I would like to share a nice hardware mod from the Samsung Captivate Section, but unfortunately I DO NOT HAVE A GALAXY NEXUS. ALLEGEDLY IT WORKS, BUT AWAITING PROOF PICTURE.
Picture of my Captivate...
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SILVER SPEAKER MOD
WARNING: VERY DANGEROUS
The story of the silver speaker mod: I was getting ready to go out one cold winter day in December, it was 6:30 in the evening. It was just starting to get dark. It was very quiet, aside from the furious wind whipping against the side of my house. Considering surfing with Mr. T was definitely out with these wind conditions, I sat down to reflash my phone to a new kernel. Holding a knife in one hand, as I am known to be quite the multi-tasker (Yeah, i can flash and eat, what now?) and my Captivate in the other, I accidentally knifed my phone. At first, I started to panic and soon began developing a sweat. Looking down; on the verge of a mental breakdown, I was expecting to see a possibly maimed Samsung Captivate, and little to my surprise, I immediately noticed a battle-wound. Hyperventilating, I quickly pondered on how I could handle this situation without diminishing the aesthetic appeal of the phone, and then the silver speaker mod was born.
Requirements:
1. A fingernail / knife / nail-file / any pointy/sharp object
HOW-TO:
Step 1: Scratch at it until it's silver. [Might take awhile, I had to scratch at it pretty vigorously.]
I don't know how nerdy the rest of the XDA community is, but I almost came to my knees in fear when I was performing this operation. I would recommend wearing goggles, gloves,(except for one finger, we need at LEAST one finger nail..) and possibly a bio suit. However, should you find the courage to stand strong and repetitively move your finger up and down, you will be rewarded..with....
Reminder: No steak is worth your phone being hurt over, no eating and flashing.
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Thanks to geokhentix the originator of the mod for finding this out!
For one of the FUNNIEST reads ever, read the original thread! It takes a bit to get going then gets hilarious, then dies down... and gets funny again. Many people agree and have posted time and again, its well worth the time of reading.
So if anyone wants to try.... DO AT YOUR OWN RISK!
POST 3,300!!!!
Doing a b/u right now!
LOL thats the spirit!!!
forgot to mention.... backup highly recommended. nandroid and tibu. and back those backups to binary punch cards.....
Great idea but very bold and hard to find a volunteer! : D
you're new around here so ill let you in on a little secret..... lol... you dont know what we are willing to try just to be Speshul
no one willing to try?
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no one willing to try?
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I'm sure it would work, this happened from wear on my old eris. I could actually try it on that. But a part of the appeal of the nexus is the totally black face, no logo's or on screen buttons, so silver might look out of place.
i have 2 captivates... one with mod(and a cracked screen) and one without...
easy to tell them appart at quick glance.
but one the most sexy things about the GNEX looks is how it looks like one black brick when the screen is turned off.
Lol it works but I can't take pictures without my phone, so It's impossible for me to take pictures of my phone lolol looks great thanks.
Frostbyrne said:
Lol it works but I can't take pictures without my phone, so It's impossible for me to take pictures of my phone lolol looks great thanks.
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Front Facing Camera + Mirror = Profit.
Oh hell no. I would rather jump off a cliff while walking on hot coals while getting bitten by a cobra than willingly scratch my phone.
Pretty sure the speaker grill on the GNex is Plastic....
ahahah made my day this 3ad!cool!
i don't try that only for one reason...love my gnex without grey things,it's so beautiful when screen is off that it's all so black..but on others phone it can be good,more that with default speaker color!
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Front Facing Camera + Mirror = Profit.
