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First of all, thank you for completely triggering a full OCD phone and case clean down. It set me back 30 minutes of cleaning and ensuring perfection, lol. Unfortunately, I do have actual OCD, but I make the best of it, hah.
Anyway, when doing said full clean down, I inspected the case even more (LED flashlight mode) to find signs of a residue or sticky substance. Nada. On the inside of my CC button, it feels like it is surrounded by a rubber flap. If I used compressed air on that button, I can see the rubber flap move a tad. I've included a photo below. It's actually one of the cleanest buttons besides Apple Sil that I've tried.
The CC button outside is just shiny. It's not matte, so it does attract a small amount of fingerprints...but I'm not really caring about that.
I'm really frustrated for you because this case (mine anyway) is actually pretty damn solid.
(When using the flashlight, I was able to notice a very slight indent on the back from the magsafe ring. But yeah, flashlight..haha)
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I had that last year ALL pocket lint and anything else could get into the case.
does it provide any lay on table screen protection?
the dbrand ghost 2.0 is flush with my screen protector. dbrand says that’s because i have a skin on the back of my phone. without the skin they claim it has a slight lip. anyone with a ghost 2.0, can you confirm this? i like the case but can’t see using a case that i can’t just place down anywhere on either side.
Yea, your inside looks way smoother than mine. Maybe I should try to clean the inside of mine off. You think an alcohol swab would damage the inside of the button? Here's another pic of mine and you can see the gunk on the inside of the button.
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If you have a screen protector, that will lay on the table.
If you were to not have a screen protector then it would, by the looks of it have some face down protection.
If it’s not the screen that’s touching a table, it doesn’t bother me too much as if my protector marks up that bad, I’ll just change it
Took the case off, cleaned the inside with an alcohol swab and it's no better. My case just has a nasty, uneven glue job on the inside 
This Benks button is a copper rod special with a clear rubber silicone coating over the inside. I can even see some of the copper exposed on my button. I give up...
This Benks button is a copper rod special with a clear rubber silicone coating over the inside. I can even see some of the copper exposed on my button. I give up...
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Amazon finally delivered the Hybrid T for the base 16 finally after almost a month and yeah I get why people like it so much now.
Yup. That looks nasteh.Took the case off, cleaned the inside with an alcohol swab and it's no better. My case just has a nasty, uneven glue job on the inside
This Benks button is a copper rod special with a clear rubber silicone coating over the inside. I can even see some of the copper exposed on my button. I give up...
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So does the Benks CC button work good to no? Are the complaints about how the button looks on the inside?
And that's after I cleaned it up. All they are doing is squeezing some rubber silicone over the copper to protect the phone's button and IMO, it's a complete fail. Look around the edges and you can see all the dried glue where they just glued the button into the case. The case it's self is high quality, the CC button is a complete jerry rig.
Also this Ghost 2.0 might be on my phone for awhile.
I hate we even have to deal with this stupid button in the first place.
My Benks CC button is working great. I'd say at or around the Hybrid T level. But yeah, mine didn't have all that weird goo on it like @Hooterville 's case. Gotta be a weird QC issue. The question is...who got lucky, he or I? Which is the more common case? Hopefully not a goo CC button version.
Be sure to send them my photo as well for comparison @Hooterville
Be sure to send them my photo as well for comparison @Hooterville
Saw that, maybe I'm just too old and stupid to work the Benks button
Did they mention sticky silicone glue all over the inside & outside of the button? Maybe I got the "Special Edition" ?
Mike doesn’t look like that at all on the CC. I think you got a defect. Mine also works nearly as well as my apple cases.
The only thing I wish is that the buttons had less rattle to them. I added some thin tape on the inside to stop it.