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[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Ernesto5070:
On new software huawei added software stabilization.

B180

Video Record is a good quality ,nice frame (fps) and is ok.

I off stabilzation to test 60fps 1080 and 4k 30fps and and there is a lot of improvement.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDARoni:
The Honor 9 can produce really nice footage at 1080p with image stabilization. At 4k, the footage is pretty shaky.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the Honor 9 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] venom007:
selfies are great, adequate details plus descent dynamic range
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
Superb selfie quality. Got it to test and the photosmare outstanding.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Docxsido:
My front camera is mediocre and i don't know why? Is it due to the B130 update? Look what a selfie look like, help me please this is ly first time using a honor device and i don't know if this is the real quality or my device has a problem, here 2 selfies one in daylight and the other indoor
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Docxsido:
Please can you post a selfie indoor and one in daylight so i can compere with mine , i think my front camera is really awful
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] zakiwashi:
Oh no! My instagram followers are going to know I bought a mid range phone..... Wish it had a 50megapixel selfie camera!

Sorry for the abuse... Turn off the portrait mode. Its the icon top centre when you switch to selfie mode. It over processes everything.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] SallenKey:
I also have to say that Selfie cam is pretty decent as long as I deactivate portrait modus and Bokeh effect. Beauty effect is ugly and Bokeh does not work seamless with background. Maybe there are some tricks but I guess it is only SW and will probably get optimized in further updates.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Docxsido:
i turned off the portrait mode and the bokeh effect and still looks like a 2MP selfie even in daylight , i think it's a software problem
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] zakiwashi:
I know I am a relic but my first phone had a 0.3megapixel camera so its all good to me.

---------- Post added at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:37 PM ----------

Also, mine is from china, with the chinese rom removed and European rom installed. I haven't had the B130 update pushed to me yet. Think I will steer clear of it. After years of android phones, I have only found incremental updates to break features that were working just fine beforehand and in general, cause serious issues whilst fixing trivial ones.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
I think you got a point here.

With indoor lighting the selfie quality is quite terrible. I rarely take selfie so that doesn't bother me much.

P10 has a 1.9 aperture front camera which should produce a bit better selfie. Honor 9 on the other hand has a 2.0 aperture lens which should explain why it struggled under low lighting conditions.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
Excellent selfies quality....
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Docxsido:
Can you post an indoor selfie please? I think my front camera has a problem
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
what problem you having with your camera?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Docxsido:
Blunt pictures with few details even in daylight. I've tried everything and still the same results. Few people are reporting the same problem. So i want to compare it to other selfies to see. I don't know if it's software or hardware related
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] mobilepriceshop:
Honor 9

Just like the Huawei P10, the Honor 9 features a dual camera setup, which consists of a 20MP monochrome sensor and a 12MP RGB one, each of these behind its own 27mm-equiv. f/2.2 aperture lens. There is also a dual-tone LED flash.This is the same camera setup we saw on the Huawei P10 and Mate 9, minus the Leica branding. This means you won't be getting the proprietary Vivid and Smooth film modes. Manual monochrome mode is not available just like on previous Honors - it is reserved only for the P series, but this is a silver lining we are happy to live with.

While the 20MP and 12MP resolutions don't match, the engineers have come up with an ingenious solution of how to use them and the snappers work just fine in the hybrid modes.

When you're shooting color, the Honor 9 blends the footage from the monochrome camera with the one from the RGB camera with the goal being, you guessed it, to produce better images. The high-res 20MP monochrome camera records luminance data as reportedly, that's where most of the fine detail is, while the lower-res 12MP camera provides the color to go with the detail. That way you can opt for 20MP color photos, a big leap from the 12MP default resolution.

In addition to the Variable Aperture effects, the Honor 9 camera supports Portrait Mode, which combines the Variable Aperture bokeh affect with Beautification, and should offer some nice Portrait shots with bokeh effects. The selfie snapper has been upgraded with f/2.0 lens, and while there isn't a second sensor, Huawei has found a way to create bokeh here as well.

Finally, Huawei introduces Live Photos with this new iteration of the Huawei camera app - it's a short 3s video taken shortly before you've hit the shutter, and it plays when you tap and hold on the image - no 3D Touch required.

