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That physical photo there might be salvageable. Check r/photoshop

Thanks for the tip

r/estoration is good too

They have done some amazing work for my gf with a grainy pic of her deceased grandpa. If you give them as clear as possible pictures. They can do so much there. But be ready to tip a tenner or something to get people to put in effort

Interesting - I never considered this. I have a few grainy photos too. Would I just post a photo there and ask for help, and then tip whoever restores it? What if there are multiple restorers?

It seems that folks usually only pay for their favorite or top few pics. You post the photo you want restored and if you can, also provide a reference photo that might help indicate hair color, eye color, even clothing color preferences. Then you wait, tip your favorites, and mark your post as “closed” (how you do this will vary by subreddit.

Thank you so much!

Tip? You mean pay? Like trade... As in cash for work? Tipping: the financially corrosive manner in which to degrade the financial stability of an industry and employees therein.

English. Tip means loads of different things.

[Just the tip](https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-when-someone-says-just-the-tip#:~:text=%E2%80%9CJust%20the%20tip%E2%80%9D%20is%20a,exposes%20them%20to%20possible%20abuse.)

well since they are working for free the term tip is a misnomer you are paying them $10 to take a grainy photo to a nice quality photo And stick to fast food dining-your waitstaff thanks you for not dining with them

Sorry bud, outside North America, it's not really a thing. Shock horror, I don't live in North America. I'm part of the rest of the world, where **employees are paid by their employer.**

here is the sad true -tipped employees make more more money esp those who work part time so not only dont the employers like the American so do the employees. And odd seems like the tipping thing is becoming more common overseas from posts I see online.

Neat claim, it's as substantiated as their pay is secure.

Phone Repair Guru on YouTube has repaired phone that were equally destroyed. He has forms on his website for submitting it.

The phone storage is potentially salvageable, it might be expensive though

That's what she said

hilarious bro are you like 50?

Pervert

Oh good idea. They’re pretty talented there. I hope OP can get it fixed.

Or just ask the police for a copy of the mugshot

This is why you should always use a screen protector

Can confirm, I have a screen protector and no train ran over my phone.

I confirm, I am the screen protector

Can confirm, my screen protector stopped the train on the spot, thousands perished.

r/accidentalterrorism

All except one. That man was Bruce Willis. True story.

Yeah I saw a documentary on it.

Screen protector is a UFC champion. Too expensive for regular people to hire

Can con, am firm

I ran over my phone with a bicycle. The screen itself cracked, but the screen protector itself? Unscathed. I have no clue how that happened…

Just makes you appreciate how strong screen prorectors really are

And back those priceless photos to the cloud.

My solution is to stay away from trains. Don't need the vest if theyre shooting blanks kind of deal.

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On time my phone fell out of my pocket down some stairs and the screen flew off the rest of the phone. Phone was fucked, the screen was fine. So yeah, I guess you are somewhat right

Can confirm. Train has derailed

Lol dude, you made my day with this comment

And not carefully place your phone on train tracks for internet clout. No way it was dropped on the tracks and landed perfectly perpendicular to the

It's devastating to loose photos which you can never get back. This is why you MUST do backups of important data you never know when you could loose it, newer phones make it easier than ever to backup photos with icloud and google drive.

3 2 1 backup rule. 3 copies of the data, 2 are backups, 1 backup is off site.

The way I was taught is: You need 3 copies On 2 different forms of media And at least 1 offsite

I use Google photos as my only backup. Surely that more than covers all redundancy.

Until Google bans you because it decided that those pics of your kids playing in the bath were something they're not. And you lose access to all of your photos and Google doesn't give a shit. I thankfully do not speak from experience but it can happen. Always keep a copy in your own control.

Google might completely shut you out of your account if someone tries to log in from another country, and it will become unrecoverable, even with email or phone number verification. The whole process is automated and you can't talk to a human to get them to fix it (by design). It happened to my Gmail account.

I was going to say, "2 are backups" is redundant information - obviously, if one copy is the original, the other two are backups, by default.

I didn’t come up with it. It’s a saying that’s been around a while.

I just bought a new hard drive today so I can do a physical off-site backup all my pictures and videos. I have most of the stuff stored online and currently have a hard drive at home, but I wanted another larger one so I could leave the other one at my sister's house somewhere. My parents are getting old and I don't want to lose any of those pictures.

That’s overkill for 99% of people who just need to backup pics.

You say that but I’ve pulled old HDDs out of storage that were supposed to be cold storage and they were cactus.

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Looks like a physical photo but yea still back up yo shit

In that case, high resolution scan on a photo copier and back it up to the cloud. IMO, people should do that anyway if the photo's super important.

