Looking for my 'dream' device

[Nathan-NL]

Currently I use the Nexus 4 as my daily driver, but the battery life really disappoints me since owning it. I've used the Nexus 5 for a few weeks and it was considerably better, but the microphone issues made me return it.

I unplugged my Nexus 4 today around 9:00 AM in the morning and 10:35 PM the phone shut down.

This is not an acceptable battery life for me and I didn't do anything special with it today. Looking up the public transit data, made a few short phone calls and that's about it. Screen time is under 1 and a half hour!

Maybe something is wrong. I also use Greenify and undervolted the phone (-48mV). And I use franco.Kernel.













What phone has really good battery life? I considered the Moto X at first, so maybe the Moto X + 1 will be good. But I really want to be able to unplug my phone at 6-7 AM and have it still running at 12PM/1AM at least.

I don't like very big screens. 5 inch is max I think. 4.7/4.8 inch preferred.

 

[Golfdriver97]

In your screenshots, you device is waking up a lot, and it looked to lock up for 15 to 20 minutes, that looked like it caused a 5% drop in your battery. I am not sure what to suggest though. 18 hours is a pretty long time to go between charges without getting a bigger device (which means a bigger battery). You could look at device that have removable batteries so that you can buy extras and swap them.

I do rather love the Moto X though. Great device.

 

[Nathan-NL]

I see it could be problematic to ask for such battery life in a compact package. Would 2-3 hours of extra battery life be more feasible? In that case I would have had a working phone when on the go. Now I sometimes don't which could be dangerous in some situations. So then I could unplug it at 9AM and it would still work around 12PM.

 

[Nathan-NL]

The Nexus 5's battery life was good enough for me btw. A bit better would be nice, but it was just about sufficient.

 

[ol chap]

I've heard of cases that have huge batteries in them that add on to the current battery power, maybe try to find one of those for your phone or try installing a battery saver. What I used to do on my pantech burst was turn mobile data off wifi off Bluetooth and GPS off and put it in airplane mode to save a bit off battery but I obviously wouldn't be able to receive texts or calls.

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[sydneycooper1979]

I know you said your max was 5 in but the G2 has amazing battery life. It has a 5.2 in screen but the device size is very manageable. It is also available for a pretty great price.

 

[jedijoren]

Get a battery case, my friends with similar problems use those.

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