The camera interface takes a bit of getting used to, as we've previously noted. There are two panes with options that can be evoked from the left and the right edge of the viewfinder. The left one brings forward the mode selector, while the menu coming from the right edge is the settings menu. The two panes don't just slide out with a simple swipe; you need to practically pull them through half the screen for them to stick, which doesn't always happen on the first try, particularly in landscape.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] itisiryan:
[MENTION=8649755]mobilepriceshop[/MENTION], please stop. You're just copy pasting.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Ernesto5070:
Selfies is a great quality, and looked nice!

8MP (3264X2448) 4:3 Max Quality

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[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDARoni:
The Honor 9 takes some really high quality selfies. Just as good as the Honor 10.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the Honor 9 can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.

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[Honor 9 Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
Lghtning speed right here. But a little blurry.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] iceepyon:
The default camera app is pretty quick to launch.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] SallenKey:
You can even set up the camera app to launch after you press two times in a row the lower volume button. Optional this can also be set to directly trigger a snapshot -> I tested this and took around 1 second for opening app + focus + snapshot. I would rate that as very fast ;)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
Well said bro. ;)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
Super fast..
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] itisiryan:
I use this feature most of the time. :D
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Ernesto5070:
The speed is pretty good, the camera opens quickly and the pictures are quickly satisfied.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Suibian:
Burst mode only takes 1.3s to open
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDARoni:
You can launch very quickly and immediately start taking burst photos.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the Honor 9's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.

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[Honor 9 Real Life Review] venom007:
EMUI5 is bettee than emui4 plus feauture packed, there are aome bloats but can be removed easier, ability to customise the front capacitive buttons is great,also the fingerprint gestures
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
I love it that everything you need is already included.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Software wise, it's good, only some refinements when it comes to notifocation shade
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] gluonyc:
EMUI went a long way since I last tried it on my wifes G7. This version is excellent and I even can have the app drawer which is what I like. Plenty of features, nice colors and options... I don't even feel the need of installing anything else like in previous phones I had!

The fingerprint sensor is awesome! I have 4 fingers saved (2 in each hand) and I turn the phone ON instantly in whatever position I have it.

Great camera too. I didn't try all the features yet, but I already noticed very good features. The selfi camera background blur effect is better than I anticipated! I can see the result right on the screen and make slight changes in position to achieve the perfect result! The speed of focus is great too!

And I think I don't need to speak about how beautiful the phone is. If you think it's beautiful by looking into the online pics of it, when you grab your hands on it than you know the true beauty... I'm speechless! It's the prettiest phone I've touched!
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
Just love emui 5..lets ee what they do with emui 6..
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] itisiryan:
Honor 9 for sure will be a priority for EMUI 8.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] Ernesto5070:
The stock software application is good full and free of bugs and inaccuracies.

There is everything to explain what it is.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDARoni:
The Honor 9 comes with plenty of bloatware and useless apps like "mirror". The included software is pretty bad.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
To power up, you consume Red Bull. But your phone just needs its adaptive fast charger. Rate this thread to express how quickly the Honor 9 can charge. A higher rating indicates that it charges extremely fast.

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[Honor 9 Real Life Review] venom007:
fast charging works fine, gets from 10-40% in just 30mnts
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] OmegaBowser:
Was on classic micro-USB with a Note 3 before... it's a whole new world now, I don't have to charge it every night, but just wait less than an hour in the morning to be fully charged.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] cakerone:
and my times-

19:01-14%

19:19-31%

19:50-58%

20:20-77%

20:35-87%

21:00-100% = 86% for 2hours

My Honor9 charging is litlle bit slow then others and I dont know why?! :/
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
It looks similar to honor 8 when it comes to charging speed
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] critdmg:
My honor 9 takes about 1 hour to get from 3% to 37% with original charger. And the phone was off while charging. Took about 3 hours for 100%. Not even close to promised charging times.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Something is wrong with the charger or the phone, take it back to service center and ask for a replacement
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] critdmg:
I bought it on amazon, so I have to send it to huawei for testing purposes and wait weeks to get it back... There is IFA in Berlin in some weeks, I'll just ask somebody from huawei booth to test another charger first.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
That seems reasonable
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
Very similar charging times with honor 8.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
what is the maximum amp the honor 9 can receive? the p10 support huawei supercharge (5A), does honor 9 support it too?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
It supports Huawei quick charge, I don't know if there's a difference between quick and super charge
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
I found this from hihonor website

