Sim Cover Gap: Fixed!

TML1504 · Nov 2, 2010

seems DerBub and me found the solution to his sim cover problem:
it's definitely a mounting issue!

look at the photos showing the missalignment of his cover:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8833885&postcount=3
this is the result of mounting it like picture one (wrong pressure on the outside of the cover)!

try to mount it as shown on picture two! you need to apply nearly equal pressure to the back side of the cover (where the gap was) and mount it gently!

it IS possible to mount it with OR without gap, that means even if you tried it ten times before and it wont fit, try it again with the method shown in picture 2!!!

even DerBub tried it a couple of times before the cover fitted again (fine) as in delivery condition!

we hope that this information would be usefull for others to fix their gap!

best wishes,
DerBub & tml1504

update:
good to see that this actually really helps some people!

LeviathanPT · Nov 2, 2010

TML1504 said:
seems kid_loco and me found the solution to his sim cover problem:
it's definitely a mounting issue!

look at the photos showing the missalignment of his cover:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8833885&postcount=3
this is the result of mounting it like picture one (wrong pressure on the outside of the cover)!

try to mount it as shown on picture two! you need to apply nearly equal pressure to the back side of the cover (where the gap was) and mount it gently!

it IS possible to mount it with OR without gap, that means even if you tried it ten times before and it wont fit, try it again with the method shown in picture 2!!!

even kid_loco tried it a couple of times before the cover fitted again (fine) as in delivery condition!

we hope that this information would be usefull for others to fix their gap!

best wishes,
kid_loco & tml1504

Lulz and to think this made so many people panic and go beserke, good finding man thanks for the fix

bobbyphoenix · Nov 3, 2010

That always got me when people say it doesn't fit. When you take it out of the box it is a perfect fit, so it has to be the way it is being put back on. It can't magically shrink to now have a gap. Thanks for the tip.

DerBub · Nov 3, 2010

I'm very glad to have this "problem" fixed

As tml1504 wrote I also had this gap problem, even though I've tried to fit the sim cover several times (obviously in a wrong manner).

After fitting the cover in the manner described in pic 2, the cover fits in the way it should fit: even perfectly

regarding tml1504's posting:

pic 1: putting the pressure at the outside (left and right side of the sim cover) causes the ominous gap.

pic 2: just take your phone backwards and push the cover with a smooth equal pressure (3-4 fingers). it is useful to have the thumb at the frontside to stabilise the other 3-4 fingers

best wishes,
DerBub

SW7 · Nov 3, 2010

TML1504 said:
seems kid_loco and me found the solution to his sim cover problem:
it's definitely a mounting issue!

look at the photos showing the missalignment of his cover:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8833885&postcount=3
this is the result of mounting it like picture one (wrong pressure on the outside of the cover)!

try to mount it as shown on picture two! you need to apply nearly equal pressure to the back side of the cover (where the gap was) and mount it gently!

it IS possible to mount it with OR without gap, that means even if you tried it ten times before and it wont fit, try it again with the method shown in picture 2!!!

even kid_loco tried it a couple of times before the cover fitted again (fine) as in delivery condition!

we hope that this information would be usefull for others to fix their gap!

best wishes,
kid_loco & tml1504

Great info! Thanks very much!

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DerBub · Nov 3, 2010

We hope we were able to be of assistance to you

cheers

madindehead · Nov 3, 2010

I love you guys for this. Just tried it, and it works wonders! Much appreciated.

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DerBub · Nov 3, 2010

You're welcome

Hopefully this hint will help many users!

cd993 · Nov 3, 2010

Excellent tip there, many thanks!

combat goofwing · Nov 3, 2010

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819191&page=2

said here you need to apply pressure to back as well as sides as it get the little plastic mounting guides in line, they come as new fine its only when you remove it for the first time and try to get it back on it has a gap

reelist · Nov 3, 2010

why cant i see picture two?!

dazultra2000 · Nov 3, 2010

This is weird to me because I can't actually put mine on wrong. Even if I squeeze the back cover by the sides as I slide it on, the cover just will not fit at all, it just slides off...

