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Custom battery cover

So, a buddy and I were bored the other night and decided that I wanted a custom battery cover. I bought a sticker, cut out, stuck it on, sanded around it and painted it. This is how it turned out... I was pretty happy with it.
Before the sticker was removed.
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Looks great, mind taking pictures of it on the actual phone?

No problem. I gotta wait for my wife to let me use her inspire though. I'll get some as soon as possible.
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Thanks, what kind of paint did you use and where might I get it? Also any tips you could give me if I try this would be great!
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I just used a regular gloss spray paint that I bought at a farm & fleet (farm supply store by me) you could by it at any wal-mart I'm sure. When you sand it, make sure you use at least a 400 grit for the battery cover and at least a 600 grit if you do any wet sanding on the paint. I wet sanded once and don't even think it helped. Make sure you put a couple coats clear coat before you put it back on the phone!!!
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Here it is on the phone. Kind of a bad picture but I couldn't hold my wifes phone steady enough. I really like the way the black and green contrasts.
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And if you can see how much worse the paint looks in this picture than the first ones, that's why you need 3-4 coats of clear coat. I haven't had time to get to that part and I used it for a day and it didn't hold up too well. No I'm using a backless phone. Need to get the clear done soon!
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Thanks a billion for your help (Thanked) I might try this one-day; you could (unofficially) sell these

oh snap that is on the actual battery cover! i wouldnt have the balls to do that to my battery cover. LOL. but looks good!

I actually wanted to sell these. I just don't really know what to charge for them. Let me know what you guys would pay for one. We can do a lot of different designs depending on detail.
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I personally would buy one of those for $20 max (But only because I'm a poor Highschool student ) they're cool

i wouldnt put that on my phone if it were free

If you don't like it, don't post about it.
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Seriously, nobody is forcing you to get one... Is it your time of the month or are you just STOOPID

Inadvertent heat test...

Got off work early today and decided to take a bike ride (mt bike). 90 degree temps - not a cloud in the sky.
Phone inside a neoprene armband, mounted on bike. Usually don't do that when it's this hot, but it was only 85 degrees when I started.
1hr 13min ride running Cardio Trainer with the screen on full brightness and set to always on, while streaming sports talk on IheartRadio.
Battery life dropped to 80% the first 30 min, which is good condsidering what was running. At the end of the ride (43 min later) it was down to 45% and HOT!
I checked the battery temp expecting to see something in the 42-45 C range, which is the hottest I have seen it get.
Today beat that... 58.3 C!!! or 137 F!!!
No reboots, didn't even notice any slowdown in performance. Opened her up and ran a vent on her all the way home.
She's charging at home now... her fever's all gone.
ps. good thing I have spare batteries.
Here's a screenshot:
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I use mine in the sauna n have never gotten that hot!
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donnyp1 said:
I use mine in the sauna n have never gotten that hot!
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Is that a joke or are you that brave?

thats nuts, scary, and admirable all at the same time. playin games usually puts me up to 42-48c. bad signal area and wifi on

That's impressive.

Wow hottest mine has been was 114.9 degrees fahrenheit. Thats intense!
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Pacifik said:
Is that a joke or are you that brave?
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Im serious, usually playinangry birds or 9 inning baseball, my new favorite game. I stay in 15 min at a time
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donnyp1 said:
Im serious, usually playinangry birds or 9 inning baseball, my new favorite game. I stay in 15 min at a time
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Then theres very good chance you are getting moisture inside you phone. They are not sealed. Its only a matter of time...

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Then theres very good chance you are getting moisture inside you phone. They are not sealed. Its only a matter of time...
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Maybe, but im wrapped in silicone with incredishield, never had an issue, not a big deal really, if it breaks ill claim ins or buy something off ebay.
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[Q] Blobs on screen that only show when screen is dark?

Hi All,
I think I may have to return my Nexus under warranty, I am delighted with it as a tablet but have noticed I am getting blobs appear whenever the background is dark and especially on black backgrounds, I have taken a photo of them with the tablet turned off.
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Anyone else experienced this?

I thought only amoled screens did this
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It's probably the oleophobic coating coming off.

I will post a photo to show you what I mean as soon as I am permitted to.
I am surprised many people ever get past 10 posts on this forum having to type the image verification code every time and having to wait 5 minutes between posts and not allowed to post images or links!

Anyone got any ideas now photo is up?
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Maybe from your case? My case gets little dust marks on my screen.

