In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S6, you can easily reach the saturation of the internal memory of the latter . In recent years, brands have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly fast technique, going through a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S6? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S6.
Why connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S6?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S6, we will summarize the advantages of this solution for you. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors on our phones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We naively get the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K, they can quickly be saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S6 will be to allow you to free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S6 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy S6.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S6?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S6 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy S6?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB drive to your Samsung Galaxy S6. Indeed, if you have analyzed the contours of your mobile phone a little, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are very easily found for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have bought to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy S6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S6, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy S6?
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 data between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S6? Either way the process is similar. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy S6
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the data 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
If you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Samsung Galaxy S6, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy S6.