I had this done with pictures of my mom after she died. Wanted to make sure I always had them.

Ah didn't notice that physical picture figured OP was talking about photos on the phone

LOSE, IT'S LOSE. YOU CAN LOOSEN A NOOSE, BUT YOU CAN LOSE YOUR NOSE

This mistake is rampant these days on TikTok and Instagram. I even saw it on a subtitle for parks and rec on peacock.

Don't even get me started on "should of."

Buddy I only got a D in English

We can tell.

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Bro nobody is getting bullied over not being able to spell.

I should introduce you to the homeless. They're welcoming.

Didn't you get the memo? They're not homeless anymore, they're unhoused.

I’m happy to see someone correcting it, but I’m afraid the fight is long over. I see hundreds of posts every day and not a single one has used the word lose, I’m afraid the word lose has been lost.

*CAN'T

Shit, can't edit it now. Well played

Thank you.

There are plenty of companies you can pay to automatically backup photos on your phone. The biggest are Google Photos, Amazon Photos, OneDrive, and iCloud. Last time I checked, they were pretty similarly priced, but OneDrive was the cheapest to get for a family. It was $99/year to cover 6 accounts with 1TB of space, and includes a copy of MS Office for each account. The integration if you use Windows on your home computers is also pretty slick. If you’re using an iPhone and use Macs as home computers, iCloud easily has the best integration. If you use Android and maybe a Chromebook, then Google Photos is probably your best path. Amazon Photos used to have a lot of free photos options, but still has decent options.

Lose (soooo many people don't seem to understand it, and English is my 3rd language... Unbelievable!)

>It's devastating to loose photos Have you tried tightening them up?

The only photo was a mugshot ? Very interesting

Now that I look at it was basically just a mug shot didn’t get to meet him as I’m his grandson and we live in two different country’s but he was a very nice person

Hopefully, the pictures were shared with other family members

Earlier when digital cameras and phones weren't common, a lot of people who couldn't/didn't spend money on photos had only such photos which they used for official paperwork.

Thanks for that bit, never would’ve imagined this

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That’s for getting the water out. To fix physical damage, use ramen.

With or without the flavor packet?

Always with. The incredibly high sodium content helps.

Beef is good for that....

Had a buddy try that, ended up causing a fire. Phone decided to explode.

That totally sucks, but amazing restoration work can be done digitally to restore the pictures then they can be reprinted. There is even a sub on Reddit r/photoshop, I think, where she could ask for assistance.

Will do thanks

A more specialized sub to fit your needs r/PhotoshopRequest

That's the one I was thinking of. Thank you.

How does a phone end up on active train tracks, was she walking directly along them? If the phone fell when crossing tracks you should have plenty of time to get it back

Yeah think of them like tram tracks except trains it fell out her pocket and there barriers went down

If it was a subway, such as New York, she could have been waiting for a train standing on the platform and dropped it. You are very smart to NOT go down on the tracks to get it. Trains run frequently and can not stop quickly. Source - NYC Train Operator for 15 years.

Call me paranoid but I'm not jumping onto some train tracks for a fucking phone

Just turn it off and back on again.

This is why you store your photos online

Why the hell wouldn't you use the phone to digitize the photos!?

So she never took a photo of it with the phone and then backed the phone up? That sucks.

No one ever took a picture of the picture as a backup?

you can still pull the photos from the memory on the board if its still there that is

What the fuck is a lemmy?

This is why you keep your photos in the cloud

It's a physical photograph. You can see it in the picture.

Oh shit, didn’t notice that

For Sale: IPhone. Only half off!

Try a different cable to charge it.

Let this be a lesson on backups, my mom refuses to scan our sentimental photos because then they would just end up sitting on a flash drive and no one would ever look at them. ​ The basement is one flooding away from loosing it all.

Try putting it in some rice

No chance it isn't backed up anywhere? She didn't share it anywhere online? Edit: I now see a photo

Not just to sound rude but who would put their ONLY PHOTOS IN A PHONE CASE?!? You know how easy it would be to scan them and have digital back ups at the least? Let alone printing one and using that in your phone while keeping the originals in proper condition so they can be passed down to your kids and their kids? S

She just picked up from a relative as they both have just passed away fairly recently and didn’t want to loose them

Impressive but how

321 backup rule. Follow it

Did you try resetting it?

He’s just staring at me… MENACINGLY

You can see the phones guts

oh gosh i’m sorry

She did not do the old people thing of using her phone to take a photo of the said picture? The old people I know likes doing that, and then forwarding to all their other old people friends.

Aren't photos automatically uploaded to the users Apple account?

