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Matte Black Back Cover

Hey,
I've been looking to get a matte back cover for my arc, on the grounds that I think the shiny back looks a bit cheap and the matte ones are easier to hold and feel better.
I was just wondering if anyone is selling, or knows of anyone selling, these back covers either in Europe (to avoid the huge delivery times on most on eBay), OR for less than £9.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Battery-Back-...Parts_Tools&hash=item3a66f6d28e#ht_3458wt_905
Thats the thing I'm on about, but they all seem to be imported from Asia and quite expensive for what's basically a thin piece of plastic.
Also, if anyone DOES have one, what's it like to use? Are they loose or anything, basically are they built up to standard?
Cheers all!

Go for it, same as the one I bought and love it...
Battery Cover
...and didn't take too long to arrive.

Looks great!
Also, my current back cover actually wobbles a bit under very little pressure so i should buy a new one anyway. Definitely going for matte by the looks of things
Edit: Ordered!
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Would just like to confirm, mine just arrived today, and it is SO much better!
Anyone who doesn't like the slightly cheap feel of the phone, buy one. Honestly it makes a world of difference!

Got mine yesterday and it fits perfectly, the feel in hand is way, way better also the squeaky sound from the original one is gone!
I'm very happy with this cover.
If someone is wondering to buy it or not, don't and get it.

jtc42 said:
Looks great!
Also, my current back cover actually wobbles a bit under very little pressure so i should buy a new one anyway. Definitely going for matte by the looks of things
Edit: Ordered!
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Did the same things as I couldn't take the wobble feeling anymore. If the matte cover still wobbles, I probably have to buy a case or move on to another phone. Unfortunately, others make ugly phones. Only Atrix is somewhat impressive of the rest.

any options for Misty Silver??
I found this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Battery-B...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item3a6533491e
But I am not sure how its different from the original !!

XperienceD said:
Go for it, same as the one I bought and love it...
Battery Cover
...and didn't take too long to arrive.
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Hi,
I searched on ebay and want to order one black & one silver. But there is no info available on ebay whether the back cover is matte or just like original.
Black:
http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/Battery-Back...UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL&hash=item3cb821bfd2
Silver:
http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/Battery-Back...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item3a6533491e

Black one is matte. The shiny one is listed as blue.
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Thx all.
Received mine after two weeks (Reunion Island).
The cover is perfect !
Here's a picture of my arc silver with the matte black cover.

i know its supposed to be a back cover, but i find this extremely useful too.
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/protec...ony-ericsson-xperia-arc-lt15i-x12-black-59306
just just a matte black shell. fits well and quality i would say, its better than its price of $2.40 with free shipping
for sharing!

I also ordered a matte black back cover... I hope it will give my arc a more solid feel.
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I'm going to get one for my Arc. The original one is easy to get fingerprint @@

Im going to order the matte black cover for my arc

nice....but anyone know of which case it'll fit into with this new back cover? the leather case I have right now has a contoured back...

hm... I think all the cases are compatible. I've got the gel case from ebay, the leather one in the retail package and both fit perfectly.

MxCraft said:
Thx all.
Received mine after two weeks (Reunion Island).
The cover is perfect !
Here's a picture of my arc silver with the matte black cover.
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This is just awesome! I have ordered one of this online too! I hope the quality is as good as what displayed on your picture! I will upload once I got this.

Ordered mine today as it's the same seller I got my screen from

MxCraft said:
Thx all.
Received mine after two weeks (Reunion Island).
The cover is perfect !
Here's a picture of my arc silver with the matte black cover.
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Hey MxCraft
Could you share the link of the cover's online retailer ?
It looks great on your picture.
D'like one too
Tnx.
How's the weather in Reunion Island ?

It was this item on ebay : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250835554958&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

original flip case ..Anyone found a solution for the cover ?

My original case (whick I think is brilliant but has a big manufacturing fault)is starting to fall apart at the edges as with most other users.I thought about applying super glue or tape but wanted to see if anyone was able to solve the problem before I begin experimenting.

zaki67 said:
My original case (whick I think is brilliant but has a big manufacturing fault)is starting to fall apart at the edges as with most other users.I thought about applying super glue or tape but wanted to see if anyone was able to solve the problem before I begin experimenting.
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samsung uses a very bad leather material and sometimes it feels like raxine, im getting the original samsung pouch, much better than the flip case... btw ,y flip case came with the device. sucks though !

tids2k said:
samsung uses a very bad leather material and sometimes it feels like raxine, im getting the original samsung pouch, much better than the flip case... btw ,y flip case came with the device. sucks though !
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Very true ,I wondered how the people who made such a good device can make such a bad cover for the case ,problem is it is very practical and does not add size ,I have the Zenus case also but I prefer the Samsung which is falling apart!

