What happens when I place my phone on top of a magnet?

[Guest vinsanity]

Just today I was doing some work and absentmindedly I put my phone on top of a rily big magnet. After around 10 seconds I realized what I did and I took it off in a flash. Will the magnet cause any damage to the phone? Cuz I heard from other ppl before that you shouldn't put electronics near magnets..tnx!

[Guest mar9118]

If your phone is still working fine then there should be no damage done :)

Normally you should not put anything that uses magnetic field to encode data near magnets, like floppy disk, creditcards, casette tapes, etc.

Cellphones normally have magnets inside them, the speakers and magnetic switch use for clamp shell type devices, so there is no reason for it to be damage by magnets.

Nothing to worry :wink:

[Guest vinsanity]

Yey! *Phew* Tnx a lot! :)

[Guest dinoalbert]

err...is this a cross-post ???

Main forum...

[Guest vinsanity]

kinda..i posted here but when I clicked submit it said there was an error..so I tried posting somewhere else and tried the main forum..but when I checked back in the pinoy forum after a while i saw it was there pla..sowee.. :?

[Guest binky_p]

so what happened to your smartphone?....any noticeable damage to it?.. :)

[Guest vinsanity]

so far none..although it may have slowed down a bit (but i may just be paranoid..hehe)

[Guest CamperBoy]

You can buy mobile phone holders for the car that just use a magnet to attach your phone to, so it can't damage it that much! Smartphones could be different though?

[Guest grifter]

as a rule of thumb, all gadgets that have memory components (ram, rom, cmos, etc.) inside it should not be exposed to powerful magnets.