[EVO 4G Accessories] akastixx:
All right you maggots. I'm gonna save your bacon, but you have to do as I say, not as I did. I did about a B to B+ job, but if you follow me "to the T" you'll come away with all your extremities intact. Lets go.

So you finally got your cheap cover, and it doesn't look like it was cut right, and you don't have a manual. DON'T FREAK OUT.

What you will need:

**A razor or an exacto knife (or a thin sewing needle or safety pin if you're a Nancy)

**Clean hands (wash that damn cheeto grease off your hands, tard!)

**Clean Evo (easy way to clean it is one tiny windex/all purpose cleaner shot to the middle of the screen. Don't even spray, just make it dribble 4-5 drops. try it on your counter before you try it on your PRECIOUS, precious.)

**A plate, saucer, or the top to a plastic container.

**No alcohol or perception altering substance in you (this is not rocket science, but you have to stay sharp to successfully complete this mission!)

**A small amount of dish soap, hand soap or detergent.

**A cup of water.

**Time. You will not get great results if you do everything at once. You can probably get away with doing this in three parts, but I'd recommend four. You'll see why later. You should also do this when you feel you won't need to make or take a call or use your phone. This will take a couple of hours.

**Optional - a cutting board and florescent lighting (it's harder to see the shapes in "yellow" light)

Part 1 (The back):

** We will start with the back. The good thing about the back cover is that there is less unnecessary protector to fight with. Clean your hands and your Evo.

**pour about as much as water you could imagine the cupped palm of your hand could hold 3-4 times on your saucer.

**Squirt about 6 drops of dish liquid into the water stir it with your finger, then dry your finger.

**Place the Evo face down on a flat surface.

**Take the back protector. Place that on a flat surface. Pick one of the three holes at the top (speaker, camera or flash) and hold it down with the tip of your blade near the top of that hole. you don't need to cut anything. with your other hand peel the protector from the top slowly.

**There will be some resistance, and it will feel like you might tear your protector but if you pull slowly, the circle should stay there.

**Put the protector back and repeat with the other circles.

**You should now have your protector halfway peeled, and the 3 circles attached to the paper, or at least not attached to the protector.

**There are two ovals on the bottom half. You will need to place your blade between the oval for the kickstand, and the protector. Your blade needs to be in that outer oval that surrounds the kickstand.

**Peel the remaining half of the protector off. Be careful not to damage the material for the kick stand.

**You should now have the back protector (minus the kickstand) off. If you got a fingerprint or two on it, it's ok, but try not to touch anything besides the corner.

**While holding a corner of the protector (with the hand you don't write with) dip it in your soap water mix sticky side down. Hold up the protector. There should be some excess water at the bottom. The corner where your fingers are should be dry, so hold the protector with your writing hand, use the excess water to wet the dry spot, and slide the protector on the plate to remove any other excess. there should just be a film of water, not any water about to drip off.

**Note --- if you have to stop at any point with protector that's already peeled, place it halfway on/halfway off your plate so you don't lose it.

**Place your protector on the back part of the Evo. For best results, you should touch the the Evo with opposite bottom corner of the protector and slowly place the rest on. (if you're holding the protector in your right hand on the right corner of the protector, lay it on the Evo bottom left first.) You will have a couple of minutes to adjust it, so take your time. If you did this correctly, you should have no air bubbles, but if you do, gently smooth them out.

**Once the back is secure, you can start on the kickstand.

**The kickstand may be a little harder to remove. if there is a spot where you can gently slip your blade in to start peeling it off the paper, go for it. Hold the blade down on the part you don't need like you did before to pull the kickstand off. If not, you will need that cutting board or something underneath the paper that you don't mind having a razor cut on.

**Using the blade, touch one of the straight edges of the oval. Turn your blade so that if you were to make a cut, it would start at that edge, but end AWAY from the oval, not into it. Make your cut. You only need a tiny cut, just enough to slide your blade underneath so you can peel like I described one step ago. If you are using a needle, poke a hole on the outside of the edge as close as you can.

