If you ever don't have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Vivo Y21, you should easily reach saturation of the latter's internal memory. In recent years, manufacturers have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port in addition. However, exchanging files without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb flash drive to a Vivo Y21? To do this, first, we are going to review the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to plug your USB drive into your Vivo Y21.
What will connecting a USB drive to a Vivo Y21 allow?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Vivo Y21, we will summarize the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when 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 feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, 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 Y21 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Vivo Y21 by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Vivo Y21.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo Y21?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Vivo Y21 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Vivo Y21?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Vivo Y21. Indeed, if you have looked carefully at the curves of your mobile phone, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these little accessories are simply available 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 Y21 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Vivo Y21, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Vivo Y21?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain to you how to perform data transfer between USB flash drive and your Vivo Y21? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to do so:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Vivo Y21
- 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
In case you want a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Vivo Y21, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Live Y21.
