what trick? mine without byzantium os, only last 4.5 hours per battery which is ridiculously bad.
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There are a lot tricks:
Prevent to enable VoLTE if not needed.
Prevent to enable Flatpak.
Prevent to enable 5ghz WLAN.
Prevent to enable dark mode.
Prevent to enable Firefox.
Prevent to enable openVPN but Wireguard
Prevent to enable Opensources things because evils.
Also native GLES3 is missing which causes it to consume a lot of battery, the good news is that this piece is near to be completed which would add robustness and a significant drop in battery consumption.
Phosh Framework it need native GLES3.
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Prevent to enable VoLTE if not needed.
Prevent to enable Flatpak.
Prevent to enable 5ghz WLAN.
With all above to be gone, I rather use my blackberry passport.
L5, This is an expensive phone, if all modern stuff needs to be disabled, not worth it. I bought four batteries and still not enough to go through a day. I just hope they can keep improving instead of compromising more and more to make it more usable.
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Well the trick for me meant, I’ve been worried about the reduction in capacity of my battery. I mostly kept it plugged in, but the occasional times I would have to be on battery and the resulting charging/discharging cycles seemed to be reducing the overall battery capacity.
By being able to limit the max charge to 70 or 80% and prevent it going below 20% is supposed to help make the battery last longer.
So the trick was post #17 Librem 5 Battery Life 2024 - #17 by Ick
Now, based on your comment
running the L5 between 20-70% further reduces it’s usefullness on a daily basis. But, with the trick from post #17, I can choose to let the battery charge to 100% if I want.
Overall, using the Suspend feature, turning off wifi when I’m away from home (to conserve battery), and I’ve noticed lately, closing web browser email app when I’m away from home, seems to give my about 8 hours maybe (from 100%).
I do agree, I wish I could get more daily usage, but I’m hoping improvements in Crimson will help?! But, also, I’m also nervous about getting longer life out of the battery itself.
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Prevent to enable Opensources things because evils.
Open source software, the silent battery killer! 
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