If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017, you may quickly become full of its internal storage. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A5 2017? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy A5 2017?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017, we will come back to the advantages of this procedure. Most of the time, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 will be that you can free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A5 2017?
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 A5 2017 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A5 2017?
First things to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017. Indeed, in the event that you have looked at the curves of your phone for a few minutes you should rather quickly realize that there was no USB socket on this one. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply available 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Samsung Galaxy A5 2017, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A5 2017?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017? Either way the process is similar. Apply the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A5 2017
- 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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