Droid and Magnet

[chrisjett]

Thanks for this thread. I just heard about the magnet issue today. I recently purchased my wife a Motorola Droid and got myself the HTC Droid Eris, (both from Verizon). We ordered cases and they sent the magnetic closure horizontal case. From reading through threads today it seems that there may be a concern that the magnet on the case might drain the battery.

My first question is, would this be the same situation for both the Motorola Droid and the Droid Eris?

Secondly, has anyone definitively proven that by having the screen facing outwards it will stop the drain of the battery?

And third, other than the battery drain, could the magnet actually affect the usage of the phone or is it just a drain to the battery.

Thank you in advance,

Chris

[JoeProcopio]

i'm using the case i bought with my voyager, the leather magnetic case from verizon, and I carry it screen out. dock mode doesn't turn on, but if i put the screen in, it does...i have never carried it face in, so it "just works" for me, lol.

[entropi]

The app "Dock Blocker" on the market allows you to toggle preventing Car Home or Multimedia Station from launching when your phone thinks it is docked.

(Disclaimer: I wrote Dock Blocker, due to my annoyance with the holster magnet dock launch scenario. Please feel free to let me know of any problems you run into with it.)

[fujitsupalm]

PDair Leather Case for Motorola Milestone A855 - Horizontal Pouch Type (Black) by PDair - PDair.com

A friend of mine got one of these before i ordered mine yesterday.

It doesn't affect his phone (does not put phone on dock mode), which is kinda nice, cos i had the same concerns as you did, and i dun really like any other kind of cases apart from this kind of style of pouch.

enjoy...

[mrhavoc1988]

Not to jack this thread but im not so much concerned about the holster magnet as a home speaker magnet. I have 2 12" subwoofer boxes (with speakers) that i use as a table. I noticed with my blackberry storm the phone would kind of lag if i set it on the boxes, and that had a auto dock sensor inside. i dont want to mess up my brand new eris because of a speaker magnet. If anyone has ANY thoughts and/or info on it I'd greatly appreciate your feedback. Thanks in advance to everyone that replies!!

[Jeepers]

Thanks for this thread. I just heard about the magnet issue today. I recently purchased my wife a Motorola Droid and got myself the HTC Droid Eris, (both from Verizon). We ordered cases and they sent the magnetic closure horizontal case. From reading through threads today it seems that there may be a concern that the magnet on the case might drain the battery.

My first question is, would this be the same situation for both the Motorola Droid and the Droid Eris?

Secondly, has anyone definitively proven that by having the screen facing outwards it will stop the drain of the battery?

And third, other than the battery drain, could the magnet actually affect the usage of the phone or is it just a drain to the battery.

Thank you in advance,

Chris

The reason for the magnet is - when placing a droid into the veriszon moto droid car holder - it will automatically put the phone into car mode - and when placed into the home doc - it will put the phone into the home doc mode - to test this - place a magnet on the back of the droid - and you will see that it changes (there is a magnet built into the droid car/home docs to do this) If you play with a magnet on the back of the droid - you will find 2 spots where - when magnet applied - will make the phone change mode.

The only way it will drain the phone is if the phone does not go into sleep mode after a certain time - which can be set up in the setup of the phone - so the magnet really has no effect on the function or battery life of the phone - all it does is change the mode - for car/home.

THe reason a holder with a magnetic closure will effect the phone is because the magnet is close to the back of the phone - the fix would be to just turn the phone around to keep the back of the phone away from the magnet - simple fix

ok - did I make sense of this?!? Sorry if I confused anyone