Restoring an Iphone ( Front and Back)

Step 2 Warning

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Do this at your own risk. I am posting this here only to document how I restored a completely busted iPhone. One thing I should mention first is that iPhone Rear plastic has a scratch-resistant coating
The iPhone rear plastic is composed of the following

1) The most inside layer is a thin colored plastic ( black or white).
2) Above that is a clear polycarbonate plastic layer.
3) Above that is the apple logo and writing.
4) Above that finally is a pretty good layer of scratch-resistant coating.

If your phone only has a few light scratches, only use the most aggressive sandpaper you have to, in order to remove the scratches. My recommendation is that you try to remove 90-95% of scratches without trying to remove 100%. This way you keep the scratch-resistant coating, which will protect from future scratches.

Rule of thumb, if you see that you are removing the apple logo, or that you start seeing a darker plastic you have gone too far ( Look at #1)

On my phone I had to remove all the scratch-resistant coating because it was completely covered in deep scratches. It scratches a lot easier now, so if you can avoid doing so, please leave the scratch-resistant coating on.

Comments

[reddog92396]

 OOOOORRRR Completely remove the scratch resistant coating and go to the mall to one of the "Make your device scratch free stands" I saw one the other day. The ironic thing is that they say "Scratch protect your iPhone!" Already done lol