedure. Most of the time, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos is getting pretty darn awesome. So we naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A40s will be that you can free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A40s by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend 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 A40s.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A40s?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A40s , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A40s?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A40s. Indeed, if you have ever carefully analyzed the contours of your smartphone, you must have quickly realized 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 get an adapter or an OTG cable, these little accessories are simply available 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 A40s and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A40s, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A40s?
Finally, now that you understand 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 Samsung Galaxy A40s? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following instructions to do so:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A40s
- 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
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