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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] Hakkinan:
After a few weeks running the beta version and now running the december update battery life has vastly improved, it only drops 2% overnight without using airplane mode.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] DashLightning:
No, I had never even turned it on.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] chalseu:
Try turning on Airplane mode, Battery saver and Adaptive battery. Idk what's Wind Down tho but the grayscale seems to save the battery on Android Pie.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] BlueMoonRising:
It's turned on by default (on mine anyway).
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] gglface:
I often forget to turn wi fi off but it has never caused any battery drain. The phone consumers no more than 1% during 8 hours of standby every night. This phone is cheap but it's battery is amazing

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Those who are facing battery issues can do the following:

1. Disable auto syncing

2. Disable auto wifi scanning

3. Disable "mobile data always on" in developers menu

4. Delete some unneeded apps using adb commands. In particular, RCSService (uceShimService), PAI, Spock, Carrier Services, Feedback and some google bloatware. deleting them via ADB won't affect system partitions and won't affect OTA in any way.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] fasty:
Is that 1% nightly loss with (or without) the measures you describe in 1-5 above?

Since the Pie update, mine is consistently losing about 1% per hour (25% per day) just doing (apparently) nothing (few apps installed to sync). I've tried switching off 4G data, WiFi, Location, but curiously that hardly makes any difference. I'm a bit disappointed in comparison to some older android devices that could go for weeks on standby. I can't make much sense of the percentage numbers in the "battery usage" settings as they don't seem to account for it all by any means. I suppose I can try full flight mode next (all radios off) and see how that affects it.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] gglface:
Sorry to hear you are having this. My phone would consume 4-5% before I did some digging and took the aforementioned measures. Now it only gets 1% (2% on rare occasions) overnight even after updating to Pie. However, SOT has taken a significant hit since the Pie update for to screen brightness being too dim when used below 30%. However there is still no problem with standby mode. Do you have D2W functionality? this might be affecting your battery life
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] vsm20461:
Hello, I'm creating an account in order to give my real-life review of this phone. The previous phones I had were HTC One M8, LG G6.

Standby drain is excellent.

At night, I can loose 1 or 2 percent.

But, I have found that the drain is more important when Wi-Fi is turned on.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] HMMDR27D53-3002:
It only consumes 1% (7% Maximum when I leave WiFi/4G and location turned on) when on standby overnight. Typical for Android phones for me, which is a little bit disappointing considering that it is equipped with 4 Amperes battery.

To compare with, my previous phone (J500H with Bootleggers ROM) did surprisingly better for this, survived doing nothing for a week from 54% to 36% with WiFi turned on (when I just accidentally left it at home while I'm on vacation) and did drain 0-1% overnight doing nothing.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] lucasho2312:
Phone went from 90% to almost shutdown overnight. Gsam reported netmgrd, ipa_ws prevented deep sleep, and Google Play Services have been using body motion sensor for the past 12 hours. I just posted my phone on eBay.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] DMaglaras:
In the beginning battery life was great, close to 4 days. Three years later, it barely makes from morning (100% charged) to evening. Not even a full day....
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Playing Candy Crush for 22 hours straight can take its toll on your battery (and your marriage). Rate this thread to express how the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's battery performs under heavy use. A higher rating indicates that it lasts a long time even when playing games, streaming video and audio, and doing other CPU-intensive activities.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] RFD80M-75679:
Average at its best. No matter how long a screen on time is, say, 9h, it still won't last a day, without charging almost everyday.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] C302:
The heavy usage experience in this device is not pleasant for me. Especially multitasking is not that great when you a couple of tabs open on chrome an several other apps in the background, which use internet connection. But that's just for me; I am a heavy heavy user. For general heavy usage this device is decent.

I use the 3/32 version of this device.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] ht0:
3Ram32Rom Device

MIUI installed (XEU with stock chinese kernel)

I'm travelling often and almost all day screen on, G; maps, earth, chrome netflix, youtube, music play, all day, playing PUBG and watching movies 2 hours or more ;

I fully charged the battery yesterday morning 9 till now it's 02 tomorrow night, it's still 13 percent left,

I've installed magisk, and with smartpack kernel manager I set the low memory killer to very light for multitasking, and ondemand governor at 1900 mhz cpu,

well, I think up on my use daily, MIUI is better than stock, battery and smooth. Thx for the thread
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] marstonpear:
Stock ROM definitely does not provide the best experience. Most I got was about 7.5 hours of screen on time with mostly on Wi-Fi but some Mobile Data and auto brightness. 4000 mAh does perform better with custom ROMs.
[P3600 General] wigglyman:
with my spv m 700 can anyone help :)
[P3600 General] hcall:
you'll have to be more precise if you want someone to answer!!!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Once in a while, when your significant other yells at you, you might use your phone a bit less. Rate this thread to express how the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's battery performs under light use. A higher rating indicates that the device goes a long time when you're using the phone sparingly: no gaming or video/audio streaming, light web browsing, some calling and texts, etc.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] BlueMoonRising:
I'm loving this ridiculous battery and SOC, I am an actual light user anyway but the time since last full charge is just shy of 9 days and I've got over 4 days left. Awesome stuff.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] thorin0815:
Dito that! After I received my phone, I did a full charge and tested SOT for my kind of light usage. Stopped the test after 12:21h SOT (25h after charging) with 19% battery left. ;)

