How do I get it off without also taking off the paint of the battery cover? :frown::dontknow:

This kind of stuff never happened to my wfs. Why did it have to happen to my GS3 :bawling:

 

It's a paint plastic film coating process called hyperglaze, which famously caused delays of the Pebble Blue version like mine at launch.

I just found this:

I guess I'll try a little diluted fingernail polish remover which is a known cyanoacrylate (superglue) solvent.

 

The first few links I found on Google about Hyperglaze said it is a new paint process. Fortunately the gsmarena.com article above is right and it's really a layer of plastic. The glue is coming off with three ingredients: fingernail polish remover, elbow grease and time :whew:

Problem announced and solved before many of you even woke up this am

 

I put a bottle down near it not seeing the phone at first. The bottom of the (new) bottle wasn't very flat and it tipped over, actually not in the phone's direction. A drop on the tip splattered in the phone's direction.

 

Looks great, thanks for asking!