If you do not have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, you can quickly become full of its internal memory. For some time now, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You have undoubtedly heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite? 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 learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, we will review the advantages of this operation. 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 phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films 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 S10 Lite will be that you can free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 S10 Lite.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB drive to your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite. In fact, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. You will need to get 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 recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the directions below to do so:
- Download a file manager in the event that the original application installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite
- 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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