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[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I've got some connections with a company were i can make stickers or engrave stuff. But i also have a large workplace at school were i can make almost everything ;)

And...! Even better idea!

I'm going to try something!

I will try to remake the plastic parts on the back of the phone. I'm going to make them digital in solidworks. Then i will engrave moulds out of aluminum and fill them with liquid plastic. So i can make my own plastic parts in pretty much every color i want!

If this is going to be a succes i will put them online for sale for a very nice price :cool: I'm thinking about a modding service for phones :D
[Desire HD General] DonUber:
The school I am on is really ****ty in that, we have almost nothing here, but indeed modding is cool to do and if you can earn money with it would be great!
[Desire HD General] suxelexus:
Surprisingly, doesn't look half bad! Good photo tutorial. I'm only keen to chrome the camera lens metal rim...not so keen on taking apart and voiding my warranty though. I may try to use a sandpaper, our perhaps some paint stripper on the tip of a tooth pick. Although the process sounds a little painstaking and dangerous.

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--this looks cool...personally id keep the back in black, with the laser etching, and the metal rim of the camera lens in chrome to match the original htc logo. that'd be sweet.
[Desire HD General] FaiLiix:
So were you successfully? Im realy interested in your idea and your finished products. Also were do you life (country)? Because if you start to sell custom stuff would you sell them to different continents?

Thanks.

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD General] csection:
wow, It actually looks great. I bet you are good with sandpapers :D

This definitely is not exactly for faint hearted though (a little bit wrong and then more sanding off to do)
[Desire HD General] f_E_a_R_e_D:
what tools did you use

an this is a great link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfatoeWbMRk&feature=related
[Desire HD General] five.bao:
It's very nice tut. But I couldn't do this, i don't want to broke my fone :D
[Desire HD General] c5satellite2:
I wouldn't get too excited about him making custom covers. They all have integrated antennas. Not impossible, just more involved than making the cover.

Better suggestion, paint them. Buy a new set, sand them with a very fine grit paper, and spray them. They have great spray paint in a myriad of colors that adheres well to plastics now. Just spray very thin coats and allow to dry between. You could even lightly sand between coats with a very very fine paper for a perfect finish. Just be sure to tape off the underside of the covers to avoid painting the antenna contacts on all three covers. And try to avoid the grooves inside the bottom cover where it slides on, and around the tabs that hold the battery and flash covers on. Too much paint in the areas that engage or fit tight against the phone might prevent them from fitting properly.
[Desire HD General] Nagelzz:
Btw the screwdriver for the 5 screws is a Torx #5 if i recall correctly :D

I had to take mine apart to fix power button :P

Do you have any idea if the covers ære suitable for painting? If so Im gonna make it chrome/red all the way. Even the camera lens :D

Did you use a electric sander or just sandpaper? Anyways awesome job!!!!

Sensed(4) from my DHD
[Desire HD General] c5satellite2:
You can sand it down by hand using very fine grit paper for metal. You could then use a cutting compound with a polishing wheel to further polish the metal. I would recommend spraying the bare metal with a clear coat to protect it from staining or marring the bare metal.

Yes you can paint the covers, read my prior post.

In the previous post you stated "even the camera lens", don't paint the camera lens. Camera won't work then. Camera bezel ring is ok to paint, just not the lens! If you paint the speaker grilles be careful to not obscure the holes in them. Very, very light coats on them. Always let paint dry between coats, or the bottom coats will NEVER dry.
[Desire HD General] Nagelzz:
Yeah that could easily have been misunderstood :)

I was ofcourse talking about the bezel, i just got all excited about my new project :D
[Desire HD General] FaiLiix:
Thanks for your help.

Did you paint your plastic parts of the DHD? If you did could you post some pictures so i could see the result? Thanks, again.

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD General] c5satellite2:
You could also have the metal body powder coated! Local auto body collision shop should be able to handle it.

And no I haven't painted or sanded my phone. I only look at the screen so I really don't care what the back looks like. The screen looks awesome though! 4.3" SLCD glory! LOL!

I do paint plastic and metal. It's not hard. Proper preparation of the materials being painted is the most important part. It is painting 101; prep materials, good paint, tape off anywhere you don't want paint, hang part from thin wire or string, spray thin even coats, LET DRY BETWEEN COATS(dry to the touch is not DRY), lightly sand between coats if desired with ultrafine paper (clean part again before next coat if sanding), repeat.......
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Remaking the plastic parts would be hard and too expensive so i didn't do it.