**Once the kickstand is peeled, wet it and place it. it is not a perfect fit. Place it an equal distance from all sides or however you'd like, and you are good to go.

**Now you will need to leave your phone alone for at least an hour. DO NOT TOUCH YOUR PHONE FOR AN HOUR, NIMROD. Don't go celebrating with a drink, either.

Part 2 (Front):

Ok, on to the front.

**Using your blade (or your needle), touch one of the long edges of the front protector and poke or cut like I described before. Make sure you are slow and careful. You do not want to cut into your side protector pieces.

**Wiggle your blade in and pry the front up like before.

**Dip and place your protector like before (slowly, opposite end first).

**This time, you will need to wait at least an hour and a half to two hours. The material on the front is different, and it takes longer to stick.

Part 3-4 (Sides):

Last up is the sides, the hardest part. If you notice the picture above, it has all the side pieces except for one. if you look at your actual paper, the missing piece is above the rest of them. you will put this piece on last.

First I will tell you where the pieces go, then I'll let you know how to put them on.

*Top piece - It will start from the edge of the power button, and slightly wrap around the the left side of the phone (if the screen is facing you).

*Top left side piece - it will continue where the top piece left off, covering most of the left side of the phone.

*Bottom left side piece - as the name suggests, it will continue from the last piece and stop at the USB icon.

*Right piece - the skinny part will start at the HDMI logo, and come up most of the right side of the phone, stopping short of the volume button.

*Mystery piece - it goes on the right top corner between the volume and power button.

Part 3 (Left Side):

**Remove, dip and place the top piece. You will place it on the phone in the same direction you peeled it off the phone, or the same way it shows in the picture above. My method of getting these suckers on right was this. Whether you are right handed or left handed, place the piece on the top. It doesn't need to wrap around yet, just make sure it's on there. Grab the bottom half phone with your right hand with the screen facing your palm. Look at the piece you put on. Gently adjust it with your left thumb. Once it is in place, you'll need to put the phone down, screen side up, but the top of the phone facing you. Cover the phone with your left hand and firmly place your thumb on the top piece, but be careful not to move it. Use your right thumb to smooth it around the corner.

**Note - if any of your pieces dry out, just put more soapy water on it. Just don't let it dry out too many times.

**Now you will notice the piece doesn't want to go on straight, and a air bubble will form at the corner. To fix that, first take your left thumb off the phone and make sure the top part is still in place. If it is not, adjust it. Place your thumb there again and gently smooth the bubble at the corner out first with your right thumb. It may try to come back, but smooth it out gently, the same way you gently wiped away the tear of a pansy iphone user when they saw your phone. Once the bubble is out, gently adjust the rest of the piece into place. If the bubble comes back, repeat the process - rub the bubble out, and adjust the rest. If you accidentally mess up the top, you are a failure at life. Start again.

**You may not get this on right before it starts drying out. if you don't, just re-wet the piece and start over.

**Once your top piece is on, remove, dip and place the left piece. This is easy. Just make sure it starts right where the last piece left off with no space in between. Be careful not to mess up the top.

**Sit the phone down for 20-30 minutes and let it dry.

Part 4 (The rest):

**Place the bottom left side piece on like you placed the top piece - hold it down with your left, rub the bubble out with your right, adjust the rest.

**You will place the right side piece the opposite way. Place the fat part of it right by the volume button, and once you have it on, secure it with your right thumb and smooth the bubble with your left, then adjust the rest. Be careful not to mess up your other pieces in the process.

**At this point, you should probably dry your phone out again, but if you're brave, slap on that final mystery piece. It doesn't matter what had you use to hold or smooth at this point, just get that piece on!

fin.

OP/Mod, you might want to link the 1st post to this one. People - there is no reason to send this back for a refund if you already bought it. There are only a couple of other steps you'd have to do that you wouldn't with a regular protector.