I have bought a new Samsung Galaxy Smartphone recently and I wish to purchase a protective flip cover for it. In many situations I have seen a magnetic button which is placed in a flip cover used to maintain the phone safely inside the cover. Though, I am worried that magnetic button in the flip case is not safe due to have a magnet field that close to the phone which I have found differing advice online. Do you have any advice regarding my query as “will a magnet destroy your Smartphone or hard drive”? Thanks to all..!!
Well, you are in a right place because, by continue reading this article you can get answer for your question. All Smartphones and hard drives have a small inbuilt magnetic sensor. The most familiar type is the magnetometer device which is utilized by complex applications to position the system towards magnetic North. Some Android Smartphones have other type of magnetic sensors, which works in combination of embedded magnets. This is used to turn off the Smartphone display and set it into sleep mode whenever you close the cover. Flip case cover magnets are normally having weak magnetic field but when it is placed in close to the Smartphone can affect the performance of device.
So we are advising you to utilize a compass application for some severe navigation and take away the magnet case and then maintain your Smartphone away from such magnets. You may think that it is not significant because you are not using the compass application but it does not meaning that other applications are not depending on the same sensor. For example, Google Map uses the sensor to discover which way the Smartphone also facing a number of games also depend on it for working out your orientation. It looks as however magnets are not probably to destroy your Smartphone; although there is possibility they will affect some important parts. So no one ready to take risk..!! In order to avoid such risks you have to keep away magnets nearby Smartphones and hard drives.
Magnets can damage or corrupt a system hard drive devices while wiping directly on the drive surface that is theoretically probable. An extremely strong hard drive surface is even affected by the magnets. Because hard drives contain neodymium magnets in order to manage the read/write arm for recording data. Neodymium magnets inside the hard drive are not affected by normal sized magnets. Normally hard drives contain magnetically recorded information which can get corrupted by make use of powerful magnets. Magnets also affect various magnetically recorded data based objects such as floppy disks, cassettes, credit cards, and VHS.