Some of you were mentioning you didnt like how the LEDs on keys seemed pink or not true red, well i had some time on my hands and i changed my white LEDs to Red ones, which offer a much nicer red to the keys and here are some pics to show the two left which i changed to red, and the 2 right which are the standard stock ones.
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Pretty slick dude, and how sad is it HTC didn't think of this themselves?! Did you take any pics of the phone taken apart of the LED's you used?
A tutorial and/or pics would be awesome! That looks much better.
they might have thought the red shining up instead of white would be distracting on the screen, who knows.
either way, those are some pink ass buttons...but now they look as red as mine lol
Nice pictures, easy to see what people were talking about when they said they had pink buttons.
Was it just a colored strip that changes the color from white to red (Pink)?
Okay, now I know mine are def red. Was driving myself crazy looking at them this morning wondering if they were turning pink on me or if it was an optical illusion against the red design on the wallpaper. lol. But even in my paranoia I didn't see anything truly pink like that.
But what I really want to know is what are you hiding on your screen?
That's cool. I didn't think mine looked pink enough. Would be awesome to make the pink stand out even more.
Is this phone a mess on the inside with the double sided sticky tape also? I hated having to heat up the Thunderbolt to get between the LCD & digitizer.
My keys don't look near as pale as yours do. U can tell they are red but they aren't dark... I think they didn't do red leds because of the screen leak and they were already going to make the keys red anyway.
But I think the red leak looks kind of sweet. Not sure how I would like it at night though...
U wanna do mine next? Lol.
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Wow, nice mod. pwrdbykyank, YGPM
lol, i didnt take any pics of it apart this time, but i have pics up on the disassembly thread i made of it how it looks where the leds are. I used 0603 leds. There is no strip covering the original, they are just white leds. the digitizer glass is just tinted red to show red. Also the light doesnt leak onto the screen, i just tilted the phone and took a pic like that so you guys can see where the two red are and the two white. you can only see it by looking at a sharp angle from top down like that, or else you dont see the red coming on the screen Looks good at night, i wanted to add 2 LEDs to where the earpiece grill is, so that would light up on notification buttt looked like way to much work and i didnt want to alter the housing around to run wires through it so i said forget it lol.
oh ya and i covered the screen so the camera wouldnt focus on the LCD light, it kept bluring so ya lol or else my desktop is as plain as it came out of the box haha
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lol, i didnt take any pics of it apart this time, but i have pics up on the disassembly thread i made of it how it looks where the leds are.
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Yeah, I was just wondering if I could see the full-size shots from the other thread.
Here you go. Full size images you requested.
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Here you go. Full size images you requested.
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Win. Thank you.
Wow. That looks awesome. If you lived close I'd pay you to do it for me!
lol thanks
You could make some money doing this for people LOL, it is a bad economy.
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Like I said. I'd pay to have it done. For sure.
Where are you located? I would pay to get this done too
lol im in burbank CA
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Hi all.
Im back again to show off my LED swap for the Evo 3D along with some comparison pics of the Evo 4G and Hero LED swap.
I changed not only the bottom LEDs but also the charge LEDs to blue/white
The Evo 4G wasn's as nice as the 3D as the LEDs didn't shine through as nicely but here are some pics for you to check out
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and here are my old phones for comparison
Excellent job!
Damn that is awesome! Is it hard to do?
Please post a video or a how to. Looks awesome
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Please post a video or a how to. Looks awesome
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THIS PLZ
10char
That is nice! Awesome work. +1 on the how to please
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a how to is deff needed
That's way COOL dude.
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Yougot some BALLS, son. Awesome. I don't think I have the nerve to void this things warranty lol
....and I'm a man who likes to void his warranties!
Kudos!
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Thank you all,
yea most my friends dont know why i open stuff the second i get them to tweak them out. lol
as for a tutorial its pretty strait forward take the phone apart, and their are 2 boards with LEDs, on them the top and bottom.
unsolder the old LEDs and solder in the new ones
their is a video on youtube i just found if you cant take apart the phone,even though its pretty simple, 6 screws, pop the case apart and another 2 on the inside holding down the top board with the camera. you also have to take out some ribbon cables and such to remove the motherboard of the Evo.