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Derp, I'll get the img when I get home. Also it looks more silver on the gnex than your img of the captivate. On yours it almost looks white, but the gnex has a dark look.
mine is pretty silvery but not.. "dark" as you said Gnex is.... the photo-shopped image I made might not be the most color accurate.. but close...
so i take it that its not plastic as was worried about 3 posts up? nice!.... derp.
the gnex is actually quite easy to take apart...all you need is a very small screw driver, a guitar pick and a steady hand. to bad i like the all black look unless i would try this out for you guys lol. good luck
Just be careful several users in the captivate forums reported bricking their phone, or experiencing random reboots, While other members were able to overclock their processor to 4.2 GHz... See original thread for details
Your approval rating just went over 9000!!!1!oneeleven
wheres that picture that was promised??
Related
i know this is silly thread..
show your Defy waterproof status here
don't forget to recheck your USB port and audio jack port is properly closed before you do this attempt..
make sure your screw is not cracked or broke, or the water will leaked in.
if you want to go deeper like underwater recording, it's more safe to ducktape the earpiece and speaker.
and don't forget turn off your defy after this attempt, open backcase and wipe the water with soft tissue if there's any water come inside.
PS:
do on your own risk though..
i don't take any responsibility for any damage or warranty loss..
here, it's mine
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Great man,
Reserved for my defy
Show Off
More Picture coming soon.
Both my videos. Enjoy
Defy was submerged, and was swam with for over 30min
^ that's amazing
now there's a android device for underwater video recording,
MOTODEFY! EPIC WIN!
i thought defy could only swim 1 meter,
you beat that record man
Hah. Thanks. I said this in the video comments and ill say it again. Please do not try it! If you do, understand the risks.
Peoples defys have broken from water. I guess i feel comfortable with my phone since I take showers with it almost daily (for pandora), and ive washed it with water. but, after having my earpiece replaced, and having the side of the housing by the screws crack, my defy lost its waterproof-ness, and in turn, is now broken. My defy died from a few inches in a pool for a few seconds. You can read my thread about that. So if you see cracks by your screws, dont water test it. Also, id tape up the speaker hole before id try this again.
ups... sorry for your loss man..
thats why i tell people doing it at his own risk..
i have to warn about screw crack though on 1st post.
Sutitan said:
Hah. Thanks. I said this in the video comments and ill say it again. Please do not try it! If you do, understand the risks.
Peoples defys have broken from water. I guess i feel comfortable with my phone since I take showers with it almost daily (for pandora), and ive washed it with water. but, after having my earpiece replaced, and having the side of the housing by the screws crack, my defy lost its waterproof-ness, and in turn, is now broken. My defy died from a few inches in a pool for a few seconds. You can read my thread about that. So if you see cracks by your screws, dont water test it. Also, id tape up the speaker hole before id try this again.
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Sh**! If only your was not broken, then it would have truly become EPIC!
Its been replaced, so no biggie. The phone still turns on. there is just alot of water behind the screen. there is a hardware failure somewhere in the phone.
Here is mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YYtnOf0z7U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sent from my MB525 using XDA App
goateye said:
Here is mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YYtnOf0z7U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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that's great
but wait2.. is that yours MB526?
DEFY II ?
marhensa said:
that's great
but wait2.. is that yours MB526?
DEFY II ?
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Sort of....
My computer know my defy as MB526 efter upgrading to Android 2.3.3
wow, amazing, I would dare to do that even if I know that is able to survive that kind of stuff :S
do at your own risk mate..
some survive, some broken...
some broken because there's a leak, usually at usb port and audio port.
that rubber is not that good for closing it properly. have to do some tricks on some angle to close it properly.
here are two videos of my defy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQG-EflSJQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hQlIccKe0
enjoy!
Dive in lake. I did not dry it after or anything else... i got low volume in call straight after. I dont know is it connected but i get cracking sound in calls when volume set too high. Like speaker is loose.
Take a look, if looked closely, you could see a fish about 2 foot long.
Linkj
does your usb port cap seemed to be loose?
My defy is NOT waterproof.
I tried to make water run through it and I couldn't charge it.
Then I got to go to repair at service center.
