Black Back Cover Modding
Just thought I created a post for those you might be interested in purchasing and installing the black iphone back cover available from CNN.
http://cnn.cn/shop/apple-iphone-blac...er-p-1766.html
first of all, it was pretty hard I must say, so if you don’t have patience which I actually don’t have this might not be for you. It took me a little over 6 hours to complete it, but the outcome is what I wanted. Take you time, take your time, careful, careful.
I used to following guides
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=334748
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone
The latter one I preferred since it’s a step by step, which each step on a separate page. This was helpful when I was going to put everything back together.
Starting with the antenna cover
The YouTube guide from PDA accessories does not work, broke my cell phone opener that way. They must have had that cover opened before; no way does it come off that easily. The antenna cover is really stuck on there. Use latter listed guide, uses a tool. I used a razor blade and took my time carefully again, finally I got it removed. Since I broke my cell phone opener I then used the razor again to remove the back cover, worked fine. Just be careful, razor blades are pretty sharp as my fingers found out a few times too much.
Both guides lists the components as brittle, they are, be careful.
The glue, glue glue.
Tried all sorts of adhesive removers, didn’t work at all. Here is my tip and it worked extremely well. Since you are not going to use the silver cover anyways, crack it where the silent button and the volume adjustor is located and take out those 2 parts after removing all the electrical components, the volume is attached to a screw that you need to remove first (see the guide, step 7 I think it was)
then hold the back cover which now contains only metal components and blow it with a heat gun, the pieces fall right off, unharmed and unbent. Just let them cool. This is much easier than the adhesive remover.
Some other notes
The side panels consist of 2 metal slides on each side, attach them together before attaching them to the replacement cover, saves you time.
Make extra note that the silent switch latch is in the right position
The power switch goes on just one way, look the same on both, but no. if it does not slide in easy, turn it around, don’t get angry.
Don’t use superglue, its hardens too fast, since the components are sooooo small it was easier to use a semi fast glue to place it right, then I could move it into the correct position. Superglue just hardened instantly.
Feel free to contact me for more information about this, attaching some images of the final output.
08-24-2007, 08:59 AM
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