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Hello all, I have had my phone since Nov, but since having it I have had a case on it from eBay, but have seen that paint is wearing off on the edge, anyone else have the same problem?
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I've only had my phone a few days but I've been looking at cases on ebay after trolling through reviews... Is there any chance the case could have caused the paint to ware off like some kind of chemical reaction form bad materials ect in the case reacting? Or is the wear obviously in a place that's not protected by the case?
Any info on what case you have especially if you think you've found it's not a good case to protect my Desire HD is much appreciated!
Hey, I think its from the case just being on it because its the front next to the screen. It's one I got from eBay for like £2. It a gel case thing.
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Without having specific awareness of that case, I can say that it is quite possible for this to happen if you think about the chemicals that are used in such products. This might be the difference of a better quality and hence expensive product vs a cheap Chinese replica (not mean to say that all China products are bad since all of them are manufactured there anyway).
After seeing what happened to my car's console when it came in contact with the liquid car aromatic (melted like butter), I am not excited at all from what you mention here.
Like I say above I think it more to do with the design rather than the chemical reaction as it is only on the corner. I will try get some pics up but will be hard
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Not sure whether I should be nervous or not about trying a cheap arse grey TPU case I bought from ebay for around 2bux.
Well its up to you, I take my phone out of it a lot more than I should. I will get some pics as soon as I get the internet at home
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There is a slight bit maybe 3mm long right on the bottom right edge of the screen where the aluminium ends and the plastic sim cover begins. Just looks like the paint has been eroded off.
Hopefully won't spread too far too soon.
Should we consider this as proof that the wildfire does have indeed Gorilla Glass?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWcAd89P1nk
stuffynet said:
Should we consider this as proof that the wildfire does have indeed Gorilla Glass?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWcAd89P1nk
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I can't believe that video really. It was just uploaded yesterday. I lost my nerve when he used the knife there.
I always had a fear that what happens if my wildfire falls down. Wildfire looks to be slim, delicate and more weighted. Initially i felt like having barely visible scratches on my phone. Then i spent some money on having screen protector (it is wildfire specific & costed a little more than normal). My screen protector is excellent and it is so nice that none of my friends noticed the presence of it. Now im not gonna remove my screen protector and experiment on my phone. I hope my screen protector will be as long as my wildfire will be. I also got a strong pouch (it was actually the one for G8) to get rid of my fear. I love both of them.
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I can't believe that video really. It was just uploaded yesterday. I lost my nerve when he used the knife there.
I always had a fear that what happens if my wildfire falls down. Wildfire looks to be slim, delicate and more weighted. Initially i felt like having barely visible scratches on my phone. Then i spent some money on having screen protector (it is wildfire specific & costed a little more than normal). My screen protector is excellent and it is so nice that none of my friends noticed the presence of it. Now im not gonna remove my screen protector and experiment on my phone. I hope my screen protector will be as long as my wildfire will be. I also got a strong pouch (it was actually the one for G8) to get rid of my fear. I love both of them.
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Mine has fallen down like 5 times,( there are 2 times it fell down from 1 meter height) and nothing happen , I'm serious
Lol , 1st time mine hit the hard wood floor , my buddy was playing with it saying nice feel not too big when he flicked it face down at the floor
few more little bumps and scraps
Then i was building a bike. Bent over with it in my top pocket - slammed onto a large socket, i dreaded picking it up , one small scratch
not sure if its gorilla but they are tough , my bro has smashed 3 iphones
Actually I dropped mine couple of times. After the first couple of the falls, nothing really happened. Not even a scratch. However, after the last drop (a big one), nothing happened to the glass and the touchscreen covering the lcd, but the lcd underneath got messed up. I had to replace it with another lcd i purchased from ebay.
So the glass is pretty tough, however the inner parts of the phone not so much...
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mine fell a few times and nothing happened (I always wondered if my screenprotector has a positive effect on toughness or not). A friend of mine accidently dropped his wildfire though, and his screen is broken in many many places (same for another friend with a desire).
Golla glass is nnot scratxh proof
I wish my screen was that tough. If it was then i wouldnt have 2.2.1 because while looking for it on my sofa. I. Kinda. Knelt on it. Screen made a pop. Next thing i see is a glass shattered wildfire. Sent it off for repair. Came back with 2.2.1
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BarclayTech said:
I wish my screen was that tough. If it was then i wouldnt have 2.2.1 because while looking for it on my sofa. I. Kinda. Knelt on it. Screen made a pop. Next thing i see is a glass shattered wildfire. Sent it off for repair. Came back with 2.2.1
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That's unfortunate. And that's the thing everyone with rooted wildfire has to be aware of. Even if they are under warranty, they had to think whether to use warranty or not (for hardware problems).
And so I think gorilla glass doesn't mean it sustains the damage when hit hardly with a rock.
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Mine has fallen down like 5 times,( there are 2 times it fell down from 1 meter height) and nothing happen , I'm serious
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Mine fell down on rough concrete floor outside at school... Got nasty scratches on top part of battery cover... Nothing happen to display but i got invisibleshield on it
www.corninggorillaglass.com/featured-products
Here some info!
