Looking nice. I did a shell swap myself and it was a fun project (took me about 4 hours). I’m hoping someone comes out with some cool buttons to give me an excuse to keep working on it 😂

The cable is from Temu? Lol, it’s the cable. Case solved.

I used a regular hairdryer (with one of the heads that focuses the airflow) on the medium setting. The rest of the tools I just used what came with the new case-- it comes with a big locking suction cup and some thin plastic cards (think credit cards but thinner) for sliding under the edge of the screen to separate the adhesive.

Thanks! Maybe check around phone repair shops maybe you could pay someone to do it.

I’ve never worked on a phone tbh so no point of comparison. It was much easier than I expected, I just followed the directions. Heated the screen for about a minute around the edges with my hair dryer, put the included suction cup on and pulled straight out just enough to get these thin plastic cards wedged in. Had to run those around the edges to cut through / peel up the adhesive then I juat pulled and the screen came off. There was a little residual adhesive so scraping that off took some time since I wanted it to be nice and flush.

I prefer frosted personally (100% clear is too ‘prison tech’ for me lol) but hopefully these companies will start putting more options out there. Jsaux doesn’t even have all the colors for the frontplate yet that they do for the back (I think the green would look great for example). Honestly I would love a piss yellow like the death stranding ps5 controller

some more pix here but I’m not much of a photographer lol https://imgur.com/a/5lIQvSA

also shoutout to https://lemmy.world/u/G0ldenSp00n@lemmy.jacaranda.club (no idea if thats the right way to link to a person on here) for answering my questions, some helpful stuff from them!