Modify TPU cell phone case for extended battery ?

[bamx2]

I am going to purchase an extended battery for my Droid X . I want the protection of the TPU case . I am thinking about installed the extended battery (w/o battery) ,heating the back of my inexpensive TPU case while off the phone with a heat gun and quickly placing the case on on the phone so that it will stretch and mold to the phone . After it cools, I will install the battery . Will this work (and not damage the phone of course) ?

 

[rtpdave]

I am going to purchase an extended battery for my Droid X . I want the protection of the TPU case . I am thinking about installed the extended battery (w/o battery) ,heating the back of my inexpensive TPU case while off the phone with a heat gun and quickly placing the case on on the phone so that it will stretch and mold to the phone . After it cools, I will install the battery . Will this work (and not damage the phone of course) ?

Did you try heating and stretching your TPU case, bamx2, and did it work?

I've ordered an extended battery with replacement case-back for my Motorola Defy XT557D, which I think will make the phone about 40% thicker. But I don't know what to use for a case.

Note: I've asked a similar question here:
http://www.ifans.com/forums/threads...-right-heres-a-tip.313712/page-2#post-3270049

 

[CZroe]

I've found that the original battery door on many phones is needed for quite a bit more. We all know about Samsung Smart Tags (RFID) and their special battery doors, but there are electrical contacts on an old HTC Sensation battery door (for RF?) and my Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY would have the speakers echoing right into the secondary mic if I made my own (replacement battery doors have this problem too because they lack the rubber/foam bits isolating the components and channeling the sound). I recall marveling at just how much louder the little speaker in my Gameboy Advance was when installed behind the grill in the housing versus dangling loose, even when aimed and cupped/directed.

Be careful.

Dummy phones are sometimes cheap and can help with experimentation. They fit cases and such but are intentionally made with NO useful parts (only salvageable part from an Xperia PLAY dummy was the SE logo). With a dummy phone you won't have to worry about melting or damaging with a heat gun. FWIW, don't apply heat to the real battery. Use a stand-in block of something cut to the same size. Consider cutting out a hole in an OEM battery door and conform over that.

 

[Joe1987]

The slickest cases for extended batteries that don't look like ass is to take an Otterbox or Otterbox like case and trim the inside out to fit the battery, and put on the outside of the case in a normal manner.

XDA has some interesting mods, dunno about the Droid X, but TPU cases are inexpensive, interesting to give it a try.

 

[bamx2]

It didn't work for me but maybe not enough heat.

Did you try heating and stretching your TPU case, bamx2, and did it work?

I've ordered an extended battery with replacement case-back for my Motorola Defy XT557D, which I think will make the phone about 40% thicker. But I don't know what to use for a case.

Note: I've asked a similar question here:
http://www.ifans.com/forums/threads...-right-heres-a-tip.313712/page-2#post-3270049

 

[rtpdave]

Thanks, bamx2. Did you find another solution?