Will magnet mount effect phone, navigation or compass?

[Borarjti]

I currently have a note 5, I purchased the magic mount with power, (12w, 5v) and works great. Not only has it not messed with my phone but because of my phone being Qi charging I don't need the magnetic plate glued to my phone, it sticks on its own. Note: I don't use a case. Now if someone just made a magnetic holder with Qi charging, Omg!!

Check out the air dock 2.0 I'm buying one soon but it appears to be what you are looking for

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[RigidPark]

No, it is definitely bad for your phone, you may try the nano type phone mount, it is pretty good!

 

[nanum]

In Apple’s Case Design Guidelines, there are sections on Sensor Considerations and Magnetic Interference, including the line, “Apple recommends avoiding the use of magnets and metal components in cases.”
There’s also specific mention of the iPhone 6 Plus, because of potential problems magnets can cause for the autofocus rear camera with optical image stabilization and the built-in magnetic compass.
It seems as though magnets aren’t likely to kill your smartphone, but there’s definitely a possibility they’ll mess some pretty important aspects up, so why take the risk?

 

[charade48]

I have a magnet mount, (Samsung Note 4) and recently had a black screen, and Samsung replaced the phone, and got another black screen, so pressed volume, reset and home, and downloaded a new ios.

After reading these emails, I suspect it is my magnet, so will remove it.

I had been using magnet mount for about 12 months with no problems.


Charade48

 

[9900Boldfan]

Any new updates regarding sing magnetic car mounts to hold smartphone in car?

 

[Jirrod Glynn]

I have a Nexus 6p and my wife has an iPhone 6 plus. We both have magnet phone mounts in our cars and we love them! However, after about a year of using them, I'm starting to notice more and more GPS issues. I didn't bother me too much until we went to NY and my GPS was almost completely useless, searching for signal 70% of the time!

The frequency of this issue is what made me search for this forum in the first place. So obviously it's a concern and it might very well be an issue with the magnet affecting the compass which affects the GPS in navigation apps like Google maps.

Oh, and this week, my wife mentioned to me she was having problems with her GPS jumping all over the place. Coincidence?

 

[Plop91]

does anyone know if the plate for a magnetic mount would affect Bluetooth connectivity?

I've tried two separate Bluetooth headphones on my Google Pixel XL and both had strange connection issues when i was walking around with my phone in my pocket.

thanks in advance i know its a pretty old tread so i hope someone lend some information.

 

[Rukbat]

It has no effect on Bluetooth that a non-magnetic metal plate in the same place will. (If you put a chunk of metal next to the BT antenna, it will probably reduce the range to an inch or so.)

If you put the headphone receiver on the side of your body opposite the pocket the phone's in, that has a much more profound effect. Ear-to-opposite-pants-pocket loss is more than 35 feet of clear air loss, so "strange connection issues" is doing well. Usually the problem is "no connection". Just make sure that the active part (if it's a dual headset) or the headset (id it' for one ear) is on the side of your body that the phone is.

 

[WRW60]

A magnetic car mount will not harm your smart phone.
In the past memory was stored in/on hard drive devices that depended on magnetic sequencing.; that is not true of today's chip technology.
As far as GPS or Maps programs...
The tracking mechanisms of these devices are dependant on satellite signal triangulation not magnetic north/south (like a compass) positioning, so again, a magnetic mount will have no adverse effect.
NOW, if you have a compass on your device, SOME are magnetic north/south dependant and would be adversly effected but, all in all, magnetic mounting devices are perfectly safe for modern mobile devices.