Has anybody had any problems with using a leather holster with a magnetic clip and battery drainage? I'm noticing that when my phone is in my galaxy leather case (the one that sprint sells....), that my sensor usuage is extremely high. Spare parts sensor usage says over 2 hours in about 12 hours in the case sitting in sleep. When my phone is just sitting on the table outside of the case, in sleep the sensor usuage stays low and battery lasts a long time. I downloaded the sensor debug app from the market. If u hold the magnetic part of the case to the front of the screen and move it around, the ambient magnetic field numbers go crazy shooting up to 250. Anybody else willing to test this out???
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I get very little sensor usage and I have a cheap magnetic holster from Ebay. Also have an Eddie Bauer case from Best Buy and also did not see this. Sometimes the Gallery app is bad and uses the sensor even when not in use. Freeze it and see if that fixes it.
I had a case from Skull Candy that had magnets...never noticed any battery drain. Course, I didn't have my Epic in it too much, I hate that thing. 16 bucks down the drain.
I work with electronics, there is a strong possibilityit is draining your battery and magnets cause disruption that can harm your electronics ovetime. The magnet can erase your memory card and cause spots to appear on your screen. I would recommend not using anything magnetic around your electronic devices.
If you put the magnetic part close to the screen and get a rainbow I definitely wouldn't use it.
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Breezy357 said:
I work with electronics, there is a strong possibilityit is draining your battery and magnets cause disruption that can harm your electronics ovetime. The magnet can erase your memory card and cause spots to appear on your screen. I would recommend not using anything magnetic around your electronic devices.
If you put the magnetic part close to the screen and get a rainbow I definitely wouldn't use it.
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My magnetic case has no effect on my screen so this cheap Ebay case is good to go. Been using it for a year with no issues. I am pretty sure when they design the magnetic clasps for cell phones they know there is sensitive electronics in there. The Blackberry case uses a magnet to put the phone in standby mode.
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I have searched around but have not found a fix. My nexus LTE clicks (a physical click) when I push the bottom left corner where the body meets the screen glass together and a click is able to be felt. I tried to remedy it by tightening the screws on the rear housing but it made hardly any difference. does anyone else notice this on their phones? any suggestions on fixing it? it drives me nuts!
I noticed mine doing it as well. Do you have a extended battery? I have the one from verizon but I doubt it's the cause.
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Mine makes clicking and creaking noises, but the cause of mine are the back cover.
I used double sided tape to stick it in place and that stopped the clicking, as I can't be bothered to buy another back cover.
Take off the back cover and see if it still does it?
its not the battery cover. its actually the silver body where it meets the main lcd/glass body. i do have an extended battery but i dont thinks that's the issue. it'd be a little difficult to fit tape in the gap.
Yep i know exactly whar ur talkin about drives me freakin nuts... no extended battery here.
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i was trouble by this when i got my new casing for note 2 , at some point i cannot draw on the middle part on the right side with the S pen.
at first i thought the casing was too tight hence result "presure" on the phone so that i cannot draw on it ( i can draw on it using my finger), so i removed the case and everything is back to normal.
untill just now i finally realised it wasn't the casing , it was the magnet on the casing ( when i draw, i flip the cover to the back ). when the magnet get too close behind the screen, the S pen won't work on that area.
so here is my question. is it okay for the magnet to be so close to the phone , and will it affect the hard ware ( either S pen or the sensor in the screen ) ?
many thanks .
I have exactly the same experience. ...so now my phone is without a case. ..
Saving up to get the SGP case soon
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Attached is my test...
The red big circles is where it is affecting my phone using the magnetic wallet case.
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I had a case on for one day with a magnet clip on the right side of the screen and I noticed that the s-pen didn't work properly around that area. I can write there but hovering doesn't work too good.
I removed the case and it's been off for maybe less than 20 hours... But I still experience the problem and it also seems that when I'm using the GPS it can't fix on my location. It just jumps around on the map closely to where I'm located. Tried the same thing on my Note 1 and it found my location with no problem.
I think somehow the magnet from the case has affected something internally. I hope this is not permanent...
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I had a case on for one day with a magnet clip on the right side of the screen and I noticed that the s-pen didn't work properly around that area. I can write there but hovering doesn't work too good.
