I'm using MRA Next on an iPhone with a Carpuride display through Carplay. So essentially, I don't need my phone mounted on the motorcycle while riding.
To keep the phone's battery up, I hook it up to a battery pack and place it in the handlebar bag that I have on my R1200GS.
The combination of workload (GPS+Carplay) and charging results in the phone becoming quite hot, with the heat unable to discipate as it is placed in a enclosed bag.
Secondary, recently the OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) of my iPhone broke. I am unsire if this is now the result of vibrations with it being placed in the handlebar bag, or just age/bad luck with the phone now 6 years old.
I'm likely to buy a new iPhone later this year and naturally want to protect it from overheating and hardware issues, so I started looking at Quad Lock mounting options. The assumption being that using a mount (including vibration dampener) would allow the phone to cool better as a result of air flow during riding.
Wether having the phone loosely in a handlebar bag is worse than having it mounted on a vibration dampener is a big unknown.
Looking at the different Quad Lock mounting options, the most obvious choices are not an option in my case:
The handlebar is covered by the bag
The carpuride is mounted on the BMW Nav cradle, so that bar is also not an option
I am now considering the Brake/Clutch Mount but I have found very little examples of actual use online. So I was wondering: are people here using Quad Lock (or other) phone mounts other than the more common handlebar mount?