If you do not have a pc at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung W20, you can quickly become full of its internal storage. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. Despite everything, sending your data without a computer can be complex. You've probably heard of a fairly quick solution, via a USB key.
In this article, we are going to show you precisely how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung W20? For this, to begin with, 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 W20.
Why connect a USB stick to a Samsung W20?
Before showing you the procedure for to use a USB key directly on your Samsung W20, we will review the advantages of this technique. Most of the time, taking advantage of 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 mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. We therefore naively feel that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is enormous, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor which records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung W20 will be to allow you to free memory on your Samsung W20 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 W20.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung W20?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to a Samsung W20 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung W20?
First things to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung W20. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the curves of your mobile phone, you must rather quickly have noticed that there was no USB socket on it. It is thanks to a technology that we call OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will need 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.
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 W20 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung W20, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung W20?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer data between a USB key and your Samsung W20? Either way, the process is similar. Use the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung W20
- 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 ever looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Samsung W20, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Samsung W20.
