If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you usually accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6, you may quickly become full of its internal storage. -this. In recent years, manufacturers have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, via a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Tab A6? For this, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy Tab A6?
Before showing you the technique for to use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6, we will come back to 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 of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than enough, 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 Tab A6 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has for example put on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy Tab A6?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for plug a USB key into a Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Samsung Galaxy Tab A6?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6. Indeed, if you have looked a little at the curves of your mobile phone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. 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 Tab A6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A6, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy Tab A6?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6
- 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 appear 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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