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You might want to apply the SP in a humid room - try placing the SP while in the washroom after a hot shower. The steam will eliminate the dust particles flying about in the air. Normally I try to avoid steam + electronics, but since you'll only apply it one time its not a big deal I think.
 
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get a JAVO Edge screen protector. Easiest installation ever, and I've had many gadgets. The way their system works, I have no bubbles on my screen. It's a really easy application of the sp.
 
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Originally Posted by vash View Post
You might want to apply the SP in a humid room - try placing the SP while in the washroom after a hot shower. The steam will eliminate the dust particles flying about in the air. Normally I try to avoid steam + electronics, but since you'll only apply it one time its not a big deal I think.
Actually a cold shower works - this is the method I use when doing digital SLR sensor cleanings.

Still took me three sheets to get one without dust onto my N800.
 
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Originally Posted by olawale View Post
people fyi, if you get dust and such on the protector before applying just use a piece of scotch tape to sticky it off.
OMG I wish I would have read this post before applying my Boxwave protector. I gave it multiple aggravating tries before discovering the scotch tape trick on my own. The scotch tape trick works well but there's a still a chance of debris getting under while you're picking away the stuff you were looking at, and by the time you set the protector back down there might be more crap underneath than when you started!

One method I used was to do the job as quickly as possible while lifting the protector off the screen as little as possible, which meant going under the protector with the scotch tape with the stick side still facing down. And if you haven't heard this before, to lift the protector up, just take a piece of scotch tape and tape it to the corner of the protector and lift up.

As for the Boxwave protectors themselves, they seem to be working pretty well so far (I've only used it for about 10 minutes). The screen actually looks brighter and I have not lost any touch sensitivity. The only major problem I have with mine is one of the lateral edges is actually damaged (not sure if I did it with all my reapplications) but now there's a big air bubble, that won't go away, stretching across the top of my screen. I can only see if I look for it (but I KNOW it's there!) or if the screen is black or off. It doesn't really interfere with my clicking so hopefully I'll be able to live with it, but chances are it'll drive me crazy.
 
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Another trick often suggested is to go in the bathroom, let a very hot shower run for a few minutes until everything is nicely steamed up and clean your screen and apply the protector in there. It appears the hot steam creates a dust-free environment.

Never tried it myself tho...
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I used the steamy shower method, plus a compressed air dust can like this one:



I have maybe two or three tiny airbubbles left but I can live with that.
 
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In fact, next time I just lick my screen clean.

Hey, it works for the cat's bollocks! (Finally! a smiley that's 100% tuned in!)
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Steamy room works a treat. I used that method for installing a window in a laptop hard drive. Drive still works too!

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lol at the cats bollocks comment.....not ive got the mental image of a cat licking itself stuck in my head...THANKS!! lol lol
 
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y'all get to worked up.
just cut a piece of vu-graph transparency film to fit under the bezel
 
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