In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, you should easily reach the saturation of the internal memory of this latest. In recent years, manufacturers have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, going through a USB stick.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge? In this context, to begin with, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
Why connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, we will review the advantages of this solution. In general, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors on our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than sufficient, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K they can be quickly saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge will be that you can free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend 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 S7 Edge.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first of all see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB drive to your Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the contours of your device a little, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call 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 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 S7 Edge and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 S7 Edge? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- 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 S7 Edge
- 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 want a maximum of tutorials to become a master of the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy Edge S7.
