Remove scratches instatly for free

[Guest KenBW2]

DISCLAIMER: I accept no responsibility for broken devices - what you read below is my experience and my experience only - this is my sole evidence for this being a successful process

Remember that first scratch you got on your screen? Remember how devastated you were, how you wish you'd never just risked having your keys in your pocket?

And then the second scratch - it wasn't quite so bad as the first, but you still weren't best pleased. Over time you've acquired a couple of extra scratches, at which point you've probably given up and now have a wonderful rainbow of scratches all over your screen.

If this is you then welcome to my world. But all is not lost!

Removing the in-built screen protector

I only just found it today (after nearly a year of Pulse ownership), but there's actually a fairly thick film on the screen that peels off with some persuasion. I found it peeling away at the corner, but the best place to remove it is just above the speaker hole at the top. After you've got a centimetre or so the rest should come off really easily. There's a bit of glue under it, but that can be rubbed away with a cloth in about 10 seconds.

Welcome to your like-new shiny scratch-free screen :P

Edited October 27, 2010 by KenBW2

[Guest skandigraun]

FYI: http://wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Huawei_U8...n_plastic_cover and http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...ore-responsive/

Thanks anyway :P

Edited October 28, 2010 by skandigraun

[Guest]

DISCLAIMER: I accept no responsibility for broken devices - what you read below is my experience and my experience only - this is my sole evidence for this being a successful process

Remember that first scratch you got on your screen? Remember how devastated you were, how you wish you'd never just risked having your keys in your pocket?

And then the second scratch - it wasn't quite so bad as the first, but you still weren't best pleased. Over time you've acquired a couple of extra scratches, at which point you've probably given up and now have a wonderful rainbow of scratches all over your screen.

If this is you then welcome to my world. But all is not lost!

Removing the in-built screen protector

I only just found it today (after nearly a year of Pulse ownership), but there's actually a fairly thick film on the screen that peels off with some persuasion. I found it peeling away at the corner, but the best place to remove it is just above the speaker hole at the top. After you've got a centimetre or so the rest should come off really easily. There's a bit of glue under it, but that can be rubbed away with a cloth in about 10 seconds.

Welcome to your like-new shiny scratch-free screen :P

Wait, are you talking about the plastic film that was on the device from the very beginning or are there two of them? :S

[Guest grcd]

I would like a clarification on this and a couple of other things too:

1) My phone comes with a pretty obvious protective plastic covering the screen. It is already peeling out on the sides, and it is easily removable with no residue. Is that what you are talking about, or is there another one, harder to notice, underneath that is 'glued' to the screen?

2) I have heard reports that the Pulse's (not Mini) screen is made of either very hard plastic or glass -- and is therefore really hard to scratch compared to other phones. Is that correct?

3) Do you still recommend a screen protector like InvisibleShield? If not, has your phone scratched yet with daily use?

Wait, are you talking about the plastic film that was on the device from the very beginning or are there two of them? :S

[Guest Daz555]

I only just found it today (after nearly a year of Pulse ownership), but there's actually a fairly thick film on the screen that peels off with some persuasion. I found it peeling away at the corner, but the best place to remove it is just above the speaker hole at the top. After you've got a centimetre or so the rest should come off really easily. There's a bit of glue under it, but that can be rubbed away with a cloth in about 10 seconds.

Comedy gold. Brightened up my morning. :P

[Guest Spikey001]

DISCLAIMER: I accept no responsibility for broken devices - what you read below is my experience and my experience only - this is my sole evidence for this being a successful process

Remember that first scratch you got on your screen? Remember how devastated you were, how you wish you'd never just risked having your keys in your pocket?

And then the second scratch - it wasn't quite so bad as the first, but you still weren't best pleased. Over time you've acquired a couple of extra scratches, at which point you've probably given up and now have a wonderful rainbow of scratches all over your screen.

If this is you then welcome to my world. But all is not lost!

Removing the in-built screen protector

I only just found it today (after nearly a year of Pulse ownership), but there's actually a fairly thick film on the screen that peels off with some persuasion. I found it peeling away at the corner, but the best place to remove it is just above the speaker hole at the top. After you've got a centimetre or so the rest should come off really easily. There's a bit of glue under it, but that can be rubbed away with a cloth in about 10 seconds.

Welcome to your like-new shiny scratch-free screen :P

HAha never seen a DISCLAIMER for removing a screen protector before lol :D

But cheers for sharing anyway, the world now seems a brighter place in my world :D

[Guest pulseand]

:) really!!

haha

seriously though, I might have to do this soon because I've started to get random bubbles on the screen - not in any annoying places yet, just by the t-mobile logo and near the end key...anyone else found this happening?

[Guest Stevos]

DISCLAIMER: I accept no responsibility for broken devices - what you read below is my experience and my experience only - this is my sole evidence for this being a successful process

Remember when you first started using your phone? Remember how devastated you were, when you realised it stopped working after a good few hours of heavy use?

