This is what you need to get the USB drivers for all Vivo smartphones and tablets downloaded onto your computer.

All leading computer operating systems need to have drivers. A driver, as Microsoft puts it, is software that allows your computer to communicate with hardware or devices.

In essence, there wouldn’t be anything stopping your software and hardware from communicating with one another just naturally. The problem starts when you have loads of different types of hardware that all do the same thing. For example, if you were to think about sound cards connected to your motherboard, there are probably over a thousand decent ones you could choose from. Your software can recognize this as a soundcard, but there needs to be something else that allows the software to distinguish it from all other soundcards, or else they can’t communicate with one another because each one is completely different in how it works. Whatever software signal is Eb sharp to one sound card might mean B flat to another.

When that happens, software developers would have to be working around the clock trying to write code that makes the software work with all the different hardware made by different people. A software developer writing one line of code might work well for one bit of hardware but not for another.

Thus you should think of a driver as a vital bit of software that transfers the language to work for your particular piece of hardware. That way the software developers just write the one bit of code for everybody and the driver handles the translation to get it working for its bit of hardware.

Because there are lots of different devices out there in the world, there are also lots of different drivers. Any device that gets connected to your computer with a USB cable will require a USB driver to go along with it.

Just like with the driver’s example said above, each different manufacturer that has a device needs to have a separate USB driver that helps translate the software for everything to do with that one manufacturer.

How to Download Vivo USB Driver

Installing the USB Drivers is as simple as following the appropriate guide from the download links. There you will find the instructions for installing the USB Drivers on the latest versions of the Windows operating system, as well as getting the Universal ADB Driver installed if you need it.

Sometimes the packages containing the drivers you want that you get from the manufacturer websites make you install PC suites (like the Vivo PC suite) that also offer the chance to backup, sync contacts, etc. Often these types of packages are considerably larger than just the driver files, meaning they’ll take up more hard drive space. If you’re really only looking to use up a minimal amount of hard drive space and you aren’t interested in any other features, then you ought to give the Universal ADB Diver package a try instead of any of the PC suite offerings.

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See Also

Universal ADB Driver:  If your device isn’t yet listed, you can install the Universal ADB driver instead. It should work for all Vivo smartphones and tablets until we have located the exact driver you’re looking for.

USB Driver Installation: You can view how to install the USB drivers on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 from the Android USB drivers page as well if you need instructions.