In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A71, you can easily reach the saturation of its internal storage. For some time, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB stick.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A71? In this context, first of all, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A71.
What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A71?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A71, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. Generally, 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 phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A71 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A71 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also 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 A71.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A71?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A71 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A71?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A71. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the contours of your mobile phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. 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.
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 A71 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A71, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A71?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy A71? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A71
- 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 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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