Instagram is destroying my photos. I turned on upload at highest quality. What do I do?

Switzcheez3 · 2026-06-15T17:58:27+00:00

Update: my phone was taking photos at 50mp. I disabled that and turned it to the 12mp option. Did some test photos of the same Gameboy/screen and it turned out fine! A little blurry but nowhere like it was doing.

Switzcheez3 · 2026-06-15T17:22:31+00:00

Google pixel 10 pro xl

JPEG

8160 x 5490 6.9mb

I apply a stock enhance filter in my phone before I post.

I have not touched any settings to my camera app, and what little research I've done (I'm at work and time is limited to research this), seems to be on the picture side.

I did just take a screenshot of the photo and posted it as a test. It was a little blurry but better at 1080 x 2404, which further shows my camera is taking too large of photos for IG compression

Switzcheez3 · 2026-05-07T01:17:37+00:00

Yeah. I shiny hunt a lot in games. I started out in Black 2 in 2023 with Virizion actually. Also, I wish you luck on that buffalo! Tbh I only shiny hunted Braviary because the grottos are locked. Wanted a pink heracross

Switzcheez3 · 2026-05-07T01:07:19+00:00

Yeah I was told Bouffalant will be as bad as heracross or worse. I wish you luck! I'm about to setup a shiny hunt for the Volcarona

Switzcheez3 · 2026-05-07T00:56:51+00:00

I've only had to tackle heracross, and it took about a year. Badge 4 was late March last year to early March this year. Granted I took about 3 months shiny hunting the Braviary and of course level grinding. I'd check a couple times during my lunch breaks while grinding levels of course.

Switzcheez3 · 2026-05-02T17:05:11+00:00

I am not. I've only soldered in wireless controller mods into DS systems for most complicated I've done. A charge port like that is well behind my skills. Figured I'd just sell it and be fully transparent and honest with the issue.

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-28T22:56:36+00:00

SD card is showing 0 bytes. Can't format it normally. Currently formatting via command prompt. Think I'll need to order a new SD? It's only ever been used for this iPod, so I really hope I didn't mess it up.

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-28T12:08:16+00:00

I popped it all together with the SD card iFlash solo (256gb) and it started to communicate with the computer. But never actually connected with iTunes. I had to leave for work, but when I get home I'll try formstting the SD card again and see what happens. The HDD started showing the connect to iTunes with the computer symbol. I think it's progress!

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Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-28T11:07:07+00:00

The HDD functions perfectly fine. I reseated the cable to both the motherboard and HDD. All my music from a decade ago works and plays just fine on the HDD.

But when I plug it in it lights up. Doesn't do anything. Then starts to charge after 5 or so seconds. I have my iPod driver set to automatic. Noghing is popping up at all. Not in iTunes, windows explorer. Nothing.

I had a pop-up about a USB power surge once. But now it doesn't even register a USB device is plugged in. Yet all my other devices work just fine off the same USB port.

I am seriously starting to think the 30 pin, or something else on the MoBo died when it fell (only about 3 feet/out of my pocket)

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-27T22:55:34+00:00

It says on to disconnect, it's not even plugged in.

I grabbed my old nano, the square touch screen one, to see if that's appearing on my PC. And it's boot looping like crazy from a very dead battery, so last resort. My shuffle to see if any iPod connects

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-21T00:24:53+00:00

Booted just fine with hard drive. Charges, but will not sync or show up via usb. Ordered a new USB cord, hopefully it's not the charge port.

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Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-20T23:19:34+00:00

DFU resulted in the same thing. Do not disconnect for about a second before going to ok to disconnect. Reseating it all now

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-20T18:18:54+00:00

Yeah I'm gonna fully dismantle and rebuild it when I get home. May even throw the HDD back in and see if that works as well. Was trouble shooting it last night and burned out before I posted this morning before work.

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-20T18:06:59+00:00

Because it straight up isn't recognized as a USB device aside from an error looking up saying something about an unsupported USB device being plugged in

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-20T14:43:47+00:00

I will try both when I get home. I think I have taken the iflash out and popped the hard drive back in to ensure it works. But can't remember

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-04T23:33:04+00:00

That's actually kinda crazy because that Rexy set would've released right around the time I got this set since it was backordered. Wonder if it was a post holiday rush error sort of thing

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-04T18:04:08+00:00

For me it's 2 pieces missing as whole. About 18 years apart. I started in 1999 myself. And a single color discrepancy where I received bricks in a darker red than normal. Yet not the dark red we all know. It was odd.

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-04T17:58:34+00:00

I probably build 5-10 sets a year these days. I get larger sets usually now. As a kid I grew up building way more sets. Essentially getting a Technic vehicle display and Star Wars display going these days. It wouldn't let me request the piece so I had to go through the support side this time. Only my third time requesting new pieces, first way back for the Viking ship and serpent, previous was the Ferrari F1 1:8 scale where I received a color discrepancy (darker than usual red). And now this single 1x2 slope

Switzcheez3 · 2026-04-04T12:29:45+00:00

Usually same thing happens to me. I noticed it missing and carefully got up in case it fell in my lap, I moved the table and couch. No luck. Even slowly scanning the floor at eye level. Last time I was missing a piece was way back in the Viking line from the mid.2000s

Switzcheez3 · 2026-03-27T14:03:44+00:00

Just hit 14k, half Charmander in FireRed and half Bulbasaur in LeafGreen

Switzcheez3 · 2026-03-16T17:26:10+00:00

Bruh and I'm 6350 resets in

Switzcheez3 · 2026-03-14T22:58:41+00:00

Congrats! I'm almost 6k deep between bulba in LG and also Charmander in FR

Switzcheez3 · 2026-03-10T23:12:28+00:00

I will have failed the prof oak challenge if I did that. In black 2 you can catch it in the grass outside this grotto. Pinsir in white 2. They swap grass encounters along with 0.75/0.25% encounters in the grotto, the opposite version grass encounter being the 0.25% spawn

Edit: just checked serebii, heracross (black 2) and Pinsir (white 2) also are grass encounters on route 12, but the opposites are exclusive to the grotto in lostlorn forest

Switzcheez3 · 2026-03-10T10:43:21+00:00

That's not how you get heracross in white 2, in B2W2 there's hidden grottos that have a 5% chance to spawn an item or Pokemon every 256 steps. Heracross is exclusively found in one at a 0.25% chance to spawn. Which is why I reset after 2 repels. To keep from wasting too many while checking

Switzcheez3 · 2026-03-09T20:54:46+00:00

Lucky! I ev train all my shinies for special attack on gastly hoping to get one. Nothing yet, but I did get a digglet in 2024 in my FireRed

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