yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire HD General] mos33y:
Looks interesting but high res pics would have been better to judge with.

Thanks for sharing.
[Desire HD General] xTremePower:
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 :)
[Desire HD General] g3ismeee:
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 :)
[Desire HD General] Silberpfeil3110:
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...
[Desire HD General] Barmageddon:
LOl incredible ! Looks very nice , i don't think you will see an other one like that :D

Nice as well , now you can can put a big diamond dolar in the back ha
[Desire HD General] Grant Barker:
I think it looks good. I've seen similar great results with other phones too.
[Desire HD General] xTremePower:
Well done :)

I finish't my friend DHD :

for this, I used :

sand papers : P220 --> P600 ---> P2500

after I used "Belgom Alu"

It's designed specialy for polishing aluminium

I passed it 8 times for erase all scratches

Now it is a real mirror :)
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
And termint0r is gnice!

uuuh ido!

Thanks, yeah, the lins aint the strongest, but not that hard to avoid.

nice, very nice, cant se the shine though, prob the pics but good work!

Thats what i did :) as you may have seen (a)

Yepp, takes some time..

hahaha! thanks m8!

Gr8 results mate! very nice done!
[Desire HD General] fabiosilvero:
Nice ! But too much bling bling for me. Great work though.
[Desire HD General] :
Damn. I think im gonna do that with my desire S. Its the same aluminium
[Desire HD General] _andrea_:
Nice, a little bit flashy, but the only in the world XD
[Desire HD General] hsncool:
dont get me wrong, i like it, but is it just me, or is it starting to look a little apple-ey? (yes, i said it!)

reminds me of classic ipods, or older nano's. the black bits against a generally 'silver' colour, remind me of a first gen ipad...etc
[Desire HD General] stezo2k:
This looks amazing :D I want mine like that

Infact I would love carbon fibre on mine, that would look sweet

Sent from my Desire HD running Virtuous Unity
[Desire HD General] stuffinthesky:
I've been considering an aged bronze for mine. When I gather what I need and do it, I'll post photos.
[Desire HD General] saimon05:
nice~:D:D = a mirror
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
Haha thanks!

Just be careful! ;D

Its gnaaaaice!

Those were solid silver right?

I think it would to!

Hmm, could be nice, waiting for pics!!!

Thanks m8! )
[Desire HD General] LordManhattan:
Looks very nice! I wanted to do this myself, but i think a deep matte black would look awesome. Does anyone know what type of paint can be used?
[Desire HD General] Flussen:
i think an airbrush picture would look awesome too

Sent out of my Free Candy Van.
[Desire HD General] stillbeer:
want it too !!!

Looks great man !

I ordered a spare back cover of ebay,just to be sure i dont mess-up

my origional one lol:D

I did my HD2 too last year :p

Thank's for the idea !!!
[Desire HD General] SmokeyMcBong:
wow! i was considering this last month but thought it may look a bit weird, but after seeing the finished product........i MUST get round to doing it! lol

looks great bud, thanks for sharing ;)

take care m8 :)
[Desire HD General] itzsnookums:
paint thinner???? any guesses how that will work out???
[Desire HD General] barthoz:
Too shiny for me.
[Desire HD General] Stinger696:
looks great :D
[Desire HD General] stillbeer:
I think it doesn't work,i tried paint stripper (gel type) did'nt work.

The body is not painted but is anodized aluminum.

You realy have to sand it off.
[Desire HD General] nonbenda:
umm do you have any wi-fi, antenna, bluetooth problems related with chromed surface ? cuz you know the iphone 4 antenna problem because of metal side coat.
[Desire HD General] 2-die-4:
You could spray some clear paint on top of it an polish it again :)

clear paint is easier to clean than the metalsurface ;)
[Desire HD General] geraldf80:
I knew ppl did this.. i have my Inspire 4g at the point where the color has been stripped.. began the polishing process and started looking into Rhodium plating... will cost me like $30.00 from this one place but im curious.. aluminum dosent stay polished well... plating seems to be the only permanent solution.. does the paint stay on well?

also i use an otterbox so this prolly seems pointless..
[Desire HD General] logock:
it looks awesome! :O
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
thanks! black matte is really nice!

