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Hello, I have been using the Note PRO 12.2 since it came out. I am very satisfied with the battery life. Recently, I took out my Note 2 and used it for a few days. I found that its battery life does not satisfy my daily use. Taking a short video and a few photos from a fully charged Note 2 dropped the battery life a lot. How is the battery life of Note 5 compared with the Note PRO 12.2?
So I'm struggling between buying the S10 and the Mi 9. I know, completely different price tags but yeah, both have their pro's and contra's.
I usually love charging my phone quickly, for example from 10 to 60% in less than 30 minutes. (like I did with my OnePlus 6) This would speak for the Mi 9 and the 27W support but is the S10 charging quickly too?
What would you guys prefer? I want to at least keep the phone for 2 years this time.
I charged my S10+ from 0 to 100 in less than two hours with stock charger.
both phones are great , but at the end i choose the s10+ because it will feel more premium than the MI9 , specially the software , as i really love the new one UI
Hi all.
I have written a comment to another created threat in mi 9 forum, but I would like to read your comments here too.
I'm having battery draining and SOT problems with my mi 9, like I said in title (like most people I think).
I have tried everything to improve my battery life in my mi 9, and It's not bad at all, but I was expecting better performance for a top xiaomi smartphone with sd 855 and 5 months old in spite of the fact that it has "only" 3300mah battery ...
I'm not a heavy user and I try to get max SOT and minimum battery drain in all my phones, because I don't like changing smartphones very often and I like to take care of it.
I came from a Moto G4 plus, and I had 5h of SOT in 48h without high standby drainage (maybe 1-2% of drainage overnight in 7-9h) with a 3 years old battery and worst hardware and software. In mi 9, I'm getting 5-6h of SOT in 48-72h. Not bad at all, but standby drainage is awfull. It loses 20-25% of the battery every 48h (3-5% overnight), and in a smartphone with such a fair battery it's a problem. If I'm not getting great results with not heavy use and my smartphone is new, I don't want to think in 2-3 years + mid-heavy use ... I have tried everything (full wipes, reinstalling, the most powerfull battery saving, etc) and I don't have great result. Standby drainage is very hight compared to other phones (I have tried a friend poco f1 and I had 10h in 48-72h with 1% overnight drainage. It was awsome).
And now the question ...
I'm thinking of changing my mi 9 for a huawei mate 20... I still have the 30d Amazon refund and I am not comfortable with my phone's battery.
- Mate 20 pros vs mi 9: +700 mah battery and more efficient, the best ips panel without burn-in problem, and fingerprint sensor behind the screen (no like too much in-screen fingerprint at all).
- Pros mi 9 vs mate 20: sd 855 (but geekbech it's very very similar, and antutu winner is mi 9 only for gamming but mate 20 still on top), unlocking bootloader for mi 9 (better comunity in xda, but if emui works well I think I don't need custom rooms, the problem here is Trump/google vs China ... but now apeares to be solved and we would have newer updates to Android Q), wireless charging (I don't use it because smartphone is hotter when charging 3-5º vs cable+1,5a charger, It takes more time to charge with elevated temperature), not jack (better for waterproof), maybe very little better cameras in mi 9 and little better results, 4 months younger (very little difference) and It's the top phone on xiaomi (mate 20 is the little brother because we have mate 20 pro, 20x, p30, p30 pro and we will have soon mate 20 and mate 20 pro; and that could be worst because we will get latter uptdates in mate 20).
What do you think? Would you change mi 9 for mate 20? Reading your comments. Greetings.
If your looking for better battery life I'd say get the mate 20. I've had mine for just under 3 months. Best damn purchase I've ever made (purchased way below retail during trump ban). I consider myself a medium to heavy user (I don't play mobile games however). With some useless features turned off and some fetch services disabled. I can easily get 8-10 hrs on screen time with this phone, it's the best battery life I've ever had, prior I was getting 4hrs with another Android phone.
Andrew Tuon said:
If your looking for better battery life I'd say get the mate 20. I've had mine for just under 3 months. Best damn purchase I've ever made (purchased way below retail during trump ban). I consider myself a medium to heavy user (I don't play mobile games however). With some useless features turned off and some fetch services disabled. I can easily get 8-10 hrs on screen time with this phone, it's the best battery life I've ever had, prior I was getting 4hrs with another Android phone.
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What about heat and performance?
quiquetdelcampet said:
What about heat and performance?
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Heat? I haven't had any issues with heat if by that you mean does the phone get too hot to touch, it's cool the majority of the time. As for performance, EMUI 9.1 is very smooth and I haven't had any slow downs ??.