If you are not familiar with soldering SMD components then i do not suggest this is for you.
the top board is actually a flex board which you can damage pretty easily.
On the flex board is a single bi-color LED in which i just swapped out for 2 single color LEDs
M37R01D, great post! Thank you.
The mod looks great but soldering on that scale is still a little intimidating, to me
I found a great video on soldering surface-mount devices:
Dayum! That white LED in the Hero is tits.
The first part of that video with the 0603 size resistor they solder is the same size as the LEDs needed for this.
But look more on desoldering as that part is a bit harder and their is more risk screwing up the solder pads then the actual installation of the LEDs
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Dayum! That white LED in the Hero is tits.
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The hero I did opposite
Charging is white full charge is blue
on the Evo's I did blue for charging and white when full.
I'm sooooooooooo jealous!! I love blue!
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I did that with my old blackberry curve, I colored the LEDs red with a Sharpie to match the housing, so I had red back lighting on the keyboard. This looks way cool, but warranty is now void right?
I'd pick red or amber to its not as bright.
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Thank you all,
yea most my friends dont know why i open stuff the second i get them to tweak them out. lol
as for a tutorial its pretty strait forward take the phone apart, and their are 2 boards with LEDs, on them the top and bottom.
unsolder the old LEDs and solder in the new ones
their is a video on youtube i just found if you cant take apart the phone,even though its pretty simple, 6 screws, pop the case apart and another 2 on the inside holding down the top board with the camera. you also have to take out some ribbon cables and such to remove the motherboard of the Evo.
If you are not familiar with soldering SMD components then i do not suggest this is for you.
the top board is actually a flex board which you can damage pretty easily.
On the flex board is a single bi-color LED in which i just swapped out for 2 single color LEDs
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Damn.....I'll just paint mine lol
I'm not really an asshole, I just play one on the internet
phatmanxxl said:
I did that with my old blackberry curve, I colored the LEDs red with a Sharpie to match the housing, so I had red back lighting on the keyboard. This looks way cool, but warranty is now void right?
I'd pick red or amber to its not as bright.
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Lmao that's what I did with mine! Put some tape over the light and colord the tape
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http://forums.androidcentral.com/ht...stom-colored-capacative-buttons-new-post.html
This is really cool and unique
DDD-EVO
it is indeed kewl. i did this on my evo in blue. but then as themes kept coming out i was stuck with the blue leds cause i actually painted the bulbs and the themes and mods no longer matched .
I was thinking of doing it in red. Matches the cam and I tend to keep my themes really dark so it shouldn't clash, I hope!
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Can someone please post the pictures because I don't have an account on the forums?
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Here you go. I would like the smoke vinyl just to dim the lights some. They're so bright.
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I was thinking of doing it in red. Matches the cam and I tend to keep my themes really dark so it shouldn't clash, I hope!
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Definitely post pics if you go through with it!
I just wanna say thanks for linking my thread over here...It was my first write-up and makes me fell pretty good that it was worthy enough to be reposted on another forum...
If anyone has any questions I can answer them for you...Also, I will be doing my wife's EVO 4G in pink in the next couple days and I was thinking of doing a write-up for that as well, I just gotta wait on the vinyl to get here...
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I was thinking of doing it in red. Matches the cam and I tend to keep my themes really dark so it shouldn't clash, I hope!
DDD-EVO
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post some pics of the red, i want to do mine in red but am afraid of them coming out pink.
Cal3b said:
post some pics of the red, i want to do mine in red but am afraid of them coming out pink.
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The best way is to either use a deep red or use 2 layers of red vinyl...
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The best way is to either use a deep red or use 2 layers of red vinyl...
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I've been thinking of looking into the red adhesive tape they sell to cover up broken tail lights, what do you think? I want to make sure I do it right and not screw it up.
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I already tried it it comes out looking pink and if you double the tape its way to dark
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I already tried it it comes out looking pink and if you double the tape its way to dark
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Oh well. Thanks for saving me from a pink nightmare. might go with blue if I cant get the red to look right.
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Oh well. Thanks for saving me from a pink nightmare. might go with blue if I cant get the red to look right.
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I ended up going with a silver cut down the brightness by 50% and it eliminated all light leakage so i'm happy
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I already tried it it comes out looking pink and if you double the tape its way to dark
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Actually I think mine came out pretty good I used colored electrical tape, though, instead of vinyl.
