In the event that you 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 Y76, you can quickly reach saturation of the storage internal of it. For some time now, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. That said, sending your data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB flash drive.

We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a usb flash drive to a Vivo Y76? For this, first, we are going to come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this action, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to plug your USB drive into your Vivo Y76.

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Why connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo Y76?

Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Vivo Y76, we will summarize the advantages of this procedure. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the feeling 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 they can be saturated very quickly.

One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Vivo Y76 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Vivo Y76 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download 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 Y76.

How to connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo Y76?

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 Y76 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.

How to read a USB flash drive on a Vivo Y76?

First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Vivo Y76. Indeed, if you have analyzed the curves of your mobile phone for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Vivo Y76 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Vivo Y76, see our article.

How to transfer files to USB drive from Vivo Y76?

Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply teach you how to perform data transfer between USB flash drive and your Vivo Y76? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:

  • Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
  • Plug the OTG adapter into your Vivo Y76
  • 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 the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the king of the Vivo Y76, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Live Y76.