Installing a screen protector is like brain surgery
Seriously, I don't think I've ever tried to do anything more difficult than installing a screen protector with no blemishes. On my first attempt i ended up with a huge speck of dust under it. The second time I bent a corner while trying to tuck it under the edge of the screen. On my third and final attempt I thought I had it but now have noticed a few specks of dust.
I'm at my wits end right now as to how to do this correctly. Maybe I'm just being anal, but it's annoying the hell out of me. By the way I'm using Nu Shield protectors.
If your protector is washable, wash it, then just kind of flick it dry, and carefully apply it slightly wet to your screen. Worked awesome for me. You just have to make sure it is just barely wet, don't want any leaking behind the screen. But I've got zero bubbles and zero dust in mine.. and I'm HORRIBLE at putting these things on!
oh man, i just put mine on today, i had it PERFECT and just as i'm laying that last corner slowly, a spec of something that was like kraft cheese or something flew under it.
I impressed the heck outta myself... 1st try -went on perfect... till I realized the protector was 1/16" too short.. leaving a space at the bottom of my screen. I couldn't live w/ that... If I had to choose, I'd prefer the space at the top... so, off it came (off course, scratching a corner of the protector in the process), and then back on... along with a speck of dust in the process. Oh well, the fleeting perfection was cool, albeit short-lived.
At the risk of having a head of lettuce thrown at me... ...are screen protectors really a "must?"
I've had my 6700 for a couple of months now - use the stylus with some regularity - have the Seidio (padded) holster...I do not have one scratch on my screen?? Are the screen protectors there for the inevitable "drop on the ground?"
they also help if you pick up a normal pen and try to write on your screen, instead of your stylus. i know someone who did that a few times withtheir pda. the protector is not a must have but it is a strongly recomended.
Every refurb I looked at had numerous "normal use" scratches on its screen. That's why I finally pre-paid a new one (waiting for refund on returned one from Sprint).
Back on topic--here's my "foolproof" method for getting a protector on perfectly. It works with PPC Techs WriteShields, but should work with any reusable protector.
1. While the protector is still on its backing, apply a piece of masking tape across one (short) end with the tape NOT overlapping the long sides. This is a "handle" to apply/move the protector.
2. Clean the screen, avoiding dusty places. Mainly it's important to get the edges/corners crud-free at this point. Don't worry about the center.
3. Use the "handle" to remove the protector from its backing and apply to the screen. Don't worry about lint, dust, or even minor bubbles at this point--this is a "positioning phase" only. Keep trying until you get it PERFECTLY centered. NOTE: WriteShields will have a perfect ~.5mm gap all around.
4. Put the same type of tape "handle" on the other end. Use your stylus tip to push the tape down right along the edge of the protector, or the tape won't lift the protector--it'll just peel off.
5. Use one "handle" to lift one half of the protector and blow out dust. I also use the blue low-tack 3M painters tape to lift dust particles from the screen/back of protector at this stage. Since it's already positioned, if you don't completely remove it you can clean from either end until you're satisfied.
6. I go out into sunlight with a magnifying glass between "final cleaning" attempts to note position of particles to be removed. You won't see them indoors under any kind of lighting--but out in the sun they'll drive you nuts!
Hope this helps someone. It took my brother (Toyfreak here) and I a long time to get this system perfected. My 6700 has an anti-glare WriteShield that literally looks factory-applied. It's easy to get perfect, if you've got the patience.
The number one rule I learned a long time ago about screen savers is: you are not going to get it perfect so don't worry about it.
I found scotch tape to be of great use in removing specs of dust from the sticky side. I would put a piece of tape on the sticky side of one corner so the protector doesn't get fully applied - I can lift off that corner to remove the protector if necessary while working on it.
I apply one of ther remaining three corners, then I look for dust and if I see some, leveraging that fourth unstuck corner, I will "strategically" pull the part with the dust off, use a piece of scotch tape to remove the dust particle from the sticky side (without removing the entire protector), then re-apply that section. I never lift the protector completely off, just parts of it that need to have dust removed with the scotch tape. If a part lays down OK with no dust, I try to avoid lifting that part up.
I keep doing this until everything but the taped fourth corner is stuck to the screen. Once I'm satisfied that the dust situation is acceptable, I pull the scotch tape off the last corner and let the protector fully apply.
The only issues are if dust gets stuck on the screen itselof and not on the protector. In those instances, I use the protector and press down as hard as you can (wthout breaking the screen of course) to see if the protector can lift the dust. Then I use the scotch tape to take the dust off the protector. But never use scotch tape directly on the screen itself to pick up dust. A sticky mess will occur
If you apply the protector fully, then see some dust, you can use scotch tape on one of the corners to lift that corner up and get to the dust.
But applying scren protectors is definitely more of an art than a science.
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