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So... I've purchased a Vodafone v1640 from eBay a while back.. and I'm sick of the silver housing! I'd rather have a white or black housing, so I plan on opening the sucker up to paint it! I'm pretty sure I have no warrenty anyway, as I purchased from eBay and am not on a Vodafone plan (Cingular here in the USA)...
My question is... what's the best type of paint to do this with? Any special sort of paint?
Or, I guess, if there's anywhere I could buy different housings for it, pre-painted.. that'd work too.
Any input at ALL would be greatly appreciated! ;D
I want some infos too on this case for a new housing because black housing for Universal looks the best.
From my experience of disassembling the HTC Charmer, I think the HTC stuff are kinda tightly fitted, it might not be that easy to have it painted. I mean, I'm not sure how good you are at painting, but for the paint job I did (on other stuff, toys, cars, shelves, not the phone, yet), I usually end up with a thick (relatively) layer of paint on it, which I think may cause problem when you try to assemble the phone up again.
So, my advise, make sure you can really do a skin tight paint job before you try it on the phone, as it seems that it is really difficult to get a spare casing for HTC stuff.
BTW, you may want to look at some of the web site for PC modding, where they tend to mod their keyboard and mouse, giving them new paint job, probably such forums will have experts on the paint that you should be using.
you might have to experiment a bit if you haven't painted before...
The most impoportant thing is to find a dry place with no humidity.
You can get the retouching spray for cars called deco paint. It will work well.
p.s. IMO black housing will look good if you have a black keyboard.
Hmm black keyboard...
very good point.
i once painted my dreamcast controller black 8)
just used a normal spray can for it (didn´t have an airbrush at that time yet)
works very easy:
- open it up and remove all things you dont want to spray
- clean everything very good (with terpentine/gasoline/ammonia for example)
- let it dry
- spray it (very thin, because you don´t want to make drops of paint on it) from about 15-20cm away (any closer and it will be more difficult to avoid paintdrops and keeping the paint thin
- let it dry in a clean enviroment
after a few months of usage the paint will shine on spots where you hold it much...
so you might want to spray some colourless shine stuff (sorry: don´t know the name for it in english, it is ´lak´ in dutch) on it after the paint is drie to have the color remain the same way
or you could just touch it everywhere so the shine is everywhere :wink:
heh, it's close in english, it's pronounced 'lak-ker', spelt lacquer
Anyone have any luck with this repainting the case idea? Any pictures?
i did my old mpx 220 before black cases were out, i used a special, plastics spraypaint from krylon. flat black ,and clear topcoat. i dont have the pictures anymore but it was nice. just take your time read up on painting . thin light coats and follow the directions on the can.
Recently i receive from a friend in switzerland a blue angel and like some others it has a little scratches in the same place so I decide to PIMP it!
Does anybody has the same scratches above the bluetooth... it screws the sliding mechanism and pull up the display? i have seen 2 devices with the same scratch.. maybe an open messaging drop to the groung! jejeje LOL
First of all: please visit my signature PIMP MY WIZARD thread i have done this already trust me... two times! so be patient cause my english is not good enough.
HOW TO PAINT OUR BLUE ANGEL
Things to get:
**To polish job....
Metal SOFT SANDPAPER only a little piece.
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Water HARD SANDPAPER.
We need to hide the chrome buttons like calendar contacts and LED's to avoid scratches with...
Masking Tape
**For the dissasembly process...
Phillips Screw driver (Star points)
Mini Cross Screw driver
A plastic stick
Tweezers
Cutter (to cut the masking tape)
Antistatic bags tu cover our mother board and display PCB's
--I recomend you to pack the screws in little paper pieces and write the position you remember they was--
Continue...
** Polish aluminium edge:
Before we start to destroy our device i recomend you to start the polish job with the metal red sandpaper to the thin aluminium case at the edge of the device...
Because of the aluminium, it can be distort at the time we press hard on the piece of metal at sand paper job...
Cover your buttons wit the sand paper...
Put some piece then with the cutter, cut with too much care at the edge of buttons not so hard cause we can cut inside a flex or some support plastic things.
Then we can disassembly it with too much care it can be distort a little cause it has a super glue... and take care of some little supports two at the top and two on bottom.
I didnt cover them with tape thats why i scratch a little the edge of the end call button sorry my beauty
Dont push too hard cause it will make deep marks on the aluminium... BTW if you can't balance your power! jejeje LOL, we can always make the Polish work, but with the Water sandpaper, at the end we will do this anyway.
