In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a large number of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, you may quickly reach saturation point internal storage of the latter. For some time now, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a fairly fast technique, using a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime? To do this, to begin with, we will review 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 Grand Prime.
Why connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however, 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. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has put for you on a USB stick, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for plug a USB key into a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime?
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 files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime? Either way the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
- 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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