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I was wondering if somebody could share his/her experience with the Mi 4c regarding battery life.
As I am a heavy user and don´t want my phone to die on me on 2pm I´d really apreciate it if somebody could tell me how good the battery life is on this phone.
I'm also a heavy user and i'm happy with the batterylife on MIUI. I get the same as i got with my Sony Z1 Compact, and those Compact phones are known for their good batterylife. I mean if you come from a phone with 5000 mAh battery then you might be dissapointed i think
No, its really good. I had other phones which i had to recharge sometimes more than 2 times a day, but the Mi4c brings me through the day
So yesterday I had about 6 hours of screen on time, and it was off the mains from 8:30 am to 1 am, i.e. 14.5 hours. Three to four hours of 3G, half an hour of GPS tracking, and otherwise mainly chatting and browsing and using a few apps. This beat my every expectation, my previous phones would last barely 10 hours with only 4 hours of screen on time.
Edit: this is with Cyanogenmod. MIUI didn't seem to cut me such slack, especially not when Google Sync was on (which always timed out because I'm in China where Google is blocked).
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I did notice, however, that once the phone goes dead because of an empty battery, it won't start until you actually charge it for a few minutes first. Or it may start and die straight away. My Nexus 5 would always still start with an empty battery.
Gsmarena battery life test
Gsmarena did run few test on Mi4C. Here are the results:
Endurance rating: 52h
Talk time: 18:31h
Web browsing: 9:32h
Video Playback: 10:47h
For comparison (LG G2, Xiaomi Mi 4, LG G4:
LG G2 (3000mAh)
Endurance rating: 81h
Talk time: 25:15h
Web browsing: 11:42h
Video Playback: 9:28h
Xiaomi Mi 4 (3080mAh)
Endurance rating: 68h
Talk time: 18:15h
Web browsing: 9:31h
Video Playback: 7:00h
LG G4 (3000mAh)
Endurance rating: 54h
Talk time: 16:40h
Web browsing: 7:54h
Video Playback: 7:23h
Web browsing and video playback times are very good on Mi4C but endurance rating is rather low. That means that Mi4C consumes quite a bit battery in standby. However that is easily fixed with couple tweaks. It seems that Mi4C have good battery life :good:
CM12.1 battery use attached. It's weird that (as I've said on a reddit review) standby battery use is pretty low for me, though the meter does seem to drop quickly when I use the phone. I think the battery might need calibrating, but it seems good enough got my needs!
For those who can't see the attached screenshots: 16hrs off charger, 2hrs 38mins SOT, mixture of browsing reddit, chrome and MX Player
I'm considering to get the mi4c to replace my Nexus 5 just for the battery life.
Is it worth to lose NFC, wireless charging and LTE (no 800 band)?
Traxex_ said:
I'm considering to get the mi4c to replace my Nexus 5 just for the battery life.
Is it worth to lose NFC, wireless charging and LTE (no 800 band)?
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I think these questions can only be answered by yourself...for me, NFC is not important, i never used it in my other phones. And do you need wireless charging when you get through the day with one charge? Also, i personally dont use LTE because i find 3G is fast enough on a phone.
Over all those things i really prefer battery life. I once had a Sony Xperia V, with very poor battery life and i had to switch to 2G when i was home and used WiFi, or turn WiFi off when i was outside. And much more, just to save a bit off battery. Then i bought a Sony Z1 Compact and i didnt had to do all those things, which was really a joy. Just leave everything on and get through the day. And its the same with my Mi4c. No need for battery savers, tasker or such things anymore
But like i said, you might prefer other things.
You guys are using the unoficial cm 12.1 build or which cm rom ? could you pls post a link to the rom please? i am using the developer miui rom and the battery is very bad
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You guys are using the unoficial cm 12.1 build or which cm rom ? could you pls post a link to the rom please? i am using the developer miui rom and the battery is very bad
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Yes, the unofficial CM12.1, its the only one at the moment
One last thing about this cm 12.1 rom, how is the camera quality ? and with the miui 5.10.22 developer rom i am experiencing a weird issue with messenger, when i get a new message and i open to see it, if i already had messenger opened i dont see the new message, i have to click the back button to go to friend list, then it like refreshes, and if i go back to the chat, i can see the message.
Thanks
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One last thing about this cm 12.1 rom, how is the camera quality ? and with the miui 5.10.22 developer rom i am experiencing a weird issue with messenger, when i get a new message and i open to see it, if i already had messenger opened i dont see the new message, i have to click the back button to go to friend list, then it like refreshes, and if i go back to the chat, i can see the message.
