I would like to carry replacement batteries with me and I was wondering what is the best way to remove the back cover? I see that there are two areas to be concerned about...power button and camera area. Any thoughts?
I run my finger nail around the edge of the battery cover until all the clips are undone then it just falls off basically.
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That's what I do also...a friend took the back off and his power switch took a snap and now it is hard to power on and off. On the old EVO not a problem. The new back looks kinda sensitive. I will keep on doing it like this. Somebody else suggested get the bottom loose and open it like a book..
Thanks for the input.
I hate the back cover on these phones, one thing i wish HTC would work on.
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Bummer, I've seen no problems with it. I just pop it up from the slot on the bottom, jiggle lightly and it just falls off. IMO it's far superior to the noisy mal-fitting cover from the DINC, but then again that's the only phone I ever had a cover issue with.
What i hope will happen is that the back will eventualy just easily come off from constant opening. I had a couple of batteries on my old EVO and charge the batteries on the wall..never had problems and was always powered up. When i get home tonight..I am really going to take a look at the back to see if I could make life easier. I always have a hard cover on it and the back popping off is no big deal. But the design on of the power switch and a removable battery makes the current design a Achilles tendon on a powerhouse of a phone. The extended batteries currently out are just butt ugly and would prefer a slimmer look.
Mayonesa said:
I hate the back cover on these phones, one thing i wish HTC would work on.
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Why? It fits good, doesn't make noise, and looks nice. Sure its kinda hard to get off but that's a plus in my book!
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Start on the side opposite of the camera button. And just pry along.
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Anyone have any tips for removing the battery cover? I keep my nails short and can't jam one in there so I have a hard time removing it. I've also tried putting a penny in the slot and prying it open that way.
I use both of my thumbs. One to initially start prying and the other one to go along and work it free.
A dime does the trick too.
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The battery cover is one thing I hate about the TB. Why not make it an easy slide-off like the Nexus. The N1 had great build quality and the battery cover was not a PITA to remove.
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The battery cover is one thing I hate about the TB. Why not make it an easy slide-off like the Nexus. The N1 had great build quality and the battery cover was not a PITA to remove.
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Yep I always hated the battery cover. One thing I liked about my Blackberry. Very nice battery door
What works for me is to take an use one finger to pry open the slot at the top and take the other hand an take my thumb and press down into the center of the cover where it says htc, that seems to make the cover spread open alittle for me anyway.
Careful removing cover, I got a little overzealous and cracked my stock cover on the first day! That sucks!!!
But in the end, I still don't see a need to remove the cover unless you are battery swapping all the time, but you should use the extended battery for that...
I got tired of it being insanely hard to remove, so i slightly filed down each of the tabs on the cover, it comes off twice as easy now. Be careful not to shave off too much if you do this or it wont stay on.
I did a little bit at a time, and tried it out after each to make sure it still grabbed enough.
That cover is a pain and I always feel like I am going to break it when trying to remove it. The two thumbs method has worked for me so far.
Here's a solutiuon and you won't damage the plastic
Use one of those little plastic grocery store cards that most of us have on our key rings. Some of them are even tapered along the edges, those work better.
Pinky
Grow your pinky nail out like a gangster but keep the others manicured...
I'm sorry but I just have to bump this. I'm ruining the finish on my TB because this cover is so insanely hard to remove that I have to pry the damn thing off with a screwdriver or key. In fact, I cant actually just wedge it in there, because the necessary force would send the phone flying against the wall. Instead I have to jam it in there, then twist it a full 180 degrees completley bending the case and scratching the lip all to hell before it finally pops up.
There simply has to be a better way! Anything that requires torque is GOING to cause scratches!
Wow, talk about man handling! Its hard, but not that hard.
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It's a good fit.
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Never had a problem with it.... Y don't u guys just grow a pair and stop crying...
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I just use my fingernail . My Inc was harder to open than my TBolt .
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There is a little notch in the top. Just hold the phone with one hand and dig your thumbnail with your other hand in there. Once it pops off a little ways the rest is cake. Just pull it off.
