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Creaking? Cheap Solution Here!

I bought an Acer A500, Moto Xoom, and Asus XFormer.
Returned them all.
The Asus kept calling to me and I decided to give it another go. Sadly I went through 5 of them.
Mostly due to excessive creaking or large debris under the glass.
I finally decided to live with the creaks because I could not justify spending more money for a tablet that was worse than the xformer.
Long story short...
Here is a super fast and cheap way to stop the creaks without spending a lot of money.
Gently pinch along the edge that creaks. Find the "worst" or "loudest spot".
Buy yourself the cheapest hard plastic screen protector you can find.
Cut a 1 inch long, 3/16 to 1/8 wide strip.
On the back of the unit, between the metal bezel and the plastic back is where we will insert a strip of plastic.
There are clips or something in some spots, so test the depth required. I cut a small strip used that as a depth gauge.
Most cheap screen protectors have 2 removable layers, leave them on, test depth and
tightness at the same time with test strip. If it is too tight, remove a layer and so on.
Pop it in and voila. No more creaking.
I made a slight angle cut in mine to allow easy removal.
Good luck!

Thank mate - Helpful post. Any chance of some pics? I am considering this solution.
I don't have "excessive" creaking but it still annoys me. mostly that I keep worrying that it's going to get worse.

i could post a pic, but you can barely tell it is in there.

Would you be willing to post a short demonstration video?

ri3tn said:
Would you be willing to post a short demonstration video?
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How would you do that? He's already fixed the creaking thing; do you want him to unfix the tf101 by removing the insert and redoing the fix?

Oh I get it now...sorry just re-read your post and thought about it more carefully. Yeah a pic is a waste of time.
What screen protector did you buy?

It was a crappy generic 4" screen protector from a mall kiosk that sells cheap cell phone stuff. Chinese made.
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wpghtc said:
Long story short...
Here is a super fast and cheap way to stop the creaks without spending a lot of money.
Gently pinch along the edge that creaks. Find the "worst" or "loudest spot".
Buy yourself the cheapest hard plastic screen protector you can find.
Cut a 1 inch long, 3/16 to 1/8 wide strip.
On the back of the unit, between the metal bezel and the plastic back is where we will insert a strip of plastic.
There are clips or something in some spots, so test the depth required. I cut a small strip used that as a depth gauge.
Most cheap screen protectors have 2 removable layers, leave them on, test depth and
tightness at the same time with test strip. If it is too tight, remove a layer and so on.
Pop it in and voila. No more creaking.
I made a slight angle cut in mine to allow easy removal.
Good luck!
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Lol...THANKS! This actually works! Lol

Glad I could help!
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

not sure how one would be able to remove that after its in... , still ... great tip !

Samsung Vibrant Bezel Painting

Is there any way to paint the smooth ugly silver bezel

Paint it a different color or repaint it because it got scratched?
Sent through the XDA App on my Samsung Vibrant running ICS Passion v10.6

I've painted mine. It's pretty easy. Make sure you get Krylon Fusion paint, its a paint formulated to stick to plastic better than regular sprays. Don't accept any of the store brand plastic paints either, I've tried the Lowe's one and it turned out to be pretty much regular paint.
Follow typical painting steps:
1. Take everything off (battery cover, sim, etc)
2. Mask the screen and backsides with tape + paper. The back is pretty easy to do with one long piece of tape, just wrap it around the whole backside. The screen you can lay 4 strips, 1 for each side, and then use a knife to score the edges and the tape will peel off.
3. Sand. Depending on how rough your edges are you may want to sand some nicks smooth. You don't need to remove the paint when you sand, you just need to get rid of the shine.
4. Paint. Follow the instructions on the can. The 2 most important things to remember are to do light coats and be freaking patient in between coats and touching it. Plan on watching a movie or doing something else. I used 3 coats on the front side, 2ish on the back. I can not stress this enough, if your coats are too heavy or you don't let each coat dry you will have a gummy, tacky result that will come off after a few days. Do it right, do it once.
5. Let it dry overnight or until you can't smell the paint anymore before regular usage.
Here are some pics, it's still drying but it turned out alright. The goop on the screen protector is from the tape. I'll get it off after the paint dries so I don't rub any paint off. IMO it looks worlds better than stock. I also had a few nicks around the edges and some of the chrome was falling off. As you might be able to tell from the pictures you can't notice any of the nicks or where the chrome was coming off.