I bought a I would recommend going for a full body skin as the full body protectors give the same protection that a case does but without the added thickness.
My flip cover went through the same as yours, I superglued it but even then it kept coming off.
BTW... I went to the samsung store to see if they had the MHL adaptor, there was a galaxy note booth and the guy there wanted to ask me if I had any grievances...
Told him about the flip cover and the lack of gorilla glass (dont you get me started on that ) The guy later came home and collected my flip cover and said its being sent to samsung and i should hear a reply from them in 2 months... have NO idea what that was about... dont use it anyway so gave it to him...

Yeah, paid $45 for mine. It's cheap junk but a good idea.

Wouah.mine still good. Only a week yet. Too bad i like the flip case a lot!
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valtersboze said:
Wouah.mine still good. Only a week yet. Too bad i like the flip case a lot!
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Guess you are lucky, mine started falling apart since day 3

SAMSUNG THE FLIP COVER IS VERY COOL BUT QUALITY IS BAD SO PLEASE IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF IT BEFORE YOU RELEASE 100.000 MORE OF THESE!
You still have 200.000 of the bad ones?
Give THOSE for free and give THE GOOD ONE when someone pays for it!

A lucky flip cover user here too. Using it for about 5 weeks now. And that includes a lot of trouser pocket time.

ericshmerick said:
Yeah, paid $45 for mine. It's cheap junk but a good idea.
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At least this flip cover back is thick enough to protect the camera lens better than the stock thin battery cover which doesn't.
Woah~ got mines as a bonus w/ phone. Going on 2 wks old and still intact but the back cover pops out once a while. Not as annoying yet, however I already ordered my Zenus leather case.
http://www.expansys-usa.com/samsung-original-flip-cover-case-for-galaxy-note-5-3-white-224797/
Expansys is dropping prices every other week it seems. You can get it now for $32 + fatwallet cashback 2% on top of your credit card reward choice.
And anyone looking for WHITE S-pen replacements, then ebay seller shimshop has some.

I thought I was one of the lucky ones also but unfortunately sooner our later the case goes bad.
I agree that Samsung should release a better version.
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Zhoreb said:
A lucky flip cover user here too. Using it for about 5 weeks now. And that includes a lot of trouser pocket time.
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Yep, me too. Put it on the day i bought the note (sometime in November - release day UK) and it's still like new! Admittedly, being winter, i have only put it in the inside pocket of a jacket or coat. Maybe it has a chemical reaction to jeans!

zaki67 said:
My original case (whick I think is brilliant but has a big manufacturing fault)is starting to fall apart at the edges as with most other users.I thought about applying super glue or tape but wanted to see if anyone was able to solve the problem before I begin experimenting.
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I also love my 'now starting to fall apart case' - did you try glue or tape?

stephen dagostino said:
I also love my 'now starting to fall apart case' - did you try glue or tape?
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Actually I wanted to check if anyone found a suitable fix before experimenting
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legion1911 said:
SAMSUNG THE FLIP COVER IS VERY COOL BUT QUALITY IS BAD SO PLEASE IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF IT BEFORE YOU RELEASE 100.000 MORE OF THESE!
You still have 200.000 of the bad ones?
Give THOSE for free and give THE GOOD ONE when someone pays for it!
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agree.

I have the Original flip cover too, and yes I Love it too. The edges are wearing, I thought by now someone would have made an aluminum flip case. Thought about ordering the aluminum battery case, but I want the front to be the same and work like the Original flip case.

Somehow leather products with "glued" edges do fall apart quite easily. Happens to ladies' handbags all the time!
As for how to fix it, the answer is simple: blanket stitching!

holgalee said:
Somehow leather products with "glued" edges do fall apart quite easily. Happens to ladies' handbags all the time!
As for how to fix it, the answer is simple: blanket stitching!
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Ha ha, brilliant! anyone volunteering?

stephen dagostino said:
Ha ha, brilliant! anyone volunteering?
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I'll try it as I have nothing to lose I am currently on a business trip as soon as I am back I'll give it a try .I think I'll try a leather repair ship.
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I can't believe we're all being so tolerant!
This crappy fall-apart "case" from Samsung is totally unacceptable!
They must have known they had a problem when they started to give them out free.
They should have recycled and remade the lot PROPERLY.