At the Bottom we have two springs.. maybe some kind of earth- discrage conection betwen the screws and the mother board to discharge electrostatic... if you wish keep them i F**K up them to the trash! jajaja
And then the process of disassembly:
First of all... back up data in the main memory to pimp backup or SPB backup cause our internal reserve battery gonna die jajaja Lol.
Unplug your SD, the batt, and the SIM Card.
We will see the VOID tape f**k it up! under that is a screw two more at bottom and one more near the SIM dock finally two more at every side. pack your screws in a piece of paper, name it "back main case" is your choice.
And open it! straight!!! be care with the volume sliding stickie button.
Now we have the mother board NAKED!!! at the up right we can see three cross screws holding the antheena to the motherboard and the sliding mechanism, on that antheena black plastick we can see down other one and one more at the left, use the mini screw driver...
We have one more at left of the mother board... beside the flex conector.
Unplug the Qwerty flex pull the brown piece to up then the flex outside yo can use the tweezers or a pen not cutter we dont need to cut it ! Pack your anthenna and motherboard screws we have 6 more.
Slide the qwerty with the motherboard and it will show you the Display Flex and the Buttons flex unplug it just pull up the conectors... place safe your motherboard on a bag.
Continue...
We will continue on our destr... oups!
Dissasemby process...:
Now you will see when the slider is at top two more screws hiden and two more at the top... Forget to mention pack your screws here as... Hiden slider and upper. Green circles! jejeje Im bored so I will draw colored lines
Sorry this low quality pic cant let us see that the slider case... have a little secure pat that holds the display... with litlle effort we can free this thingies at both sides huh! like it shows the pic. Then you will have the display case on your hands... be care on trow it at the floor.
Now we have 4 screws that holds the 4way button pad, and the other 4 (OK,messaging, start and... i can remember what else!) I can tell you the entire piece of display... buttons and speaker is the same pieces dont try to disasembly it it has special tape to hold it on the display back... we have 4 more screws at calendar and contacts button upper side... Pack them all! as "buttons"
Now you can get off the down buttons the contact and calendar are attached at the plastic we nned to cover them with masking tape.
Here you can see now the plastic buttons and in the little... it has two guides pins for the buttons pad... take care at assembli time it becomes hard without it... mine tooks me long to find the way to place it at right palce.
The great blue square... i bough since a lot time some car smooth polis (HUH??? What did i said?) you know a cream to make bright the car's paint! Oh forget it... with some cottom and that cream White cream! listening the most softener cream! we can vanish all the scratches on our display... take care with all the flex!
And now... we have the case to polish everything without problems... if you cant polish in stretch parts dont worry.. use the soft sandpaper to get acces there and in te slider qwerty yo can polis with the heavy but cover the qwerty with tape and be care with two little plastic things on the slider are weaks! I cant free out the slider cause it has a heavy holding system... dont try it... you may broke the parts.
This will continue with the paint process... so... see you soon.
Have a nice day and please use your atistatic bags and pack all your screws.
If you have a suggest on some xplanations please give me a hand !!!!!!!!!!
hey man...you will never believe this...I just received a "almost" brandnew BlueAngel (XDA IIs) from my friend too...oh man this is really cool. Can't sell my old one because it's been with me for a long time now and we're kinda "close" to each other now and of course can't sell the new one because...I AM GOING TO USE IT!!!!heheheh here man look (got it last Dec, that's why I have the guts to mod my other BA battery because if anything happens I have another one, lol, hehehe)
BTW let us see what you did with your "pimp" BA ok?
WOW!!!!!
Congrats! jejeje we need some times to dress up with new seasons model our Angels! oh s**t! sorry our blue angel device...
Nice man...great work...I'm following this. Great. I have disassembled my BA so many times now but I haven't done anything like this before. Please share your knowlege to us oh master Que..hehe..nice work really. Keep it up. Just don't paint it with pink ok? LOL
That looks awfully ... what's the word I am looking for here.... ah ah, yes! dangerous. I have never taken my BA apart, but the process seems simple enough. Besides, there is something loose inside of mine. So basically, my BA can also be used as a rattler (a rattler running WM6.5 that is, hehehe). So, if not for pimping (my wife would probably have my head if she sees me messing with my BA any longer), at least I would like to take that little noise maker out of my device...
Anyway, great tutorial so far!
Yeah! many girls getting jeleaous here!
