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Samsung is finally gearing up to release a wireless charger for its American and galaxy s3 customers but suppose you're not the waiting type suppose you want wireless charging on your Galaxy s3 right now okay I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow will show you how to do it now because this mod depends on exploiting the wireless charging hardware found in the old palm pixi you're gonna need some specialized equipment but it's easily come by an Amazon or Ebay and it shouldn't run you any more than 30 to 40 bucks tops we should also mention here that this mod comes to us via an xda-developers thread by member Android 9 for 301 and that pocket now is not liable for any warranty violations device losses or explosions that might occur we've thrown the source link in the description of this video if you want more detailed information and some excellent pointers and tips here's what you're gonna need copper tape rare earth magnets or small metal disks a palm pixi inductive battery door a palm touchstone charger a palm a USB cable with AC adapter yes it has to be the palm cable because the touch tone has a finicky port that only accepts certain shapes don't cheap out on this tape and your Galaxy s3 the first thing we want to do is pull the tape off the back of the pixi case and set it aside then we're going to gently remove and set aside the circuit board silver metallic tape coil and the metal disks next to preserve the positions of the disks in the coils Center we cut a crude template out of paper and marked their positions you can do this more precisely with a drill and some shears if you prefer but we want our wireless charging now so we're already cutting corners this probably won't come back to bite us in the bud right next we pull the battery cover off our galaxy s3 and insert the pixies charging coil upside down in this orientation we secure the circuit board to the battery cover with some tape you can use hot glue or superglue later on once you've decided on positioning and then we fold the connector ribbon back on itself like so so we have access to the contacts next we'll drop our paper template over the coil to give us position information for our magnets now if you're worried about messing up the phone's compass with magnetic fields you should use the metal discs we pried from the pixi before we're using magnets in this example so we'll be sure to check the polarity to make sure we're putting them down in an attractive not a repulsive attitude you can check polarity and positioning on the touchstone itself now you'll want to do this repeatedly as you're taping the magnets in to make sure the alignment is good and also very important make sure the magnets aren't too thick otherwise you'll never get the battery door back on the phone once the magnets are in position we'll bring our silver tape back from the palm pixi pile and retype it onto the coil thusly then we secure it with more scotch tape like so at this point you should consider trimming away all the excess tapes you don't feel like a slob and so this mod starts to look just a little less amateurish if you're a real pro you can bring the black palm label back into play here but be mindful again of the thickness of the battery door it still needs to attach to the phone after all speaking of the phone now's a good time to line up our components so we can keep an eye on the big picture we're trying to get the charging terminals on the phone to connect to the terminals on our Palm ribbon to do that we need to use our copper tape we'll cut the copper tape into manageable lengths ranging from about 1/8 to 1/2 inch in width so we can create two big landing zones on the phone one for positive one for negative obviously we'll take care that the two zones don't touch to get a good contact on the phone's connectors we'll use a blunt object to tap the tape firmly down on them careful though they're fragile if you have trouble later with connectivity you might want to try putting the tape in copper side down the adhesive side may not be as conductive we had to try several times before we get a firm connection a voltmeter is helpful if you have one at this point maybe we'll take the battery out of the phone so we don't blow our kitchen up maybe do this beforehand folks once we have our phone side landing pads ready we'll move to the battery cover and prepare them similarly using the same copper tape also making sure to keep positive and negative separate and making sure to line them up so that when the back is replaced everything will touch like it needs to we doubled up the tape in the overlapping spots to ensure contact when all said and done you should have something that looks something like this don't like hopefully prettier because this is ugly as sin will resist the urge to judge a book by its cover though let's snap the battery back in and slap the battery cover back on you will notice an unsightly bulge on ours and that's due to those thick magnets we used if you go with the metal disks from the pixie instead of thicker magnets that shouldn't be an issue well the phone is powering up we'll plug in our touchstone and say a quick prayer before dropping our Galaxy s3 on the touchstone for its first wireless charging experience that's gonna do it for today's tutorial if you tried it on your Galaxy s3 leave a comment let us know how it went and leave tips for other folks who give it a try thanks for watching follow us in the links in the description below and we'll see you next time you