Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Opening Sony Ericsson w580i Cell Phone's Battery Cover

I recently bought a new Sony Ericsson w580i Cell phone. The first impressions of the phone were good until I tried to put in the Sim card and close the battery door. I had a little difficulty trying to close the battery door (It took me almost 5 mins trying not to damage the phone). Well, the scary part was over, right?

Well, no. After a day, I needed to open the battery cover to take out the Sim card. Well, how tough can it be? VERY VERY tough. I spent 1 hour trying to open it "gently". My patience ran out after 1 hr and I started using all my force, but still nothing after two hours. So, then I sat down and searched online for an answer -- There were couple of questions where people commented on how hard is it to open the battery door of w580i but no solutions. Finally, I came across a review which suggested using a knife (ouch!) to open the door. So, after I found out a better way to open it without the risk of damaging it, I decided to post it here so others can (hopefully) find this solution when searching.

You will need a rubber/latex glove (I used the cheap ones you get at Walmart for house cleaning). Put the phone face down on a soft surface (so as not to damage the screen while applying pressure). Now, put on the glove on your hand and apply a little bit of pressure on the battery cover (your thumb should be resting on the "Sony Ericsson" text and pointing towards the green Sony Ericsson logo). Now push the battery cover downwards and it should open up without the need of excessive pressure.

Although this is highly unlikely, I do not take any responsibility of any damage that might occur to your phone by following my advise

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks so much ! latex glove trick worked like a charm !!! they should provide the gloves as part of the w580 package and include this info in their manual.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tip. But i can open it with a blank only :D

Anonymous said...

After lot of queries in search engines, I found your post. And it worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

abcd said...

just keep the phone upside down..
index fingers at the bottom of the phone..
gently push with the thumbs towards index fingers..
it will open like a charm..
simple.. :-)

Anonymous said...

im 12 and i opened it in 4 second lol u guys got owned

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much for the tip. It worked perfectly!!!

Anonymous said...

HOW flipping frustrating! I too searched and searched, thanks for your post! Glad I'm getting RID of the phone tomorrow!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Thanks.I made it also!

Anonymous said...

ive been trying to open my phone for a long time too, why do they make it so difficult to open and close??

ive been previously using my finger nail, which has damaged the phone and my nails, but there was no other way.. there should be some sort of tips or something on the manual..

Anonymous said...

you are a genious! thank you

Anonymous said...

so very helpful. it seems ridiculous that such help would be needed just to open the back of a phone, but other than that it has been great.

FlatBallFlyer said...

Wow! Thank you very much for this help. I was on the phone with AT&T working to activate the phone. The AT&T person had to wait while I tried to figure this one out. Fortunately your post came up on the Google Search and she didn't have to wait 2 hrs. It was more like 15min.

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