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Middle finger in the hole even with my tiny nail and thumb at the center of the plate. equal amount of pressure and it will pop right off.
I use a bottle opener on my key chain, pops right off
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As the title implies, my back battery door used to creek so badly. Put some paper behind it and feels 10x better.
Just wondering if anyone has had to do the same?
I bounce back and forth between extended and oem battery. My oem door doesn't squeak badly, rarely every really. My extended door doesn't at all.
My back door creaked but it was because I had a missing tab near the volume bar. Got a replacement from VZW and the creak is gone.
mine creaks horribly...you just put paper behind it? my left side creeks reallllllllly bad and it's getting worse.
wow very cool. i just put a thick piece of paper back there, and i don't really noitce it anymore..hmm!
haaha funny thing now, my phone doesn't lay 100% flat...it's a thin piece of paper, yet now i can sit here and spin my phone because there's a tiny added bulge to it!
Nice, I just snipped a piece and put it back there to see if it would altogether eliminate it. Good call!
Battery's get hot as they charge and discharge, this heat shortness there lifespan. I wonder if something other than paper would dissipate heat better?
Just a thought
Nope. Mine is solid. Aslo I keep a tpu case on it at all times.
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yeah, i was wondering if paper on the battery was such a good idea because of the heat, etc as well. hmm
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yeah, i was wondering if paper on the battery was such a good idea because of the heat, etc as well. hmm
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Yeah, my first thought was that sounds dangerous
Mine doesn't really creak much.
The paper isn't going to spontaneously combust. It isn't nearly hot enough. Not to mention if you had to put more than 1 piece back there you should probably just get a new back door. If anything was going to make the phone stay hot, or get hot longer it would be a TPU case, or any case for that matter.
nope. gonna spontaneously combust.
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I use paper on my fascinate with the extended battery. Been using it for over a year with no probs whatsoever. I needed it to stop the batt from shifting side to side. Problem solved
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nope. gonna spontaneously combust.
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lol
10charr
I have two extended battery backs, both creak some but one is worse than the other.
I don't get what the big deal is however, the creak doesn't bother me at all. I hardly notice it & figure its no big deal anyway.
~John
jmorton10 said:
I have two extended battery backs, both creak some but one is worse than the other.
I don't get what the big deal is however, the creak doesn't bother me at all. I hardly notice it & figure its no big deal anyway.
~John
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agreed, but I also use that verizon holster case with it.
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agreed, but I also use that verizon holster case with it.
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yea, I use the hard rubber HTCPedia case with the back cutout for the extended batt (I have a shiny black one & a red one).
I LOVE that case, it makes the phone feel like the extended battery is the stock setup.
~John
jmorton10 said:
I have two extended battery backs, both creak some but one is worse than the other.
I don't get what the big deal is however, the creak doesn't bother me at all. I hardly notice it & figure its no big deal anyway.
~John
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It's nothing I wad losing sleep over lol, just something that bothered me, and adding paper resolved it just fine, very happy with the results.
creak bothered the living hell out of me because it creaked even with the TPU case on; felt like i was holding a cheap piece of plastic. now it doesn't and i couldn't be happier.
Mine unfortunately creeks and I think that it has to do with the back battery door.
I would like to find a new one so I don't have to put paper behind it to keep it from creeking.
If you have one from a Refurb or anything like that please PM me as I would be very grateful to purchase this.
Pretty sure I've seen them on Verizon's web site. Not terribly expensive.
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Mine unfortunately creeks and I think that it has to do with the back battery door.
I would like to find a new one so I don't have to put paper behind it to keep it from creeking.
If you have one from a Refurb or anything like that please PM me as I would be very grateful to purchase this.
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$14.99 on verizon site
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Thanks dudes, exactly what I was looking for!
$16 shipped is a great deal.
the only ones I could find were on ebay lol and are selling for 60$!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-OE...639?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2318264d0f
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-OE...387?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item519ca13083
---and it seems like by reputable ebay sellers??
hopefully this will fix the need for some paper behind the battery to stop the door from creeking.
will update when the new back door arrives!
