If you ever do not have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Vivo V23, you must quickly reach saturation of the internal storage of this last. For some time now, brands have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, sending files without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB flash drive.
In this article, we are going to show you how to connect a usb stick to a Vivo V23? For this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to plug your USB drive into your Vivo V23.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo V23?
Before showing you the process for use a USB key directly on your Vivo V23, we will review the advantages of this technique. Most of the time taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Vivo V23 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Vivo V23 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has sent to you, for example, on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Vivo V23.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo V23?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Vivo V23 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Vivo V23?
First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Vivo V23. Indeed, in the event that you looked carefully at the contours of your device, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called 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 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Vivo V23 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Vivo V23, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Vivo V23?
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 perform data transfers between USB flash drive and your Vivo V23? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following instructions to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Vivo V23
- 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 want as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Vivo V23, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Live V23.