Painting TF101

I have been thinking for a while that i want to paint the front plastics from brown to black and was wondering the best way. If anyone has done or knows something about painting pstic with out fingers getting paint when done

ummmm...there was a guy on here that mentioned about polishing the bezel section and such on here because it was dropped. Turned out pretty good in the end, I would contact the OP on that thread about that.
As far as my experience goes, I had an Acura RSX that I painted the plastic headlights (the shiny inside part) black and various colors for other people and they turned out good. The key thing is to remove the old stuff off first before doing so. you are basically then starting with a fresh canvas. wear latex or nitrile gloves as well. use paint cleaner to really get all the oils and stuff off. a LIGHT coat of primer, and then light passes of paint make all the difference in the world.

Or is the rounding material before glass metal? Im starting to feel its metal instead of plastic?

You know what, it is metal, that's right. I remember that guy anodized his bezel.

SoonHD2 said:
Or is the rounding material before glass metal? Im starting to feel its metal instead of plastic?
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Definitely metal. You can feel it especially while charging.

Maybe plastic dip. Google it.
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Losing silverness on the edge

Hello, even Samsung exchanged a new screen for me due to defective screen, within a few days I started seeing small dots in the edges between the glass screen and the silver edge. Is it due to some kind of oxidation or friction when I put the device in a bag? How to prevent such discoloration?

Can you post a screen shot?

Probably the same issues that plagues the bezel on the Note 3, as well as the S6's silver bezel around the camera. The silver colour is painted on, and it wears off fairly quickly, revealing the white plastic beneath.
What I always do is a solution us women have been using to keep our fake-silver rings looking silver for decades: blank nail polish. Simply apply a thin layer of blank nail polish on top of the bezel and it will erode much, much less. It acts as a protective layer.
To fix existing blemishes, you can use silver nail polish and a very, very thin brush.

ShadowLea said:
Probably the same issues that plagues the bezel on the Note 3, as well as the S6's silver bezel around the camera. The silver colour is painted on, and it wears off fairly quickly, revealing the white plastic beneath.
What I always do is a solution us women have been using to keep our fake-silver rings looking silver for decades: blank nail polish. Simply apply a thin layer of blank nail polish on top of the bezel and it will erode much, much less. It acts as a protective layer.
To fix existing blemishes, you can use silver nail polish and a very, very thin brush.
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Thanks. For the silver nail polish, is there a specific brand/model number or anything like that will do? If I want a pink bezel, I just get a pink nail polish?

petercohen said:
Thanks. For the silver nail polish, is there a specific brand/model number or anything like that will do? If I want a pink bezel, I just get a pink nail polish?
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Make sure it's a long-lasting one. Personally I always use L'oreal, but if that's not available in the right colour, Max Factor or Rimmel will do as well.
Yep, if you use pink, it'll turn pink. It's a coating, so you can use any you want. So if you don't like the silver and would prefer black, you get a black one. (those are available in gloss and matte)
We also do this to paint back covers, suitcases, keys, cables (to colourcode them), blemishes on shoes... I've used nail polish on pretty much everything.. except my nails! :laugh:
The advantage of using Nail polish over dye is that you can simply wipe it off with acetone and a cotton swab if you don't like how it looks. (acetone is nail polish remover. You can usually find it within 3 meters of the nail polish stand in a pharmacy.)

Just to make sure that we are talking about the same issue, I am enclosing two photos.

It's funny what we OCD on . . I'm looking at that and thinking you're crazy but at the same time when I approach my car from the passenger side every day the first thing I look at is the ding in the door that my son put into it a year ago . . So while I personally wouldn't fret over this issue on my own tablet since I get full enjoyment out of it daily I feel your pain when you say it's an issue for you.

matte back (sandpaper)

Hi guys
So a few days ago i broke the screen of my dear lg g2... it has become unusable so i decided to revisit my black samsung galaxy s3.
The back of my phone was all scratched and looked horrible, the bottom of of my back cover started to look matte because of all the scratches.
So i decided to remove the back cover and get some of the most fine sandpaper to sand the back and give it a "brushed" look. i took the sandpaper, removed the back and just went from left to right to make it matte. Be careful though because if you sand really hard on one place the white plastic could eventually show (look at the top of my backcover). It took me about 10 min and i am very pleased with the result !! But the sides of my phone were still glossy and scratched so badly the dark plastic beneath it started to show. i didn't want to completely scratch the screen so it took my sisters nail matter (or would ever it is could) and forcefully started rubbing the sides (did the same thing with my lg g2). The sides still look a bit glossy but a lot less than before . So if you got very fine sand paper and you are brave enough give it a try (or get a replacement first and try it on that one).

"Emery board". Looks quite good!.
Sent from a stolen phone!