Eventually these things will be everywhere like the inc2 as the back battery doors actually come with refurb replacements from Verizon. I myself had 3 extras for my inc2 lol.
Just got my new backdoor in this morning.
100% fixed the creeking noise on my phone!!
very happy about that, I have however kept a few small pieces of paper behind the door as there was a little gap frop the back door to the battery that i could feel, perhaps this was on purpose for cooling of battery? idk, not sure but my battery hasn't gotten any hotter than normal.
I've swapped out 2 battery doors and I still have the creaking. I'm fairly certain the only phones that don't creak are the iphone and droid razr/razr maxx.
my first rezound creaked like crazy, then i had a replacement sent out and it was fine. pretty weird issue to have lol.
Just add some papers the size of the battery behind the door, works wonders.
The back cover/door for the extended battery is a piece of crap, and creaks like a rusty hinge all the time. So annoying. I finally got it to almost entirely stop by taking some sticky notes and cutting two thin strips on the adhesive part, and sticking them on the sides of the inside of the back cover, then sticking a little bit of paper on top of the battery. For mine, at least, most of the sound was coming from where you grip it on the sides and this solved it.
@HTC: It's annoying that we have to do this, please take more care with the design of it on future super-phones. Save the cheap back covers for mid-range/low-end phones, in my opinion. Lol.
Og droid had a metal back cover and didn't creak. I had a bionic, and it creaked
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The back cover/door for the extended battery is a piece of crap, and creaks like a rusty hinge all the time. So annoying. I finally got it to almost entirely stop by taking some sticky notes and cutting two thin strips on the adhesive part, and sticking them on the sides of the inside of the back cover, then sticking a little bit of paper on top of the battery. For mine, at least, most of the sound was coming from where you grip it on the sides and this solved it.
@HTC: It's annoying that we have to do this, please take more care with the design of it on future super-phones. Save the cheap back covers for mid-range/low-end phones, in my opinion. Lol.
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Mine doesn't creak at all.
Are you guys using some sort of death grip or something? Don't use the extended battery often but neither it or the regular door creaks.
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No creaking here either.
Standard door does not creek at all. The extended one does a tiny bit on the right side, if I death grip it like someone above said lol. Not annoying enough to try and fix it.
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Both mine creek. The extended one creeks the worse that's for sure. It doesn't matter how you hold it. Not the biggest deal though since I don't use it too often. I don't seem to get that much more life out of it to justify the size compared to the standard battery.
KORM via the beast known as the Rezound.
I have an awful creak on the left side. I am going to try a bit of gaffers tape.
My extended battery door doesn't creak but is missing the Beats logo. I noticed they didn't forget the HTC logo..
Tape didn't fix it.
Any ideas?
I have two to sell I'll sell both for 25 with shipping.
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Not sure if my devices is refurbished or defunct, but when i press firmly on the sides of the INC 4g, I get a similar ripple effect like when you press on your LCD monitor too hard.
I came from the Inc 2 and the build quality on that device, i would have to say is a little bit better than the 4g. Anyone else experiencing this or is my device just faulty?
Mine does that too
Same here
weird, lol mine too.
Same here.
Mine does too... but why are we pressing our screens this hard in a place that will rarely get pressed at all?
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Mine does too... but why are we pressing our screens this hard in a place that will rarely get pressed at all?
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It just says something about the build quality if pushing on certain area of the phone have adverse effects. That shouldn't happen
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It just says something about the build quality if pushing on certain area of the phone have adverse effects. That shouldn't happen
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compared to the inc2, the build quality has let me down.
still a great phone although.
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compared to the inc2, the build quality has let me down.
still a great phone although.
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Ditto for the OG Droid. I agree that this is a great phone.
I am finding that I really miss that stupid optical trackball though.
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Ditto for the OG Droid. I agree that this is a great phone.
I am finding that I really miss that stupid optical trackball though.