Original back covered

Where can i buy original back cover pebble blune.?
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I actually made a thread on this a few days ago.
Some people said they saw them for sale at CPW, but I'm in the USA so I can't check there.
If you find one, please do post back here, as I really want an original battery door as well. Thanks!

I'm looking for them too

For an extra? why would you want another one? incase it gets scratched?

I've got the white version and I would like the back part of the blue one just to make it a bit different fromo others.

I thought I saw some on ebay, but something to remember is that if you want nfc to work, don't get metal ones. I would defintely go plastic until people have experience with the nfc issues.

My is sharp on one side. I wolud like to buy New but cant find any. Is no one seiling it?
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its a matter of time .. they will appear on ebay on some other place ...

Tada!
http://www.nutelsolutions.co.uk/spa...00-pebble-blue-battery-cover-gh98-23340a.html

They got them on ebay uk search samsung galaxy s3 battery cover cost £20 so about $30

I bought a pebble blue one from an ebay seller 13 hours ago. I suppose I'll receive it in less than two weeks time.

altusan said:
I bought a pebble blue one from an ebay seller 13 hours ago. I suppose I'll receive it in less than two weeks time.
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Who was the seller? Do they have more in stock?
Thanks

saltmine said:
Who was the seller? Do they have more in stock?
Thanks
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His name is: 2_buy_a
He doesn't have in stock right now

FYI
2buya = nutelsolutions
http://www.nutelsolutions.co.uk/gen...00-pebble-blue-battery-cover-gh98-23340a.html
http://www.2buya.com/spare-parts/ba...00-pebble-blue-battery-cover-gh98-23340a.html

I found a Pebble Blue flip cover on Samsung's US website. But it costs $39.99.

Saturny said:
I found a Pebble Blue flip cover on Samsung's US website. But it costs $39.99.
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From what I've seen in videos, the flip cover is not the same shade of blue as the original battery door.
I would pay $40 for an (original) blue door.. anyone want to sell one?!

saltmine said:
From what I've seen in videos, the flip cover is not the same shade of blue as the original battery door.
I would pay $40 for an (original) blue door.. anyone want to sell one?!
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Lol, and go without a battery door?
If I were you, you should check the thread where some of the guys are buying up the different back covers, and PM them. Good luck!
I'd def. buy one, as soon as samsung itself sells them. Anyone think they will?

Ebay has them
I've been looking and finally found them on ebay.
I can't post a link (new to the site), but use this search phrase in ebay:
battery cover samsung galaxy s3 white
Scroll down until you see a thumbnail with a red border and the word "original" plastered on it.
But it's for a white one. Not sure if they have the pebble blue... I did a quick search and came up empty. But I think it'll look nice with a white back, too! (Saw a youtube clip of a pebble blue SGS3 with a white back)

Just received from 2buya ebay seller a Pebble blue original battery cover for my white Samsung Galaxy S3.
I'm really happy with this purchase.

Saw some original Samsung replacement battery covers in CPWH.

Samsung To Release "Nature-Inspired" Colored SGSIII's

New Nature-Inspired Colored Samsung Galaxy SIII's
I saw this article over a week ago on their Facebook page and I completely forgot about it. Just found it again and checked XDA and saw no post about it.
Had you guys seen this?
I'm in love with that Garnet Red. Hell, even the Brown looks nice.
I wish there was a way to pull the casing off our phone and install a new one and I wish Samsung would sell the casing as well.

Well, I could buy that Garnet I wanted...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...ltDomain_0&hash=item20c9e15a2c#ht_1992wt_1139
FOR $218 DOLLARS! Holy cow, lol.

Ya I saw it couple days ago too. But I still like my white
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I kind of wish I would have bought white simply because the aluminum cases and such mingle much better with the white.
I found replacement front panels in garnet for under $30. I'm sure I could find a back case too....but I have no idea about the body itself.

uoY_redruM said:
I kind of wish I would have bought white simply because the aluminum cases and such mingle much better with the white.
I found replacement front panels in garnet for under $30. I'm sure I could find a back case too....but I have no idea about the body itself.
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Isn't the whole front of the phone a single piece? Or is that just the screen and digitizer?
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joshnichols189 said:
Isn't the whole front of the phone a single piece? Or is that just the screen and digitizer?
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Screen and digitalizer. Then of course you have the back battery cover.
So, I'd have a front garnet screen and a garnet back cover with blue side housing (I don't think you can replace the housing...and if you can, it wouldn't be easy) with blue volume/power/menu buttons (those wouldn't be hard to replace though).
If I had bought white, the side housing is aluminum silver color, which the garnet one is as well. It'd be an easy transformation.
Sucks

Warning about cheap generic shell cases..