But i'm still planing to engrave something in the back off the phone. But i don't have much time lately.
[Desire HD General] TheChaoticLlama:
This is modern art. Kudos to you. :) I am considering doing this myself, however I think I should buy some spare parts just in-case I f*** things up. What do you think of this?

http://bit.ly/dhdspare
[Desire HD General] dancm91:
great work!
[Desire HD General] FaiLiix:
Okay thanks for your feedback. I am also planing to engrave something with a laser. Piu. Piu. :D

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD General] Fshahin90:
nice work but if I want to change the body color which type of color do u advice :O
[Desire HD General] ltkort:
Works, nice. Advice: sanding takes a lot of time
[Desire HD General] Sany789:
Awesome Work, looks like Desire HD with Beats by Dre now :D
[Desire HD General] DubelBoom:
someone found white plastics for the battery, sim cover and flash covers?

it will be so nice with this P:
[Desire HD General] ErOR22:
Not a fan of it, I think it looks worse with the chrome/silver back, black random bits and then red bits as well.

The stuff you painted red would look good with stock black phone.
[Desire HD General] matijus:
polishing paste :D
[Desire HD General] rd04:
great job :)
[Desire HD General] cwillison94:
It looks like a pot plant in the reflection ;p
[Desire HD General] lay012:
Where do I get the chrome housing from? I've looked everywhere
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
You have to modify your own housing :P
[Desire HD General] mammoz:
reallyyelp really great job !!

But actually I love black & gold. lol. :p
[Desire HD General] nicebabygirl:
any new pimp

any new pimp ? :p
[Desire HD General] tonn3k:
I want to see mat white DHD with red buttons. :)
[Desire HD General] Nagelzz:
Cool idea man!
[Desire HD General] zlmitchell:
I am definitely going to look into this, thanks for the great tutorial!
[Desire HD General] kocis_p:
The idea is great but it shows signs of grinding sand, I've worked with acetone to some noka phone, it is much easier and nicer.
[Desire HD General] Wheisenberg1927:
That looks slick!

Check this video for better views on how to take your phone apart!

http://youtu.be/2Zc0k994Pl4
[Desire HD General] Jalze93:
Wow good job!

Engraving your name in the backcover could look awesome too.
[Desire HD General] zimilie:
really nice, well done
[Desire HD General] xnrs:
AWESOME !! really good job ! :)
[Desire HD General] neo.power:
ouu very nice idea...but iam afraid :(
[Desire HD General] Hevlaska:
This is a really cool idea, you could just brush it for the brushed metal feel, sandblast it with varying densities for different feel, chrome it for the mirror efffect or even powdercoat it =D

Im glad DHD rear cover is made of metal.
[Desire HD General] flipflop87:
anyone know where u can find parts like batterycover simcard cover, red color from inspire 4g red?

might wanna try this out and mix up with the red covers
[Desire HD General] Davolon:
Red inspire 4g Backparts

Hi,

i really really really like this mod and i am already thinking about doing the same thing but replacing the backparts with the red ones from Inspire 4g

i usually try ebay.com if i want to get some specific parts. usually you get stuff like this from China or HongKong or somewhere like that^^

i hope i am allowed to post this link but maybe it would help... :D

okay... as it seems i am not allowed to xD well, just search for

OEM HOUSING BATTERY BACK COVER SIM COVER HTC INSPIRE 4G A9191 DESIRE HD G10 RED

on ebay.

you can choose the parts by this mhh... dunno the english word. maybe selector right next to the price.

i thought about buying an inspire 4g case and letting a good friend of mine sandblast (hope it is the right word... German word is sandstrahlen) it and afterwards polish it.

I decided to use the Inspire 4g because it just has thit AT&T brand and not the HTC inlay. So the back would be one big mirror.

What do you think, is this a good idea or not... do you think the AT&T case will fit? in theory it shouldwork out properly because it is the same device just different name...

