In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S5, you can quickly become saturated with the internal storage of the latter. For some time now, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a quick enough solution, through a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S5? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you are going to have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S5.
What is the point of connecting a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S5?
Before showing you the process for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S5, we will review the advantages of this technique. In general, benefiting from storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors on our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone 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 S5 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S5 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has sent to you, for example, to a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy S5.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S5?
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 S5 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Samsung Galaxy S5?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S5. In fact, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy S5 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S5, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy S5?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S5? Either way the process is similar. Apply the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a file manager in the event that the native application of your smartphone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy S5
- 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
If you are looking for a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Samsung Galaxy S5, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy S5.
