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I shall call you Bumblebee!!!

Got bored after having a red housing for a while, so I decided to change it.
Let me know what you guys think. Any suggestions? What colors would you
like to see. Only took me about 3 days for primer, paint, and clear coat.
****Camera bezel is all chrome color, and kickstand is flat black. Forgot to mention that in original post.
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awesome, very sweet looking

That as got to be the hottest mod yet! How'd you do it?

Bro that looks great, I would like to see titanium-like color.
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Thanks all. The process isn't all that difficult to one thats familiar with painting and modding their electronics. Ive been painting xbox 360s and figured that the back housing on the EVO is just smaller but really the same concept. I wish I had actual auto paint available and the skill to use it cause I know it would look 1000x better. This is just simply an primer, an enamel, and flat clear coat. Sad to say but over time the clear coat and paint will come off and I'll be back at square one. But thanks for the praises so far.

Im not hating brah, but do you think that clear is going to hold up? I mean with use and all.. Does it have a hardener in it?

mroneeyedboh said:
Im not hating brah, but do you think that clear is going to hold up? I mean with use and all.. Does it have a hardener in it?
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Dont worry I know where youre coming from. And I agree 100% that it will not hold up in the long run.

What you should do is run the matted blue theme, and paint it to match. Go for the full matted blue look. Looks great as is though, if a bit bright
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Why does you phone look like it swallowed two batteries?
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also which battery door is that? I like it better than the ebay ones.

Nice I want to see one just like that but with red instead of yellow. Looks nice.
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mroneeyedboh said:
also which battery door is that? I like it better than the ebay ones.
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Its the extended battery door that came with the battery from Sprint. $54.99 is a lot but I dont have battery issues lol.

sand1303 said:
Nice I want to see one just like that but with red instead of yellow. Looks nice.
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Red is what color I had before. My co-workers said the phone looked like a pair of Jordans. I will post pics of the Red in the morning.

Automobile Paint Markers
There is a range of markers which apply auto enamel, from Uchida , called DecoColor - opaque paint marker. http://tinyurl.com/35kmq6t
Nice contrasting look btw.

That looks sick! I can barely make a dash of red through the speaker holes, but it's a minor quibble. This looks amazing. If you can get a more permanent application set, I bet a lot of people would give good money for this mod. Well done. Very impressive.
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Its a bumblebeevo! Looks nice! Id like mine to have that light, glow in the dark green.

That is awesome, im going to try this on mines

kr1m3boss said:
That is awesome, im going to try this on mines
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Do keep in mind that if you have to take your phone to sprint, they will most likely flag your phone as "Damaged beyond repair" and thus causing you to claim insurance. Yet again I stress, this WILL void your warranty.
"I fight for the Users" and replied from my EVO

how did you do the chrome around the camera?

Simply did a wet sand and all the red came off

Steps to get YOUR Desire HD CHROMED!

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The blury parts are just some random fingerprints!
Sandpapers that were used:
1. P220 Untill whole surface is matte.
2. P600 Untill whole surface is matte.
3. P2500 (This one i used a "wet sandpaper") Untill whole surface done and no other deeper scratches from the lower papers.
4. After sandpapering a matte nice surface you use a polish liquid like "Autosol" or as meantioned in the thread "Belgum Alu".
Those are used to polishing the metal to get a "chromed" surface. This is easiest done by using a handdrill having a polish towel.
If not having a handdrill with this set, just use cotton or some else soft material to polish it. Apply and rubb!
Voila!
Stumpzy9 took of is shell and shared his experience with us, thanks!
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Ok so if you want to take off the back for chroming purposes or what ever you will need 2 things - 1. A torx t5 screwdriver. I got mine for $4 at Sears. 2. A medium guitar pick.
Ok first, take off the 2 covers and take out the battery,similar card,etc.
Next take the guitar pick and use it to pry up the GPS cover. Take note of the screw in the corner that was hidden under the cover.
Now use the t5 to remove all of the diver screwed around the edge of the phone , there should be 4. Now take out the screw that was hidden by the Gps cover.
You can now remove the body CAREFULLY!!!!
If looking at it from the front make sure you push up and to the left so you don't break a volume button like I did lol.
Now that the back is off, remove the power button, camera lens, speaker grills, and the volume button which is held in by a piece of rubber.
Youre now done. Make sure you don't loose anything and just follow the guide backwards to replace. The pic below shows the spots where all the screws are.
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how did you do that?

panyan said:
how did you do that?
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Don't you mean WHY did you do that?

looks cool

panyan said:
how did you do that?
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im assuming the op removed the paint and polished the metal.

woah it looks so shiny!

sorry, no like.

Very cool

go to the blackboard and write:
"I will never drink and chrome again" 1,000 times.