Idd!

Haha, thanks :)

Thanks, well it will turn out really great! :)

Thanks!

Nope, the antenna cant get worse by polishing.

Thanks! :)
[Desire HD General] koobiak:
Great work. Looks amazing.
[Desire HD General] thecharlie:
Wow. I'm a big fan of the chrome! Looks amazing!
[Desire HD General] h4mid:
u have big testicle:D:D:D:D

I congratulate
[Desire HD General] gawrion:
Nice. You really love your phone :-D
[Desire HD General] stillbeer:
Finaly i got it ready LOL:p

again thanks for the idea !!!
[Desire HD General] unhallowedone:
Just great :-D

Sent from LeeDrOiD Desire HD using XDA app.
[Desire HD General] domazdk:
Hmm can it be done with a Sensation? :rolleyes:
[Desire HD General] spookamiester:
And now we start to push the boat out.

As soon as I have the funding I'm gonna have a go at this.

Anodised blue would be mega, especially if I can keep the brushed effect.

This little extract from the "hints and tips" section also gave me wood:

"The caustic soda phase is very critical. A minute or so in the bath is required. Leaving it a bit longer gives a very matte finish to the final aluminium part: Which is a Good Thing"

Just be careful with that part as it will eventually dissolve the aluminium and could cause the case to be loose fitting.

Step by step home anodising guide

and for convenience here's a link to a ready made anodising kit if you want to buy one or just get a feel for how it should look.

Anyone who's willing to try this, please be very careful. I am merely posting this as a suggestion and an idea that I would like to try. If you have any doubts then don't play with acid. Your pretty looking phone would be useless without your eyes and opposable thumbs.

Good thing is that the kits, dyes, acids etc are all re-useable too so once one is done then I would be happy to help others. Anodising also adds extra protection so it's an all round win really
[Desire HD General] Poedra13:
Looks awesome!This is what I wanted to do to my phone!could you please make a guide in order to show how to do it?

thank you!
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
This looks totally epic and i'm thinking about doing this too.

But how did you guys protect the plastic parts? Just some paper tape?

And you guys also sanded the volume and power button?

If i could achieve such beautifull results with my phone i would be sooo happy :D
[Desire HD General] affinity121:
Can't remember where I first saw this. Isn't to my taste but nice work mate. Must have taken a while
[Desire HD General] WhiteSites:
Well Done

I am glad people are following my lead to personalize their phones.

How to Polish your HTC Sensation 4G

How to Polish your HTC HD2

By the way did you use the Blue Magic Metal Polish Creme?

Makes a world of difference in the final finish.
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
wow was just thinking about doing this on my way home today, look on xda and BAM!, great idea, love the look.
[Desire HD General] 0semaj0:
OMG...White HTC Desire! #like.
[Desire HD General] dnbcat:
It gives device fantastic look! :) Thanks for sharing!
[Desire HD General] godelsproof:
Beautiful!!
[Desire HD General] anndrius:
sorry wouldn't do this to my DHD, maybe carbon fiber look would be better for me :)
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Please, the people who did this.

Some tips about protecting the parts that you don't want to sand down / polish?
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
I would suggest taking the back off the phone and doing it. It does go right up to the screen so you wanna be extra safe.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I will take off the battery and sim cover. But how can i best protect the screen, camera lense and the rubber part arround the LED's?

