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It's pretty easy to make yourself a custom back panel, if you have the white battery cover.
Just get yourself a can of plastic modelkit spray paint and go ahead. They are cheap and easy to use. I used paint from Tamiya, no additional gloss finish needed.
Free the surface from grease though and apply multiple thin layers.
I didn't manage to get my room dustfree, so it didn't went as smooth as I wanted.
Hatshipuh said:
It's pretty easy to make yourself a custom back panel, if you have the white battery cover.
Just get yourself a can of plastic modelkit spray paint and go ahead. They are cheap and easy to use. I used paint from Tamiya, no additional gloss finish needed.
Free the surface from grease though and apply multiple thin layers.
I didn't manage to get my room dustfree, so it didn't went as smooth as I wanted.
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cheeeeez, wher did you get the modelkit frommm???
If you mean the paint, you can get them in toy stores.
The base white cover came with my cell.
Nice custom paint job on your battery cover. Sadly mine didnt come with an additional white battery cover plate..
Aerophone shops sells them. Should be cheap.
hi, looked at your thread the other day and decided to go ahead and make one my self here is what i did with mine just realised wont let me post pic as i have less than 8 posts.
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hi, looked at your thread the other day and decided to go ahead and make one my self here is what i did with mine just realised wont let me post pic as i have less than 8 posts.
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that's so cool bro, i might try it myself
Really nice one!
Could someone post a link for where to buy this kind of spray?
very nice
So amazing, too bad it's just the cover =/
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Nice custom paint job on your battery cover. Sadly mine didnt come with an additional white battery cover plate..
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how come???
i thought that all s5830 models comes with 2 plates....
i also got them....
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traduz said:
So amazing, too bad it's just the cover =/
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germans got white sg ace....
Like old good spica style
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Woow,nice back.I have my SGA with a transparent cover and my black backpanel and its really nice.
I will also try this because i have a blue spray can.
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that is pretty amazing
thats got me thinking maybe i could somehow tag the back of the white one maybe with a cm7 logo...
Can be painted and repainted and repainted again or... maybe is not a good idea?
Same here.. I wanna know once you paint it is it possible to change the color again?
Or also get the white finish back?
I just don't want it to be permanent
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I also want to paint my back panel.. it's scratches.. want to make it more beauty.. what colour did u'll will suggest?
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wow nice... thanks for suggestion i gonna try it myself
I made some modifications to my HTC Incredible S! I bought it off Kijiji at an unbelievable price and wasn't expecting much, the black bezel was terribly scratched and you could see the metal in many spots. I decided to go to work and sanded the metal edges down, and IMO it looks great! Hoping to get your opinions, I'm a newer XDA member. Incase you're wondering I have BINDROID 2.3.5 rom installed, looking to try other roms so if you have suggestions on rome with sense please let me know!
Checkout these pics below, couldn't post direct link because I'm a new member..
www-DOT-flickr-DOT-com/photos/[email protected]/6943485598/in/photostream
www-DOT-flickr-DOT-com/photos/[email protected]/6943485248/in/photostream
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I made some modifications to my HTC Incredible S! I bought it off Kijiji at an unbelievable price and wasn't expecting much, the black bezel was terribly scratched and you could see the metal in many spots. I decided to go to work and sanded the metal edges down, and IMO it looks great! Hoping to get your opinions, I'm a newer XDA member. Incase you're wondering I have BINDROID 2.3.5 rom installed, looking to try other roms so if you have suggestions on rome with sense please let me know!
Checkout these pics below, couldn't post direct link because I'm a new member..
www-DOT-flickr-DOT-com/photos/[email protected]/6943485598/in/photostream
www-DOT-flickr-DOT-com/photos/[email protected]/6943485248/in/photostream
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looks neat !! my black bezel is starting to get many scratches ...good idea !
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MikRunny = Only Rom with Battery Bar
XXxPacha New Sense Rom is also great.
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That is pretty nice. How did you sand it down?
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MikRunny = Only Rom with Battery Bar
XXxPacha New Sense Rom is also great.
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I'm a newbie here haha! I will try and reload in this post!
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That is pretty nice. How did you sand it down?
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Oddly enough, just grabbed some fine sandpaper and sanded it down by hand, took about an hour along the edges! Because its an HTC phone the paint was very think and took a lot of hard work to get it off, but eventually it did! Just removed the plastic battery cover and went at it! Much better looking than before, it was covered in scratches along the edges before
You must be pretty courageous to just use sand paper
I think now you need a matching back cover
markj338 said:
You must be pretty courageous to just use sand paper
I think now you need a matching back cover
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I'd love a back cover! LOL I wouldn't say courageous, I could already see part of the metal from the paint chipped and it was so dinged up and for the price I paid I thought eh, I'll take a risk! Turned out great! I bought it for $75 and sold it just earlier today for $275! Nice profit for an hours work! Going to use that money towards my HTC One X fund, going to miss the phone, out of all my phones it had the best screen imo between iPhone 4S(yes, the demons!) LG Optimus 3D and Samsung Galaxy Infuse.