Something else, what polish stuff would you recommend for the mirrored look? somewhere i read something about some polish adding a thin layer of silicone to provide surface from oxidating.

hope my first post was not toooooo long... ^^

greetz

david
[Desire HD General] Hevlaska:
hey there, i believe, if your friend has tools to sandblast it, im pretty sure he can chrome it up for you as well. Why not discuss with your friend? if he does sandblasting, im sure he can come up with lots of interesting ideas.
[Desire HD General] Hexgore:
OP, that is some awesome work! The closest I've ever come to that is putting custom covers on my old BlackBerries and I never made anything look that badass, props on that! I guess it'll be worth double its normal value now too ;)
[Desire HD General] :
Awesome^

Beautiful! I used this tutorial with my ZTE Blade and got awesome results!:)
[Desire HD General] tom!79:
I'm afraid to break everything, but once the warranty expires I'll follow the tutorial from the photos look really good, although I will use the color blue than the red, I don't like to much red.
[Desire HD General] chrisund123:
The blade is made of plastic LMAO!
[Desire HD General] KillaH229:
hmm ive got a sandblasting machine so why shouldn't i try this out xP

nice idea ;)
[Desire HD General] iSumair:
It would be awesome if u put a beats audio logo at the back :D
[Desire HD General] tribalartgod:
Now that I see how to properly take apart my phone, I may actually do this. I used to do this stuff for Playstation Portables for people on CL.

For plastics, use krylon fusion spray paint. For the metal, use duplicolor spray enamel. You will get the best results and smoothest finish this way.

This should be relatively easy to do, just time consuming is all. Gimme a week or two, to decide what I actually wanna do with it, and I'll post pics. :-)

Just to give an idea... this is the kind of stuff I do with PSP... (This one isn't mine, but I can certainly do this, and have.)
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Time for some more modding!

I hope i can find some time next week.

The things i'm trying to achieve:

- Making new buttons, the paint on the buttons was terrible and didn't last very long. So i'm making new buttons.

- I'm going to remove the 'htc' logo from the back and engrave something nice in the back.

- Polishing it super smooth. Got acces to a pollishing machine so i'm going to try it out :)
[Desire HD General] Kenny94:
Wow that looks awesome I must try it next weekend!

Thank you verry much :good:
[Desire HD General] quip91:
Nice work !
[Desire HD General] Omairss:
That's staggering man. Think there's any way to mod/change/paint the plastic soft touch bits. Making to black or something should look awesome too.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
I was also thinking about this and wanted to make my own plastic bits. But this was just too hard and expensive. You can probably paint them, but it won't last long because it probably doesn't stick too well.
[Desire HD General] anisjolly:
That is sick! Having to hide my phone in a casemate cover these days. Time to bring out the sanding pad and scrub the **** out of this one.

Will see if I can actually pluck the courage up to mod my DHD. May actually do it after my upgrade in case i f it up.
[Desire HD General] dmytrop:
this will definitely broke my device ))

better i'll try to use some rom to pimp )
[Desire HD General] derDoctor:
NICE

That looks realy realy nice

and its a great idea:good::good:
[Desire HD General] davevo:
Wow! Really good job! maybe ill try ;) :good:
[Desire HD General] sgroimax:
Unbelievable .... I coud destroy a city if I try to do it....CONGRATSSSSS
[Desire HD General] keeycheng:
wow man, nice job....

might do it to my phone one day....
[Desire HD General] naztek:
WOW!!!

Thanks for the inspiration and how to. Im going to try this - its quite possible that i will kill my phone, but then it gives me an excuse to buy a new phone, so win win.

however, is there anything we could do to the battery, antenna and sim cover? i should really clean mine, its gone a greeny/brown colour.
[Desire HD General] :
Interesting, but not where I fit it the red color. How many people have so much flavor. :)
[Desire HD General] ninjason:
nice work!
[Desire HD General] alexngboy123:
god job :good::good:
[Desire HD General] omario8484:
Looks sick as **** wish I had the balls to do this .... Mais merci et bon travail!
[Desire HD General] :
i bet i can have a Desire S XE when im done :D
[Desire HD General] Tarhaomenapuu:
im going to do taht but i cant descide:

-Black and gold grills, pover button etc.

