Old 07-07-18, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by BobbyG
I'm assuming the magnet doesn't interfere with the phone. However, my wife has a phone case with a magnetic clasp and it seems to have interfered with the touch screen, rendering it intermittent. We changed back to her old non-magnetic case and the problem disappeared. It's an LG G3.
A magnet will not interfere with the display itself, nor the any of the phone electronics except if it has a compass/magnetic field sensor.

In your case the LG G3 probably has the magnetic sleep feature, a tiny sensor that puts the phone to sleep when the case is closed and the magnet was close enough to confuse it.

Maybe ironically, I have clipped the magnetic clasp off on my wife's phone case and replaced it with velcro. She was worried about it, or has the sensor or something - easier to just change it than troubleshoot a problem if any.

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