If we didnt have girl... our devices could worth it... jejeje
And talk to our devices like girls mmm like:
Oh swettie come on dont dissapoint me like that dont shutoff now...
Yeah! you can little girl run this s**t i want to see HD videos now!
Nice! i know you understand me... as i understand you! your speed is great!
And something like that.
Stay on touch the process is updating daily i need to buy the "Acrilic Enamel Spray Paint"
to update the first post on
"thing to get!"
But what color? No no no no no no no no not pink! is not not my girlfriend's BA!
Yeah don't use pink man...lol
More things to get and paint can
Well I forgot to mention that we need some super GLUE here on mexico we use "TOP" or "KOLA-LOKA"
And the paint can
ACRILIC SPRAY ENAMEL
The design!!!!!!
The past owner of the device has a motorcycle so I decide to paint my BA (THANKS BRONSON) like that colors
but with some variants like a flag yellow and black squares...
I will work on it on Sunday so stay on touch cause maybe i will upload some videos and pics at my user on youtube.... "moonspell83"
Finish the Tutorial
many images can be added with links so one more and thats all... for videos at my youtube account,downloads of .DOC files tutos or PDF Tutos, and some greetings here.
**Paint Job**
I want to finish this work with special thanks...
First my friend Bronson that sent me this awesome device from Switzerland and for his design, I think with this paint job and this phone on your hands... you can imagine rolin' on your motorcycle on the swiss streets and a call incoming, you unpocket your device and !!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!! his device is almost the same design his motorcycle!!! Cooooooool!!!
Second Nice paint Comex aero, in my job let me go out for a moment to go to buy it...
Third all XDA forum here members and mods that let us post here, chefs supports this device LONG LIFE TO THE ANGEL!!!!
Fourth all the support that my girl brings me Thanks sweetie.
I let you all the link to my video on you tube... let me know if they ban my video cause copyright... to upload it to another video host...
Paint Tutorial Video, please play it, into my chanel cause outside it dont has sound, click here
wanna download it? original is better! click here!
THE STREAMING ORIGINAL click here to learn!!!
##### To end the job just let it dry at least one day and assembly it again. I have issues with some buttons because of the sun and the paper covering them... it has change it shapes and I need to brake some little pieces that holds it, they push every time the function... and my phone smells weird (FRESH PAINT ) all the last picture are inside the video... i just took another one for you all but i can post here some more later.#####
Thanks for all your support and if you have questions please feel free to ask and if you hasn't FEAR and decide to paint your device too (well i paint mine cause in Mexico don't sell This devices) please post your work here.
Your friend + Que PPC
are you done yet? do some painting now man.. I wanna see the finish product and with your permission I will post this tutorial on my blog, ok?
Noup I didnt
no men i havent the spray...
i will buy it this weekend... so stay on touch...
Of course you can copy this tuto to your blog
BUT...
Put some links here
See my other works and tutos at my signature PIMP My Wizard!!!
ye ye yeahhh..I will include the links, so you can get popular with the girls..lol..cheers man..today is beer day..it's saturday time to relax...
Everything was done
I almost done check the video in this second page at the top.
thanks again hope this like you much more than all pics jejeje.
+ Que PPC said:
I almost done check the video in this second page at the top.
thanks again hope this like you much more than all pics jejeje.
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I let you all the link to my video on youtube... let me know if they ban my video cause copyright... to upload it to another video host...
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Jut like you thought mate, the video isn't there "This video is unavailable."
You really did an awesome job. Se ve super chulo tu telefono hno!
I'll send you mine to paint LOL Whats the Fee?
tHE LINK WAS REFRESHED I HOPE
They makes me change the audio and now the video sound like crap!!!!
Does you know a hoster streaming video web that dont censored videos?
I will upload a mirror in google videos.
Fee? jajaajaja shipping cost only my friend!!!! and a week without your devices... and maybe paint can cost. A can cost $4 american dlls.
Thanks men.
Great work.
It reminds me of:
Mmmmmm?
Let me guess......
Its an Iphone?
or... its a palm!????
Thanks men!
and welcome to XDA Developers I saw this was your first Post!
Wew, that would be my next project, I've just completed the Mod That Bat on BA.
Uploading Pics and Side Notes...
Hi all, i've painted my BlueAngel yesterday and i want to show you the results...
Many thanks to all of those who wrote many many tutorials about disassembling and painting the BA.
Here are the photos!
Any comment about this job would be very appreciated
SWEEeet! - Noobies this is a BA!!