I ordered a couple of them cheap generic "matte hard plastic protective shell case" for like $2 each on Aliexpress. A red and a white one. The white one fitted poorly and made the buttons unusable at times, so I sent it back to the seller at my own cost.
The red one fitted nicely but after a week of having it on I saw that it left red paint on the back of the sandstone black phone cover and because of the sandstone material, it will be hard, even impossible to get the red paint off without damaging the sandstone material. I like these types of shell cases as it doesn't add so much thickness to your phone but this being my first 5.5" phone I fumble it alot and have dropped it twice while outside walking the dog and it chipped the bottom of the phone and would have chipped/scratched the display if I didn't have a screen protector on it. I might get a replacement cover for the phone later down the road if I can find one for under $20 but maybe not since I always have my device in some type of casing so I won't be bothered with the appearance of this incident .
So, lesson learned and I recommend a full shock protection case if you are like me and are active outdoors. But what you can do is put tape on the inside of the shell case to have a barrier between the case and the phone to prevent the paint of the case coming off onto your phone. I am waiting for delivery of my new case and this will have to do until then. Take a look at my pics.

khmerog said:
I ordered a couple of them cheap generic "matte hard plastic protective shell case" for like $2 each on Aliexpress. A red and a white one. The white one fitted poorly and made the buttons unusable at times, so I sent it back to the seller at my own cost.
The red one fitted nicely but after a week of having it on I saw that it left red paint on the back of the sandstone black phone cover and because of the sandstone material, it will be hard, even impossible to get the red paint off without damaging the sandstone material. I like these types of shell cases as it doesn't add so much thickness to your phone but this being my first 5.5" phone I fumble it alot and have dropped it twice while outside walking the dog and it chipped the bottom of the phone and would have chipped/scratched the display if I didn't have a screen protector on it. I might get a replacement cover for the phone later down the road if I can find one for under $20 but maybe not since I always have my device in some type of casing so I won't be bothered with the appearance of this incident .
So, lesson learned and I recommend a full shock protection case if you are like me and are active outdoors. But what you can do is put tape on the inside of the shell case to have a barrier between the case and the phone to prevent the paint of the case coming off onto your phone. I am waiting for delivery of my new case and this will have to do until then. Take a look at my pics.
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Bro im using Ringke Fusion Smoke ..
Very good and can customize back picture HUHUHU :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good: cenggini haa!

You sent a $2 case back?
Lol
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Crisisx1 said:
You sent a $2 case back?
Lol
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Lol yeah i sent it back and it costed more than $2 too lol. But the point is for him to refund me the money so he doesn't profit off it but these dishonest bastards will probably resell the same one to someone else. I'm gonna open a dispute in a 2 weeks whether he gets it or not (wink).

this are the problems if you would like to save to much money 2$ for a good quality of a case is a joke, now you see the result. You can use alcoholic (Isopropanol) to remove the colour.

Hope this will help you. On youtube search for " How To Keep Your Sandstone OnePlus One Clean and Like New "

Thanks but it didn't get that pant off. It might have if i cleaned it right away but it has dried in. But at least i know now how to clean my phone if i get peanut butter and jelly on it.

I think I actually have the same shell....found out about this the hard way. Had it on for about a week or so then recieved the others I ordered, took it off and was shocked....
Luckily it's only seen under specific lights. Will search for that youtube video as well.

Yeah same here. I brought a cheap $2 tpu case and it left some red paint too. Now I have a tudia and jkase and they rock

alliktaavo said:
I think I actually have the same shell....found out about this the hard way. Had it on for about a week or so then recieved the others I ordered, took it off and was shocked....
Luckily it's only seen under specific lights. Will search for that youtube video as well.
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Yeah you are right that it is only really noticeable under bright light and in the photo I posted made it look much ugly due to the flash.
I did a eBay search for the original back covers and found they're are ones for $30 and ones for $15.. anyone have knows if the $15 one should be good enough? Both are Sandstone. But I heard taking of the NFC sticker is a delicate procedure.
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sien1996 said:
Yeah same here. I brought a cheap $2 tpu case and it left some red paint too. Now I have a tudia and jkase and they rock
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Damnit.. those Tudia Dual Layer cases looks bad ass and only $15 CAD. I would have gone for the stormtrooper look like my Nexus 5 but I ordered 2 GKK cases last week and waiting for delivery. They were about $10.50 each.
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