Drinking and chroming never works togather man
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panyan said:
how did you do that?
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audiobookman gave you the answer
exekias said:
Don't you mean WHY did you do that?
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Had so many deep scratches due phone drops.. so did the only right
Calysto666 said:
looks cool
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Thanks!
ineser said:
woah it looks so shiny!
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It really does!
john_d1974 said:
sorry, no like.
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PaulWilks said:
Very cool
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Thanks!
matthew33 said:
go to the blackboard and write:
"I will never drink and chrome again" 1,000 times.
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Ur still in school? gnomelolz!
Exous said:
Drinking and chroming never works togather man
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Good i didint then!!

It reminds me of terminator, and I like it .
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You do love your smudges don't you.

looks interesting...

I'm on way to make the same thing,
just a little hard to polish near the photo lense, but not hard in all
Just ont thing boring me .......
Now my wife will alvays take my phone for use it like a mirror
for this I want to try one thing : paint it in Gold color !
When finished I came back for post photos
Thanks for your idea man !
PS : the little pins attaching the photo lense are very weak .... to manypulate carefuly

Here is My Gold DHD,
So blingbling hihi

Looks interesting but high res pics would have been better to judge with.
Thanks for sharing.
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Yes i think same, but I have the only HD photo phone at home , the only way to take photo is my webcam lol
But one friend see my phone, and he have one DHD and asked me to make it as a mirror, work in progress

I like it. It's unique. I know what to do now when my phone is all beat to s toward the end of life

I did the same. If you want a real beautiful surface you need very much time and the right tools, but if you are finished you are amazed...
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Custom Painted Trim

I was inspired by a thread to paint my phone in some way. So I pulled apart one of my spare phones and stole its keyboard trim piece, it looks really good painted, going to let it dry at least 24 hours before I install it.
I used red duplicolor vinyl and fabric paint.
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That's the silver part around the phone?
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Yes it is. The test fit looked amazing.
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Kitteh298 said:
Yes it is. The test fit looked amazing.
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Lol it does look nice
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I posted the pictures of the test fit, don't really have time to take apart my daily phone ATM.
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I posted the pictures of the test fit, don't really have time to take apart my daily phone ATM.
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awesome! ill buy it

It is really sweet having a change of pace. Wanna send me your phone? I'll gladly paint it for like $20.
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Kitteh298 said:
It is really sweet having a change of pace. Wanna send me your phone? I'll gladly paint it for like $20.
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I want to but i dont have a backup right now, i have a replenish i bricked so id be screwed

Andy_nu said:
I want to but i dont have a backup right now, i have a replenish i bricked so id be screwed
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heh, It is cool that I have 3 of these phones so that I can tear one down and take the part, paint it and replace it on my daily driver.
If I could track down the part to paint for a good price, I'd buy it, paint it, and sell it.

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heh, It is cool that I have 3 of these phones so that I can tear one down and take the part, paint it and replace it on my daily driver.
If I could track down the part to paint for a good price, I'd buy it, paint it, and sell it.
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i havent taken one apart, but id like the whole phone painted! lol like red and black or green with an orange stripe(imo)

Andy_nu said:
i havent taken one apart, but id like the whole phone painted! lol like red and black or green with an orange stripe(imo)
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it is pretty easy to take apart, when you get into the more internal screws, make sure you get a good grip on the screw with the driver and use good downforce.
Krylon has a bunch of different colors
http://www.krylon.com/products/fusion_for_plastic/

Kitteh298 said:
it is pretty easy to take apart, when you get into the more internal screws, make sure you get a good grip on the screw with the driver and use good downforce.
Krylon has a bunch of different colors
http://www.krylon.com/products/fusion_for_plastic/
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do you know how to get the front separated from the screen?

The screen bezel? I'm not sure, I've not been that far in. There are 2 good take apart videos on YouTube though.
If you are looking to paint the bezel, just do a good tape job around it and paint. (If it can't be removed)
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Kitteh298 said:
The screen bezel? I'm not sure, I've not been that far in. There are 2 good take apart videos on YouTube though.
If you are looking to paint the bezel, just do a good tape job around it and paint. (If it can't be removed)
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i thought i seen it around youtube where they used a heat gun, but im not sure i would not want to heat up the screen glass from the digitizer

You did an amazing job on this. Really sets the phone off nicely, and makes me want to do something with mine. Kudos on a job well done.

Hey thanks a lot, I think it looks nice too. It needed more coats than I did for sure. There are a few small nicks in it and touching up doesn't work very well.
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Silver to Black attempt

I bought the HTC One in silver since it was the only colour stocked by O2. But i do really prefer my phones in black so tried making a sticker for the front and back. Here's my attempt, its not perfect but what do you guys think?
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Wow!!! That looks amazing!
What did you use to do it? And how?

Really how did you do it??!!!
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Black and silver combo looks cool why don't HTC doesn't think about it? This could be a possibly a 4th colour option maybe?
Send from my S3 (HTC one goes for replacement)

photoshop ???

ggreg said:
photoshop ???
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I don't think so. You can see some air bubbles under the sticker and the seams from the white dividers on the top and bottom

Sell This
Can you describe how you did this and or sell a kit? This would make me feel better about pre-ordering a silver One.
Surely OP will deliver!

