Nexus 6 camera is magnetic?!

[kakazsh]

So I just grabbed my phone and saw a staple attached to my camera lens! Somehow the camera appeared to be magnetic right on the lens!
Now I'm worried a little bit because this could potentially scratch the lens since it's attracting ferromagnetic metals.
Is it common or just happens to be only my unit?

 

[kekinash]

Mine is the same, I think is the stabilization system that uses electromagnets. Or the auto-focus...

 

[Riktar]

I use a magnetic car mount and if place it too high it will start distorting the camera. I now understand why

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[kakazsh]

Mine is the same, I think is the stabilization system that uses electromagnets. Or the auto-focus...

Interesting. Didn't think the magnet would be so strong in that little camera unit.

 

[daryllh]

Nexus 5 had the same issues.

 

[oOflyeyesOo]

Most phones have a magnet around the camera, they also make this little magnetic len's to add filters and zoom, not sure if they are even being made anymore, i just remember them on the OG Evo.

 

[kf2m]

Mine is the same, I think is the stabilization system that uses electromagnets. Or the auto-focus...

That is correct on both. Permanent magnets, and voice coils are used for near instant precision placement of the sensor, and lens.

 

[gkyoungg]

I use a magnetic car mount and if place it too high it will start distorting the camera. I now understand why

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My first nexus 6 was damaged somehow and u believe it was caused by my magnetic car mount. Is thinking it was related to the magnets used for the wireless charging but I'm not sure. The screen started getting distortion and after a few days was no longer displaying anything but slight background colors.

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[graydiggy]

My first nexus 6 was damaged somehow and u believe it was caused by my magnetic car mount. Is thinking it was related to the magnets used for the wireless charging but I'm not sure. The screen started getting distortion and after a few days was no longer displaying anything but slight background colors.

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There are no magnets for wireless charging. It's a copper coil. Your issue has nothing to do with magnets. Sounds like having it sit in the heat on a car mount ruined your screen.

 

[gkyoungg]

Never left nexus 6 in the car. Also my og moto x has been sitting in this car for ~4 months either in the dash mount or center console since I use it as gps for work. Still rocks like the day I got it almost 3 years ago...
I bought the nexus 6 used from swappa, no idea why it fried but I had a suspicion. Looks like I need to go deeper.

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[graydiggy]

Likely what happened in the previous owners hands then. Heat murders these things. They can handle their own heat, but external heat is terrible for them.

 

[rebel1699]

Happens on the bottom of the phone too. I find it less likely to be the camera and alot more likely to be the big speaker magnet directly on the other side of it.

 

[akaHardison]

The camera len has magnet.Because it has OIS

 

[Luxferro]

There are no magnets for wireless charging. It's a copper coil. Your issue has nothing to do with magnets. Sounds like having it sit in the heat on a car mount ruined your screen.

When current is passed though a coil of wire it creates a magnetic field. It's how electro magnets, electronic motors, and how wireless charging works.

http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/DC/DC_14.html

How wireless charging works: http://www.livescience.com/50536-what-is-wireless-charging.html

 

[graydiggy]

When current is passed though a coil of wire it creates a magnetic field. It's how electro magnets, electronic motors, and how wireless charging works.

http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/DC/DC_14.html

How wireless charging works: http://www.livescience.com/50536-what-is-wireless-charging.html

True, but the magnetic field power is negligible. And it's not actually a magnet. Just a tiny field of magnetic energy. I am very familiar with induction and inductive charging.