The magnets are completely safe
In fact, they have zero impact on the devices functions.
many tablet and phone for many years have included magnets.
and there are several after market magnet cell phone docks.
I personally use the iMagnetMount and have for 4 years across 3 phones and that magnet sits right on top of the sd card.
but back to the issue.
The Shield doesnt come with nearly as much bloatware as a Galaxy device thankfully.
what we want to do is shut down and prevent apps that we dont use from running and free up as much ram as possible.
Performance tips:
- Install as few apps as possible
- facebook, dropbox are big ram hogs
- Uninstall as many apps that you dont need as possible
- Put the settings gear icon on your home screen so its easy to access
- Limit your home screen to just one screen
- Open up your app in the settings (gear icon) and on each app you dont want to use EVER, choose DISABLE if possible.
- Go into settings and on each app and turn off notifications for app you dont use
- Install an image viewer. A good lightweight app for viewing images is called Qikpic, its free in Google store.
(because the Shield doesnt have a image viewer built in outside of their gaming console app or Google drive, but Gdrive eats ram and bandwidth because its all store din the cloud. This can cause unwanted compression and degradation f the image, plus it just takes longer to render)
- Disable automatic updates in Google play
- Disable automatic update for the tablet firmware, this way its not consistenly running the update process searching for updates daily.
I disabled the whole shield game hub thing.
This is what I have disabled:
- cloud print
- contacts
- fallout shelter
- google keyboard (all other languages)
- google play games
- google play movie & TV
- google play Music
- hangouts
- Nvidia Dabbler
- Shield Hub
- Squid
- Twitch
I only use my tablet for the Phantom and for surfing internet.
My typical free Ram is about 1.25 gb when not running DJI app
and about 800mb free when running DJI app
The Sheild table is a 2gb ram tablet. it manages its ram very well for an Android device.
I use the regular DJI Go app, not DJI Go 4
I have Lightrom installed for basic editing and UAV forecast for weather conditions. There are other apps you can install to help you determine flight areas...but they dont need to live on your tablet, they work just the same on your phone.
Android is superior to iOS when it comes to functionality and expandability....however, like a windows PC it needs room to breathe and flex, so high specs are required to get a good experience.
But when you add high specs like extra ram, then the Manufactures want to fill that space, they want to sell it to app vendors....thus bloatware is born.
The more space you have the more space you have to sell.
This is why a rooted version of android and a raw copy of windows runs circles around Apple products....until you start adding apps, antivirus nonsense, security suites, custom launchers. ect.
So Apple will always win this fight unless folks decide to root. Their systems basic fucntions and the priority of how apps are used and closed is superior.
Think how fast a Galaxy s7 or the s8 would be if Samsung didnt have 50+ apps from 20+ vendors all running concurrently to manage all the BS we dont need.