About two months after, inside my USB port cap seems to be teared as well as my earphone cap.
sorry to hear that!
for that reason i'm so affraid of trying mine
Looks like Nokia's first Windows Phone has been leaked by the CEO no less. It looks a lot like the recently announced N9, but no word on what the internal specs are. It will have to blow the current generation of phones out of the water for me to give up the Super AMOLED screen on my Focus.
i didn't see any windows buttons. In the video he didn't actually turn it on.
Who knows
Full video can be found here:
http://www.technet.hu/telefon/20110624/exkluziv_video_elop_bemutatja_az_elso_windowsos_nokiat/
vetvito said:
i didn't see any windows buttons. In the video he didn't actually turn it on.
Who knows
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yeah the lack of front 3 buttons was what I was wondering about as well.
Hmm can't get the full video to load, but it's about time we get a peak of a Nokia WP7 phone. Can't wait!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M1wC0pS_No
Here you go, enjoy
So does anyone know if this would work on Sprint if it had the same quadband CDMA radios as the meego version? Because I would buy this immediately, if that were the case.
PS - In the long version he turns it on, and another guy comes out and demoes it.
Thanks for the links.
Looking at this unreleased phone, and looking at the already released HTC sensation 4g. All I can say is, Microsoft is in deep ****.
Deep, deep, deep ****. SMFH.
Microsoft is in a very poor situation with regard to WP7, trying to push a new OS to a market which isn't exactly dying for one, needing hundreds of phones and friendly distribution, but the video doesn't make it any worse.
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nokia nb66
Why were they still recording when he asked everyone to switch off their camera?
Should be more coming as well.
but the here's my question....will it have a FF camera? that's the only thing I want in my next windows phone and well mango too
That's.... kinda ugly at first glance.
I don't particularly enjoy the Nx designs. Sad to see them sticking with it for wp7.
ALTHOUGH I do like the boxiness aspect. I think rounded edges are old school, boxiness is a good thing design-wise.
sure haven't said:
I think rounded edges are old school, boxiness is a good thing design-wise.
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Or, you could say that rounded phones are a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Pulling a square-edged, boxy phone out of my pocket can be a real pain, but a phone that has nice rounded corners is not a problem at all.
And personally, boxy = ugly to me.
RoboDad said:
Or, you could say that rounded phones are a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Pulling a square-edged, boxy phone out of my pocket can be a real pain, but a phone that has nice rounded corners is not a problem at all.
And personally, boxy = ugly to me.
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Hmm never thought of it that way. Would never have thought of that as I've never owned one without rounded edges.
sumdumdude said:
Looks like Nokia's first Windows Phone has been leaked by the CEO no less. It looks a lot like the recently announced N9, but no word on what the internal specs are. It will have to blow the current generation of phones out of the water for me to give up the Super AMOLED screen on my Focus.
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I like it. I like the N9 and think this model would make a good WP7 device.
vetvito said:
Thanks for the links.
Looking at this unreleased phone, and looking at the already released HTC sensation 4g. All I can say is, Microsoft is in deep ****.
Deep, deep, deep ****. SMFH.
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Yeah, the Sensation is aptly named. I would love to have one. But I can't see anything wrong with this WP7 Nokia device. Imagine it in some other colors.
SteveChou said:
nokia nb66
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Those on screen buttons are nasty looking, I can see myself now always accidentally hitting them trying to play a game or something. plz bring something else Nokia, because that is not what I want at all
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Those on screen buttons are nasty looking, I can see myself now always accidentally hitting them trying to play a game or something. plz bring something else Nokia, because that is not what I want at all
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Since they are on-screen buttons, they can be minimized or disappear altogether during a game or open app. This would completely eliminate the accidental press of these buttons.
Just FYI, we're holding a contest that may be relevant to your interests:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/win-a-laser-etched-xda-backplate-for-your-galaxy-nexus
Good luck!
This IS relevant to my interests. Good looking out.
Cool contest. And its good to know that there is a guy that is printing custom ones. I've had some ideas running through my head that I was wondering if they could get done.
Thanks. Entered!
Can it be done with experiences of other devices too?
