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Nexus 7 Custom Colored Back

So I got my Nexus 7 and was excited to see it up close and in my hands. Once I received it I fell in love with its design and feel. But one thing was missing on the back. The back was just to plain and boring for me. Google could have at least colored in the Nexus logo to spice things up. So instead I went ahead and did my own coloring on the back of my Nexus 7. See the pictures below. If you guys want I can make a tutorial on how I did it and what I used. Thanks! :laugh:

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lin013190 said:
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What do you mean?

That's pretty smart, I like it. It would have been a nice idea to have a line of coloured backs ready to upsell on eager new owners, but I suppose they don't want people jimmying off the backs to replace them
BTW, yeah, I'd like to know what sort of paint you used, acrylic?

It looks good. I'm holding out for the custom backs sure to come.
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djrazi said:
So I got my Nexus 7 and was excited to see it up close and in my hands. Once I received it I fell in love with its design and feel. But one thing was missing on the back. The back was just to plain and boring for me. Google could have at least colored in the Nexus logo to spice things up. So instead I went ahead and did my own coloring on the back of my Nexus 7. See the pictures below. If you guys want I can make a tutorial on how I did it and what I used. Thanks! :laugh:
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Very cool! How did you do it?

Very cool paint job. I dont have one yet but I assume that the logos is carved in the back and you just used some paint to paint in the spots?

Very cool paint job! I'd like to try this as well
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Looks pretty sweet... If I were to do it I'd only do the Nexus.
But yeah, what did you use and you'll have to update on if it holds up.

Cool... Mine will be in a slim case soon, but I could get my Daughter to do that (Graphic artist with all the paints and tools).

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Looks pretty sweet... If I were to do it I'd only do the Nexus.
But yeah, what did you use and you'll have to update on if it holds up.
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I used Elmers Painters Neon Pack from Amazon. I bought them just to try this out. I wouldn't really recommend these because the tip is to big to get the paint into the engraving and it took me awhile to clean it up. And it doesn't seem like the paint would really hold up that long. Im going to try to take out all the paint and re-do the color with some better markers.

This is really cool! Definitely makes the back look much more enticing and, I think Google and Asus should've designed something like this to begin with.
I'll be trying this out for sure! Nice work!

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Looks great! Picture didn't loss for me earlier.
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Thanks guys for all the comments and likes! If anyone else tries this please post pictures I would love to see them! Maybe someone else can try custom colors!

Want to touch the hiney...
I was thinking about this very thing earlier. Looks great!
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Great stuff, not sure I'd do this myself
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looks great...,..

Remove the paint on Asus
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That looks pretty cool. Although people, be careful if you want to try paint on your backing, it might not be very easy to find a new one if you screw up. It seems to have the NFC antenna on it as mentioned on this xda unboxing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iNWRto0Vf0M#t=316s

Very nice!
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Nexus Excitement

I know many are just excited as I am about the N4 so I want to talk about all the good things about it. Is anyone else more anxious about the phone because of the lack of the press event? I find myself checking every couple hours for a good hands on video to admire. Ahhh, the nexus butterflies all over again
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nbeebe24 said:
I know many are just excited as I am about the N4 so I want to talk about all the good things about it. Is anyone else more anxious about the phone because of the lack of the press event? I find myself checking every couple hours for a good hands on video to admire. Ahhh, the nexus butterflies all over again
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The only hands on videos are from reviewers at a Google demo. Actual review units have been sent out already apparently. We will have to wait until the NDA lifts to see the results though and I imagine it will not be until the week of release.

bozzykid said:
The only hands on videos are from reviewers at a Google demo. Actual review units have been sent out already apparently. We will have to wait until the NDA lifts to see the results though and I imagine it will not be until the week of release.
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This is one I've seen that shows off the hardware pretty well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5OOKh6CGzc&feature=youtube_gdata_player. I have to say the phone looks stunning. Seeing the phone at mostly odd angles and short clips makes me more curious about it. I'm super excited
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nbeebe24 said:
I know many are just excited as I am about the N4 so I want to talk about all the good things about it. Is anyone else more anxious about the phone because of the lack of the press event? I find myself checking every couple hours for a good hands on video to admire. Ahhh, the nexus butterflies all over again
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+1 I was totally in love after I saw the video from the verge, literally my eyes were like this: O.O lol
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Nexusism

nbeebe24 said:
This is one I've seen that shows off the hardware pretty well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5OOKh6CGzc&feature=youtube_gdata_player. I have to say the phone looks stunning. Seeing the phone at mostly odd angles and short clips makes me more curious about it. I'm super excited
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I'm a fan of SAMOLED but this LCD has impressive colors and black level even when she cranked up the brightness.

mi7chy said:
I'm a fan of SAMOLED but this LCD has impressive colors and black level even when she cranked up the brightness.
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I was a fan but not so much after owning three phones that had it. I want more accuracy now and brighter screens. The only things that made my galaxy nexus' screen usable was the color/gamma mod and supercurio's app. I look forward to the change
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I am super excited lol i spent hell out of time today just reading about it. o_0

Red Wolf said:
I am super excited lol i spent hell out of time today just reading about it. o_0
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It's gonna haunt my dreams till its on my hands lol
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This is going be the longest two weeks in my life!
btw does anyone know if the wireless charger thing would be included with the phone or would we have to buy it separately ?

OmgitzFire said:
This is going be the longest two weeks in my life!
btw does anyone know if the wireless charger thing would be included with the phone or would we have to buy it separately ?
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I think separately looking on what you get in the box on the play store page. When the verge did their video it was still in prototype.

ste1164 said:
I think separately looking on what you get in the box on the play store page. When the verge did their video it was still in prototype.
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Yeah I can almost guarantee it'll be separate
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Okay thanks guys, either way I still plan to get it. Can't wait!

