A few things I want to get out of the way for people considering ghost armor:
- Looking at all the pieces with no diagram can be confusing. Start off by installing the pieces you recognize the most. Once you've got them all on there, and you see what space is left, it's easy to see where the rest go.
- The spray bottle's hose doesn't reach the bottom of the bottle, so even though you think you have a lot of this stuff left, at some point there's no way to spray it out into a mist and you still have a good amount.
- Leave the battery cover on during installation. I decided to take my battery out because I thought I'd keep turning my phone on and off, which was fine, but I should have put the cover back on. The red lines on the water damage indicator on the phone have faded slightly because of the cleaner I sprayed.
First impressions:
Ok, so I knew the ghost armor would have some gaps between each peice, but I didn't know it would be this much. This kit probably covers only 90% of the entire phone. There are a few pieces I feel they could have made longer or fatter. Take the battery peice for example. It doesn't wrap around the cover from end to end.
Installation:
I performed the install here at work. The spray bottle came in handy. After I peeled a peice of, I sprayed ONCE on the phone (for a very light spray, and to avoid possible water damage) but maybe two or three times on the peice so I could move it around. I found that the screen required very little while the peices that wrapped around the side needed more. Basically you need to be able to move the pieces on the sides around for a slightly longer period of time as you find it's sweet spot. The battery peice, the dpad peice, and the screen peice were all the easiest pieces.
What I found to be the most dificult were the smaller peices. When installing the dpad's denter button's piece, I pressed down before finding it's sweet spot and it was a little hard to get it up and off again for reinstall. The second time around I moved it around with my pinky nail and when it was center, I let it sit for about 30 seconds, THEN pressed down on it. This was so I didn't move it after pressing down on it while it was still very wet.
In all, installation was easy, and as long as you have lint free towels, you can clean the phone and lay the pieces on without too much worry of dust or particals getting under the pieces. The cleaner the kit came with works great and lifting up everything off the screen and rest of the phone.
This is my first impressions with it, I'll post my impressions of it after a week of use, then after a month.
Hope this helps someone in some way.