In the event that you do not have a PC at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large number of data, photos, or videos on your Vivo X80, you must quickly reach saturation of its internal storage. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. Despite everything, exchanging data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective solution, through a USB key.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to connect a usb flash drive to a Vivo X80? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to plug your USB drive into your Vivo X80.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo X80?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Vivo X80, we are going to summarize the advantages of this solution. In general, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when we do not really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty damn awesome. We suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films 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 X80 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Vivo X80 by transferring 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 Vivo X80.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo X80?
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 Vivo X80 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Vivo X80?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Vivo X80. In fact, if you have ever analyzed the curves of your device for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to buy 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 Vivo X80 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Vivo X80, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Vivo X80?
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 transfer data between a USB flash drive and your Vivo X80? Either way the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the original application installed on your mobile phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Vivo X80
- 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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