Andrew Tuon said:
Heat? I haven't had any issues with heat if by that you mean does the phone get too hot to touch, it's cool the majority of the time. As for performance, EMUI 9.1 is very smooth and I haven't had any slow downs .
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And what about temperature playing PUBG mobile for example 30 min? Have you tried?
Really thanks!
quiquetdelcampet said:
And what about temperature playing PUBG mobile for example 30 min? Have you tried?
Really thanks!
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Sorry bud I don't play games on my phone, wouldn't know.
quiquetdelcampet said:
And what about temperature playing PUBG mobile for example 30 min? Have you tried?
Really thanks!
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After 30 mins of Asphalt 9 the device is damn cold... Could even be used as a cooler
xphy32 said:
After 30 mins of Asphalt 9 the device is damn cold... Could even be used as a cooler
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Just a month ago I had Poco F1. On the battery Sot was similar to the 20 mate. Night drainage in Poco 1-3%, mate 2-5%. Mate saves better on screen on. Performance similar to Poco. If I had to exchange Mi9, it was on mi9t Pro.
I've got both the S20 ultra, with its 5k mah battery and the p40 pro with its 4.2k battery. I'm getting better battery life from the p40 pro ? so far anyway. Latest 114 update is on the p40 pro
Please post your consumption
With 50% left this ain't bad at all. I am using 60gz though, I see no real benefit of 90hz. So minor to my eyes. No Google installed either
It looks as though not having you're screen on 90hz makes a large difference.
On average over 21h usage I'm getting 7 to 8hours of SOT but then the battery will be about 10% my screen is set to 90hz spo I must use a lot of power.
That's one hell of a mobile phone order :good: how is the Samsung ultra which do you prefer? How is the build quality between the two which feels better?
Combatfroggy said:
It looks as though not having you're screen on 90hz makes a large difference.
On average over 21h usage I'm getting 7 to 8hours of SOT but then the battery will be about 10% my screen is set to 90hz spo I must use a lot of power.
That's one hell of a mobile phone order :good: how is the Samsung ultra which do you prefer? How is the build quality between the two which feels better?
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Feel is subjective. Both in cases so can't really feel. P40 being smaller is more comfortable.
That snapdragon gpu is a beast. And that phone never gets above 35c whether fast charging or games. P40 pro is about 3 to 5 degrees celcius hotter generally.
They both play any game easily. When it comes to difficult emulator games the snapdragon is a few frames better
The p40 pro is more efficient even with smaller battery, I'll try 90hz tomorrow
S20 ultra looks more premium, just. Has better sounding speakers too but the p40 pro is louder
The p40 pro has a better camera. Not by much, generally better zoomed in pics. Much better low light and better focus ?
Leaning towards keeping the p40 pro
Samsung have had a focus problem on there phones since 9 series devices...
I'm not sure whether to send the p40 back and keep the note 10+ or not??
I do prefer emui over Samsung ui
You can see the difference in the power drain between 90 hz and 60hz on the attached photo. 60hz being the bottom power drain.
I have also noticed that you can turn off 5G up in the quick settings which might save some power? No point having it turned on when hardly anywhere has 5G
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You can see the difference in the power drain between 90 hz and 60hz on the attached photo. 60hz being the bottom power drain.
I have also noticed that you can turn off 5G up in the quick settings which might save some power? No point having it turned on when hardly anywhere has 5G
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That does look substantial. I'm checking this myself. I prefer EMUI too can't stand Samsungs new battery info layout
Started another battery cycle with the screen set to 60hz and 5G off. And after 1 hour of usage and 1hr of SOT I'm at 98%!
Very interested to see the results tomorrow evening.
lawtq said:
I've got both the S20 ultra, with its 5k mah battery and the p40 pro with its 4.2k battery. I'm getting better battery life from the p40 pro ? so far anyway. Latest 114 update is on the p40 pro
Please post your consumption
With 50% left this ain't bad at all. I am using 60gz though, I see no real benefit of 90hz. So minor to my eyes. No Google installed either
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if your ultra is exynos its not suprising you get bad battery life out of the s20
xnostra said:
if your ultra is exynos its not suprising you get bad battery life out of the s20
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It's snapdragon
lawtq said:
It's snapdragon
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well that is more bad then cause the snapdragon is the best one with regards to s20 ultra but i know their optimization is really not good maybe thats why you get bad sot
xnostra said:
well that is more bad then cause the snapdragon is the best one with regards to s20 ultra but i know their optimization is really not good maybe thats why you get bad sot
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It's not bad with the snapdragon. It's good actually. It's just better with the p40 pro
Which one are you sticking with the s20 or the Huawei?
lawtq said:
Feel is subjective. Both in cases so can't really feel. P40 being smaller is more comfortable.