Thanks
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I was really surprised about the camera quality. All CM ROMs on other phones had a very poor picture quality compared to the stock roms. And camera is very important for me. Our unofficial CM12.1 has the same picture quality like MIUI in my opinion. No idea how the dev made this happen, but its great
Regarding the messenger, maybe its an app problem and not a MIUI problem? I don't know...
Thanks a lot, I am really thinking about flashing, eventhough I have always been afraid to flash unoficial builds, since I dont understand how they make them without the kernel sources. But the battery life is so horrible on the developer rom
So far, battery life is respectable for me as a second phone. 1.5 days off the charger, a bit less then 4.5 hours SOT, mostly YouTube, web browsing, offline game. Stock stable chinese MIUI 7 ROM, rooted and greenify.
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Still loving the battery life on this thing, can only imagine how much more awesome it's going to be on M
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Still loving the battery life on this thing, can only imagine how much more awesome it's going to be on M
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Totally agree and this with CM, where normally battery life is bad
guys battery life is special bad when in options of wifi is on scanning always available.
i use miui xiaomi.eu rom number 5,10,22 and i finde it best at the moment.
1.58minutes of gps 38min of talk 4g on all day about 30min browsing and on the end of the day stil 35% about 2h of sot.
My battery life is pretty good. Regardless of whatever I do during the day, I can easily squeeze 4 hours SoT from the phone. My battery depletes the fastest whenever I listen to music while keeping 4G on the entire time as my phone is rarely in deep sleep, and idle battery usage becomes higher than screen usage. This is actually one of the more annoying issues; my music player seems to drain quite a bit of the battery as MediaServer is always on even when I'm not playing music - the app icon stays in the notification bar unless I actually terminate the app.
The best I got out of the phone was, according to the attached images, 5 hours SoT at 39% battery. This was with WiFi on the entire time, screen to about half brightness and middling reception quality.
I'm currently running the 5.10.8 MIUI EU weekly build. Quite interested in flashing CM12.1 when the bugs get cleaned up.
bennaye said:
My battery life is pretty good. Regardless of whatever I do during the day, I can easily squeeze 4 hours SoT from the phone. My battery depletes the fastest whenever I listen to music while keeping 4G on the entire time as my phone is rarely in deep sleep, and idle battery usage becomes higher than screen usage. This is actually one of the more annoying issues; my music player seems to drain quite a bit of the battery as MediaServer is always on even when I'm not playing music - the app icon stays in the notification bar unless I actually terminate the app.
The best I got out of the phone was, according to the attached images, 5 hours SoT at 39% battery. This was with WiFi on the entire time, screen to about half brightness and middling reception quality.
I'm currently running the 5.10.8 MIUI EU weekly build. Quite interested in flashing CM12.1 when the bugs get cleaned up.
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Do you just listen to music and browse web? Because you have 0 wakelocks, do you use gmail meseenger,facebook,etc.?
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Do you just listen to music and browse web? Because you have 0 wakelocks, do you use gmail meseenger,facebook,etc.?
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Yes, I use all of those. Keep in mind this is pretty abnormal for my phone. Typically, it would be around 3.5-4 hours of SoT at 40% battery, so you shouldn't get your hopes up too much. From memory, all I was doing was Reddit and some web surfing, with Whatsapp, Gmail and Messenger set to sync while phone was asleep. If I were listening to music, the battery drain would've been quite a bit more. And there were wakelocks but they don't really show on the stat screen.
wingsfortheirsmiles said:
Still loving the battery life on this thing, can only imagine how much more awesome it's going to be on M
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I have a problem with CM and Mokee..The battery drops 2% for time (Instead of 1) very often..And i can do only 3 h of active display..In idle the battery doesn't drop down a lot..It can stay also an hour on 100%, but then when I turn on the screen it drops 3-4%..Can anyone help me to solve this problem?
This is the second full day of usage that I am getting out of my Pixel 2 and the first day of moderate-to-heavy usage. The previous day I was at home, so I did not use it as much and I noticed that the battery life was not too bad. But given that I did not use it intensely, I cannot tell for sure. But today, I noticed significant drain in the battery during my morning commute. As an example, my battery went from 79% to 76-75% in a matter of minutes (about 10 minutes). This was very concerning and made me feel like the battery performance was not really much better than my nearly 2 year old Nexus 5X whose battery has noticeably depleted in capacity.
