Recent content by jayelem

Bad news, I'm afraid. Nail varnish remover is mostly acetone, which is an incredibly aggressive solvent for most plastics, and you've discovered a phenomenon called Environmental Stress Cracking. It's likely to have produced multiple cracks, and I don't think there's really anything you can...

Wouldn't work, Dave. The problem is poor adhesion between coating and lens. See my post above.

On the phone I looked at microscopically, the lens wasn't affected at all, only the lens cover. As I said above, the lens cover is affected both sides, inside and out. As an update to my post above, we talked to the phone provider, who put us in touch with HTC. They seemed very familiar with...

Just saw this issue on my Daughter's M8. As a materials scientist of some decades, I have some experience in similar failures, and I hope these comments will help. I looked under my microscope, and it's clear the "scratches" are actually like tiny tracks of bubble-like defects. These are 100%...