Nexus 4 has a pattern on the display.

If you hold up the phone turned off under bright light you'll see small blue dots in a grid pattern. Very cool.

Picture?

deadzombieseverywhere said:
If you hold up the phone turned off under bright light you'll see small blue dots in a grid pattern. Very cool.
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is the digitizer, the thing that let touch a smartphone not dumb
you can see it on every phone. Maybe in the n4 is more visible because lg used a special tecnology to blend it with the glass

Yea. It's totally right for Nexus to have these. For example, in SE Xperia Neo V there are barely noticeable lines running across the screen. You can sometimes see them when pixels are white. Now that's really annoying sometimes; as you can see, there's completely nothing to worry about

BakaPhoenix said:
is the digitizer, the thing that let touch a smartphone not dumb
you can see it on every phone. Maybe in the n4 is more visible because lg used a spacial tecnology to blend it with the glass
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Way to ruin his excitement lol

Even if now he knows what they are, he can still be excited XD

lol. Don't all smartphones with a touchscreen phones have it?

InvalidUsername said:
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Just leave.
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trikzal said:
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Cool. I can quote your Tapatalk signature too.

InvalidUsername said:
Wow OMG so cool! Nexus 4 for life. -.- fanboys...
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I didn't know being excited about something makes you a fanboy, right.
also, says the person who has a nexus 4 as well..

I figured that it had some rhyme or reason. It's definitely more noticeable, considering I've gone through a captivate and an HTC one xl without notice. As for the fanboy comment I really don't care. Trolls are trolls and hey. He's right. Who cares if I'm a fanboy dammit. I got my phone on the seventeenth, a day before my birthday, while the other poor souls wait.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks troll! I'm glad you were so amused

W00t my order shipped.
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This pattern (as we agreed on is the digitizer) is very visible on my device even if the screen is turned on (!) It is really annoying on bright background colours. Anyone else suffering from this?

Does This look normal to you?

Sorry for the bad pictures - Hopefully you can get an idea of what I am talking about - Around one edge of the power button, the finish either looks "unfinished" or slightly "peeling off" my 1 day old phone...Probably just me being super anal but wanted your opinions. Thanks

Maybe some protective foil, I remember it took months before someone discovered the home button on the sgs2 had foil on it and we could peel it off.

Wow what a ugly case
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Yea that's super anal.

hmmm...
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Wow what a ugly case
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OK. First of all, it's "wow...what AN ugly case". Second, that's the silicone part of an Otterbox. Third, how 'bout just responding to the thread...

good...
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Yea that's super anal.
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...to know, I figured. awesome phone though and it's a keeper

Take Lumia-level low light shots!

Tried shot control but it's very buggy at iso 100. So just turn on HDR and hold your device against something stable. Cheers

Thank you... .:thumbup:
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Wow. can't believe that those low light snaps are using Nexus 4. Can you share link to app?

nileshgr said:
Wow. can't believe that those low light snaps are using Nexus 4. Can you share link to app?
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Pretty sure he's using the stock app.

nileshgr said:
Wow. can't believe that those low light snaps are using Nexus 4. Can you share link to app?
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It's stock.I was just as surprised as you.

there was a thread about something similar, try HDR and set exposure to +2

Wow, looks epic !! I'm going to try this out tonight
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Wow nice shot =o)
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wow awesome, will have to play with it, thanks for the tip!

Definitely pleasing to eye. But they lack the crisp feel of Lumia. I Don't know I just can't stand Windows platform and Nokia for their utmost stupidity for sticking with WP... But Nokia's PV camera and build quality ... aaaah just EPIC. I know people will disagree here, calling Nokia Phones bulky but how can we forget owning Nokia phones all those years and boy they were sturdy.
Nokia please.. pleaseeee come to the brighter side of mobile arena
PEACE

filthykid said:
Definitely pleasing to eye. But they lack the crisp feel of Lumia. I Don't know I just can't stand Windows platform and Nokia for their utmost stupidity for sticking with WP... But Nokia's PV camera and build quality ... aaaah just EPIC. I know people will disagree here, calling Nokia Phones bulky but how can we forget owning Nokia phones all those years and boy they were sturdy.
Nokia please.. pleaseeee come to the brighter side of mobile arena
PEACE
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Lumia has a 41MP shooter to be fair and overall better sensor...
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Ace42 said:
Lumia has a 41MP shooter to be fair and overall better sensor...
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Oops sorry for mentioning PV techno.. I was actually referring to Lumia 802. I recently saw its live low-light photos and boy that freaking 8 MP shooter stole the show from rest of us (android and iphone crowd...while at an event). I was shocked to witness THAT level of clarity in Lumia LL shots.

Pretty awesome, how'd you get to change the ISO Settings though?

how can we change the iso setting on stock camera in 4.3?! :S :S :S

qwahchees said:
Pretty awesome, how'd you get to change the ISO Settings though?
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H4midR3za said:
how can we change the iso setting on stock camera in 4.3?! :S :S :S
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With stock you can't. I referred to an app called shot control which allows you to, but when you set it to iso100 it usually freezes. About the lumia comparison, I think that these shots definitely are on par with the 920, which is pretty soft by itself. DDon't forget that XDA shrinks images, originals are much sharper. And about Nokia build quality, the lumias are definitely good, but traditionally Nokia had many flops: my 6120, N95, N85 and N97 all crumbled pretty fast.

I want a lumia 925. 920 but way thinner/lighter/better looking
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Camera FV-5 allows you to adjust ISO, exposure, AWB, and so on.. pretty much all the functions of the DSLR...
Free version to try out
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.lite
Pro version if you really like it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.pro

Y don't u try chainfires camera app it's also pretty good
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