Keyboard silver lining chipping off

**filoinstyle** · 11-19-2012, 10:57 PM

so I noticed that my bold 9900's keyboard starts to lose its silver lining. I don't wanna risk buying some keyboard replacement online because I'm not sure if they're genuine or not regardless of the title. Any idea how I could just peel off the entire silver lining along the keyboard?

**Bla1ze** · 11-19-2012, 11:31 PM

You're better off just buying a replacement, peeling it all off will be next to impossible and will just end up looking like crap. Head on over to Faceplate | Housing | Repair parts | Accessories | Mobile parts | Novelty Items or TrueSupplier and get a replacement, even if it ain't OEM it'll look better than a peeling mess.

**leftypepper716** · 11-20-2012, 08:02 AM

Wow! Had the same problem last month, my Bold 9930's top silver bar, and also, my Q& W keys stopped working, so I took it into Sprint, and got a refurbished 9930. I wonder why the silver strips are flaking away? Any answers Bla1ze?

**Berry_Pink** · 11-20-2012, 08:09 AM

theres a guy on this forum who stripped his silver frets down easily using a damp cloth, he posted pictures of it all stripped off and it looked dead nice

**X10A-Freedom** · 11-20-2012, 04:39 PM

Thats a good idea. I'm gonna give that a go and post how it looks after.

**ajst222** · 11-20-2012, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by leftypepper716

Wow! Had the same problem last month, my Bold 9930's top silver bar, and also, my Q& W keys stopped working, so I took it into Sprint, and got a refurbished 9930. I wonder why the silver strips are flaking away? Any answers Bla1ze?

It is just plastic painted to look like chrome. After use, they will start scraping off. That happened to my Tour (just in the middle on the top one)

**filoinstyle** · 11-21-2012, 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by blackberry9360user

theres a guy on this forum who stripped his silver frets down easily using a damp cloth, he posted pictures of it all stripped off and it looked dead nice

mine isn't peeling off easily, anyway ill send it off for RMA to RIM cos the camera stopped from working so no point of doing it.

**filoinstyle** · 11-21-2012, 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by X10A-Freedom

Thats a good idea. I'm gonna give that a go and post how it looks after.

That's gonna be cool! Put a picture after

**X10A-Freedom** · 11-22-2012, 05:31 PM

I used a paper clip to take of the silver. It didnt come out as I expected with the paper clip it left tiny scratches along the frets. You guys probably cant see it on the picture but its not the smooth clean finish I was looking for. Ill try and upload some better pictures when I get some time. Lucky for me I got an extra keyboard laying around so I might try a different method for removing the silver frets and see if that works out better.