I didn't plan on taking my entire phone appart :p

And is it better to sand wet or dry?
[Desire HD General] LordManhattan:
I've decided that i'll do this myself today! Gonna buy the sand papers today. But i'm not sure if i want the back to be polished, so i'll see if i can make it look good with a matte surface.
[Desire HD General] SourCreamGash:
Makes all the plastic parts look wank !

nearly managed to do a switch with some lass at work for her 'orange' black DHD for my rooted mocha version... but she sacked it off !!! totally gutted !!
[Desire HD General] LordManhattan:
I'm finished! I haven't polished it but i like it!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17612195#post17612195
[Desire HD General] DroidXAce:
Fantastic !

You can do an overview video please ?
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
I'm gunna do this but instead of sanding ihave a different method I'm gunna try
[Desire HD General] LordManhattan:
Thanks :) I'd like to do that, but i do not have a functional camera atm (hint: the bad photos)

The things i used are named in the thread i've linked to. How long it took me? About 3 hours.
[Desire HD General] Jam182:
does it cause any network problem? like, when you hold it does the signal drop down? I mean is it worse or the same? or better!
[Desire HD General] WhiteSites:
It wouldn't make a difference.

The antennas are typically located on the plastic panels and are thin sheets of copper. Polishing the back cover will not affect signal.
[Desire HD General] fbw.sw:
look like heaps of work. the dhd would be much nicer withour the cheap palstic on the bottom and the battery .......
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
Thanks!

So am i! thanks!

Haha gr8!

Oh yeah!

Looks nice, Thanks!

über gr8!

Yes it can, the back is in metal right? :)

Check 1st post! :)

I did not use any protection, i was just careful when sanding around those parts! :)

It took some hours yes :)

Havnt seen your tuts or phones, but hmm ok. Nope, i used Autosol.

xda4life!

Thank you!

I were just careful sanding these parts! :)

I used 2500 wet sandpaper, and i was just careful and did NOT sand around the earspeaker on the front of the phone!

ohye!
[Desire HD General] AdmiralGwiezdnejFloty:
will try this tomorrow ! :)
[Desire HD General] DrGreem:
wow dope :D
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Did you guys dissasemble the entire back apart from the phone?
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
Nope we didnt :) Or atleast i didnt :)
[Desire HD General] LordManhattan:
I removed all plastic covers (bottom, side and LED)
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
I took off the whole back. Seemed to work good
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
Nice, a little how to maybe so i can push it out on first post? :)
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
Sure not completely done sanding but yah will be soon
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
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.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
This sunday i'm going to take my phone appart and pimp it a little :)

I'll make some pictures during the process, maybe i can help / encourage more people around here to make it shiny.

I also wanted to give my volume button, power button and speaker grills a red color, just like on the Sensation XE. I hope it's going to turn out nice :cool:

And about this i'm not sure yet, but i also wanted to change the button LED's, again just like on the Sensation XE :D (EDIT: Seems that changing the LED's is almost impossible, and i don't want to break my phone (A))
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
silver and red, awesome combo! and yeah i would think changing the leds would be pretty hard unless you found the right ones and knew how to solder really really well.
[Desire HD General] jaysinclair:
That looks incredibly badass!

I'm going to have a crack at it sometime this week, I'll post results.

The girlfriend wants a pink-ish chrome added to hers... so I'll put up pics if I can manage it :)
[Desire HD General] hero000:
+1 very well said!
[Desire HD General] nawako8:
Kinda looks like the back of an iPod, nice work though! Have to try it..
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I can solder pretty good, but to reach the leds you have to take the entire phone apart :(
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
well it would be worth it
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
I will post pics in a bit, I have mine at a nice matte silver finish right now and it looks quite nice.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Started today with some sanding, i will continue tomorow and then i will also paint the stuff i want to paint :D

But i got bored and couldn't sleep so i made a nice pic :)
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Hey,

I think it turned out pretty nice.

It's not completely done yet, and i think i'm going to post a tutorial with some decent explanations to achieve this results ;)
[Desire HD General] m0rbus:
the matt look is awesome. But i guess you now removed the "shield" from the metal and it can start to corrode now. At least it'll react with sulfur, which is eliminated from ur skin.

I would try to get the plastic parts in another more sutable color as well to have a nice finish.

