Video of top half of case being taken apart?

[sparkymark79]

Is there one - I would love to see exactly how it is done if somebody is brave enough?


If I knew I could take the top half apart without breaking it (albeit it would be a gamble), I'd probably be persuaded to purchase empty cases to mess around with, or when I think the outside has got too scratched, etc, etc. It's the only part that worries me.


Sorry for all those that expected to actually find a video in this post. I did put a ? mark

 

[Nintendo]

Different, but still worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0mGSR0xvkPA?feature=oembed

 

[ChaosWarmech]

Well my right speaker has gone out, and the bezel right below the screen is bowing slightly so I plan on opening mine up to have a look see either today or tomorrow. I'll make sure to take pictures when I do.

 

[WizardStan]

the bezel right below the screen is bowing slightly

That's normal, unfortunately. All cases suffer with that bowing to some degree. Fixing it would have required even more fiddling with the case, and given the plastic factory's previous handling of prototypes, the argument was that it was a minor problem that wasn't worth the months of delay it would have caused to fix.

 

[ChaosWarmech]

That's normal, unfortunately. All cases suffer with that bowing to some degree. Fixing it would have required even more fiddling with the case, and given the plastic factory's previous handling of prototypes, the argument was that it was a minor problem that wasn't worth the months of delay it would have caused to fix.

Well according to this thread it's a pretty simple fix. http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/54512-fix-bowing-lcd-bezel/

 

[WizardStan]

I had forgotten about that thread. Didn't have my Pandora at the time, so I've never tried it, but having taken mine apart a couple of times now, I'm not entirely certain that'll work. You're welcome to try and report back, but I seem to recall there was nothing holding my bezel out, it was just a bit too tight, causing it to bow in the middle.

 

[ChaosWarmech]

Okay, opening the top half is almost impossible. I'm not comfortable doing it without an extra case to experiment with first. The inside part is really snug into the outer shell. Trying to pry the two pieces apart takes more force than I'm willing to exert without know exactly what I'm doing.