If 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 A60, you can easily become full of its internal storage. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be problematic. You've probably heard of a fast enough 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 A60? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A60.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A60?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A60, we'll come back to the advantages of this solution. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors on our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films 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 A60 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A60 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 A60.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A60?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A60 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A60?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A60. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully looked at the contours of your device, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology that we call OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply 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 A60 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A60, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A60?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy A60? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A60
- 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 are looking for a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Samsung Galaxy A60, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy A60.
