In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung XCover 4, you can quickly become full of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to include a micro SD port as well. However, transferring data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, via a USB key.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung XCover 4? In this context, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung XCover 4.
What will the connection of a USB key to a Samsung XCover 4 allow?
Before presenting the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung XCover 4, we are going to 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 very heavy. therefore. So we naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K, they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung XCover 4 will be that you can free memory on your Samsung XCover 4 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve 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 XCover 4.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung XCover 4?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Samsung XCover 4 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung XCover 4?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung XCover 4. Indeed, if ever you have carefully analyzed the contours of your device you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on the latter. It is with a technology that we call 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 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 XCover 4 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung XCover 4, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung XCover 4?
Finally, now that you have understood 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 XCover 4? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung XCover 4
- 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
If you are ever looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Samsung XCover 4, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Samsung X Cover 4.