I removed the case and it's been off for maybe less than 20 hours... But I still experience the problem and it also seems that when I'm using the GPS it can't fix on my location. It just jumps around on the map closely to where I'm located. Tried the same thing on my Note 1 and it found my location with no problem.
I think somehow the magnet from the case has affected something internally. I hope this is not permanent...
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HELLO ELECTRONICS 101....
Magnet + anything electronic = usually broken
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Great, I hope amazon will take back the bear motion case i got 2 weeks ago. Now i have to find the one with the snap closure...
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Ans: It obviously does.
Hello alls! Any Note 2 owners here have the Flygrip installed? Curious if there's any magnetic parts in the grip which could distort the compass. Thanks for reading!
Hm... Now I'm not sure the Note 2 behaved like it did because of the magnet.. I've tried several Note 2's in store and hovering on the screen around the sides only work if you have the S-Pen real close to the screen. The GPS works fine now, I think perhaps it was some settings I played around with with how to find my location.
I think so
The s pen's sensor in ur note 2 is some kind of magnetic sensor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_tablet
I think it affects the s pen input, I have a mercury case with a magnet which is used to close the case, and now when I'm writing or drawing with the S pen, the input goes haywire at that area so sad seems permanent...
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Frostyeo said:
I think it affects the s pen input, I have a mercury case with a magnet which is used to close the case, and now when I'm writing or drawing with the S pen, the input goes haywire at that area so sad seems permanent...
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Do you mean that even without the case you still have problems?
I noticed that pressing bezel at certain points and battery cover makes a click sound, then I came across a solution for battery cover by one of users here: putting a business card between battery and cover, it works and makes it completely silent.
So I think this space between battery cover and battery and those points on bezel might be noisy/bad implemented solutions to avoid cracks on bezels which are wide spread among Galaxy S2s and S3s (they appear out of nowhere and seem to be due thermal expansion & contraction)... Does anyone agree? Any ideas?
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I noticed that pressing bezel at certain points and battery cover makes a click sound, then I came across a solution for battery cover by one of users here: putting a business card between battery and cover, it works and makes it completely silent.
So I think this space between battery cover and battery and those points on bezel might be noisy/bad implemented solutions to avoid cracks on bezels which are wide spread among Galaxy S2s and S3s (they appear out of nowhere and seem to be due thermal expansion & contraction)... Does anyone agree? Any ideas?
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The upper bezel squeacks because of the motion setting.
If you enable and double tap the upper bezel in emails/contact the list will scroll to the top.
You can try just by pressing and not tapping, it still works
Aint working here... only double tap works.
Any other ideas? What about battery cover?
I also have this problem with squeaking battery cover. I have idea that it showed up because of leaving phone in pocket while I tie a shoe and the battery cover gets pressed too hard. Few days back I also noticed that I have very small crack in battery cover that I can feel with nail. Very annoying sound and not impressed with quality Soon I will get cover case for note but if the sound will be there, I will need a replacement battery cover...
Samsung's Plastic At It's Finest.
I dont think it has anything to do with pressure... I have never put it under any slight pressure and the squeaking was there as long as I remember...
Any new ideas about this issue? I also get some squealing noise when I press batter cover. Tried putting some duct tape, but it is not working, sometimes it even gets worse.
All suggestions are welcome
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What models do you all have because I have not had this problem at all and I have the front cover.
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I noticed this because I constantly remove my battery to do a swap and charge it externally. There was another post about this recently that I posted in. I resolved the problem by replacing my bezel/frame. I had some small scratches and a ding on it from my desk so I felt compelled to make it look new. I noticed the small plastic tabs that the battery door connects to are fragile and break off from constant removal of the door.
The bezel was around $20 with a new battery door with NFC, not to mention only taking 15 minutes.
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Any new ideas about this issue? I also get some squealing noise when I press batter cover. Tried putting some duct tape, but it is not working, sometimes it even gets worse.
All suggestions are welcome
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I put a small strip of duct tape on each side of the battery and then when I put the battery back in its spot the fit was quite tight but all my squeaks were gone. The device feels much more solid now.
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Thx, I'll try
This is completely normal for the Note 2. After a while the plastic pieces are no longer aligned precisely due to heat, pressure, cheap quality just like korean cars.
I have searched everywhere.But I couldn't find conclusive evidence about this.So is there any risk in using a pouch with a magnet?
