[Q] Aluminum Battery/Sim/Camera Cover

MiXed92

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Hello Guys,
I was loking for hours to find Aluminum Covers for the DHD to replace the plastic parts but wasn't able to find them (if they even exist).
I only know that HTC never officially released them.
But since I saw the MAO Method they used on the One S I wanted the same for my DHD :)
Does anyone know a shop where I can find these covers made of aluminum?

Thanks

MiXed
 
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GuestK007

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Hello Guys,
I was loking for hours to find Aluminum Covers for the DHD to replace the plastic parts but wasn't able to find them (if they even exist).
I only know that HTC never officially released them.
But since I saw the MAO Method they used on the One S I wanted the same for my DHD :)
Does anyone know a shop where I can find these covers made of aluminum?

Thanks

MiXed
You mean the doors? Won't find them because the clips to hold them in place wont function being made out of aluminum. Thus why only the immobile parts are made of it. If that is not what you are talking about, ignore me :) Not to mention the signal loss of grounded aluminum over the antennas would be crazy.
 

MiXed92

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You mean the doors? Won't find them because the clips to hold them in place wont function being made out of aluminum. Thus why only the immobile parts are made of it. If that is not what you are talking about, ignore me :) Not to mention the signal loss of grounded aluminum over the antennas would be crazy.
But would't it be possible to make the outer part of aluminum and just the clips of plastic?

But ok seems to be impossible sad to hear :(
 
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GuestK007

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But would't it be possible to make the outer part of aluminum and just the clips of plastic?

But ok seems to be impossible sad to hear :(
possible yes, but the biggest factor would be that each plastic door covers an antenna. the led flash covers the gps, the battery covers the wifi, and the bottom door covers your cellular antennas. So replacing those with any kind of metal would connect them to the outer shell and ground them, almost completely shielding your phone from signal.
 

MiXed92

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I just looked at the antenna except of gps (didnt want to open it all up). Wifi is just simply spaned mabe same with GPS. Only antenna that runs a bit through the door is the Sim/SD Door Antenna but if you would take a pretty flat and small cable you could run it through the left hole beside the two connectors. I dont know much about antennas but this could even make a stronger signal doesnt it?

p.s. The hole i mean is a bit upper left the two connectors (phone up side down)
 
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GuestK007

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I just looked at the antenna except of gps (didnt want to open it all up). Wifi is just simply spaned mabe same with GPS. Only antenna that runs a bit through the door is the Sim/SD Door Antenna but if you would take a pretty flat and small cable you could run it through the left hole beside the two connectors. I dont know much about antennas but this could even make a stronger signal doesnt it?

p.s. The hole i mean is a bit upper left the two connectors (phone up side down)
the simple answer is no. antenna length is specific to the frequency it uses.
 

MiXed92

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I understand you need a specific lenght of the antenna for certain frequenzies. So the cable that would be needed to connect the two connectors should have around the same lenght as the the Antenna in the plastic door.
Do you know how accurate this would have to be and how do they realize to use different frequenzies with one antenna GSM around 900 MHZ and WCDMA around 2,1 GHZ?
 
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