Customer Spotlight: Can You Recover Lost Files From a Broken GPS?

When Andrew’s GPS was run over and broken, he panicked! Losing his GPS data would mean repeating weeks’ worth of work. Fortunately, with help from FlashFixers, he didn’t have to! This broken GPS was run over by a truck. What Happened? This story is from Andrew Rist of Pine Ridge Technologies in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Andrew [...]

What Happened to Your Mobile Phones in 2015?

Every phone we get has a story. And every story starts with, “What happened?” Here’s a look at what happened to your mobile phones in 2015. What Happened to Your Mobile Phones in 2015? Create your own infographics We Do More than Mobile For more information on FlashFixers data recovery services, visit www.FlashFixers.com. What crazy things have [...]

Customer Spotlight: Does Rain Really Ruin an iPhone?

Rain will likely ruin your iPhone, but that does not mean it will ruin your photos. How is that possible? Check out Noelle's story below. (If you are interested in learning about the extreme measures used to recover Noelle's photos, click here.) Noelle's Story: A Record-Breaking Catch Imagine breaking a state record, and then losing all evidence of it! This [...]

How to Recover Photos from a Water Damaged iPhone

A little rain can’t hurt. Unless, you are a smartphone. Rain kills smartphones! But rain does not always kill data! In this blog post, FlashFixers details the extreme measures used to successfully recover photos from a water damaged iPhone. Fixing a Water Damaged iPhone When rainwater got into Noelle’s iPhone 5s, it stopped working. All evidence of record-breaking moment [...]

Why Destroying Your Smartphone is Harder Than You Think: From a Digital Forensics Lab

Submerged in salt water for hours? No problem. Run over by a car? That’s ok. Hit with a hammer? You’d be surprised. In all of these situations, what’s keeping your smartphone “alive” is only the size of your fingertip – and as long as it’s intact so is all of your phone’s data, regardless of [...]

Warning: What Computer Techs Won’t Tell You about Data Recovery

Failure can be avoided by backing up to more than one place This advice has been offered for years, but not by computer techs that are interested in making serious money off digital photo recovery. If you're a professional photographer, the best course of action is to put measures in place to avoid losing your [...]

4 Ways to Save Your iPhone After Dropping it in Water

There's nothing quite like the sinking feeling you get when you accidentally drop your iPhone in water. You never know if it will survive- and you don't even want to think about what your parents will say if it doesn't. Saving your phone from water damage is a race against the clock. As mobile phone [...]

3 Cloud Storage Platforms that will Keep your Data Safe and Secure

Twenty years ago, backing up data meant owning a large file cabinet. Now that sleek metal cabinet is collecting rust in the garage while all of your important information is stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. But if you haven't been backing up your data onto some sort of third party, cloud based platform, [...]

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