That snapdragon gpu is a beast. And that phone never gets above 35c whether fast charging or games. P40 pro is about 3 to 5 degrees celcius hotter generally.
They both play any game easily. When it comes to difficult emulator games the snapdragon is a few frames better
The p40 pro is more efficient even with smaller battery, I'll try 90hz tomorrow
S20 ultra looks more premium, just. Has better sounding speakers too but the p40 pro is louder
The p40 pro has a better camera. Not by much, generally better zoomed in pics. Much better low light and better focus ?
Leaning towards keeping the p40 pro
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Yes I believe snapdragon still better for gaming. Only problem is our area only have the exynos varient
My Mate 20 Pro with 4200 mAh was easily the best smartphone that I owned in terms of battery life. I also used to have a Honor 8 Pro for a while and it had good battery life as well. So I'm not surprised that the P40 Pro's battery life is great. Maybe it's because of Huawei's "aggressive RAM management", not sure.
I don't think the p40pro is in the same league as the mate 20 Pro that things battery was epic.
I have the p40 pro. Everytime it reaches 13%, i know it'll run out of battery soon, less than 5 minutes. Is this happening to you too? Cause it's really frustrating. My old p30 pro never did this...
lawtq said:
I've got both the S20 ultra, with its 5k mah battery and the p40 pro with its 4.2k battery. I'm getting better battery life from the p40 pro ? so far anyway. Latest 114 update is on the p40 pro
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With 50% left this ain't bad at all. I am using 60gz though, I see no real benefit of 90hz. So minor to my eyes. No Google installed either
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I'm in a similar if lower specced (but only just) kinda of boat currently using the Samsung note 10 lite and I just got the P40 non pro this week.
Battery life is definitely way better on the P40. The Samsung I'm using very lightly right now (mainly yt music and regular phone calls) and it doesn't last that much longer than the P40 which is in use almost all ways. If not it's probably a hot-spot or always on display or both.
Turning off 5g definetley makes a difference. I'm in London so I have 5g almost everywhere but even with 5g disabled and lower battery usage I'm seeing really fast connection speed (over 700B/s)
Really want to make a test of the ultra pow energy mode. My phone thinks it can achieve ove 60 hours run time from 69% battery charge. If that's really possible just wow.
I haven't tested a lot of games yet but I have fired up xplane. It ran perfectly looked gorgeous in this tiny pixel dense screen and hardly used the battery faster than browsing. Got some emulators too they run like honey and the phone doesn't even get hot at all so far in the emulators I've tried.
So I made a test. 4K30 Video, 15 minutes.
S20+ vs S21 Ultra
Result?
S20+ lost 5% battery (CPU afterwards 41° Celsius)
S21 Ultra lost 7% battery (CPU afterwards 44° Celsius)
The S21 also felt way hotter to the touch.
How can that be? I thought the Exynos 990 was way worse? How can a phone with a larger battery lose more battery and also get hotter.
Samsung has to fix this. And this is with 4K30 not 4K60 or 8K24. I guess it will melt in the summer while shooting a video.
That's a known problem already. Let's just hope its software related so Samsung can fix it soon. As far as I am aware s20 line had this similar issue before too and it was fixed after a few software updates.
My Snapdragon S21U also runs a lot hotter than N20U Snapdragon
iamnotkurtcobain said:
So I made a test. 4K30 Video, 15 minutes.
S20+ vs S21 Ultra
Result?
S20+ lost 5% battery (CPU afterwards 41° Celsius)
S21 Ultra lost 7% battery (CPU afterwards 44° Celsius)
The S21 also felt way hotter to the touch.
How can that be? I thought the Exynos 990 was way worse? How can a phone with a larger battery lose more battery and also get hotter.
Samsung has to fix this. And this is with 4K30 not 4K60 or 8K24. I guess it will melt in the summer while shooting a video.
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you shoot in wqhd and 120hz on the S21U and you ask why it's hotter and lost more batterry ?
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you shoot in wqhd and 120hz on the S21U and you ask why it's hotter and lost more batterry ?
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I had FHD+ on the S20+ and S21 Ultra and it's 60hz while using the camera.
Dear friends who have problem with overheating, did you get March updated and did they fix overheating?
Thx a lot
March made it worse in my case
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you shoot in wqhd and 120hz on the S21U and you ask why it's hotter and lost more batterry ?
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Camera doesn't shoot at 120hz it goes down to 60hz in the camera application.