If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8, you must quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted a habit of integrating a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a fairly effective solution, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Note 8? In this context, to begin with, we will review the advantages that you will have to carry out this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
What is the point of connecting a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Note 8?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel 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 Note 8 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Note 8?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8?
First of all things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Note 8. In fact, in the event that you have looked at the contours of your smartphone for a few minutes you must have rather quickly you notice that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call 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 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy Note 8?
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 Note 8? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to do so:
- 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 Note 8
- 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
In the event that you want a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
