In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A50s, you may quickly become full of the memory internal of it. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly effective solution, going through a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A50s? In this context, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A50s.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy A50s?
Before showing you the technique for to use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A50s, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, 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 A50s will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A50s 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 A50s.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A50s?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A50s , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A50s?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A50s. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the curves of your device, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to buy 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy A50s and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A50s, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A50s?
Finally, now that you understand 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 key and your Samsung Galaxy A50s? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A50s
- 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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