Just want to point you to discussions here.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12184/battery-saving-low-power-mode-within-os-discussions
I long for an toggle-able option like this available from the battery pulldown.
With some knowledge of QML and the layout of lomiri-system-settings I believe its possible to implement.

@nbdynl
On my opinions for resolving this with the indicator panel... I'm picturing if you double tap the indicator panel it would latch in a half open state (or just big enough to have all the options on show). Then you can swipe around and use it with it latched open until you tap outside the pulldown.

I like all the indicators and the feel of most things while at home or sat down but when your doing active things or only have one hand free is where UT always feels awkward.

@RJDan
I would say that making the device difficult to use by turning down the brightness is the problem and that having to use the device like this should be fixed before anything else. I do understand your point but it can't be expected to resolve a weird workaround of turning the brightness to an unusable level that's been implement by yourself.
I agree other things need to be fixed here, either in the app itself or improving the way location services work while out of focus.
Regarding emergencies as an idea an extra feature could be provided in the OS, maybe you press the lock button 5 times fast and if you don't cancel it on screen it will call your pre-determined contact from your device. It would be a nice feature similar to iOS I suppose.

I have done this myself to save battery and struggled to see the device to change the settings in full sunshine.
I do agree with your opinion I feel there can be a lot of cases like this with UT. Using the device as a sat-nav and/or media-player in a car dock the panel is not the best either.

One possible solution for your case would be not changing the brightness but disabling app suspension for your app (and it's dependencies OSM?) with Tweak Tool.
I haven't used Activity tracker but this should work for your use case.

Overall 24.04-1.2 seemed to work perfect in my day to day usage.
Whereas 1.3 has some occasional quirks/regressions/differences? that are noticeable to me but not breaking enough to remember or make a note of each of them while out at work.
This signal strength was a noticeable one, I know the nearest mast is not far away and I know what is displayed now is very different to 1.2. Which is correct/accurate is another matter, if it's correct that's fine but ultimately people want to know at a glance if they can make a call and an empty triangle with even poor signal is not a helpful indicator if a call would be possible. Is there a different symbol for no signal as I haven't seen it? I believe you have to pull down and look at the carrier showing "Searching..." for this?
Another change I can remember is cellular data, before I could open the default browser anywhere and just browse straight away. Now intermittently with no WiFi available the browser will not have a data connection, the quick way I found to resolve this is shuffle cellular data off and on again.

Possible issue found in 1.3, maybe this could be checked it's not only myself?
Bluetooth can't be disabled or enabled from the battery menu. The toggle moves but it doesn't work and stays in the same state.
I use this regularly as a quick way to achieve some power savings from one place, part of discussions on usage here
Disabling from there own respective pull down works correctly.

Signal strength isn't the issue, I wouldn't expect them all to be the same.
I know the signal strength is displayed much lower on 1.3 for 5G and 4G compared with 1.2 is the point

@kristatos Same for me on FP5.
It depends on the cellular connection selected.
With 5G selected signal shows empty, with 4G it's either low or half and with 2G or 3G its full.
All of these previously were full signal I'm pretty close to my nearest cell mast which has 2G/4G/5G

Having a way to have no sidebar like the showdesktop app, maybe I see "home" differently. A blank space with only the top bar to distract me

@nbdynl That sounds great.
Does it also work with no apps open tho?
Is this a MariKit or Lomiri Plus option?

@ChromiumOS-Guy I think this is a good idea. I currently have showdesktop pinned to the menu bar. It being part of the OS would be great.
I'm open to it being some other action aswell tho. I was thinking a full swipe from left to right while the app menu was open, so the opposite to opening the taskswitcher?
Having used OS's both mobile and desktop that allow to go to the desktop, Ubuntu Touch feels very odd without it.

@projectmoon As I understand it apps work like that currently in UT? You can use UT Tweak Tool to have apps ignore this.
Experiments you mention may vary from device to device based on the silicon which is fine if your OS is only targeted to one processor for example.

I do feel these charge limit options would fit perfect into the battery settings menu, rather than the pulldown. A maximum limit for charging also a way to hold 80% charge until say 7am (variables of these) would help the batteries in our devices last much longer.

Enabling and disabling things can get annoying tho. Part of the benefit of these features while they're enabled is that they work automatically like handsfree bluetooth connections and switching to WiFi. Having the ability to leave the settings you have alone but have a master switch for them all while adding a few extra energy focused features seems like a sensible feature.

I'm confused on the comments about accuracy tho? Are we saying devices are reporting flat when they have more to give? Or that certain devices consume too much battery with UT? Even if the mA to % calculation varies per device, I don't feel it takes away the need for a feature like a low power mode? Do I miss something?

So the feeling is these types of thing should be part of the OS and not openstore apps?

I hoped this would have generated more of a discussion but maybe it's not something that people actively seek to use, despite being common function of most OS's?
I could argue it's not just a few clicks to do what I suggested, some are available in the battery page of settings but not everything.
I'd imagine the basics would be low hanging fruit for someone that understands QML and how those settings plugins work. Being around FOSS for a long time I know if your enable to bring pull requests to the table for your ideas it's much better but it's beyond my skills for the moment.
As I say functionality could expand beyond basics of toggling a handful of features I'm proposing now.
Would features that improve the OS like this be considered for inclusion into the OS rather than unconfined apps like battery-saver?
If in wouldn't be something of interest I'll likely look into something I can engineer, are there any documentations on controlling all of the settings options via a script beyond searching the forum for bits of code?

I have been looking into improving energy consumption recently. There's capacity to greatly improve the battery life from switching off features on a device. On my FP5 I can consume overnight ~30% battery with all features on, WiFi, BT, Location, NFC, 5G, device locked. Compared to 2% with only 2G enabled and device locked.

This has had me looking into shell scripts on the forum and the battery-saver app from open-store.
I'm looking for something light that would just disable all these features without going into each option and then restore everything back as I had it.

To me this seems like something that should be included into a toggle on the Battery pull-down menu itself, much like most modern devices have a "low power mode".
How feasible would a toggle option to disable all these power hungry features and set the radio to the most energy efficient available in your location. Then toggling back would restore what you had previous. It seems like something the OS should provide and not additional apps.

Is this something people would want to use from the OS itself rather than additional possibly more flexible unconfined apps?

I would say being part of the OS leaves scope for more battery saving options if it was to be taken further as the OS matures, maybe scheduler tweaks or manual display brightness settings for example. But keeping everything a simple toggle for the UX.

How is not using Windows relevant to the suggestion to start again?
You're have plenty of issues that no-one else is experiencing, I'd say it's a sensible first step.
If something was borked during installation or you had the wrong Android version then the UT installed on top of that, may not function correctly.

Is it worth considering starting again?

Installing the correct Fairphone Andriod version listed on the ubuntu-touch website and following the install procedures for 24.04 stable?

I have none of the issue you mentioned in your multiple threads with my fp5.
The only outstanding issue is the fingerprint reader for me at the moment on stable.

I agree with Cibersheep here.
It's not part of the OS design to have a global back button like Android and not a requirement due to the edge OS controls.
Yes the in-app back being top left is awkward positioning for one handed use but I would find it more annoying that a window was closed/disappeared by accident from some other inconsistent close or back positioning.
I'm not against a top swipe for back on top of the standard style back, like in openstore Timer app but really following the development guidelines and being consistent between all apps is the important thing.