I don't know if this battery drain has anything to do with poor cellular network connection during my commute as it completely cuts off in many places, so may be I am draining more battery trying to connect to a network. Or may be it is due to using bluetooth earphones. But I want to get a sense of what others are noticing and how I can more carefully test the battery performance to get a clearer understanding about its performance.
Never judge battery life from a single day or two of usage. You'll need at least a week to see if the battery performance remains consistent.
Much better than my iPhone 7 that I switched from. Can't ask for much more than that. (never should have jumped to iphone 6 in the first place)
I certainly get much more battery out of my Xiaomi Mi A1 with Android One (Oreo).
Though 4-6 SOT hours in the Pixel 2 are not that bad, it feels like not enough in comparison to 6-9 SOT hours I get with my other smartphone.
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I get at least a full day if I leave for work fully charged. Much better than iPhone. The best I ever got was 21.5 hours but that was only after having it a week.
crewster said:
I certainly get much more battery out of my Xiaomi Mi A1 with Android One (Oreo).
Though 4-6 SOT hours in the Pixel 2 are not that bad, it feels like not enough in comparison to 6-9 SOT hours I get with my other smartphone.
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what other smartphone? cant imagine any other else getting that SOT except the oneplus 5T.
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what other smartphone? cant imagine any other else getting that SOT except the oneplus 5T.
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Xiaomi Mi A1, comes with built-in Android stock, dual camera...bang for the buck right now, costs like 150-200$. You can check it out on xda, its battery numbers are impressive.
And installing Google Cam makes it perform great even in lowlight conditions, perhaps not very far from Pixel 2...
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I'm getting hardly 5-6 hours of SOT with medium to heavy usage. Battery capacity could've been bigger!
I'm not even getting 2 Hrs of SOT. I've had my Pixel 2 XL for a week now and the battery performance is abysmal. I have the screen brightness set to less than 50% and the phone is not modded or anything out of the ordinary like that. Thinking of formatting and setting up the phone again. This is so annoying.
Pretty crappy IMO. I can get a full workday but thats at min-med use.
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Pretty crappy IMO. I can get a full workday but thats at min-med use.
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What does "min-med" use actually mean? SOT is a flawed metric, but at least gives some standard of reference (though as people use different brightness settings, do different things with their screen on time, have different signal conditions, it's still not easy to meaningfully compare).
FWIW the one time I didn't charge mine overnight it ran for 41 hours, > 6 hours SOT, still 7% left. Of course I'm not playing online games on LTE at full brightness, and I'm sure it wouldn't last close to that if I were, but for my use (as a PDA, phone, browser, a bit of audio streaming and a bit of light gaming) it will reliably last a full day (not workday) with charge to spare. I don't see this phone's battery as a problem at all.
Alright, I gave this a few more days of usage. I am getting around 3.5ish hours of SOT with 30% battery left. Sometimes less, but around the same ballpark. I think I can safely say that this is significantly more battery than my old Nexus 5X, which I had to constantly charge throughout the day and still have issues with depleted battery by the time I reach home. So that's good!
For me the battery life is super, I didn't get such stats with my old OnePlus 3.
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I don't know if this battery drain has anything to do with poor cellular network connection during my commute as it completely cuts off in many places, so may be I am draining more battery trying to connect to a network.
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Poor reception is a HUGE drain on battery. Specifically, modems will try to search for service more agressively when they start nearing their poor signal thresholds. I have a friend who lives in an area that has just enough cell signal to destroy my battery! I always have to put my phone in mode when I'm at her house to save battery!
My battery life on my Pixel 2 is horrible. All radios off, full charge this morning, phone is completely wiped as I am selling it and its down 35% by doing nothing. No wifi, no sim, no apps, just on. Its garbage. That and the stiff buttons is a quick sell-off to me. Its a work phone so I dont really care. Having a much better experience with my moto Z2 play that i now use as a work phone (personal phone is a Note 8).
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My battery life on my Pixel 2 is horrible. All radios off, full charge this morning, phone is completely wiped as I am selling it and its down 35% by doing nothing. No wifi, no sim, no apps, just on. Its garbage. That and the stiff buttons is a quick sell-off to me. Its a work phone so I dont really care. Having a much better experience with my moto Z2 play that i now use as a work phone (personal phone is a Note 8).
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Sounds like a warranty issue. Did you try getting it fixed?
And how can you sell a phone that belongs to your employer?
PuffDaddy_d said:
Sounds like a warranty issue. Did you try getting it fixed?