-dark brown and balck pices

-full balck

could u help me? maybe with a render...
[Desire HD General] Romburn:
Looks pretty cool. I would never have the guts (or patience) to do that! Kudos to you!
[Desire HD General] Komorias:
Great job,cool stuff ;)
[Desire HD General] Rikodu:
Great job. However i prefer the original look
[Desire HD General] haerigrek:
I'm currently trying this, but I have to wait till next week for the chemical furnace to take the paint off and put a new one, they are currently doing metalic silver with additional layer of transparent paint. That would be way to thick a layer of paint and next week they promised to make the matte black (they are currently missing come chemical compound if the paint) and I'll try black cover with red elements :D Will post pictures once done :D Keep fingers crossed, for now I successfully took the phone apart and put it back together :D
[Desire HD General] Antu81:
+1 :good:
[Desire HD General] Imonol:
Wow... Thats pretty cool
[Desire HD General] doplatsch:
I also think, that it looks very nice, but for me it's to much work ...
[Desire HD General] haerigrek:
Hi guys, I finally started modding my DHD, I had a few problems and there are still some elements that need to be redone (paint peeled off) but in overall I think it looks cool :D

MORE PICS The back is all matte black (powder paint) and all the elements are sprayed "Ferrari Red" :D Sorry for bad quality pics but I took them with Xperia X10 mini pro. In reality the red really stands out, on pics it look a bit faded.
[Desire HD General] imdecoding:
Looks really cool, im thinking in doing something similar, just curious, what paint did you use? did you use some base paint for the aluminum part? because i think that the paint is scratching because it doesnt have a base coating.
[Desire HD General] gamagod:
Looks very good! Congrats!
[Desire HD General] haerigrek:
Thanks, the aluminium element was cooked and sandwashed, then I used black powder paint, you have to be careful though because inside there is a tiny hole for a screw. You have to watch not to paint it over because powder paint is fairly thick and you could fill the hole with it. No base paint needed, sandwashing gives you a texture so the powder paint sticks and holds well, it doesn't fall off the black element but the red ones. All other elements (grills, volume rockers, power button, battely and simcard covers) are painted with red spray carpaint. You have to be careful with it as well, you need to add a very thin layer of translucent paint over the color to prevent the paint from falling off. I didn't do that and have to redo all the buttons, paint is coming off. You can't sand those elements because they are either too small or plastic and sanding would destroy them. With spray paint you have to put thin layers and only few of them (2-3) because every layer of paint makes the element thicker and in consequence the whole phone will be harder to put back together.
[Desire HD General] DarkShadowAy:
How did you get the HTC letters black and detail it?

I know OP mentioned it but I can see me really screwing that part up. Please help!
[Desire HD General] haerigrek:
I didn't, they fell off during sanding and I never put them back. The letters were glued into carved forms so I just painted the forms over and I got a nice result. If you want o play more with it you might try painting the letters yourself but the original aluminium letters will be gone during sanding. You may also try to take them off gently prior to sanding, I didn't do that so I don't know how to do that safely.
[Desire HD General] punklad:
wow just wow

that looks amazing i think when i get my new phone i will be doing this to my desire hd how long did it tke to do :good:
[Desire HD General] haerigrek:
one day, two days tops. The spray paint needs some time to dry so it's good to start painting in the morning and after you put all the coats of paint you plan, leave everything to dry overnight. Powder paint dries within few minutes.
[Desire HD General] punklad:
Cheers man hopefully getting a new phone soon but still love my desire HD slot and really want to pimp it out

Phone: desire HD

ROM: super galaxy-1.0.0-BR3

Kernel version: 3.0.43kilotons_laughing_R10-g22c11e0randomblame@ferocious

Android version: 4.1.1 jellybean
[Desire HD General] haerigrek:
If you want to do it than the most difficult thing is just to try. Once you start it's not that difficult. I don't have another phone, that one is my daily use phone :D Imagine how scared I was to try this. What phone are you getting? I'm thinking about a nexus or note but never had any contact with any of them and would just like to ask.
[Desire HD General] punklad:
I am unsure yet so many good phones IM currently useing a Samsung galaxy s3 ROM so may get the s3 as but by the time I get enough pennys there will probley be a better phone out

