HyperDrive HyperCube

I read a lot of the reviews and was terrified that when I got the device it would be a total dud. The good news is it’s not. The bad news is it’s not intuitive at first. Here are a few tips that should fix the issues identified in other reviews. First, you have to plug the device into your iPhone charger not into your computer’s USB. Second you connect the iPhone to the device with the orange USB port and not the dark one. The flash drive plugs into the dark USB port on the device. Once that is done it works and then it is fairly easy to manage and use. The only issue I noticed is that it doesn’t play music off the external drive. It starts but then just stops. Not a big deal for me but as far as transferring videos and pics from the iPhone to the USB and vice versa back to the iPhone from the USB it works. It gets 4 stars because it should be more intuitive and the audio playback should work.

Definitely still in beta but works for me. I used the orange tab for charging and the other tab for my thumb drive. Backed up my camera roll, took about 20 min for 800 pics. While that seems slow, remember this is supposed to back up while charging your phone so assuming an hour in the charger is not unreasonable. Tried to back up by album but app only recognized one of about six albums. Still, it dumped all my photos onto a thumb drive which is why I bought it.

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Not sure why I’m giving it 2 stars. It doesn’t work for me. I just want to back up my pics. I have my external drive connected and the app loaded. When I open the app, it says it’s looking for my device, then sends me to the home screen. I’m getting no activity, and the “device” and “album” aren’t active. I have it set to auto backup, but nothing is happening. I’m really disappointed, as I received this through Kickstarter. Perhaps I got a dud, but this just isn’t working.

Needs instructions. Not everything works like I thought. Once I figured it out I like it. It took about 3 sold days to Backup about 30,000 pictures. It also kept all the sub folders with pictures, which was a pleasant surprise.

One thing Hyper could do better is to provide some documentation. This device is simple but not fool proof. I bet most of the one star reviews came from users who plug their phone to the white USB port which is intended for the flash drive. The app is basic but works. I wish it has better support for automatic background backup once you plugin.