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Lightbulb If the silver is wearing off of the "HTC" logo on your back cover...

You can peel the letters off, and it actually looks pretty good.
I somehow had gotten into the habit of rubbing the "HTC" logo on the back while holding my phone, and started to wear off the silver paint. I decided I wanted the letters either all silver or all bronze (the color underneath), so I tried using my nail to scrape off the paint. Instead, the letter peeled off! Even more surprisingly, it actually looks pretty good. If you do this, make sure you peel the letters off and the little adhesive film underneath them as well (it looks kind of shiny, peel it off and you'll have the nice matte coloring of the back cover).
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Yeah my letters ended up just falling off. It doesn't look bad though, I was just kinda surprised when they started to come off.
 
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yeah the letters from my black battery cover and my white battery cover both fell off.
surprisingly my red battery cover is still perfect, I've had it for quite a while now and the letters from that one are still there
 
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My "H" actually broke in half and the "T" has been missing for something. I was thinking about doing this.

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it's happened to 2 of my covers. But I just peeled the letters off, and it looks good! You totally can't tell there's something wrong with it.
Device history:
Palm Pre Plus (2009)-lit on fire
Droid Eris (2010)-sold
Droid Incredible (2010)-sold
HTC Rezound (2011)-returned on GN release date
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (2011)-Lost it :/
Kindle Fire (2012)-Collecting Dust
Nexus 7 (2012)-Current tablet-Clean rom
Samsung Galaxy S3 Pebble Blue (2012)-Sold
Samsung Galaxy S4 White Frost (2013)-Current Phone
 
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I have 2 covers - the regular one and the extended battery. The extended one still has the letters but the more I look at them the more i want to take them off. Or maybe I'll try dying them red to match the case. The regular cover has had the letters off for a long time
 
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Did this fairly easy on my extended cover. Just dug my finger nail at the edges of the letters and they popped off.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by theguitarguy58 View Post
yeah the letters from my black battery cover and my white battery cover both fell off.
surprisingly my red battery cover is still perfect, I've had it for quite a while now and the letters from that one are still there
Yup same here. The only thing is I think of my red cover as my Ferrari cover, so I only use it when I'm going out and want to show off. It still doesn't have a scratch on it. For the rest of the times I just use either my stock battery cover and if I'm going to be out for awhile I use my extended battery with the big cover.
 
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Happened to me too, but I have to say, kinda looks nicer(?)
I have a Samsung Galaxy S III with talk, text and 3G data flashed to
And a Droid RAZR M on MTN Nigeria
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Samsung Galaxy S III (SPH-L710) & Motorola Droid RAZR M
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My HTC logo is still fine but my red camera eye fell off. Official word...looks like ****.

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HTC Droid Incredible
[ROM][AOSP] JellyBean RC4 4.2.1
[Kernel] 2.6.38.8 -evervolv-dives-jellybean
[Recovery] ClockWorkMod 5.0.2.0
[Radio]2.15.10.07.07
[Status] S-off w/ Unrevoked forever

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