Shaving Down Original Battery Door LTE Nexus

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So if you look at the original Battery door which many say fits over the extended battery it has a bunch of lips where the battery is to hold it down.

If someone were to shave those down, with like a nail fail or sand paper, do you think that would be enough to take the extra pressure off the battery and thus be able to use the original cover and not worry about damaging the phone?


Just interested in peoples thoughts, and maybe someone is more talented than I can try it (I already chipped it).

I doubt it. The extended battery cover has a slightly outward contour to wrap around the extended battery's slightly larger size.

It doesnt even add enough to make me want to try shaving down my old door really

I was going to give this a try this but my dremel died a few weeks ago. I think it would work though. I'm able to get the factory backing over the extended battery with all but 1 of the tabs snapped in (with a lot of stress on the backing/battery though).

Yeah, I really am curious, not just to make the phone thinner, its more for the cases.

The phone does have a nicer "feel" with the extended battery, but when I put a case on, my choices are WAY limited due to the extended battery. But I choose function over form any day.

That being said, if this allows original backing + no stress on battery and results in being able to use any case I want, that is... to quote Charlie Sheen... winning.

Along these same lines...sort of, would there be any problem anyone can think of using the regular battery with the extended cover with some kind of thin plastic or something (I'm thinking maybe just a guitar pick or piece of an old credit/gift card) as a spacer?

I tried it out and didn't like the give that there was without any kind of spacer to fill the gap.

Also, as long as it was something like a piece of plastic as opposed to something that would cause interference, this wouldn't affect NFC, right?

I don't care as much about a case as I do not having to carry around multiple phone backs.

I did a bit of sanding/scraping/cutting to thin the battery area of my stock door. It certainly doesn't fit as easily as the extended door, but I was able to click it into place with significantly less force than was required before my modifications. I may do a bit more fiddling when I'm back at work and have access to a heat gun to take out some of the bend at the bottom of the door. Until then, it feels like there is significantly less stress on the door and my incipio case fits with nearly no gap between the hard and soft cases.

Now I just have to hope this doesn't somehow destroy my screen. Guess that's what insurance is for!