If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you usually accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, you may quickly become full of the internal memory of your Samsung Galaxy SXNUMX Ultra. this last. For some time now, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly effective solution, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra? For this, first, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, we will summarize the advantages of this technique for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, nevertheless with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, 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 S20 Ultra will be to allow you to free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 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 S20 Ultra.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra?
First thing to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Indeed, in the event that you have looked carefully at the curves of your mobile phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is with 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 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 S20 Ultra and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra? Either way the process is similar. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
- 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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