Nice may try it my self..
How many layers?
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Actually I think mine came out pretty good I used colored electrical tape, though, instead of vinyl.
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On my way to radio shack, thanks for posting your materials. Looks frickin sweet man.
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Just 1 layer. I was actually afraid the light wouldn't shine through properly because the tape looks opaque. But once you get it on it looks pretty nice. Also make sure you cover the LEDs evenly. The first time I did it one of them wasn't covered properly and it made my Menu button orange lol.
$2.17 at Walmart, radio shack was sold out. How big of a piece of tape did you use?
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Forgot the pic....oops
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I searched and read through the other threads on this, and I just wanted to ask what those of you with the pink buttons did to correct it, if anything at all.
4 phones later I have a perfect, dead pixel free screen, but super pink buttons...I am not exchanging this phone for that as a good screen IMHO is more important than red buttons.
I just didn't know if anyone had done anything easy to do that they would recommend to make em RED!
I couldn't tell the difference between red and pink on my buttons if I my life depended on it. For all I know, I could have magenta buttons.
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I couldn't tell the difference between red and pink on my buttons if I my life depended on it. For all I know, I could have magenta buttons.
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hahaha, i am pretty picky about colors. I don't think after a couple days the pink will bother me that much, I just know how red than can be!
some guy on here was replacing the LED's with red ones, and another member sent his phone to him to do it, and was pleased with the results..
someone else painted the bulbs red
I just gotta say, maybe the buttons were neve supposed to be exactly red, just not white. gotta love the phone for what it is beside the off red/pink buttons. sheesh.
My buttons looked pinky at first but now look more red. Maybe they need to season up for awhile?
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I just gotta say, maybe the buttons were neve supposed to be exactly red, just not white. gotta love the phone for what it is beside the off red/pink buttons. sheesh.
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Yes, it seems to me they're supposed to be a lighter red, like the color of the beats ear buds.
Regardless, tacky IMO. Wish they would have just gone with white. Oh well...root and disable.
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Yes, it seems to me they're supposed to be a lighter red, like the color of the beats ear buds.
Regardless, tacky IMO. Wish they would have just gone with white. Oh well...root and disable.
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Screen filter turns off the capacative key lights.
nosympathy said:
I searched and read through the other threads on this, and I just wanted to ask what those of you with the pink buttons did to correct it, if anything at all.
4 phones later I have a perfect, dead pixel free screen, but super pink buttons...I am not exchanging this phone for that as a good screen IMHO is more important than red buttons.
I just didn't know if anyone had done anything easy to do that they would recommend to make em RED!
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I don't about easy but there's a couple methods in this thread, one involving soldering and one involving just a sharpie. There may be other methods but that's what I remember seeing.
Rezound LED modification to soft touch keys
Here's his before and after pic using the soldering method where he changed the LEDs:
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My buttons looked pinky at first but now look more red. Maybe they need to season up for awhile?
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Or maybe those pics you took made it blush.
g damn, that is pink! I was starting to think mine were pink because i can't really tell the difference but now I see...
I came up with the Sharpie method, and while it isn't permanent like the LED method, it's help up just fine ever since I did it, almost a month ago. For those not too confident with soldering or modifying the system board in the phone, go for an alternate method for making them red, such as a Sharpie. I've heard that paint can eat away the LED's, but not quite sure about that.
I didn't notice that mine were more pinkish until my gf's was next to mine. Her's are darker and more red but i honestly could careless...It looks fine when its not next to another rezound...
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For awhile, but it has to be reenabled all the time. Regardless, screen filter has a running notification and I don't like things in my status bar....
Thought I would take some side by side photos of the Champagne and Grey primes while I have both. The Grey is going back to best buy this weekend.
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Great comparison. This would help alot of people.
how does the finger print smudging on the back compare? Does the champagne show fingerprints as awfully as the graphite does?
The Champagne doesn't seem to show the smudges nearly as much, but I have only had it for a day so I really can't say for sure.
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Damn....i shouldve gotten the champagne. That looks pretty sick
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Cheers !