unfortunately only 2A maximum, just like honor 8. with huawei supercharge you could charge the phone at 5A. but then, as long as it can fully charge the battery within 90 minutes, thats considered fast charge for me.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
It is still fast, it is enough for me
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] itisiryan:
A little below 2 hours.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
Anyone ever tried charging this phone using Huawei SuperCharge that charges at 4.5A/5A?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] itisiryan:
I haven't but I'm pretty sure the phone will just reduce the current to 2A for safety.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
I had my moto x play for 2 years and I charged it everyday at 2.4A (0-100% in 100 minutes). before I sold it off it still getting 6 hours SOT, 8 hours when it was brand new.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
original charger only outputs 1A maximum. I used a 3A QC2.0 charger and it charged the phone at 2.4A max using a 4 years old cable.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
and good cable too. the cable I used was from my old (still works) atrix 2. bought in 2011 and it already support fast charging.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Honor 9 before depleting the battery.

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[Honor 9 Real Life Review] venom007:
great device, get 5hrs of SOT under moderate usage
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] xylakant:
Wow, 8.5h sot is a lot! Maybe I need to check the battery guide out. On the other hand I was playing with the Honor 9 all day because I have it the second day and got 7 hours sot with 5% left. More than enough for me normally!
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
So, how does it compare to honor 8, is the additional 200mAh makes any noticeable difference?!
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
That's all I need to know :)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] SallenKey:
I think the battery life of the Honor 9 is ok but could be better. I am used to Samsung devices with OLED display technology where you get better SOTs. In my case with my Honor 9 I get around 7 hrs SOT and 1.5 days of usage without charging (with some battery tweaks and screen brighness to 50%). In comparision with my old Galaxy A3 I could reach easily 2 days which was perfect.

If the Honor 9 would have OLED display it would be amazing. Maybe the next Honor will get one, then I definately would buy again.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
That's great, is it heavy use or moderate?!
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] SallenKey:
I would say moderate use. I don't play any 3D games with it. I mainly use Whatsapp, email pushs (4 accounts), quiz apps and YouTube.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Ok, thank you :)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] SallenKey:
Nearly all of your tweaks according https://xdaforums.com/honor-9/how-to/guide-battery-life-nougat-honor-8-t3631748 with synchronization on

;):good:
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] SallenKey:
Sounds interesting. I don't have any experience with Greenify but 10 % drop sounds less than normal. Which screen brightness do you use? In chrome do you also use it in data save mode?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] SallenKey:
Yes I use data saver in Chrome. I think it does a good job and it even tells you how much data it saves (in percent). For me it is around 15-25% less data for different websites. Less data exchange means also less battery drop and faster site loading. I would recommend it.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] :
Good to know that I have waited and not installed the B130 update yet - I am still with B100. When I now check at System Update, I don't find the update anymore. I guess Honor has removed the update? :confused:
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] :
From what I read, yes it did remove it (mainly because it found a bug or something)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
My honor 9 only gets about max. 4 hours of screen time with battery saving on and it doesn't last me a day with average use. I play one game but it's not a heavy one (clash of clans) but only for about max. 30min/day. My battery even drains faster than my galaxy j5 2015 (who is 2 years old) which is dissapointing. I lose about 5-8% battery for Facebooking for 10minutes.

Is there something wrong with my device or is it just my usage?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
It's still a new device, lots are complaining about battery.

It should get better with updates
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
STF-L09
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
I get the same thing with my Honor 9 with the same model name. About 4-4.5 hours screen time when doing no power intensive task what so ever. No games. Just some web browsing using Chrome and always using Huawei Battery optimizer with minimal amount of apps running in the background. Location services and accounts syncing is turned off :confused: Really happy with everything else about the device..
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
What should we do with our device?

Should we just wait for updates?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
I'm happy with the rest of the phone, so I'll keep mine. I just think it's a shame that the battery life isn't better than this on my device, but maybe it can get better with future updates.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
I mean, I can return the phone and get a new one which is also a honor 9 if I can prove it is a manufacturing error.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
I've got 2u46min screen on time today with 36% left and battery saving on.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
I get similar result which isn't great. I think my almost 2 year old Sony Xperia Z5 Compact had better screen on time... :/
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Trust, don't use the battery saver mode, and you'll get better SOT :)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
Today it seems to be quite better, have already 1,5hours of SOT and with 84% left. I installed greenyfy yesterday. That might be why I get better results.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
That would be strange, as the battery saver mode only does things that would logically improve the battery life (limits background data etc). But I can try that.