Hopefully the bugs in the One X get sorted out. Can't wait to get my hands on an unlocked quad core beast!
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You must be pretty courageous to just use sand paper
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Wasn't planning on selling it, but making $200 off an hour and some sand paper I couldn't resist. will have to make do with this Samsung thing in the meantime!
lemme add mine
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lemme add mine
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I love that cover! adds flare to the phone! I wish HTC made it a little more visually appearing in the beginning, add some accent colours or something!
Hopefully using the cash from my missed Incredible S on a One X.
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I love that cover! adds flare to the phone! I wish HTC made it a little more visually appearing in the beginning, add some accent colours or something! /QUOTE]
I wanna get some good back covers, found em on amzon, they're just too good, luscious in other words
Buh dont wanna mess with the custom cover its BEAU-tiful
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bmar577 said:
I made some modifications to my HTC Incredible S! I bought it off Kijiji at an unbelievable price and wasn't expecting much, the black bezel was terribly scratched and you could see the metal in many spots. I decided to go to work and sanded the metal edges down, and IMO it looks great! Hoping to get your opinions, I'm a newer XDA member. Incase you're wondering I have BINDROID 2.3.5 rom installed, looking to try other roms so if you have suggestions on rome with sense please let me know!
Checkout these pics below, couldn't post direct link because I'm a new member..
www-DOT-flickr-DOT-com/photos/[email protected]/6943485598/in/photostream
www-DOT-flickr-DOT-com/photos/[email protected]/6943485248/in/photostream
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Dude that looks mad
I prefer this look to the original
It's a shame HTC don't make different coloured versions of their phones.
eRadicant said:
Dude that looks mad
I prefer this look to the original
It's a shame HTC don't make different coloured versions of their phones.
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Thanks!! I really liked it, wish I didn't sell it now after all. Hopefully I'll be getting that quad core beast they released!
Am officially attempting this. Volume rocker and bottom edge near plastic are seeming to be a pain. Will post pics when complete.
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itsbeertimenow said:
Am officially attempting this. Volume rocker and bottom edge near plastic are seeming to be a pain. Will post pics when complete.
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Nice man looking forward to seeing it finished
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Am officially attempting this. Volume rocker and bottom edge near plastic are seeming to be a pain. Will post pics when complete.
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Awesome!! Please post with finished results, I'd love to see it!!
How should I sand it?
Greetings all,
Another newbie here. My question is to the people who sanded. Would you do it differently next time? Should I take the casing off the phone? Should I attempt it, never having done it before? The other option is tape it up and sand cautiously. I was just about to just order replacement parts online when I found this thread.
If anyone would like to weigh in, I'd really appreciate any advice you have to offer. I think it's best that I wait to make my decision.
I offer so much gratitude to anyone who can help.
Jennan
Lol I still havnt finished it but I think it looks cool partially sanded. You just have to invest time and get a few different kinds of sand paper. The finer the grit the easier the time I found. That being said its halfway done with 3 hours of sanding.
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Hi there! Please welcome another newbie...
Anyway, man the sand papered Incredible S looks awesome Thinking of doing it
Just one question! Did you used some kind of alcoholic silver pen to paint the microphone right above the HTC logo?
Thanks in advance!
Here's the deal, I had an iPhone 3gs long time ago. That shiny metal frame around the screen was just not for me. I tought : "Why not brush this thing up?" I asked my friend Google (maybe in 2009) and did it. Just amazing.
What do you guys think about doing that on the nexus 4 ?
file it down to black maybe.. mines already dented.. looks really ugly! unless i paint it 0.0
If you want to, go for it. I'm also one of those that took some sandpaper to the chrome bezel because I also thought it was always scuffed pretty bad after normal use, and after doing that it looked awesome. Also helped with the resale value back when I got my first android device (Infuse 4G).
Main thing about the N4 though, to its benefit the shiny trim is a dark chrome, which imo looks right, plus mine is covered up by my case for the time I had it thus far and she hasn't got beat up too bad yet.
I say go for it, if it looks sweet, you'll probably be the founder of this technique and have a bunch of people follow. If not, it'll still be unique.