And how can you sell a phone that belongs to your employer?
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I bought the phone and use it for work.
So 2 weeks with the phone. I absolutely love it, except for this huge problem. Is this normal??:
- It gets very overheated quickly, specially with camera or videocalls.
- Battery life is the worst one I have ever experienced. It will go from 100% to 15% in around 8h with 2,5h SOT. It's insane. Exact same setup with pixel 2 XL, lasts double
Do you think might be a damaged device? I tried ofc clean flash. Both Android 9 and 10 beta. Same issue...
Thank you
I've been having pretty bad battery life myself. Average of 3 to 3.5hrs SoT. Usually need a pick up charge during the day before bed.
Really annoyed cuz I love this phone. I've been trying out OnePlus 7 Pro and S10+. Don't like Samsung, used to love them, but I just hate that UI and their apps they push on you. OnePlus is amazing in terms of everything but the camera, and that is a big thing for me. OnePlus 7 Pro has been really great in performance, battery, everything, but the camera which is pretty mediocre.
I'm returning my OP7 Pro and going back to my Pixel 3. While I love the speed and smoothness of the 7 Pro, the camera is really bad. Too bad to compromise. Returning it and going back to my pixel 3 which also suffers crappy battery, but the camera is still the best
Yeah the battery life is mediocre, you would think they would have added some kernel profiling for such. Pubg eats battery when I play it and it gets so hot it's rather concerning. But on the plus side, it makes my wife put her phone down when she's riding on empty.
I might not be a power user but I get solid 5h SOT with DP3. Sometimes I can reach 6h SOT.
Standy by is around 14-16h, so it last a day.
As I am using DP3, I dont have any custom kernel not even root.
Signal at home sucks, I use wifi. But leaving home gives me the same result. If I stay in a place with good signal I can get even more.
Exactly the same issues I'm having. Overheating might usage and battery drain is horrendous.
Used the s10e with the same issues unfortunately. So went back to the pixel 3 knowing these compromises.
I think you may have a wakelock issue or a bad battery. I am running q beta 3 and still am at ~50 % after 11 hours
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Exactly the same issues I'm having. Overheating might usage and battery drain is horrendous.
Used the s10e with the same issues unfortunately. So went back to the pixel 3 knowing these compromises.
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Do you think the pixel 3 is a good value phone today ?
I can have pixel 3 black in 128go for 400 € so I'm hesitating .....
Did the lasts updates improved battery life ?
Or it is more efficient to change the kernel to improve battery life ?
Thanks for your advices ?
Well after some days I have to say battery improved. It's not dramatic now but still being very weak. I changed location so maybe it's related to signal
For me now the dramatic point is the heating. There must be a bug or something, when you use front camera. It gets extremely hot. Videocalls are totally awful then
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Do you think the pixel 3 is a good value phone today ?
I can have pixel 3 black in 128go for 400 € so I'm hesitating .....
Did the lasts updates improved battery life ?
Or it is more efficient to change the kernel to improve battery life ?
Thanks for your advices ?
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I think the phone is great in all other aspects. I am currently on Android Q beta 3 and the issues are the same from the time of purchase last October.
Regarding using custom kernels, I'm not into unlocking my phones and rooting nowadays so can't help you in that.
However if you are not into heavy gaming or editing, I've heard the 3a lineup performs better in regards to battery life. Might want to check them out before you decide.
I've been with beta for a while. Battery sucks but no overheating. This is the same with the official pie firmware.
I just got used to this and to be honest this happens with previous pixels.
It's an Android feature ?
I'm loving the size, camera and future navigation gesture.
Hi y'all, i have Poco x3 NFC and stock MIUI trash. Bugs around every corner, poor performance poor battery life (5-6 hours SOT), you know what I'm talking about. I want to increase my battery life. Which is the best custom ROM and how many hours of SOT do you get? I need to mention that i will use Google pay and Curve and Netflix sometimes
Descedant OS is good
so i installed pixel experience on my phone a couple of days ago now the problem i am facing is that the phone is using a lot of battery for everything i can get 6 hours of phone on time while just changing apps,i can get about 5 while watching youtube vids i can get about 3 while gaming so how can i increase my battery life now in the pursuit of getting adaptive brightness working on that model they also dropped deep sleep support and btw the phone is about 4 years old with the original battery installed its an rmx 1801 and even the company has stopped producing battery for (no i cannot replace my phone well atleast till next year i am a child) so if anyone can find a battery for it please comment the link (i am from india)
and i hope everyone reading this has a good day