No, not dust, I have circled the 4 blobs in orange.
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Like I said before, it looks like the oleophobic coating coming off. It's really strange that it would be coming off on a pattern like that... Is there a part of the case that has those 4 dots that could be rubbing on it?

I have something similar with my screen. It looks like a smudge fingerprint on the left side of the screen. I can wipe it off but it always comes back. I've tried soap, lens paper, water but it keeps reappearing after a few hours.

Toast95135 said:
Like I said before, it looks like the oleophobic coating coming off. It's really strange that it would be coming off on a pattern like that... Is there a part of the case that has those 4 dots that could be rubbing on it?
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Checked and definitely no pattern like that on the case + when its closed it doesn't touch the screen anyway.
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Just thought I would update on this, the problem didn't really get any worse but also didn't resolve so I have recently sent it back to Asus as it was nearing end of warranty period and they have put a brand new screen on now so a good outcome.

phone runs very warm and short battery life?

Sup peeps,
Just picked up the note 3 yesterday.
The battery life has been pretty abysmal compared to my note 2...
1 hr of Web browsing and photo editing ran down 18%... No video or 3d rendering.
Also, the superior posterior aspect of the phone is abnormally warm with just plain use... Again, no video or 3d rendering.
Anyone else experiencing these issues?
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Do you try see which app drain you battery?
Setting >>>>>>battery
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Yes. First thing I did a actually. Mostly screen consumption and I am running at lowest screen brightness but not power saving. I never had to worry about these things with the note 2.
Here is my current usage after recharging again... Not as fast of drain but still bad for forum and Web browsing. Blue tooth and gps off but I am using 4g.
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I use power saver mode unless I'm doing something cpu intensive but texting, web browsing, forums you don't need the full cpu power
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I actually recommend going into dev options and enable cpu monitor. My note 3 was getting terrible battery because of indexing. And only found out why from the mon. removed my sd to fix it.
To enable dev options tap on the build# a few times.
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Similar for me. I unplugged mine around 11am this morning and actually didnt use it at all. It sat on the table while I worked around the house. While on wifi it was down to 55% less than 4 hours later. Battery shows exchange services is killing me with over 70% usage. Coming from a note 2 i never had this issue. In fact, my note 2 was amazing with the exact same setup.
Since this is being used for work, I need to use exchange and it needs to be set to push email. Anyone else use exchange and have similar issues?

My battery is really long lasting :/
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Best Buy has a test to check your touchscreen!!

Download the Geeksquad app. I watched him run the test in front of me.
It showed a horizontal dead spot one the upper portion of my screen.
I hate to say this guys, but the employees were aware of the problem and told me that they believe it is a hardware problem.
Don't shoot the messenger - It's what I was told.
They took it back outside of the 15 day return window and issued me a full store credit.
I'll wait and see how people like the new LG G Pad.
Good luck!!

Is this the app being referenced?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidapplication.geeksquad.gsa.one

Could someone please post the apk, its not available in my country

LoVeRice said:
Could someone please post the apk, its not available in my country
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For those in other countries, here is the apk:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ufx4z87z5l2ecq8/com.androidapplication.geeksquad.gsa.one-1.apk

Thanks for the apk. I just ran the test and all it let's me do is test 5 areas of the screen and multi touch in top third. Am I missing something because I don't see a full screen test.

Same here.
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Sorry guys, been at work.
Turn the tablet horizontal and try to drag the screen all the way to the right upwards.....Mine did nothing...
The manager even came and checked it out.....then gave me the nod - YES!!!

I have just completed the touch screen fix and it worked! I also could not complete the Greek squad test holding it horizontally. I had ghost touches, dragging issues and now my touch screen works flawlessly.
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Maybe it is software..... I have no idea, just the opinion of Best Buy employees.
I hope they fix it, I'll still never buy anything from Google or ASUS - terrible service.
They ran from the problem.

If you don't have any daily issues I recommend to not try this app, I don't have any issues overall with my n7 and don't want them either.
Don't look for the issues
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Lexord said:
If you don't have any daily issues I recommend to not try this app, I don't have any issues overall with my n7 and don't want them either.
Don't look for the issues
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Lol, kinda explains my point The happy ignorant
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Totally agree. I haven't noticed any issues with my N7 and don't want to, haha.

I'm not sure what I'm missing but the app doesn't do anything different when being held horizontally....
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