[TUTORIAL] Pimp your Desire HD!
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polishing paste
It looks like a pot plant in the reflection ;p
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA
I want to see mat white DHD with red buttons.
Cool idea man!
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA
That looks slick!
Check this video for better views on how to take your phone apart!
http://youtu.be/2Zc0k994Pl4
Check this video for better views on how to take your phone apart!
http://youtu.be/2Zc0k994Pl4
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
might wanna try this out and mix up with the red covers
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...
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
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...
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
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55Hey guys,
I've seen the chromed Desire HD on the XDA front page and thought it was totally awesome. So i did it with my own phone too, but i wanted something extra, so i've also painted some stuff.
And maybe some more people want to do it but don't know how.. That's the reason i've made this short tutorial
And also post your own results in this topic
Let's start the pimping:
First up is removing this little sticker and pull out the volume button thingy with some tweezers or a small screwdriver
The next step is removing the GPS antenna. This is the small rubber piece that also holds the plastic glass for the dual LED's.
This is a hard piece to remove and i don't have pictures of this procedure. But i think the best way is to carefully open/push away the 8 plastic pins on the sides of the rubber with a sharp stanley knife. I started at the top and went round the entire think. Slowly it will pop out of the body.
Then you have to remove 5 screws with a small skrewdriver thing. I tried some of mine until one fitted. Don't know witch size it is exactly.
After you've removed the 5 screws you can carefully remove the body from the phone. You have to tilt it a little bit because the light sensor (the most right dot at the side of the speaker grill) is a little bit sunk into the body.
The next step is to remove all the small little pieces from the aluminium piece.
The camera cover has 4 little metal taps that you have to fold a little bit to the inside, then it will fall out of the body.
The other 3 things are easily to remove, their held in place with some double sticky tape stuff.
Now it's time to sand the thing until you've got the result you want. I didn't want to have it really shiny so i stopped when i got a nice brushed look. But if you want to have it shine you just have to keep sanding (up to grid 2500).
I've started with a sandpaper with grid size 200. After all the paint was gone i've wet sanded with 400 and after that 800. These are my results:
When i was sanding i noticed the HTC logo letters were falling out
I removed them. After the sanding I've painted them black with a very fluid paint so it will fill up the gap nicely. The excess paint you can easily sand away with grid 800.
In the meantime when the paint had to dry i roughened up the surface of the small pieces and prepared them fore a paint job.
After two layers of standard spray paint (color mat traffic red) i noticed i didn't like the red speaker grill. It was just ugly. So i've sanded the paint off of the piece and painted it black
The next step would be to glue the small pieces back on the body. I don't know exactly what glue it was. But it's glue that is pretty fluid and dries up pretty quickly. The English translation would be 'secondglue' but i don't know that's the right description ^^
Have fun modding your Desire HD and show me your results
Regards, Bas
3Hi 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
MORE PICS The back is all matte black (powder paint) and all the elements are sprayed "Ferrari Red" 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.2My pimpin
here is my work.
only broken thing is me thumb and my volume down key :laugh:
i used 400, 320, 200 sandpaper, standart sprey paint and some glue to re-attach buttons to cover shell..
sanding is the most diffiuclt part of all.2