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haha give it some time, i was real mad going from inc1 to inc2
i think ull find its more useful without it
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haha give it some time, i was real mad going from inc1 to inc2
i think ull find its more useful without it
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Lol, yeah. I am slowly getting used to not having it, but those times I go for it out of habit and hit the home button are really annoying
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I don't miss the trackball but its strange not having a search button lol
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It just says something about the build quality if pushing on certain area of the phone have adverse effects. That shouldn't happen
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Exactly!
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I have this same problem. After removing my back to insert my microSD card and reattaching the back, the case no longer closes completely, with casing immediately on the bottom of the volume rocker not latching on properly. In attempting to make it, I pressed firmly on the edge and it made my screen ripple slightly for a moment.
My EVO4G would ripple when I squeezed the sides. It was one of those thing you found out about through other people complaining. Yet after a while I never even noticed that anymore. I don't think I ever needed to squeeze a phone that hard either.
Just remember. Cell phones are like cars. They used to build them well with no features, now they build them cheap with the works.
Speaking of build quality....my phone is barely 3 days old...dropped it a short distance..way shorter than more of the hundred plus times I dropped my inc 2...and the damn screen shattered.....wtf..
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It's not necessarily how far you drop it (although there is a point at which height just overcomes everything, call it terminal velocity hehe) but it's where it hits. Tempered glass is extremely strong, but it's also tempered. An extremely light tap from just the right direction will cause it to shatter.
A perfect example of this was a gas station I worked at back in college. The glass they have that protects the cashier from an explosion is about 3 inch thick tempered glass. It would withstand an explosion of huge magnitude. I watched them replace that pane of glass one day, when they removed it, they loaded it into the back of a truck and gave it a slight rap on the corner with a hammer and it shattered in the bed of the truck. They did this intentionally by the way
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Speaking of build quality....my phone is barely 3 days old...dropped it a short distance..way shorter than more of the hundred plus times I dropped my inc 2...and the damn screen shattered.....wtf..
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That reminds me. I need to call and add insurance.
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It's not necessarily how far you drop it (although there is a point at which height just overcomes everything, call it terminal velocity hehe) but it's where it hits. Tempered glass is extremely strong, but it's also tempered. An extremely light tap from just the right direction will cause it to shatter.
A perfect example of this was a gas station I worked at back in college. The glass they have that protects the cashier from an explosion is about 3 inch thick tempered glass. It would withstand an explosion of huge magnitude. I watched them replace that pane of glass one day, when they removed it, they loaded it into the back of a truck and gave it a slight rap on the corner with a hammer and it shattered in the bed of the truck. They did this intentionally by the way
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I understand...just really frustrated. EBay has some digitizers so ill prolly go that route....just lame that its less than a week old
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IceDragon59 said:
I have this same problem. After removing my back to insert my microSD card and reattaching the back, the case no longer closes completely, with casing immediately on the bottom of the volume rocker not latching on properly. In attempting to make it, I pressed firmly on the edge and it made my screen ripple slightly for a moment.
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Take some black electrical tape, cut a strips about 1 inch long and about 2-4 mm wide. You will want to put them under the lip of the back case, adhesive side in, on the middle left, upper right(above the antenna not on them), top and bottom. if you cut them thin enough the case will snap back on and never creak,
I had todo this on my rezound too, they made these backs really flimsy to the point where they eventually won't snap back together.
I'm not sure if it's just my phone but there's a section just to the right and below the volume down button where the back cover doesn't feel like it's fitting well. If you touch that spot with much pressure, it's not as solid feeling as the rest of the battery door. It even makes a slight clicking noise when you press on it.
It's the only part of the fit and feel of this phone that doesn't feel very premium to me.
no i think thats just ur phone cause mines all premium
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Fine feels solid there
I bought a new back cover with NFC and Qi built in. It's OEM (but only has the LG logo on the back, no Verizon 4G) and it does not have this problem.
It feels much better than the one that came with the phone and looks better too since it's missing the verizon branding.
Now to finally get me a wireless charging pad so I can use it.