Phone: desire HD

ROM: super galaxy-1.0.0-BR3

Kernel version: 3.0.43kilotons_laughing_R10-g22c11e0randomblame@ferocious

Android version: 4.1.1 jellybean
[Desire HD General] imdecoding:
sandwash is the same as sanding? ive already sand off the paint of the bezel of my phone and it looks cool im hust wondering if i sand the rest.
[Desire HD General] haerigrek:
yes, sandwash and sanding is the same. Don't sand the rest, you'll destroy them. just paint them over with some spray car paint and a translucent paint.
[Desire HD General] imdecoding:
yes, i remove the aluminum part as my main motivation was to fix the camera lans, wich i acomplished by usin g a clear cd box, then i sanded the besel of the aluminum part, the countour if you want, i dont know if i will paint it, yet, i like the chrome look of it, remind me of the delorean from back to the future for some reason. i will post pics tomorrow :)
[Desire HD General] portalXHD:
wow...excellent work!
[Desire HD General] markus123456:
Yeah,thats great! Looks very good!:good::good:
[Desire HD General] Crono88:
eheh..original red!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RED-FACEP...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item27cb35a0d1
[Desire HD General] alaci:
Congratulations! :good: Very nice work! :laugh:
[Desire HD General] wnasri:
amazing, loved it
[Desire HD General] fedgeist:
Wow, great job. What kind of paste did you use?
[Desire HD General] KuroSyn:
awesome work, you got me thinking about doing my DHD too. Definitely want the red meshing :D
[Desire HD General] Gperiotto:
I might do something like this once I upgrade =D
[Desire HD General] Superuzzu:
you're crazy....I love your DHD!!!!!!!!!:D
[Desire HD General] not_a_rockstar:
Someday I will pimp my dhd like you do.. great work :)
[Desire HD General] JulasssPL:
Very nice, but i hate this model...
[Desire HD General] AndreiMel:
wow

nice work , dude :good:
[Desire HD General] KarloHD:
Good idea, nice!

Gesendet von meinem Desire HD mit Tapatalk 2
[Desire HD General] Jellymonster:
wow,nice work~
[Defy General] Leo Bernstein:
I am using a Defy + 2.2.1 stock.

At some point, my CPU is always at 100%.

I first tried moving more stuff to SD and deleting preinstalled junk with Titanium Backup, in order to free space.

Then I started looking into the processes (using OS Monitor 2.0.5) and found out that the system_server process is always over 70%.(no file-system is full)

I have USB debug set, and I already tried chmod on time_in_state using Phone Prioritizer, but that didn´t do either.

I was preparing to upgrade my android, but I am afraid of doing so over an unstable system. Should I update anyway ?

Is there a better app to monitor processes other than OS Monitor ? (sorting by cpu use doesn´t work)

I searched all topics with similar problems but didnt find anything else to try.

Any suggestions ?

Tks

Leo
[Defy General] sp8y:
Not sure if it goes deep enough but "betterbatterystats" give process usage, other usage & partial wakelocks so it may pin point something that OS Monitor doesn't (although I haven't used that so not really sure what it gives you).

I've been using it this week & it really gives some good information http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Hope it helps :)
[Defy General] Leo Bernstein:
Unfortunately not. Nice UI but little info, and just user processes.

Now I´m trying the app System Tuner, but it is too heavy for my already overloaded system.

I am planning to do a factory reset then install app by app to try to figure out where it went wrong ... a hard way ...
[Defy General] Leo Bernstein:
Problem fixed :

I found out in tread All-in-one Defy Beginners -

Stock Froyo sometimes lags and/or freezes the phone: Its caused by the VM consuming all memory, all you need to do is adjust the amount of MB the VM should leave free.

There are a few ways to do it:

Use a terminal emulator, or use GScript Lite to run this:

Code:

su;

vm.min_free_kbytes=8192;

(Not permanent, need to be ran every time you reboot)

I placed the comands in the startup script of Phone Prioritizer.

It is still unstable, even with a higher value, but now I think I should go to a newer version of Android.
[Defy General] coolkfriend:
100% cpu usage

I am using a Defy + 2.2.1 stock.

At some point, my CPU is always at 100%.

Even i am facing the same problem with my defy 2.2.2 stock. The Motorola service center changed my motherboard but i am still facing the problem and it is really getting frustrating now. Can you help me out?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] madcheeku:
Amazon (3rd party) has 4 TPU cases for $5.99. These are for samsung tab 10.1 It is a set of white, black, blue and red cases. I received mine yesterday and they are excellent condition.

Prime Eligible

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GQTV26

Each case on it's own varies from 2.99 to 6.99. So the bundle is a great deal.

Even comes with a decent screen protector.

I will try posting some photos later.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] MMcCraryNJ:
I ordered these yesterday and got them today. I do have to say I am pleased with the quality. I figured 6 bucks plus shipping for 4 cases was a good move, especially since my Acase leather case has already failed on me. I was going to just use them in the meantime till I find a better leather book cover case, but I have to say with this case and a screen protector, I feel as if my tab is protected just as much.

Thanks for this!