SWEEeeT !
looks very good, nice photo's too, (I'm going to REDO my front now - Thanks) (maybe)
what rom/skins/manila are you showing us, though!
(I'm struggling with white enamel ( radiator paint ) or met med blue, on alu front/frame) whilst awaiting new digi
(pimp post?)
DroidDotBot said:
SWEEeeT !
looks very good, nice photo's too, (I'm going to REDO my front now - Thanks) (maybe)
what rom/skins/manila are you showing us, though!
(I'm struggling with white enamel ( radiator paint ) or met med blue, on alu front/frame) whilst awaiting new digi
(pimp post?)
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I'm using xplode's wm 6.5 R6, with titanium (Not manila, even if it's nice), and default skin. Maybe i will try manila, to see if it fits with the new paint.
I decided to use plastic primer and brilliant black spray for plastics. the secret is to use "water grain paper" very softly all over the surface to paint on.
White and blue? Very nice colors, but actually all of the best phones are BLACK, and that's why I chose that color: to make it look like a 400$ touch HD !
Like I said . . This is a BlueAngel
My metallic Medeterrain Blue does'nt / Wont show
Laquor coat / daylight may do, <still no digi >
Windows flag on face, still 50/50%, white enamel, (hard wearing, when dry {looking like 6months time}), going to a Dark Blue, (Maybe?)
Your Black BA looks, <Realy foolcin good, like a 300/500 money phone>, "with Titanium", ARRrrgghh(homer), sounds "Tasty, yet temptingly, expensive. !"
iCube? TouchFlo ? - Let us "Know &/ See" - "BeeHive / Titanium" on "PH20B"
(if you change your battery, are you as snookered as me?) -
nice job mate
Well done!
I love it!
How have you created that uneven surface?
Can't you draw the symbols like Mail,ok,IE,... on top of their buttons?
raizaM said:
Can't you draw the symbols like Mail,ok,IE,... on top of their buttons?
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there 8 (at least) buttons, that are "SoftKeys", loosing the logo's are a bonus!! (everything is on homepage)
Received the touch screen today(it's about 1.1mm thick, made from 2 sheets of glass!!!!!, and the cable maybe tricky ), and will await daylight for photo shoot (during soldering)
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Hmm... after some time ... This is the result:
Did this happen to anyone? Can I avoid this peeling? It only passes on the front face (Metal), and the back is perfectly conserved...
I sanded, given primer... This is so frustrating
Did you ROUGH sand it and apply PRIMERS first ?
Rough surface is for primer to bond better and primer is for SPRAY PAINT TO BOND better.
I see that your surface of BA is quite smooth which means u did not sand it first.
The original BA face plate has already got a coating of paint, that coating of paint is stain resistance which means it wont stain paint too..
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Hmm... after some time ... This is the result:
On alloy you need an eching primer ( DTM Epoxy Prime/Seal) for alloy to stop it Oxidizing and gives you a good bond, apply directly on to the alloy and not over paintwork,
for Plastic you can all so use the same primer sealer, its what we use in the motor trade. ps you can get this in many colours to suite and for a better final paint finish Lacquer it.
A better method for the alloy parts would be to get it Anodized to the colour you want or chromed plated.
an Airbrush for small parts will give you a far better finished result than using tin spray can paint and to finish off you can use a clear protector ricochet density film on the parts that get daily contact wear.
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Great job!
I was thinking( and when I find some time) to make an new cover all together.
Something as low and flat as the screen it self.
I'll come back on that later..
But I have an good tip for you all.
If you close off the gaps behind the speaker(remove cover), fill up with some foam (black kind)you will improve the sound quality considerable.
Sound wil be louder, and will have more Bass.
About 20% more sound power.
A lot of the sound output goes to wast through the gaps in the back.
Check it out.
ebsbow said:
Great job!
I was thinking( and when I find some time) to make an new cover all together.
Something as low and flat as the screen it self.
I'll come back on that later..
But I have an good tip for you all.
If you close off the gaps behind the speaker(remove cover), fill up with some foam (black kind)you will improve the sound quality considerable.
Sound wil be louder, and will have more Bass.
About 20% more sound power.
A lot of the sound output goes to wast through the gaps in the back.
Check it out.
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i was thinking of that too...
If I told you guys I was making white housing for our Cappy's, would you guys be interested in buying it?
It's not available anywhere, but I made one for myself and it looks great!
I was thinking of charging $40.....trying to get some idea of how many people would be interested.
Let me know!
