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If I lived in LA I'd be happy to come over and futz around and swear at your AV equipment, but alas, I am too many miles away and I suck at remote tech support.

Re: big phones. I can fit a Galaxy S4 in my jeans pocket without issues, so I think people will adapt to the size of the iPhone 6. The bigger screen is AWESOME. I look at DH's iPhone now and wonder how I ever lived with something that tiny.

That said, the battery life on my S4 is CRAP. I can salvage it by turning off location services, but there are several location-based apps that I want to use during the day so I'd rather not do that. What Android phone has the best battery life? Are they all terrible?

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AHA! That did the trick! Now my Harmony is being kind of weird about it, but my main problem has been solved! Thanks, Gris!

What Android phone has the best battery life? Are they all terrible?

I've been very satisfied with my Galaxy S4 on just about every level, including battery life. You can get pretty granular about which antennas are on, sounds, vibrations, and haptic feedback, all of which drains battery. Some apps can be real power hogs, even when they're just on in the background.

More than anything though, the smartest purchase I've made with my Galaxy was spending an extra $50 or so for a battery charger with spare battery and carrying case (for the battery) (bought from Samsung directly). And I've never had a day where two batteries weren't enough to get me through the day.

Also, one of my main reasons for my extreme satisfaction is because every other phone I've owned (including like three iPhones) wound up with cracked glass eventually.

My Galaxy has taken a whole bunch of hits I thought for sure would crack the glass, but it's come through every time (and all I have is the flip-cover case and a glass protector sheet). This phone is a game day player.

Also, at least for me, it's been far easier to catch when I've fumbled it, and I've rescued it from countless more falls that my iPhones would have taken. Or so it seems. That's not really hard data on that.

Reading your post more closely, yeah, location services in particular is a major battery hog. I never use it. I only ever turn on the GPS antenna under very specific circumstances, and get super anal about turning it back off again as soon as I'm done using it.

ETA: But to perfectly honest, the Galaxy S4 has the best battery life of any phone I've ever owned, even with the location services drains. I'm very Samsung fanboy when it comes to phones these days.

Glad it got figured out. Sean I just imagined your set up was like mine (not portable; my tv and everything just stays in one place so wire lengths aren't a big deal; I wasn't being snarky.)

My Note 2 has decent battery life, even with location services on. I hear that the Motorola phones (Moto X specifically) are good choices for straightforward Android phones with good battery life as well. I would get a moto x for my next phone if I didn't actually use the stylus in the Note on a daily basis. I will have to stick with the Note line until another manufacturer takes active styli seriously.

My wife's Moto X battery life is much shorter than that of her previous phone, an iPhone 4. I'd imagine its shorter than some of the other Android phones, too, since it's a nicely small phone and that means less room for battery.

My GS4 used to have decent battery life until the 4.2.2 update, and now it blows. I've had my phone go from 100% leaving the house to 15% by the time I get to work.

I think I could make it behave better if I spent some time configuring Tasker/Trigger/IFFT to smartly turn location services on and off throughout the day, but I do miss my iPhone's battery which could easily go a day and a half of heavy use without dying. (I don't miss anything at all about iOS, but the battery thing is a killer. I have a portable battery that will fully charge my phone 4 times before needing to be plugged in itself, but if I wanted to walk around with something that heavy in my purse I wouldn't have bought a light slim phone to begin with!)

The Note line is fantastic, but I spend too much time on the subway for a phone I can't operate with one hand. (I had a Note 3 for about a week before I reluctantly admitted it just wasn't working out. The squeezed-down one-hand mode is clever, but ultimately didn't work for me.)

Battery life is also the reason I'm not eager to switch from my Pebble to an Android Wear watch - because it's e-ink it can go a week without charging, even with an app like Glance running all the time. And I wear it at night for sleep tracking and as an alarm clock (vibrating so I don't wake DH at 6am), which I couldn't do if I had to charge it every night.

My Moto X has very good battery life, and good life for both an Android phone and the featureset it offers (like always on visual notification and voice recognition). I went from sometimes not making it through a day to pretty much never needing a panic recharge.