Dbrand Galaxy Note 8

gottria

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Anyone have problems keeping the edges down on the sides? Cleaned the back of my phone real well, installed the dragon skin and it went on perfect, heated the edges and wrapped from the center to the ends and then used the cloth to rub the edges down. Wake up in the morning and the edges are starting to lift. Heated up again and rolled them back down.
 

nds850

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Anyone have problems keeping the edges down on the sides? Cleaned the back of my phone real well, installed the dragon skin and it went on perfect, heated the edges and wrapped from the center to the ends and then used the cloth to rub the edges down. Wake up in the morning and the edges are starting to lift. Heated up again and rolled them back down.
I have the same issue.
 

err0r76

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What I did to avoid this was to put the phone in a case for a couple of days after applying the skin. I've had the dragon skin for months and all is good.

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tracerit

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I have a Note 8 and LOVE the way it looks naked but have always wanted to go back to the Kyrobe sticker from stickerboy. I had it on my Nexus 4 and it was easy to apply because it was flat. With today's phones the backs are usualy curved slightly and the cuts are exact so if you don't have one side right, the other side is going to go over a bit. I applied the stickerboy skin and it came out very close but I couldn't get the edges to stay down. The corners were worse because they're also curved.

I looked at dbrand's videos and they recommend blow drying it. That's cool but I don' thave a blow dryer. But what I do have is a zip lock bag and hot water. I microwaved some hot water for 2 minutes, put it in the bag, sealed it then placed the bag over the edges of the phone and voila! It had enough eat to melt down the adhesive to create closer fit. Now I have no more lifting of the edges.

This is a pic of how I did it, using my phone case as a placeholder for the phone.
 

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Limeybastard

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I have a Note 8 and LOVE the way it looks naked but have always wanted to go back to the Kyrobe sticker from stickerboy. I had it on my Nexus 4 and it was easy to apply because it was flat. With today's phones the backs are usualy curved slightly and the cuts are exact so if you don't have one side right, the other side is going to go over a bit. I applied the stickerboy skin and it came out very close but I couldn't get the edges to stay down. The corners were worse because they're also curved.

I looked at dbrand's videos and they recommend blow drying it. That's cool but I don' thave a blow dryer. But what I do have is a zip lock bag and hot water. I microwaved some hot water for 2 minutes, put it in the bag, sealed it then placed the bag over the edges of the phone and voila! It had enough eat to melt down the adhesive to create closer fit. Now I have no more lifting of the edges.

This is a pic of how I did it, using my phone case as a placeholder for the phone.
Welcome to the 20th century.

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tracerit

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Not sure why my second paragraph didn't show up. I was attempting to state that the hair dryer method works very well , especially with any type of adhesive screen protectors. One just has to becareful not to use too much heat otherwise it might stretch the film .



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I tried using a hairdryer but mine didn't work. The weight of the heated water also pushes the skin and holds it in place to the phone as well.
 
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