Good work though....how did u make it not to ruin the headphone? I could imagine all the metal dust sinkin into the grid...
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I've taken it apart.. but i hope i can finish it soon, i've had some problems on the way but now it's almost done and then i'll post a tutorial.
[Desire HD General] dRako1337:
nice job :)
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
Haha nice One!
[Desire HD General] virus_egypt:
i dont like that :(
[Desire HD General] ByAnz12:
wow its very very nice,,but if open case, what guarentee is void?
[Desire HD General] Neo XL:
deep black, not glossy, would look also nice. I don´t like the Maduro Brown. But i never would try this, because i know, i would brick my DHD.
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
haha why do you think you would brick it? x)
[Desire HD General] PXeuda:
like it...cool dude
[Desire HD General] GoBLiN_2169:
wow nice looking :)
[Desire HD General] drolles:
Great :-) !!

Sent from my HTC Desire HD A9191
[Desire HD General] :
Certainly original!
[Desire HD General] smanthrav:
I've never really been a fan of the chromed look.....until now :-D
[Desire HD General] Oli28:
Please it would be very very useful if you could make a ful big great Tutorial with Pictures and Text?? would be very niiiice!!!

THANKS SO MUCH
[Desire HD General] stumpyz9:
Ill take some pics of mine later I did mine with a dremel and I kinda ****ed up a bit, especially around the camera ring but looks good
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I already made one :cool:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1293207
[Desire HD General] stevysg:
awesome ++
[Desire HD General] Oli28:
Thank you ;) mate
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
(y) very asm! :)
[Desire HD General] AdamiX:
I would cry if somebody done this to my phone. All the fingerprints...

I know, i have got different taste.
[Desire HD General] pascal2608:
It's very ugly....
[Desire HD General] gaitholabi:
Nice Steps Thank You :D:D:D
[Desire HD General] shakennotstirred:
not CHROMED just polished

so will dull very quick and will need constant cleaning to keep the shine
[Desire HD General] neotanker:
Great work look very good, but other pieces myst be chromd too!
[Desire HD General] vovak43r:
What about rust after a few months? :confused:
[Desire HD General] Devas4:
man that is a lot of work
[Desire HD General] suxelexus:
Damn Maaan, you should glue some diamantes to all that bling, then you'd be stuntin!

---------- Post added at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:12 AM ----------

-Will look like rubbish very soon.
[Desire HD General] htctouchelfin:
For people that have just disassemblet their DHD someone can help me? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1340869
[Desire HD General] mkk90:
awesome work man!
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
Niiice :)
[Desire HD General] mynthix:
Bump
[Desire HD General] iPanacea:
Waugh it's rly nice,but how you broken volume buttons) It's glamorous
[Desire HD General] tuzluca76:
Not good, gray is better than it
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
I got a copy of the EH09 rom?

Any developers who want this please message me.

This Odin package includes:

* New Radio

* Gingerbread 2.3.4
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeatownGST:
definitely. maybe it doesn't nuke SD cards! :p :D
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
It is GB:) so yes, perhaps.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccampos784:
Could be that it fixes the SD Card bug. EH09 sounds a lot newer then EC09. :D
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedoman:
And it would be------where?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
jt1134 and a few other developers have it coming to them. :)
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scarfman4:
That means we will have to keep an eye on rootzwiki for it. We won't see it here.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnyplaid:
Does that mean we won't see it on XDA?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
if a dev from XDA msgs me they can have it too

love xda to much to not share.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnyplaid:
I got a tweet from Samsung that news on GB should be soon.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tkun:
Great news. If this new rom doesn't kill sd cards, then I might finally make the switch back to a Touchwiz-based rom. AOSP roms are still unstable in a lot of ways.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kidserious:
Yea, AOSP still has a few minor bugs but it's heads and tails above anything TW has to offer. With the introduction of fascinatemtd (thanks to jt1134) we can finally do away with TW.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhouston10:
yeah i love jt's work with MTD, but it just wasnt stable enough for me as a daily driver. maybe this will change that :D
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kidserious:
Wow, I've been running AOSP as my daily driver since jt's vanilla froyo back in february.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imnuts:
This sounds interesting :)
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinnie981:
Indeed
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
Anyone needs me, I'm Leetwolf in the chat...look for new roms based on this rom!