Can we by any chance buy one ourselves without competing?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Can it be done with experiences of other devices too?
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Yep, any device.
prking07 said:
Can we by any chance buy one ourselves without competing?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Yes. Visit the GRUVER concepts link in the contest. It should be available for purchase there.
Edit: Here's the link: http://www.gruverdesigns.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=20
This contest discriminates against people like me who read instructions properly and therefore have never had a bad flashing experience!
Wouldn't a laser melt the plastic back of the GNEX? Serious question.
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Wouldn't a laser melt the plastic back of the GNEX? Serious question.
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It can if too much power is applied. In this case no. It just etches the surface.
ericshmerick said:
Wouldn't a laser melt the plastic back of the GNEX? Serious question.
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phaze one said:
It can if too much power is applied. In this case no. It just etches the surface.
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The most important part is not the amount of power (or pulse energy) but the pulse duration (you use pulsed lasers for this kind of stuff). If the pulse duration is shorter or almost as short as the heat transfer duration between the atoms/molecules, melting is not a problem any more.
The pulse is "gone" before the heat can effect the nearby matter. You will get really sharp edges.
To win this would be awesome but I've never had any problems flashing anything so "unfortunately" I can't enter the competition, on the other hand I'm fortunate to never had any devices bricked!
great
Thanks for sharing, just bad when i read the others and see i was the daftest lol.
i know it shuts on the 23rd (i think) but when will the winner be announced? i can imagine it may take a while to read all the entrys lol,
Do you know if the cdma version will work on sprints version of the phone? Planning on getting mine sunday. Unfortunetly I can't think of any good stories that surpass those. But I do have my fair share since the days of winmo.
nice. thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting! I"ll have to think of my scariest moment for a bit.
Thanks! I posted my own scary incident back when I had my AT&T Tilt (Kaiser).
Just to give an example of the quality of the back cover, here's the one I had designed. Courtesy of Gruver Concepts (the company holding the contest with XDA)
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The detail is explicit that even the fine lines of my logo were etched with perfection.
This is such a cool contest! I just submitted my story. Would be awesome to combine my just ordered GSM Galaxy Nexus with an XDA branded back cover!
Think you'll enjoy my short story about attempting to update my brand new Nexus One while hiding in the work bathroom and thinking I ruined the phone
Quick update for all who entered...
Just a quick update for all those who entered:
We received over a hundred contest entries, most of which were quite epic (perhaps even of the 4g variety)! Picking just 20 winners (10 GSM, 10 CDMA/LTE) was tough, so I added in 3 bonus winners who forgot to write in what type of Nexus they own, but still provided excellent stories. I will send those three an XDA-Developers T-Shirt instead.
Winners will be announced in an hour, at 11:30a Eastern time. At that point, I will shoot off PMs to the lucky few who had the most entertaining and spine-tingling stories asking for their mailing address.
Thank you to all those who participated in the contest. It's amazing how many crazy tales our mobile devices bring us!
I guess not posted here yet!
http://youtu.be/cuv0VMBkWZ0
crazy video
damn,its water proff...BIG LIKE!!!
never come s3
look this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e3ri6vrmPbc
I'm kinda confused, a lot of people complaining about screen being prone to scratch, a lot complaining about not being gorilla glass etc etc...
As the other guy how had his one x going down from the second window floor and still working fine.
Had switch my yellowish Xperis S to th one X that arrived at home today but i'm on a trip so tomorrow is a big day, huge expectation about it after frequenting this forum for like 2 weeks now!
Hopefully no screen flex, bad screen ripple, gps or any other issue!
c4b4l3 said:
look this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e3ri6vrmPbc
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How can that be possible cant belive ...
Wow these videos are amazing, at least i don't have to worry about my phone too much now. Especially after that one dude on here dropped his from a window and it survived
Beat that SIII
Shock & awe!
just plain wow! Now I'm prouder with my HTC One X more than ever!
Next time I get into an argument with an iPhone or Samsung user, I'm gonna smash his brains in with my HOX!!!!