Once the cover is in it's "guide rails" I can push it on with one finger from the very bottom of the phone and it fits right. I still wonder if some phones out there have a dodgy cover or something...

TML1504 · Nov 3, 2010

reelist said:
why cant i see picture two?!

sorry, don't know! i've used standard encoding in photoshop and i think everybody else doesn't have a problem with my pictures...

dazultra2000 said:
I still wonder if some phones out there have a dodgy cover or something...

perhaps this can be the case, but i think none of them is so "dodged up" that a correct mounting wouldn't be possible. just out of curiosity i tried it with mine (although i don't have any gap so far) and i had been able to mount it in a wise that a gap was the result...

so i would still recommend everybody who has the gap to retry the mounting procedure until it fits!

and for the plastics engineers out there:
with plastic tools for molding machines and a considerably high number of parts it would be more than likely that the tool has more than one cavity, which implies that there are more than one possible "version" of the cover on the market. although they should only differ in the micrometer scale, it WOULD be possible that parts from cavity 1 would fit perfect, but parts from cavity 2 have the mounting issue. i will look again on the inside of my cover and try to find some markers, then we should be ably to identify the different cavity's (if they exist)!

regards,
markus

HacKage · Nov 3, 2010

TML1504 said:
sorry, don't know! i've used standard encoding in photoshop and i think everybody else doesn't have a problem with my pictures...

perhaps this can be the case, but i think none of them is so "dodged up" that a correct mounting wouldn't be possible. just out of curiosity i tried it with mine (although i don't have any gap so far) and i had been able to mount it in a wise that a gap was the result...

so i would still recommend everybody who has the gap to retry the mounting procedure until it fits!

and for the plastics engineers out there:
with plastic tools for molding machines and a considerably high number of parts it would be more than likely that the tool has more than one cavity, which implies that there are more than one possible "version" of the cover on the market. although they should only differ in the micrometer scale, it WOULD be possible that parts from cavity 1 would fit perfect, but parts from cavity 2 have the mounting issue. i will look again on the inside of my cover and try to find some markers, then we should be ably to identify the different cavity's (if they exist)!

regards,
markus

You are talking about there maybe being different moulds for the covers, yet you have also said that you can put it on a different way and replicate the gap problem, surely that would mean that the chances are there aren't more than 1 cover and it is just down to user error, as I have always thought. There are many people saying that it is bent, kinked, or just doesn't fit, yet if you take it off and put it on the correct way, none of this happens, strange that.

kenmasters321 · Nov 9, 2010

after reading this post I checked the back of my DHD and noticed I had the gap issue - then applied the pic2 method and no gap!

thanks op

onesolo · Nov 9, 2010

LOLOL, is was this that some people were talking about?!!?

I figure at 1st that had to make a little pressure in the center of the cover so that the cover fitted right into the body...

christonge · Nov 12, 2010

Nice one... worked perfectly ;-)

fubofo · Nov 12, 2010

onesolo said:
LOLOL, is was this that some people were talking about?!!?

I figure at 1st that had to make a little pressure in the center of the cover so that the cover fitted right into the body...

No this is not what those who were first to recieve the DHD (including me) are talking about. What is being shown here is just plain stupidity. Anybody with half a wit would know how to fit the cover on without a 'bump'. This is not the incorrect fit / gap issue.

Pointless thread, please close

gervasius · Nov 17, 2010

but, I have to say, I still have gap between cover and body, about half milimeter,
and cover is creaky little bit...

:-(

Old HD2 was much hardware better than desire hd

Rasdroid · Nov 17, 2010

My sim cover is getting loose, when I hold it in landscape mode with the usual 2 finger using the camera posistion i can twist my fingers slightly with barely any force making the cover gap ...anyone else?

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