And then the android logo shows when you power it on, before it turns off again - it wasn't quite so bad as the first power off, but you still weren't best pleased. Over time you've learned to live with your dead phone, at which point you've probably given up and now have it sitting there forlornly on your desk.

If this is you then welcome to my world. But all is not lost!

Plugging the phone in

I only just found it today (after nearly a year of Pulse ownership), but there's actually a secret maintenance hatch on the top of the phone that opens with some persuasion. I found it by gnawing at it with my teeth, but the best way to remove it is with a fingernail under the catch at the top. Look in the box that it came with, and there's a plug and a cable. If you connect the plug and cable to the phone and a power socket your phone should be able to start powering on within about 10 seconds.

Welcome to your like-new functioning phone :)

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No offence, I'm just in an odd mood.

[Guest Spikey001]

DISCLAIMER: I accept no responsibility for broken devices - what you read below is my experience and my experience only - this is my sole evidence for this being a successful process

Remember when you first started using your phone? Remember how devastated you were, when you realised it stopped working after a good few hours of heavy use?

And then the android logo shows when you power it on, before it turns off again - it wasn't quite so bad as the first power off, but you still weren't best pleased. Over time you've learned to live with your dead phone, at which point you've probably given up and now have it sitting there forlornly on your desk.

If this is you then welcome to my world. But all is not lost!

Plugging the phone in

I only just found it today (after nearly a year of Pulse ownership), but there's actually a secret maintenance hatch on the top of the phone that opens with some persuasion. I found it by gnawing at it with my teeth, but the best way to remove it is with a fingernail under the catch at the top. Look in the box that it came with, and there's a plug and a cable. If you connect the plug and cable to the phone and a power socket your phone should be able to start powering on within about 10 seconds.

Welcome to your like-new functioning phone :)

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No offence, I'm just in an odd mood.

Oooooo You mean that it's not a one use disposable phone!!?? Amazing!! :) :( :(

[Guest Stevos]

Oooooo You mean that it's not a one use disposable phone!!?? Amazing!! :) :) :(

It's better than that! this secret trick works again and again!

(except when the port gets loose or when it decides it won't charge from a USB port etc etc...)

[Guest Spikey001]

It's better than that! this secret trick works again and again!

(except when the port gets loose or when it decides it won't charge from a USB port etc etc...)

Wow, the good news just keeps coming!!

And i guess if any problems do occur then this can be solved by positioning the phone in a very very precise position, so no problem at all!! :)

Surely better than having a dead, brick like object, with a thin sheet of see thru plastic hanging from the place where there used to be bright lights and breathtaking images!!! :) :(

[Guest mrand]

DISCLAIMER: I accept no responsibility for broken devices - what you read below is my experience and my experience only - this is my sole evidence for this being a successful process

Remember when you first started using your phone? Remember how devastated you were, when you realised it stopped working after a good few hours of heavy use?

And then the android logo shows when you power it on, before it turns off again - it wasn't quite so bad as the first power off, but you still weren't best pleased. Over time you've learned to live with your dead phone, at which point you've probably given up and now have it sitting there forlornly on your desk.

If this is you then welcome to my world. But all is not lost!

Plugging the phone in

I only just found it today (after nearly a year of Pulse ownership), but there's actually a secret maintenance hatch on the top of the phone that opens with some persuasion. I found it by gnawing at it with my teeth, but the best way to remove it is with a fingernail under the catch at the top. Look in the box that it came with, and there's a plug and a cable. If you connect the plug and cable to the phone and a power socket your phone should be able to start powering on within about 10 seconds.

Welcome to your like-new functioning phone :(

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No offence, I'm just in an odd mood.

Nice one, Stevos! :)

But hey, please be careful posting this kind of brandnew information!

Remember to change your disclaimer, as it doesnt contain anything about responsibility for personal injury! :(

I almost died of suffocation when i was eating and reading your post at the same time, because i inhaled everything :)

Nevermind and Cheers!

[Guest KenBW2]

I don't think people have realised that I'm actually being serious!

Yea there was the fairly loose film on the phone when I got it, but there's another which is clearly not intended to be taken off.

Stevos: no offence taken, you sarcastic bugger

[Guest BigBearMDC]

I don't think people have realised that I'm actually being serious!

Yea there was the fairly loose film on the phone when I got it, but there's another which is clearly not intended to be taken off.

Stevos: no offence taken, you sarcastic bugger

I also pulled the original screen protector off a while ago. I had a look at the screen, and to me it looks like solid plastic. I tried it anyway - no luck. It feels like there is a second protector on it although you don't see it at all.

Best regards,

BB

[Guest TaiwanCHT8k]

DISCLAIMER: I accept no responsibility for broken devices - what you read below is my experience and my experience only - this is my sole evidence for this being a successful process

Thanks for your notice, but I broke mine anyway :)

This trick has been on Pulse Wiki for a while, but there wasn't a warning like yours. The sales clerk peeled the screen protector away for me before he hand me my pulse :)

[Guest DanWilson]

Nice one, Stevos! :)

But hey, please be careful posting this kind of brandnew information!

