If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A7, you may quickly become full of the internal memory of the latter. In recent years, brands have adopted the habit of integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A7? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A7.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy A7?
Before showing you the process for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A7, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. In general, taking advantage of 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 smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 A7 will be to allow you to free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A7 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy A7.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A7?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A7 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A7?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A7. Indeed, in the event that you have looked at the contours of your smartphone for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to buy 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 A7 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A7, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A7?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy A7? Either way the process is similar. Apply the following guidelines to get there:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A7
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the files 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
If you want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Samsung Galaxy A7, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy A7.