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Markoleti said:
www.corninggorillaglass.com/featured-products
Here some info!
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And heres some glass broken on wildfire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPNpqR-Y5ac&feature=player_embedded
Mipery said:
Mine fell down on rough concrete floor outside at school... Got nasty scratches on top part of battery cover... Nothing happen to display but i got invisibleshield on it
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helllo. guys I have confirmed that the wildfire have a gorrila glass......
you can check here
http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/#featured-products
The oldest htc desire got an amoled screen whereas the latest htc desire got an slcd screen.
I'm not sure, but there might be a chance that the older wildfire didn't get gorilla glass and the newly manufactured wildfire might have got it. Because we see the videos supporting both the opinions.
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What do you think everyone, Give us a rating from 1 to 5
5 that is pretty damn sweet. How did you do it
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i rate it a 5 cuz its AWSOME!!! btw i have a few scratches on the battery door cover. can i polish it too to hide the scratches?
What i done was use sand paper designed for metal Or wet and dry sandpaper would also do just fine. then just use a cloth and apply metal polish to it along with the grain of the metal. took me 30 minutes and the metal polish was under £5. And it got rid of all the scratches that were on it so its a good scratch remover too
It looks good. I did this on my HD2. The only problem is it becomes tarnished, scratched and rather unsightly in no time. I often wondered if some sort of lacquer may have been the answer.
i might think of doing this later. is the door more prone to scratches after the polish?
polish it thenput on a full body protector imo
I should probably consider doing this, it looks pretty sweet, and my battery door is currently covered in scratches, and the whatever the coating that goes over the aluminum is, is starting to peel off.
Although I'm likely going to get an extended battery from Seidio, so I'll probably hold off until then, since I'll be getting a new battery door with it.
Might try something like this too. My G2's battery door has the stock clear coat plastic flaking off. I've started to just peel all of it off so I can do something else to it.
i done it a week ago and its just fine no scratches at all, if im not sure the coating they put on the battery door is what scratches because once i had taken it off the scratches disappeared. its like a mirror if you put enough metal polish on it i notice people admiring themselves in the back of my phone when im texting
Should try clear plastidip to coat the polished door.
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Ya thats my biggest complaint. That film is peeling off my back cover also. If i could get that off i would be a happy camper! Not really looking to go to the hardware store to buy **** though. Would rather use some type of household product if that is even possible
I like it. You can use it to signal planes with if you are lost on a island.
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I like it. You can use it to signal planes with if you are lost on a island.
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+1 lolzz
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I remember when this was done a while back, it's still pretty cool. I scraped off my coating when it started peeling. Just use something like copper or a hard plastic so it doesn't scratch the metal. Not sure, but something like acetone should be able to soften the coating and remove it.
By the way - how in the hell did you remove the 'G2' on there? It's recessed just as much as the 'HTC' and I wouln't grind the plate down that much personally. So how did you do it?
EDIT: Took a second look and saw the 'with htc sense'. No wonder it doesn't say G2 lol.
GREAT i rate u 10 i love it
All together this cost less than £5 and a little elbow grease. I would of made a step by step guide or video if I knew anyone else wanted to do it. Because it's very simple to do.
Looks nice!
I customized mine using the laser cutter at my university. I lasered part of a maze that I generated using some algorithm we had to code as an assignment in the protective film (sadly, the laser isn't strong enough to really engrave the cover). It does have quite a few scratches after six months sadly. Maybe I'll buy a new one on ebay and make something else
Herjan said:
Looks nice!
I customized mine using the laser cutter at my university. I lasered part of a maze that I generated using some algorithm we had to code as an assignment in the protective film (sadly, the laser isn't strong enough to really engrave the cover). It does have quite a few scratches after six months sadly. Maybe I'll buy a new one on ebay and make something else
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Wow that's cool. How long did it.take to laser in the marks?
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I thought mine looked good but thats just gone and taken it to another level 10/10
Ok, so I've had the Note for only a week and just today I noticed three scratches on the metal frame around the back camera lens. I've really babied this phone and only kept it in my pant pockets. It seems that its really easy to scratch it. Anyone else notice this?
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You know, they do make protective cases for cell phones nowadays.
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You know, they do make protective cases for cell phones nowadays.
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Indeed, and I'm waiting for mines, which should be coming in this week. But even a case is not gonna protect the camera or the metal frame, but I guess it will lower their height a little bit due to the higher case.
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I cant decide if i will put my Note in a case. Ive always been an Otterbox Commuter fan... But this device feels good without.
Oh... No scratches here, yet.
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I cant decide if i will put my Note in a case. Ive always been an Otterbox Commuter fan... But this device feels good without.
Oh... No scratches here, yet.
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I just ordered this:
http://www.amazon.com/Skinomi-TechS...KZ1G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322451048&sr=8-2
Hopefully it will be enough to alleviate my fears on setting the device down and getting it scratched(as well as when its in my jacket pocket with who know what else)
The DAY I bought my Galaxy Note it was put inside a protective pouch...