Always better to get RL pictures than the promo shots.
btw .. i wouldnt sit it on the charger though, they look too fragile and at £25 at least to replace, thats if your lucky and it doesnt break the connector inside !
Appreciate the piccys though, thanks left.
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The Champagne doesn't seem to show the smudges nearly as much, but I have only had it for a day so I really can't say for sure.
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I agree with this, i've had both and i was always cleaning the grey version, i hardly need to do any cleaning with this silver one
Grey one looks much better n sleek looking ...the light colored one has more of a cheap look to it. Doesn't stand out it and pop like the dark grey one. I have the grey one
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Cheers !
Always better to get RL pictures than the promo shots.
btw .. i wouldnt sit it on the charger though, they look too fragile and at £25 at least to replace, thats if your lucky and it doesnt break the connector inside !
Appreciate the piccys though, thanks left.
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Ya, the Champagne was on its maiden charge and i was downloading ICS and all the updates for it and what not. Otherwise I wouldn't have had it plugged in.
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Grey one looks much better n sleek looking ...the light colored one has more of a cheap look to it. Doesn't stand out it and pop like the dark grey one. I have the grey one
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One thing that i noticed is that the ASUS logo sticks out a lot more on the Champagne. The photos seem show this as well.
Why does my grey Prime doesn't look at all like the photo? It actually looks exactly like the PR images from ASUS...
The photo-grey-prime looks almost black
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Why does my grey Prime doesn't look at all like the photo? It actually looks exactly like the PR images from ASUS...
The photo-grey-prime looks almost black
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It's just lighting in the photos. My grey prime also looks purple-y like the PR pictures. I prefer the colour, makes it look different from other tablets. : )
I've found it nearly impossible to photograph these things and really show their colors, partly because they both look so different in different lighting. Don't like how either of them look? Then just hold it at a different angle to the light...
I've had both side-by-side, and I think each has its charms. Interestingly, I do find the combination of the Champagne Gold tablet with the Amethyst Gray dock to be quite striking.
I usually do weird stuff to my new phone all the time, be it mod, painting and so forth....
I got the phone from Walmart the past Wednesday for $158.00 = $170+ some changes after tax......whoo hoo..
on to the topic... I just wanted to see what it looks like in yellow. Thats all
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O hello yellow
that looks awesome! :O
could u do mine in pink???? ))
The yellow doesn't look that great... Maybe black with yellow highlights.
not bad! 10char
I think I'm gonna be sick....
Nice man!
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VERY nice!
I would have kept the kickstand red though. Would've looked even cleaner.
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I sure can .... " Hot Pink " ...
What kind of paint did you use? I'd like to do mine orange...
From the front it looks awesome, not to much on the back(just my opinion). Think if you would've left the back black and just painted the kickstand and the HTC yellow it would've been pretty sick. Again,not trying to be a **** just my opinion.
Nice job, that looks pretty nice actually. Looks terrible with the blue case though ;-)
Yellow with the red kickstand would have been really sexy though
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I agree with some of the other guys ..I wouldnt of paint the whole back yellow..and the paint isn'tsmooth in a couple areas...its. not for me since I'm happy with the phone as is..but I applaud your bravery
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I agree with some of the other guys ..I wouldnt of paint the whole back yellow..and the paint isn'tsmooth in a couple areas...its. not for me since I'm happy with the phone as is..but I applaud your bravery
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Ditto. I feel the yellow was overdone. It also looks like it was one thick coat sprayed on in haste. A few very thin coats would have come out great (I'll bet this one stays tacky for a while, or it will chunk off if it catches a nail or something) but, of course, it's all personal preference.
I think it's a fantastic idea but you shouldve kept a 2 color thing going. Maybe black and yellow as one mentioned around the camera and kickstand,
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Cool idea! I like the orange. I agree with the others tho, a two tone would look nicer. I was actually expecting to see a yellow/black combo based on the thread title.
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Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. I will take them into consideration.
I'm still waiting for my pre-order of the full clear body skin from bodyguardz. Consider it a pre show ... I'll update once I get all the fixin's and accessories...
Nice! Can't go wrong with some contrast like black kickstand to represent bumblebee stripes.
I think it would've looked a lot better if you kept the highlights a different color, a solid color phone doesn't look that appealing to me.
But nice job, if you like it, that's what matters.