Sent from my Cappy using Tapatalk
Just remember, if and/or when you start to sell these, you need to do it in the Marketplace, not here.
Just my own opinion here, but I'm not loving it. The fact that the sides are white, but the backplate is still black doesn't look good. The front would look better if the top and bottom were also white. It would make the whole thing look complete.
I like the concept but I think it needs to go further.
FWIW, I've always been a jet black gadget lover. I think it looks sleek and refined. White just always made me think back to the old white/beige PCs of yesterday.
i would absolutely buy one, ive been scouring the internet for them for months now
Top and bottom of the front white would look better. White lettering on the back too maybe?
ill buy for $40 maybe a bit more, it just past my bday so i gots money to spend.
Pm me if you want.....
40 seems a little expensive for my liking. And it looks like to me that all you were doing was just adding a vinyl skin ontop of the phone.
Although if you were to make one for the whole phone I think 20-30 would be more than enough of a fair price for one.
actually no, i bought official Samsung replacement housing from Japan, then put 6 coats of white plastic paint, followed by 3 coats of clear. took about a week altogether.
Sent from my Android 4.0 ICS'd Cappy
I agree that i think it needs to be more white, great idea though.
WHITE? ewwww.... just my 2cents.. now a matte black finish ill bite
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
maybe if it were actually white plastic and not just white paint, also the display would have to be white also cause it just looks ugly as of now
i love the white, but like the others on here i think the whole thing should be white. and if its a white paint and not plastic isn't there going to be a chipping issue overtime?
Green?
I dont mean to hijack this thread, but I was very interested in getting a different color housing for my captivate after viewing this. After searching for a few hours for colored housings online I just decided to try what you did with the white and buy my own paint and try it out! I went with an Android Green just to match my theme on my phone (I am due for an upgrade soon anyways). I will try to update with a picture of the finished productas soon as I am done!
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I dont mean to hijack this thread, but I was very interested in getting a different color housing for my captivate after viewing this. After searching for a few hours for colored housings online I just decided to try what you did with the white and buy my own paint and try it out! I went with an Android Green just to match my theme on my phone (I am due for an upgrade soon anyways). I will try to update with a picture of the finished productas soon as I am done!
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Wait...did you spray over the camera hole?
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Wait...did you spray over the camera hole?
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well.. I was smart enough to put some clear tape over the outside of the camera lens, however when i flipped it over to get the edges I was not paying close enough attention and sprayed the inside. I was able to get the paint off pretty easily though.
I did an idiot move when putting my phone back together. I was using the phone with just the sd card to take pictures and left the card in the phone when trying to fit the housing back on.. needless to say I snapped the sd card in half and it no longer works :/
Edit: I'm not sure if I'm gonna say that I am done or if I should add another coat. However I am pretty happy with the color I just need to clean it up a bit! Let me know what you all think!
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well.. I was smart enough to put some clear tape over the outside of the camera lens, however when i flipped it over to get the edges I was not paying close enough attention and sprayed the inside. I was able to get the paint off pretty easily though.
I did an idiot move when putting my phone back together. I was using the phone with just the sd card to take pictures and left the card in the phone when trying to fit the housing back on.. needless to say I snapped the sd card in half and it no longer works :/
Edit: I'm not sure if I'm gonna say that I am done or if I should add another coat. However I am pretty happy with the color I just need to clean it up a bit! Let me know what you all think!
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I think it'd be cool if you put a coat on everything that isn't the screen. To me it looks incomplete with the bottom of the phone(both front and rear) still black. Two coats probably isn't a bad idea! Maybe some gloss clear coat over the top to make it shiny? I like the android green choice though.
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I think it'd be cool if you put a coat on everything that isn't the screen. To me it looks incomplete with the bottom of the phone(both front and rear) still black. Two coats probably isn't a bad idea! Maybe some gloss clear coat over the top to make it shiny? I like the android green choice though.
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well this is actually with about 3 coats and 1 "gloss" coat. I'm not sure if I used the right paint. I used the "plastic paint" which probably takes a bit longer to dry. When putting it back together I kept pulling the paint from the tail part so I decided just to completely take the paint off of that part. Also I was thinking about painting the top and bottom of the front, however I did not want to risk covering the microphone hole and the inputs at the top. I think if I hadnt rushed through it so much then I could have had a better finished product.. good thing is these housings are around 8$ on ebay so I can just buy another one and give that one a proper try!
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well.. I was smart enough to put some clear tape over the outside of the camera lens, however when i flipped it over to get the edges I was not paying close enough attention and sprayed the inside. I was able to get the paint off pretty easily though.