Been 2 weeks and looks like it was just unboxed...
I had the Galaxy S for one year before upgrading to the note. I carried it without screen or body protection on many pants pockets, backpack pockets, carried it to the beach, mountains...
After purchasing the Galaxy Note I gave it to a friend, and after a good cleaning, it looks as new. The screen is absolutely untouched. It only has a scratch on a corner of the metal on the border after a fall on concrete.
I don't know if the Note can endure this, for the moment I'll be very careful with it.
I just felt this is exaclty what is going to happen the moment I unboxed the phone. My solution was putting an old (but good quality - Vikuiti) screen protector so it covers the lens and surrounding plastic and carefully cutting around it with a hooked scalpel. Works perfectly.
As Cat Stevens said: "The first cut is the deepest'
It's just a phone.
Bear in mind how lucky you are that this is even an issue in your life.
Just a reality check.
I just expect that frame is gonna get scratched. Is what it is.
I am in dire need of something to replace my Incredible s.
I work around steel fabrication, meaning lots of steel dust and shavings. After a year, I already had to replace my Incredible s speakers because they became loaded with metal dust, and they are already going out again after a few months.
Anyone use their Nexus in smiler conditions?
I was about to hit the buy button when I read Sony announced the Xperia ZR (water and dust proof/resistant), and now am holding off to see the pricing. It also does away with the two only things that made me hesitate on the Nexus in the first place, memory (I can slide my 32gb card into it) and no glass back.
cjunk said:
I am in dire need of something to replace my Incredible s.
I work around steel fabrication, meaning lots of steel dust and shavings. After a year, I already had to replace my Incredible s speakers because they became loaded with metal dust, and they are already going out again after a few months.
Anyone use their Nexus in smiler conditions?
I was about to hit the buy button when I read Sony announced the Xperia ZR (water and dust proof/resistant), and now am holding off to see the pricing. It also does away with the two only things that made me hesitate on the Nexus in the first place, memory (I can slide my 32gb card into it) and no glass back.
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Hm, metal shavings aren't gonna be good for any phone, even less so for the n4..
The grill holes for the ear piece are small and metal shavings shouldn't get in it to bad I've had to blow mine out a couple of times with canned air but it was from dust of mudding and then sanding dry wall.
Now as for the speaker I think this would go out very easily as the grill holes are bigger
Personally I would look at the HTC one, it's made from a solid price of aluminum and Injected molding for the plastic parts however I do not know what the speaker grills look like for the one. Just seems like it may do better around metal
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If you can get a hold of something to block the openings on the phone, the N4 should be fine. I have no experience with anything near metal dust, but I imagine it could be pretty bad for any device's internals having direct exposure to it (short circuiting and whatnot).
That Xperia ZR sounds like it would be a better choice though.
The only real problem I have is that the speakers have magnets, and hold onto any steel dust that get through the screen covering them. The rest of the phone stays clean with a screen protector and tpu case. I never find any more then a few specks under the case or under the back cover.
when I pulled the speakers out they had a good teaspoon of steel dust stuck all around them.
I'm a steel fabricator as well. What I do is keep my nexus 4 in a zip lock bag. A thicker and smaller one that I got from a shipment of bolts.
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Well.... I weld and work on heavy equipment everyday and have never had a problem. That said I take caution with my phone but there has been a few "incidents" and the only issue I have ever had was caused by media from a blasting machine scratching the screen. I am sure it has been exposed to metal shavings but have never seen any on the speaker grills. I love my nexus, but it isn't the most rugged phone. If I had genuine concern for contaminates from the work environment I would look into a dust and water proof model. Speaking of which Cat has its own android phone coming out....
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I work around paper dust. It gets everywhere. I have a seidio active case. The dust pools at the speaker and camera openings.
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There's also a waterproof ruggedized version of the s4 coming out
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why not put some extension at your tpu case to prevent metal dust to infiltrate?
back speaker is easy to protect...
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cjunk said:
....... and no glass back.
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Your wrong my friend....... It does have a glass back! And I've seen it broken all ready.
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Your wrong my friend....... It does have a glass back! And I've seen it broken all ready.
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Not that it matters much here, but the "Z" has a glass back, the newly announces "ZR" is reported to have a plastic back.
what if you stick a piecee of tape over the speaker and ear piece before going to work everyday? sounds kinda cheap but it might work
Take a look at the Cat B15 http://catphones.com/ or JCB Toughphone http://www.jcbtoughphone.com/ or Fortis phones.
They are all listed on Amazon and would likely hold up better than the Nexus even in a hard case.
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For those that googled this lile i did
Been welding for 11 years and been through about 16 phones
A lifeproof case or a redpepper case keeps everything out.
If you dont like typing through a loose peice of plastic like myself
Clean out speaker ports daily with a magnet
Do not use compressed air. I have damaged several speakers with this method.