If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S10, you should easily become saturated with the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly effective solution, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10? To do this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S10.
What is the point of connecting a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S10, we will review the advantages of this procedure. In general, taking advantage of storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So 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 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S10 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 S10.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S10?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S10 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy S10?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB drive to your Samsung Galaxy S10. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully looked at the contours of your smartphone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of a technology called 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 S10 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S10, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy S10?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S10? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the guidelines below to achieve this:
- 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
- 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
In the event that you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Samsung Galaxy S10, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy S10.