I did an idiot move when putting my phone back together. I was using the phone with just the sd card to take pictures and left the card in the phone when trying to fit the housing back on.. needless to say I snapped the sd card in half and it no longer works :/
Edit: I'm not sure if I'm gonna say that I am done or if I should add another coat. However I am pretty happy with the color I just need to clean it up a bit! Let me know what you all think!
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Prep work is 90% of painting. The actual painting part is very quick. You should have sanded better. It looks like the paint will dry and begin flaking off if it has not already.
Well one of my friends suggested I should "wet sand" it. I've personally never heard of that but he said it will make it look a ton better, so I guess I'll try that this afternoon.
Wet sanding= sanding with water to remove particles from the sandpaper.
Start with 200 grit to really clear off the paint. Then move to 400 grit. Then move to 800. Then clean with alcohol VERY WELL.
you want it to be flat and sanded down to 800 grit across the whole piece. Don't stop with 400 grit until all the green is gone. Use 800 to polish it. The rubbing alcohol is used to clean off any particles which may stick. Douse it in alcohol.
There are better ways.. but if you're going to do all of that, may as well use a nice metal flake paint and a clear coat from your auto parts store to get it really nice. If you do the clear coat, don't stick it in your pocket for a few days.
Also, time yourself on that 1 minute shake thing... trust me. Shaking is important. Longer is better. It helps the paint to dry properly and faster.
Hi guys,
did any of you have scratches on the cam lens, in the middle, that affects pictures. i have the phone for more than 2 months and looks like that each month there is a new scratch on the lens. so far i was lucky enough not to get it in the middle but looks like at 1 point my luck will run out and 1 will hit the middle.
im just refusing to use a case because i think it looks ugly and will steal from the beauty of this device.
I have not had any problems with scratching but then im using a case where the case is just sticking out a bit more then the lense as to protect it also the case is clear so still looks nice
You can get cases that will compliment your phone and peotect the lens. Best if you try on cases yourself before buying.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
Never had an scratch and also no cases for more than 40day.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
I agree OP - cases suck.
I also have a scratched camera lens. I cut a screen protector out and put it on, but thought that it might effect image quality.
Its a buzz killer ....
since its a matter of time now till my cam lens will get scratched in the middle last night i did a little experiment. i took a piece of hair and stick it in the middle on the lens. well i have to admit that, i dont know how this camera is focusing, but there was no trace of the hair in the pic.
ill give it another try with something thicker now
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Hi guys,
did any of you have scratches on the cam lens, in the middle, that affects pictures. i have the phone for more than 2 months and looks like that each month there is a new scratch on the lens. so far i was lucky enough not to get it in the middle but looks like at 1 point my luck will run out and 1 will hit the middle.
im just refusing to use a case because i think it looks ugly and will steal from the beauty of this device.
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Hi,
I had the same problem exactly, and i have just joined to give you the solution that I used. My HTC photos are sharp and clear as before now.
The solution is very simple ... all what you need is a clean glasses cleaning cloth, glass cleaner (like windex) and tooth paste !! yes tooth paste!
First clean the cover with the glass cleaner ... keep it wet .. apply a tiny portion of tooth paste on it .. rub it with the cloth ... keep it wet all the time.
Repeat till you get the lens back to its original state ... or at least 90 % ... the technique used is similar to the one used in cleaning car head lights .. similar to this video for example:
youtube. com/watch?v=b1_sFEOGTMc
I hope u find it useful.
aldebsi said:
Hi,
I had the same problem exactly, and i have just joined to give you the solution that I used. My HTC photos are sharp and clear as before now.
The solution is very simple ... all what you need is a clean glasses cleaning cloth, glass cleaner (like windex) and tooth paste !! yes tooth paste!
First clean the cover with the glass cleaner ... keep it wet .. apply a tiny portion of tooth paste on it .. rub it with the cloth ... keep it wet all the time.
Repeat till you get the lens back to its original state ... or at least 90 % ... the technique used is similar to the one used in cleaning car head lights .. similar to this video for example:
youtube. com/watch?v=b1_sFEOGTMc
I hope u find it useful.
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AMAZING!
IT SOUNDS so silly, but indeed, it WORKS.
I was getting washed out pictures on my beautiful, 4-month-old, otherwise unscratched HOX+. This device is so beautiful, it's crazy that HTC did not pick up this design flaw. But now, my pictures are SO much better... THANKS!