If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S10 plus, you can easily become full of the 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 problematic. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10 plus? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S10 plus.
What is the point of connecting a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10 plus?
Before explaining the procedure for to use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S10 plus, we are going to summarize the advantages of this procedure for you. In general, benefiting from 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 the photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone 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 S10 plus will be to allow you to free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S10 plus 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 S10 plus.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10 plus?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S10 plus , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy S10 plus?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB drive to your Samsung Galaxy S10 plus. In fact, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your smartphone a little, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to 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 plus and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S10 plus, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy S10 plus?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain to you how to transfer files between a USB stick and your Samsung Galaxy S10 plus? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a file 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 S10 plus
- 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
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