In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Vivo Y55, you must quickly reach saturation of the storage internal of it. In recent years, manufacturers have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. However, sending files without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb flash drive to a Vivo Y55? To do this, to begin with, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to plug your USB drive into your Vivo Y55.
What will connecting a USB drive to a Vivo Y55 allow?
Before explaining the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Vivo Y55, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone 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 weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. We suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is huge, 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 Y55 will be to allow you to free up memory on your Vivo Y55 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a colleague has sent you for example on a USB key. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Vivo Y55.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo Y55?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the solution for connect a USB key to a Vivo Y55 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Vivo Y55?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Vivo Y55. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your mobile phone a little, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to get 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 Y55 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Vivo Y55, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Vivo Y55?
Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain how to transfer data between a USB flash drive and your Vivo Y55? Either way the process is similar. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your smartphone does not suit you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Vivo Y55
- 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
If you want as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Vivo Y55, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Live Y55.