Thanks for info. I have bought Greenify and used to use it, but was afraid to use it now because people have been reporting that it has the opposite effect (draining the battery) in Android 7. But maybe that isn't true on this device and could be worth trying out :good:
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
No, greenify is absolutely worth it :) especially the force dose mode
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
I emailed the shop and they told me to turn the phone in to do some tests with the battery. The people who get 7-8 hours SOT here which model number do they have?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] minio.cz:
For me it was today 4 hours and 8 minutes sot and 11 hours and 45 minutes with 9% of battery left. That includes 3 hours of navigation, 1.5 hour of music streaming over 4G and 2.5 hours of music from device through bluetooth. Bluetooth, GPS, viber, what's up, wifi/data constantly on and no battery saver. It does not look that bad to me.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
It is absolutely good, given 4G was on and wifi also plus 3 hours of navigation, I get 6h of SOT with medium usage (including Youtube for at least 3h and some games and the rest is browsing the web and chatting)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
I still only get 4-4.5 hours of SOT with light usage (web browsing and facebooking, no games or streaming videos)..
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Nothing left to do, ask for a replacement :)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
I can't see how it could be anything wong with the device itself. I don't think it's a hardware issue. And unless it's broken, I'm not sure I could replace it.

I saw there was a new software update available for the phone, maybe that can make things better.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Try and tell us :)
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
I don't know if this is good or not (see attached screenshots). But it's with very light usage. No gaming or video streaming. Just browsing the web with Chrome, using calendar and notes. Screen brightness set to Auto and power saving mode is on.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
It's great now, I thought it could be worst.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
No other Honor 9 owners who would like to share their screen on time?
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
It should get better with time.

This happens to all devices at the beginning
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] simonwela:
For me, it seems to be improving :good: I'm now positive that there's nothing wrong with my phone, and I'm completely OK with the SOT I'm getting. It's lasting at least one day for me and I like the quick charging time.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] theorlyowl:
I got the Honor 9 for 9 days now,

screenshot shows over 6h sot with 29% battery left. I am really amazed. This is the best smartphone i ever used (and i used alot of smartphones, changing every couple of months, but this will have an end now)

Wifi is on 100% of the time, i have 1 sim inserted, brightness on auto, about 4 hours of the sot is from watching netflix, rest is regular usage e.g. browsing, youtube, whatsapp, email sync every 30 minutes and some matches of hearthstone.

Also bluetooth is active 100% of the time, to be connected to the honor band 3 that came with the device.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] theorlyowl:
stf-l09c432b130
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] theorlyowl:
These are my actual screenshots from last night.

I dont know why its so good. Ive had a Samsung S8 before and i got maximum 4,5 hours sot with same usage, minus the permanent bluetooth.

I dont even use any power saving options.

Maybe it is so good because i dont use the facebook app, which is a battery-hog :o
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
That is impressive :) :good:
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
I installed the newest firmware update b130, the battery tells me (with 90% left) I only have 12 hours of stand by usage left.. Before this was about 22 hours. The battery seems to drain faster then even before. I don't think I'll hit 3 hours sot today..
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Just wait for 2 or 3 days and see if there's any improvement
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
Updates usually does that. If it's still not improved maybe in a week, you can try a factory reset.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Impressive :D
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] DJiredge:
5hours and 15minuten SOT today with quite heavy using. The phone still drains alot in stand by so using te battery for 2 days is no option. It drains about 25% over night. Draining is caused by the system and receiving signal. (Wifi doesn't use too much battery). So it can be alot more optimized.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
based on the extensive review by Anandtech, somehow the kirin 960 chip (both cpu and gpu) is less efficient than its predecessor.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Yes this is true, I saw many comapraisons of Honor 8 pro with other flagships, and it lost battery % more than others with the same test, even if it have the biggest battery
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
8 pro has much bigger screen with quad hd resolution so thats understandable.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] HelenBlogger:
Good device!
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Given the fact that it was compared with the galaxy s8 (bigger screen, smaller battery and same resolution) that's a big difference
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] pijes:
kirin 960 might be as powerful as the snapdragon 835 but it's not as efficient. s8 even beat the iphone 7 plus on battery endurance by quite a margin though it only has extra 100mAh more.
[Honor 9 Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Yes, this confirms your point of kirin 960 by way less battery efficient