Im a part time graphics designer and have access to a vinyl plotter and endless types of vinyl. So i got to work by creating a template of the front/back for the plotter, loaded the matt black vinyl and let the plotter do the rest.
The hard part was measuring every aspect of the fone, as you can see for the front camera n sensors I got the measurements slightly wrong.
In the future i would love to try carbon fiber vinyl on this.
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Im gonna plasti-dip mine since i got the silver. Gives you color options, adds some protection and gives it a nice grippy surface... :beer:
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i willingly could buy your silver device if you dont like it even its not announced yet offcialy in my country. just checkin' picks

I don't care about black or silver.
The main thing is, the surface is not shiny.
That's why I always liked the phones from HTC (my One is on the way )

would you be willing to start making more of these and selling them?!

I think a matte sky blue...a la Volvo's blue in their performance line...but matte or satin would look amazing on the One.
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omg i want that..........

That's seriously nice. Gives me faith that someone will make skins ala Nexus 4. Also makes me reconsider waiting for black.
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Now if only the battery didnt suck.
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baberswallet said:
Now if only the battery didnt suck.
Have To Charge
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At least you stayed on topic.

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At least you stayed on topic.
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LOL...Made me giggle!
Phone looks pretty awesome in the pics. Nice work!!
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kasa7 said:
Im a part time graphics designer and have access to a vinyl plotter and endless types of vinyl. So i got to work by creating a template of the front/back for the plotter, loaded the matt black vinyl and let the plotter do the rest.
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So. Jealous. I wish I could convince my boss that we need to get one, unfortunately we have no use for one so....:crying:

Awesome work Kasa! Any chance you'd be willing to share the plotter file so we could hit up a local shop and get our own vinyl cut?

Button bezel wear and tear

Anyone else who has had a G3 for a while noticed this? As you can see in the image, because of use over time the gap between the lens and top button has visible wear from the finger constantly coming into contact with it. I don't mind it as I run my G3 100% naked so it's scuffed up anyway, bit I thought it was an interesting place for use wear
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IT'S OVER 9000!!

esimon311 said:
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IT'S OVER 9000!!
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Yes mine has this scuff mark in the same place, phone has always been in the circle case, it must be slightly raised to protect the camera, don't have another camera to a hand to take a picture, but will try get a pic of it.

Damn it now I'm going to be OCD with this issue ......
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shayneflashindaily said:
Damn it now I'm going to be OCD with this issue ......
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Sorry :cyclops:

Lol its all good.. I have a white g3 and I'm putting a dbrandz true fit skin on it so I'm not going to run a case with it ...lol ... I'll figure some way to cover that piece
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Yup it was bothering me lol... I got my dbrand skin tonight and had to custom make a small piece for it lol :thumbup::beer:
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shayneflashindaily said:
Yup it was bothering me lol... I got my dbrand skin tonight and had to custom make a small piece for it lol :thumbup::beer:
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Maybe its just me but that straight bottom cut on that "custom" piece that you made is causing even more OCD issues looking at it. Should have made it to cover the corners as well man. It just looks... unfinished to me. Sorry.
[edit][offtopic] @shayneflashindaily Btw, how does the dbrand skin feel in hand? The texture I mean, is it more grippy or smooth? I've never used one till now and planning to get them shipped to India. Slickwraps or dbrand? [/offtopic] [/edit]

if4ct0r said:
Maybe its just me but that straight bottom cut on that "custom" piece that you made is causing even more OCD issues looking at it. Should have made it to cover the corners as well man. It just looks... unfinished to me. Sorry.
[edit][offtopic] @shayneflashindaily Btw, how does the dbrand skin feel in hand? The texture I mean, is it more grippy or smooth? I've never used one till now and planning to get them shipped to India. Slickwraps or dbrand? [/offtopic] [/edit]
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Order both ... I have only tries dbrands..... And that little piece is good enough for me as long as it keeps it from getting any scratches on that piece .. Lol you try cutting a small ass piece for that part... It wasn't a easy task
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leomd333 said:
Anyone else who has had a G3 for a while noticed this? As you can see in the image, because of use over time the gap between the lens and top button has visible wear from the finger constantly coming into contact with it. I don't mind it as I run my G3 100% naked so it's scuffed up anyway, bit I thought it was an interesting place for use wear
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I have the same on mine, but like someone above me said it is because that part of the phone is slightly raised so when you put your phone down (without a case or with the LG Quick Circle case) that part is touching the surface your placing your phone on. So I don't think it is because of your finger..

Klyupp said:
I have the same on mine, but like someone above me said it is because that part of the phone is slightly raised so when you put your phone down (without a case or with the LG Quick Circle case) that part is touching the surface your placing your phone on. So I don't think it is because of your finger..
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Ah yes true, just noticed that. Actually quite clever that LG did this, instead of letting the lens take the beating haha
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I might try to cut out my own piece again tonight .. Figured dbrand would have thought about this .. Pfft
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