Remember to change your disclaimer, as it doesnt contain anything about responsibility for personal injury! :(

I almost died of suffocation when i was eating and reading your post at the same time, because i inhaled everything :)

Nevermind and Cheers!

And nuclear wars. And aliens. And Dan. And black holes.

:(

The list goes on and on. And on.

[Guest Spook Tooth]

Is that it? No more posts. I was really enjoying reading this thread. Yeah there's definitely a plasticy/glassy thing on my Pulse's screen too. I wonder if I should try to lever it off? Maybe the screen'd be more responsive then?

Nice one KenBW2. You sir, are awesome, sir. :)

[Guest DanWilson]

Is that it? No more posts. I was really enjoying reading this thread. Yeah there's definitely a plasticy/glassy thing on my Pulse's screen too. I wonder if I should try to lever it off? Maybe the screen'd be more responsive then?

Nice one KenBW2. You sir, are awesome, sir. :)

You enjoy this thread? You weren't supposed to. It was a surprise party. There was cake. And all your friends.

^{You didn't? FOOL! You can enjoy it though. There is no party. HA! Also - The cake is a lie. And you have no friends.}

:)

Nah bro. I love yah. Find my Off-Topic thread in the lounge. Or my sig. You'll enjoy that.

Also - I think we scared Ken away. I'm sure (if he comes back) he'll grow up to give us comedy. Good comedy.

Which isn't a lie :(

Edited October 30, 2010 by DanWilson

[Guest KenBW2]

Nope, I've not been scared away <pirate voice>har har</pirate voice>. I've enabled email notifications anyways so I get instant updates for your wonderfully on-topic and mentally nutriitional comments

Sook Tooth: There should be no levraging. The film is just that - it's not hard plastic or anything like that. Try picking at the bevel at the edge of the phone above the speaker hole with your nail - maybe it'll come off. Or maybe I've been a complete idiot all along and this really is the film that you're meant to take off. But surely it wouldn't have been there for nearly a year before I notice it? Someone break their phone to confirm this for me :)

[Guest peelie]

can you do this with the backplate/battary cover? some scrathces on there i would like to disappear

[Guest Stevos]

Sook Tooth: There should be no levraging. The film is just that - it's not hard plastic or anything like that. Try picking at the bevel at the edge of the phone above the speaker hole with your nail - maybe it'll come off. Or maybe I've been a complete idiot all along and this really is the film that you're meant to take off. But surely it wouldn't have been there for nearly a year before I notice it? Someone break their phone to confirm this for me :)

The standard screen protector is (from distant memory) quite well attached, and reasonably substantial (though not rigid) It sounds a lot like what you just removed.

It seems possible that it could be left in place for a long time without removal, it's just that there were quite a few threads about removing it over the last year, and I thought it was widely known. I don't think there's any mention of it in the manuals, and it's possible that Huawei intended it to be left in place, but the sensitivity of the touchscreen and the look of the screen is improved by removing it.

Having scraped, scratched, dug, gouged and attacked my screen with a knife (don't try this), I'm quite confident that mine at least doesn't have a second protector installed.

Just something else that came to mind and made me laugh - anyone else remember the comically bad touchscreen performance with the 1.5 stock ROMs? Where you had to be holding the phone to get it to register a touch and people were engineering carefully made shields out of tinfoil to sit over the battery area and make the screen work better.

Thanks to the great devs here, that was a totally different phone to what we have now :) The original stock ROM must have been a total POS.

[Guest KenBW2]

The standard screen protector is (from distant memory) quite well attached, and reasonably substantial (though not rigid) It sounds a lot like what you just removed.

It seems possible that it could be left in place for a long time without removal, it's just that there were quite a few threads about removing it over the last year, and I thought it was widely known. I don't think there's any mention of it in the manuals, and it's possible that Huawei intended it to be left in place, but the sensitivity of the touchscreen and the look of the screen is improved by removing it.

Having scraped, scratched, dug, gouged and attacked my screen with a knife (don't try this), I'm quite confident that mine at least doesn't have a second protector installed.

Just something else that came to mind and made me laugh - anyone else remember the comically bad touchscreen performance with the 1.5 stock ROMs? Where you had to be holding the phone to get it to register a touch and people were engineering carefully made shields out of tinfoil to sit over the battery area and make the screen work better.

Thanks to the great devs here, that was a totally different phone to what we have now :) The original stock ROM must have been a total POS.

Thanks for the nostalgia - I remember holding it on a surface wondering why it wasn't responding. And how it wouldn't register my touch when i had cold fingers!

The phone would be a pile of tosh without Modaco!

[Guest AntonioPT]

My U8230 had a screen protector, but it was very evident and I took it off a few minutes after I unboxed the phone.

[Guest Daz555]

Mine was fitted so well that I left it on for about 7 months. It finally started to peel so I finally removed it.

[Guest Oysterman]

It is funny but i wasnt 100% sure that this cover can be removed safely.

My pulse is only 2 months old or so and it is still firmly attached with only two minor "bubbles" around the speaker and above the trackball.

I am still hesitating to remove it despite having a really nasty scratch on this cover.