If you don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Vivo Y52, you should quickly reach saturation of its internal memory. In recent years, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, exchanging files without a computer can be problematic. You have no doubt heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB key.

We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb flash drive to a Vivo Y52? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to plug your USB drive into your Vivo Y52.

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What will connecting a USB drive to a Vivo Y52 allow?

Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Vivo Y52, we will summarize the advantages of this operation. As a general rule, having storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones 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 mobile phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.

One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Vivo Y52 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Vivo Y52 by transferring content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly recover 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 Y52.

How to connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo Y52?

Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Vivo Y52 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.

How to read a USB flash drive on a Vivo Y52?

First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Vivo Y52. Indeed, in the event that you looked at the contours of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small 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 Y52 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Vivo Y52, see our article.

How to transfer files to USB drive from Vivo Y52?

Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer files between a USB flash drive and your Vivo Y52? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Follow the instructions below to do so:

  • Download a file manager in the event that the originally installed application on your mobile phone is not suitable for you
  • Plug the OTG adapter into your Vivo Y52
  • Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
  • Open your file manager
  • Find the files 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

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