If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you have the habit of accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S7, you can easily become full of its internal storage. . In recent years, manufacturers have adopted the habit of also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB stick.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S7? In this context, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S7.
Why connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S7?
Before revealing the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S7, we will review the advantages of this operation. Most of the time, benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S7 will be to allow you to free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S7 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download 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 S7.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S7?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S7 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Samsung Galaxy S7?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB drive to your Samsung Galaxy S7. Indeed, if ever you have analyzed the contours of your phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly 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 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 S7 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S7, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy S7?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S7? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy S7
- 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
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