If you don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A72, you can quickly reach saturation of the latter's internal memory. In recent years, brands have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly quick solution, via a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A72? 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 A72.
What will connecting a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A72 allow?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A72, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. As a general rule, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we don't 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 becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, 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 A72 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A72 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 A72.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A72?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A72 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A72?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A72. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the curves of your phone, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy A72 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A72, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A72?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 A72? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to achieve this:
- Download a file manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A72
- 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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