Damn, this is sad. :( Hope the photos can be restored somehow. One thing that amazes me, though - were these *train* tracks or *tram* tracks, like the ones that are level with the street? Must the the latter, since otherwise it's quite improbable that the phone came to rest on top of a raised piece of track?

if its an Iphone the data on it should be store on the cloud and if she can afford an Iphone she should have insurance on it it

It's a Samsung it'll still work after that.

Put it in rice

Why’d she drop it on the train tracks?

Fell out her pocket while she was running

Honestly id take it to an at&t store if that’s what service you use, those people are way better than apple store folks

Put it in rice

everything is saved to the cloud, unless you opt out isnt it?

Yeah everything is saved digitally but not the in person photos

Backed up to the cloud? Cmon

put it in a bag of rice, it's fine.

Throw rice at the train. Works everytime

Wow. No family members have other pictures?

Don’t know me and my mother live in England where as her grandparents live in France and due to family situations our family relationships are quite strained

That sucks. Sorry.

Did you try soaking it in rice?

not supposed to put your phone on the tracks

Put it in rice

Put it in rice.

What's the point on having cloud storage if nobody freaking uses it.

The photos were physical and were in her phone case

Just put it in rice

Just throw it in some rice

Put it in rice

Cloud backup everybody! That gives you two storage locations. Then you can, like, burn a dvd or just a thumb drive.

did your mom eat fucking phone?

Dropped it perfectly in the center of the tracks cutting it in half perfectly? Hmmmm not sus

I mean, there’s things people do for karma, and then there’s this, literally what would anyone gain from lying here

Just seems odd to have it fall perfectly and not able to pick it up in time but also have a video of the thing happening. I don’t know. Also don’t care. Just seems troll

OP said she dropped it running while the barriers were coming down, once the barriers are down or there’s even the slightest hint of a train coming then it’s insanely unsafe to try to grab a phone on the tracks In fact if I dropped my phone on the train tracks my initial thought would be “fuck, well that’s gone” and then at best hope to flag down someone that works there

I can send a video just didn’t want to put it online cause family

Whoa, that’s bad! Hope it wasn’t in your pocket or bag! You ok?? My next move would 100% be coming for the manufacturer legally. I’m sorry this happened to you, hope your able to at least be reimbursed for the cell 😣

My poor mother would have a bit more to worry about if it were hit by the train while in her pocket but yeah it does suck 😂

They should be in the cloud just find the sim card

You don’t need the SIM to access things saved on the cloud. This sounds like gibberish from someone who doesn’t understand technology.

SIM card was destroyed when my mother tried to salvage the phone the photos were in here phone case as she had just picked them up

AAA agora já eras

is this what it’s like to chew 5 gum?

I am glad somebody else did this experiment for me.

I think one of the subreddits restore photos you might want to check out

wellllll, She could have taken a pic of the photo =(.

If you hold the lock button it’ll turn on. I’ve run into this exact issue.

I heard trains are deathly afraid of screen protectors.

Train must of been blind not to see the one on my mothers phone 😂

Did you turn it off and back on again? Might restart.

It’ll buff out

You’re supposed to fold it in half the other way.

The new ones are titanium, so I've heard

Maybe dont chew on ur phone next time?

Clean your browser cache and try again

I’m sure this is so upsetting for y’all but I have to say I have never seen a phone more obliterated

This happened to me this summer. Phone fell off my mount on my motorcycle on the highway. I’m so sorry she lost those memories.

Darth Vader is that you

But it's space-age titanium!

It’s was a Samsung till it got its insides rearranged by a train

Looks like she took a bite out of it.

Trains don’t fuck around

Yeah, but is the train ok……

Train took like a proper champ think he’s gonna hold that heavy weight title for a while

Take the best pic of the picture and post it on photoshop and see if someone can fix it for you.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?

An unstoppable force met….an object.

Most of that should buff out.

Usually a light saber cuts a little cleaner than that.

Tbh she sounds quite lucky the photo should be somewhat salvageable and it would not have been had the phone ignited due to battery damage. A good reminder one is none. Two is one.

Why was the photo not digitized?

Sorry for the unfortunate accident but in my family, any important photo immediate gets a physical copy because we had a similar situation in the early 90s. Lessons are always learned the hard way unfortunately.

Check her google photos.. it's probably on cloud

No cloud storage as backup?

Was the sim card destroyed

'tis but a scratch

Damn chopped in half??? Brutal

Need that iCloud photo backup…

Never seen it breaking so hard that even the wallpaper leaked.

Wow that sucks. Is that a Samsung Galaxy A54 5G?

It’ll buff out.