Has new radio and more.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randum0city:
Mind if I test it out? I'm no Dev but I would LOVE to be a test dummy
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
As much as I'd love to give it to regular users, this is for developers who know how to pull it apart. I dont want to have issues later, im sure a de-odexed version will be out soon.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randum0city:
Fine by me! I gots patience
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
it runs rather fast but the market is jacked up and cant send mms on the mesmerize and im scared to root with gingerbreak...seems really snappy though, more so than EC09...this needs to go to sbrissen and TSM

cant get gingerbreak to root it...and other ideas?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
Bakedtator who are you in chat?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krispuniq:
There is an SU-2.3.6.1.x.zip from nemesis2all. You can odin the Rom, dont boot, Odin the recovery CWM4 and then flash this SU package and boot. You will be rooted and rocking !

It worked flawlessly on my EC09 and I have never experienced any SD Card issue which others have. This SU works better than the gingerbreak i believe. Atleast, it wont fry your sd card :D
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
thats what rooted it

i got this from dfgas...i dev for him...he got it from you sir...he wanted me to be the tester and see if it bricked my phone before he flashed it...lmao

and just in case your wondering, i wont give this ODIN flash of yours to anyone sir...if anyone wants it, they will have to get it from you and you only
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natalic:
Ah alright with me. I flashed it before anyone else, its working for me pretty well.

Thanks for your work:)
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
scored 1007 on the first quadrant run...gonna keep this ROM on overnight cause i wanna see the battery life on it...has sbrissen got this from you yet?

ohh yea...the market dont work for my cause the build.prop aint set up right....tomorrow i will edit and flash to see if that works...says server error...im on uscc mesmerize
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comradesven:
Don't flash this on your Verizon Fascinate or your data will be broken until you do an ESN swap. It happened to jt1134 and me. No idea about other carriers' versions of the I500. Looks like this leak is pretty much for devs only, which isn't totally unexpected. The ROM looks like a test build for these guys. Looks like a consortium of smaller carriers.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
works for the mesmerize but i cant connect to the market....thats and no mms are the only issues i have come across so far
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccampos784:
Same here. My 3G data isn't totally gone, it comes back once in a blue moon, but now I'm definitely in need of an ESN swap.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
this may sound dumb but...how do you swap an ESN?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccampos784:
Pretty much just activate another phone on the line then switch it back to the Fascinate/Mesmerize/whatever. Or you can call the carrier and ask them to do the ESN swap for you (never done it that way). I've had to do it once before with another smartphone.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
thank you for explaining that...has anyone got a deodexed version of this ROM...if so ill add some reboot options and the puzzle lock to it...i just dont know how to deodex a ROM yet....still learning stuff about ROM development
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krispuniq:
i guess you can fix the data issue by copying those files from EC09 leak ?

If it works for mesmerize, then thats what i can think off :) I am really excited about getting a deodexed version of this ROM to use as my daily driver !
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidstyle:
ESN swap: activate another smartphone on your line then swap back... you want to make sure its a smartphone if your on verizon or else you will loose unlimited data(only for those that had it before the new tiered data plans).
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhouston10:
I don't know what it is. I was running MTD for a little over a month, CM7 and vanilla gb, and absoultely love them, but for some reason on my phone I had too many random glitches occur. Granted, it could be that there is something on my end I could've done differently, but I just don't know. Like I said, I do love jt's work though.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
i have a stock deodexed ROM for the mesmerize if you wouldnt mind me posting it....would that be alright?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godgood1:
eh09 - it's so far

eh09 - it's so far.~