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My experience of covers with magnets is they will adversely affect the the compass function of your phone. Their proximity means they completely swamp the earth's magnetic field rendering the flux sensor useless. My One X even complained about the strong magnetic field when I first put it in the case. Since I use the compass function quite a lot I removed the magnets and replaced them with velcro.
Can't comment on the radios but I would have thought magnets wouldn't be too good with nfc either.
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It shouldn't really effect battery or the phones internals, unless you're pulling the phone apart and rubbing the magnet on its processor etc. I wouldnt worry about it, the compass will be affected however as will wifi, gps and 3g signal possibly.
Okay so i recently got a galaxy note 10.1 2014 ed. and i bought this ivso case for it: ww.amazon.com/Samsung-Edition-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Portfolio/dp/B00FJTV0PG
I like the case and the detachable keyboard but what i cannot stand is the effects the magnets have on the tablet. It makes it auto wake, which i guess is kind of nice, but when i fold it back around behind the tablet, it always auto locks my tablet. It also will not let me drag the drop down notification bar from the top when it is folded around the back.
Anyways, i was wondering if anyone knew of any apps or settings to disable the effects of the magnets on the tablet? I've spent hours googling and trying out different apps and whatnot but nothing helps.
Thanks in adv,
betaPartier
What I did was get a sharp knife and take the magnet out. Stick a velcro instead.
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What I did was get a sharp knife and take the magnet out. Stick a velcro instead.
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Would you be able to share a few photo's to show us what you did.
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Maybe have a look at [MOD][XPOSED] MotoMagnetOff
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621807
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I have same problem ,when I turn cover back,it turn the screen down . Actually ,I turn the cover back just want to hold it to pay a game. But it turn down, smart cover is not smart actually .
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I folded some papers and slip it underneath the tablet in the case. It block the magnet so it won't off the screen when u flip the cover to the back.
The pen holder strap that comes with the cover is too small to hold my Wacom stylus feel. So, I got some stretchable strap, loop it and staple it to the paper. Now I can slip my stylus comfortably attachedge to the cover.
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The pen holder strap that comes with the cover is too small to hold my Wacom stylus feel.
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Off topic, but how do you like the Wacom feel?
I'm thinking of getting one but I read that it is not as accurate as the default stylus, unless held at a 90 degree angle (!). Is that the case?
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There is a bit of offset. But it doesn't affect me much. Just write or draw like normal.
In apps like lecture notes, tgere is a setting where u can adjust the offset to make it accurate.
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betaPartier said:
Okay so i recently got a galaxy note 10.1 2014 ed. and i bought this ivso case for it: ww.amazon.com/Samsung-Edition-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Portfolio/dp/B00FJTV0PG
I like the case and the detachable keyboard but what i cannot stand is the effects the magnets have on the tablet. It makes it auto wake, which i guess is kind of nice, but when i fold it back around behind the tablet, it always auto locks my tablet. It also will not let me drag the drop down notification bar from the top when it is folded around the back.
Anyways, i was wondering if anyone knew of any apps or settings to disable the effects of the magnets on the tablet? I've spent hours googling and trying out different apps and whatnot but nothing helps.
Thanks in adv,
betaPartier
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I have the same problem. Did you figure out a way to disable the magnetic sensor?
degakc said:
I have the same problem. Did you figure out a way to disable the magnetic sensor?
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No. I ended up just getting a different case that doesn't have a keyboard. Since there's no magnetic keyboard, the magnets aren't nearly as strong and only affects the tablet when I open it, not when I fold it around the back.
Thanks for the speedy response. On close inspection I noticed that there is a small magnet on the front cover top left corner about 1 inch from the top. almost invisible but can find it when we run a coin over the surface of the front cover. When the back side of the note 10.1 meets this magnet, screen switches off. I noted that by placing a magazine/ booklet between the front cover and the back when using in flipped over mode: the screen does not switch off. A small victory. But wish that samsung provides a solution 2 disable this magnetic screen off feature through a menu option.
i have same problem and i fix it by take out magnate from cover. i hope found a better way for this problem
Did anyone find any way to turn off the magnetic lock and unlock function? When I backfold my cover (aftermarket), it automatically locks my tab. Which is very irritating. I have Samsung galaxy tab S5e
You'd think that the guys who make these cases would just add a small amount of padding over the magnet so it only activates the sensor on the one side... To simple an idea I guess...