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I did a little bit at the corner just to see how is it under the chrome. I'm sad it's plastic. Anyway here are some pics of how it looks like under the
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxQ1eQGIPLftcVRCRmx6cTBHdzA/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxQ1eQGIPLftUE5UaGIzVG1qTUE/edit?usp=sharing
Why would you want to screw up such a shinny bazel?
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Underground_XI said:
Why would you want to screw up such a shinny bazel?
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I thougt it was an aluminium frame. I prefer brushed or anodised aluminium. That's what I did with my old iPhone 3GS long time ago, it was beatiful.
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I think it will sorta ruin the look''' maybe file it down to black? Because the chrome on the nexus 4 looks nice and fitting but if its dented or scratched like mine. You could try
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you can tell something is metal or not from the temperature difference, the bezel is plastic because its not cold, aluminum would be especially cold
ouch that looks horrible.. worse than any minor scratching/nicks you might have already had.. now it looks like garbage
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you can tell something is metal or not from the temperature difference, the bezel is plastic because its not cold, aluminum would be especially cold
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Damn, you're right, forgot this "detail". Prick I am.
ingenious247 said:
ouch that looks horrible.. worse than any minor scratching/nicks you might have already had.. now it looks like garbage
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Dude, wait! it's only a little corner I didn't sand papered all the frame.
eh.. just do the whole thing now and give it a custom paint job.
like red and then get the red leather dbrand skin for the back.. something like that
Dropped my phone, bezel down from about 1 metre. Totally squashed the bezel, my phone has a 'lip' now, thanks to the bezel that got squashed. Great way to protect my front camera
I always thought of Rhino-lining a phone, but I never got around it.
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I always thought of Rhino-lining a phone, but I never got around it.
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What do you mean about rhino-lining ?
There's this company that makes super tough protectors, it's called Rhino-something. It's so tough that it protects against drops and glass cracking and all.
I think so.
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I always thought of Rhino-lining a phone, but I never got around it.
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After a little research : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753781
Man, are you kiding ?
That's what people use as an alternative to protect their trucks bed instead of the plastic liner. Its what I got in mine(different brand). I've seen a truck had the whole paint job done with it... looks closer to a slight textured matte finish. The phone in that link was crap. If you do want something like this on your phone, look for the ones than have less texture/clumps. Speedliner is smoother and they also sell spray cans of that stuff at the auto parts store.
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After a little research : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753781
Man, are you kiding ?
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Looks dope to me. Now, that thing can survive an nuclear blast.
ismethajametovic said:
Looks dope to me. Now, that thing can survive an nuclear blast.
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so can this, and it doesn't look nearly as awful!
yeah, bulk is definitely added, but if you're that worried about protecting your phone, it's worth it.
I managed to ding up my watch pretty bad crashing my skateboard and haven't been able to find any parts for the G Watch R. Does LG sell parts for it or am I stuck scanning ebay for a replacement housing?
ATM there are no spare parts available, We will see those slowly coming to market eventually.
Can you post a picture so I can see the problems? It's ruined that bad that it cannot be repaired?
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ATM there are no spare parts available, We will see those slowly coming to market eventually.
Can you post a picture so I can see the problems? It's ruined that bad that it cannot be repaired?
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It is just cosmetic, screen and device are fully functional. I'm very impressed with the durability, as I was going 20+mph and fell with all my weight on it
File the top of the bezel down smooth. It will look better and be a uniform gray circle on the bezel.
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File the top of the bezel down smooth. It will look better and be a uniform gray circle on the bezel.
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I love you.
Looks great. I've seen another post about how to sand it down which came our really nice, but this looks amazing. How did you get it that beautiful and flawless glossy surface?
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Looks great. I've seen another post about how to sand it down which came our really nice, but this looks amazing. How did you get it that beautiful and flawless glossy surface?
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I used a higher grit sanding sponge until all the paint and imperfections were gone, then followed up with 3000 grit from auto zone. Used Mothers polishing cream to finish it off
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I used a higher grit sanding sponge until all the paint and imperfections were gone, then followed up with 3000 grit from auto zone. Used Mothers polishing cream to finish it off
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Excellent job!
You should offer your services to others for a respectable fee .
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Darnell_Chat_TN said:
Excellent job!
You should offer your services to others for a respectable fee .
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If people were willing to ship their watches to me I'd be more than happy to. Though I don't think the finish will last too long as it doesn't have a clear coat on it
What about fixing a cracked screen any ideas still can't find any parts
hinrg said:
What about fixing a cracked screen any ideas still can't find any parts
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i'm afraid no, but how??
Mrwebente said:
i'm afraid no, but how??
