Opening Battery Door on S710a

Originally Posted by CharlesBoi

I feel like an doofus for writing this, but I've been trying to find out just how to open the battery door on my S710a. I checked the manual and the internet, but I can't seem to find a way to open it! What am I doing wrong??

Originally Posted by zmarius

Don't feel bad about this, or be embarrassed....

When I first got this phone, it was an upgrade, and since the unit was new I needed to fully charge it before first use of course, so I put it all together but I did not put my SIM card in it, and once it finished charging I then went to take it apart and put my SIM in it so I can begin using it...

This was when the earth opened up and rage found me! I could NOT NOT NOT get it to open, I already noticed the phone itself was not exactly a rock and so I did not want to put (at that time what I thought to be too much pressure on it) too much pressure on it... so I kept trying and trying, I even got my buddy who was at my house that day to try and he couldn't either. So finally I gave up for a while cause I was getting mad by that point. I came back later and held the phone a different way ( I was scared I'd press into the LCD if I has my fingers on the lcd ) and I pressed now on the area by the camera on the battery cover, I had not tried this before, I was only pressing on the silver thumb mold by the connector area on the bottom of the phone...
As soon as I pressed right at where the battery cover meets by the camera lens cover, it slid off!

I was pretty relieved and very happy!
I felt dumb sure, but I think they need to make that battery cover a bit easier to open or at least provide in the package a seperate paper of a noticeable colour telling people to STOP and READ THIS!

Originally Posted by shegotsole

I still cannot open it I don't really have a reason to open it because I don't need to, but just the fact that I can't makes me want to open it even more lol