If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4, you must quickly become full of the internal storage of this device. latest. For some time, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a pretty effective solution, going through a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Note 4? To do this, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
What will the connection of a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 allow?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. 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 volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel 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 they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, to a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Note 4?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Note 4. In fact, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your phone a little, you must have had to rather quickly you notice 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 buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply available 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 Note 4 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy Note 4?
Finally, now that you have integrated 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 Note 4? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. 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 meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy Note 4
- 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 displayed 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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