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I still have no [email protected] idea how i did that Still cant find any parts and LG want $250 so they can jam that!
My dbrands.com skin came today for my OP3. It looks and feels great. They are now shipping if you want one. The installation is easy just follow the video on their website. Mine is yellow top and bottom with blue carbon back. Mahogany front.
lol omg how hilarious, i was just getting ready to create my own thread of this, i got mine in today too, i'll just share mine on ur post too
i like urs, great job on applying urs, the top and bottoms was a pain in the a... for me, but the easiest skin i have ever applied, no bubbles or anything, i don't think it will last long but at least they gave me 2 of them.
it does feel really nice and great quality (no cheap), no longer keeps slipping either
Top/Bottom/Logo - Red
Back/Camera - Matte Black
Ha ha good timing then. Yours looks nice too. I agree that it's an easy to apply skin. The tops and bottom was a pain. The key I found is use a little more heat on the tabs. My top doesn't look as good as the bottom. With the extras I'll just replace it if it bugs me too much.
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Ha ha good timing then. Yours looks nice too. I agree that it's an easy to apply skin. The tops and bottom was a pain. The key I found is use a little more heat on the tabs. My top doesn't look as good as the bottom. With the extras I'll just replace it if it bugs me too much.
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thank u
lol yeah same for me, i heated it up too and seemed to help, i can feel it on the edges though, i will get used to it, but great product and inexpensive too, i have one applied to my surface too
good look
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good look
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Are you able to use your case with the skin?
All designs are looking awesome!
How well do these skins typically hold up in respect to edges peeling up, etc. i do not like using cases but would need a skin on an aluminum bodied phone.
My main concern would be the edges peeling back up due to use and pulling out of pocket all the time, or even just moving around in the pocket.
I have used another type of skin before and sometimes it does ok but other times it only lasts a day. Granted the skin i used did not fully wrap around to the front, more for back protection
Bradl79 said:
lol omg how hilarious, i was just getting ready to create my own thread of this, i got mine in today too, i'll just share mine on ur post too
i like urs, great job on applying urs, the top and bottoms was a pain in the a... for me, but the easiest skin i have ever applied, no bubbles or anything, i don't think it will last long but at least they gave me 2 of them.
it does feel really nice and great quality (no cheap), no longer keeps slipping either
Top/Bottom/Logo - Red
Back/Camera - Matte Black
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How is the difference in texture between the Colour series and the Matte Black?
And anyone here know how the texture of the Concrete is?
lonnydub said:
My dbrands.com skin came today for my OP3. It looks and feels great. They are now shipping if you want one. The installation is easy just follow the video on their website. Mine is yellow top and bottom with blue carbon back. Mahogany front.
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that looks great, Swedish colours?
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xperiatomaja said:
good look
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oh wow that looks awesome!
I got a copper/black titanium combo unpacked on the desk next to me but I'm waiting on the improved howto apply video
https://twitter.com/dbrandSkins/status/747258068191350784
lordred12345 said:
that looks great, Swedish colours?
Nope. Just like blue and yellow. Wish the blue was a hair darker to match Michigan colors and my car.
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How well do these skins typically hold up in respect to edges peeling up, etc. i do not like using cases but would need a skin on an aluminum bodied phone.
My main concern would be the edges peeling back up due to use and pulling out of pocket all the time, or even just moving around in the pocket.
I have used another type of skin before and sometimes it does ok but other times it only lasts a day. Granted the skin i used did not fully wrap around to the front, more for back protection
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So far the only issue or disappointment I have is with the front. It picks up the dust and hairs from my pocket and did get the side edge of the front screen to shift some. The back I have no complaints. No shifting, peeling, or residue collecting hairs like the front.
For longevity someone who's had these skins on longer will need to chime in. This is my first experience.
Looks awesome guys!
Boosted OP3
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How is the difference in texture between the Colour series and the Matte Black?
And anyone here know how the texture of the Concrete is?
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it feels kinda like a less grainy sandstone like the oneplus one and two have, i love it
Bradl79 said:
it feels kinda like a less grainy sandstone like the oneplus one and two have, i love it
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The Matt Black or the Concrete?
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The Matt Black or the Concrete?
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sorry, the matte black
Am loving the look of these will have to see if I want to use one instead of my case to take away some of the bulk
I've got a really good set up coming in the post
Here's a couple different variations of Dbrand skins I have done for the OnePlus 3. I am about to do black carbon w/ blue carbon accents. They fit really well and add a lot of protection and extra grip. I am very happy with it.
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sorry, the matte black
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Thanks!
Do the matte black and the color series have the same texture?