Hi everyone. So today I'm going to take you through a few
options for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.
Now this is going to centre around really fixing the storage problems that
a lot of people are
potentially going to have with the Galaxy S6 because it doesn't have a
micro
SD card slot, There is no expandable storage here.
Essentially, the memory that we have in the device, 32, 64 or 128
is all we have to work with But what can we do to kind of make things a bit
easier for ourselves?
Well the Galaxy S6 has a few options available to it.
For starters what you may not be aware of is that you were given 100gig of
additional storage space
in the cloud from Microsoft. Now this is One Drive.
All you need to do is get your Galaxy S6
open One Drive and log-in. Simple as that.
That will gain you 100gig of additional storage and you can use that for absolutely
anything.
For instance uploading your images or movie files that you've recorded on your Galaxy S6,
storing any documents that you may have created and so on. This will allow you to get
the files
off your device and into the cloud to be recalled whenever you have wifi or
an internet signal effectively.
It's a small thing but it's an option that is there for you and it's well
worth taking advantage of
it you're someone like me who takes an awful lot of pictures and videos. Just getting those off
the device as quickly as possible so you can sort them later
on your PC or Mac is very very handy. It essentially means you can
shoot more photos and videos before you fill up your internal memory.
Some other things to be aware of here. If you go into your settings area
and come down to applications
you can see what applications you currently have installed and you can
then
uninstall those from there if you want to if you want to see which ones are running.
If you want to get a better idea as to where your storage is being used
up on the device you can come to the dedicated storage option.
In here you can actually see based on categories what is using up
all of your space. Your system memory that's non-negotiable I'm afraid, that is the
Android operating system
but the areas where we can look is into user
use space where we can then see how much space applications are taking up,
pictures and video and audio. By using this you can then go in and
clean things out if you need to. But
the really interesting thing that you're actually here in this video for
is to find out how to expand the current internal storage that you
have using some third-party options. Now
this works very, very simply. For instance we have here
a card reader from Inateck. This uses a micro USB cable,
very, very simple process, you can pick these up for around £15.
Plug it into the bottom of your Galaxy S6 and it will immediately power on.
Then all we need to do is install
a memory card into it, or, because this has USB ports as well,
you could plug in an external hard drive here. You've also got options for memory
stick
also and then straight away it will power up
the SD card and give you access to the files on there. For instance on here
it's just an old drive I used for storing some music on from Google Music.
But the point is fairly simple. Once you have your external memory card plugged
in you'll then be able to use the various features of Android to copy data
across to the card.
Personally I would recommend downloading a tool like Astro.
It's a much better File Manager in my opinion than the one that comes with the
Samsung Galaxy S
but it's as simple as that when it comes to quite literally
grabbing your footage and dropping it across onto an SD card.
And it's as simple as that. In doing so you've
literally expanded your external storage for the Galaxy S6
and all you need is this little adapter and a memory card.
Sure, it's not as good as having a dedicated memory stick built
into the actual Samsung Galaxy S6 that's removable, but at the end of the day
this is a workaround for you. For many people, including myself,
I've been using these adapters for many years as a really simple way of quickly
moving data from an Android smartphone onto a memory stick
and then wherever it needs to be. But likewise I can use this in reverse
to store information onto here to then transfer quickly and easily onto the
Galaxy S6.
For instance taking photographs directly from a DSLR to then edit
on my phone or a tablet. Whatever you need to do. The only thing you need to make
sure of
is that your Android device supports USB to go.
That's what this adapter effectively is making use of here. That pretty much
covers every Android device released over the last couple of
years. But specifically on the Galaxy S6 it does allow us to expand the storage with
minimal fuss
and effort. So let me know in the comments what your top tips for saving
space
on the Samsung Galaxy S6 is. Have you come up with something easier
than a little dongle and a memory card. Do let me know in the comments.