Even better, someone should do a phone fight off video, where they smash the phones against each other, like HOX vs SIII or HOX Vs iPhone!!!
One day before my protective screen arrived I accidentally dropped my work phone over the HOXs' screen. It's a heavy blackberry and I was sure it would have damaged the screen. To my surprise there was not a single micro scratch there. Nonetheless the protective screen arrive and I´m happy to have it on
My HOX got run over
So today i dropped my HOX and my mates car ran it over... needless to say i was crapping my pants when i was picking it up to see the damage but to my surprise nothing!!!!! Not even a scratch, dent or anything! I am using a plastic case and a screen protector so that would have absorbed a lot of the punishment but still very happy no damage to the phone!
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So today i dropped my HOX and my mates car ran it over... needless to say i was crapping my pants when i was picking it up to see the damage but to my surprise nothing!!!!! Not even a scratch, dent or anything! I am using a plastic case and a screen protector so that would have absorbed a lot of the punishment but still very happy no damage to the phone!
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Yeah try this w your phone and see if its still working
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No word of a lie bro! im not sure if it being run over the back wheel had anything to do with it but so happy my baby's alright!
lol this is amazing
picture or gtfo
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picture or gtfo
Sent from Mars
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So you want a pic of my working phone? cause there isn't anyway that i'm going to let her get runover again haha
It's hacky, but it works. Let me know if you guys want a write-up.
NOTE: You don't have to break the back of the watch to get this to work. I broke it a while back.
http://imgur.com/zOQEX0T
http://imgur.com/mHDEaGV
http://imgur.com/fqDgWtv
http://imgur.com/34DlC19
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NOTE: You don't have to break the back of the watch to get this to work. I broke it a while back.
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ouch is an understatement
hope that NEVER happens to my watch
Sweet Mercy that looks painful!
Nice hack though, I'm always on the lookout for interesting hardware mods!
Question though, mine has started cracking too... anything other than aesthetics affected by it? Heart rate monitor or dust ingress? It would be good to know what to expect if my crack starts expanding... maybe I should dremel it preemptively?
Eek, how did you break it like that?!
Let me guess your real job is a butcher!
Truetek said:
Sweet Mercy that looks painful!
Nice hack though, I'm always on the lookout for interesting hardware mods!
Question though, mine has started cracking too... anything other than aesthetics affected by it? Heart rate monitor or dust ingress? It would be good to know what to expect if my crack starts expanding... maybe I should dremel it preemptively?
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call motorola and get a free replacement. No reason to have a cracked back! You even get a free charging cradle out of the whole thing (and I think the replacements are stronger because I haven't had an issue since I got it swapped)
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call motorola and get a free replacement. No reason to have a cracked back! You even get a free charging cradle out of the whole thing (and I think the replacements are stronger because I haven't had an issue since I got it swapped)
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I'm in that situation where I bought it from someone who bought it in the US, and I find myself in Canada... And Motorola isn't capable of shipping me a replacement, unless I give them a US based address... Seems like too much of a hassle really, everything else is fine, and it had this tiny crack when I bought it (the guy had small wrists, much smaller than mine). I check it every night before I put it on the charger, hasn't expanded at all.
Given some horror stories I've read online of DOA units, dead pixels that aren't covered by warranty and other things, I'd rather stick with my perfectly functional one . Worst case, I'll just dremel the edges to reduce strain.
Thanks for the advice though! :good:
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I'm sorry, but to be honest... It looks like ****...
Im sorry but i stall cant stop laughing
The cracks happen when using wrong bands. The metal bands push against the glass back and they crack the glass. Normally the back won't crack when using the genuine strap. I had the pebble steel on the moto360 and saw the glass started damaging so I removed it. If I had it still on then it would have cracked almost certainly
There sure are! At Southern Straps we have NATOs for the MOTO 360
Check us out when you get the chance. Out straps come with a Lifetime Warranty and our founder came from the Android Wear project.
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