I'm comming from a Moto G4, which even heavily tweaked to be energy efficient hardly ever got more than 6h+ of SOT.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] vsm20461:
Hello, I'm creating an account in order to give my real-life review of this phone. The previous phones I had were HTC One M8, LG G6.

Light use endurance is fantastic.

Phone can last me 3 straight days on battery.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Is the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite as good-looking as you are (despite your receding hairline, adult-onset acne, and massive weight gain)? Rate this thread to express whether you think the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite is attractive. A higher rating indicates that you would even go as far to say that the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite is a beautiful phone.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] vsm20461:
The device looks like a cheap iPhone X from close.

While it doesn't hold a candle to a HTC U12+ or Galaxy Note 9, aesthetics are a matter of personal preference.

From far away, the device looks good.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Rate this thread to express how you think the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite feels in terms of quality. A higher rating indicates that it feels premium and high-quality (attention to detail is high, manufacturing defects don't exist, etc).

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] vsm20461:
The materials are not the best as the left side can make creaky sounds when you press on it.

Obviously can't compare to a flagship device.

I like that there is no glass back, though.

For the price, nothing to complain about.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Please, no "that's what she said" jokes. Rate this thread to express how you think the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite feels in-hand. A higher rating indicates that it's comfortable to hold for long periods of time, even in one hand. Resist the urge to say "TWSS" just now. Seriously.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] DonkeyKonk:
Great for me. I was a big fan of the classic Sony Compacts, and hate the big chunky phones that make up 95% of the market these days.

This is a nice mid way solution, and I find I can fit it in my shirt pocket and use one handed, just.

So for max screen size and still being just about able to use one handed this is the sweet spot for me.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] vsm20461:
The device is a little bit too heavy for me.

One handed use is fine but once you have to do proper work, the device is too big and you will have to use it one handed.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] marstonpear:
Device is a bit on the heavier and larger side for me. The metal back is slippery so slap a case on it. But weight distribution of the internals is amazing.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Are you comfortable in your own skin? Is your phone comfortable in its skin? Rate this thread to express how you deem the skin on the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it adds just the right amount of features, it's visually pleasing, and overall it's additive to the experience. If this is a Nexus phone (you didn't think we hand-wrote all of these prompts, did you?) then use this rating to indicate how the latest version of Android looks to you.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] vsm20461:
Android One / Stock Android.

Nothing to complain about.

I wished we could get rid of the teal accent color and use the pixel blue, without magisk.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] HMMDR27D53-3002:
A stock Android. No OEM skin, very minimal bloatware (mostly from Google apps), no "Antivirus" and non-sense apps, and essentially, no Facebook (or related) pre-installed (almost any Android phones of most major brand HAVE them where I live)!

To me, it's a breath of fresh air.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] AndresX:
Mi A2's Android One is crap, it replaces loads of bloatware with loads of bugs, I can't believe the OS is so bad... Battery doesn't last as long as when it was on Oreo, SD Card always ejecting itself and makes phone reboot the whole time if you have it as internal storage, MTP is SLOW, really SLOW, for 5GB of data it takes 23 hours to pass... and sometimes cancels transfers.

Fingerprint and other things are worse since Pie update, I'm hoping that Xiaomi fix all of this, or the Mi A2 Lite will be my first and last Xiaomi phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] LotR656:
Nonsense. You probably f*cked up something with update or you dropped phone so many times that something is broken inside. MTP is normal for me. 3GB for less than 5 minutes. Phone never ejected SD card by itself. I was on Pie and battery life is little bit worse, but I understand that(it is still in beta, it will be fixed). I get 7h of phone usage on Pie, 8h30min on Oreo. Fingerprint is in fact better on Pie.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] thorin0815:
Bad battery life with Pie?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] AndresX:
Uh... You sure have the Mi A2 Lite? You are talking like you have another phone. I'm not the only one reporting all of these issues, I first thought it was my device but nope, the software is defective since my hardware works without any issue and many people have the same problems as well. I invite to you to read the questions and answers sub forum posts about the FREAKING LATE march update and some post I made there about the problems, there is a eMMC bug, there is a Bluetooth bug with Wi-Fi, there is a battery life problem, there is a SD Card ejecting problem (at least formatted as internal memory)... And no, my phone never dropped, as I wrote up there, this a crappy software issue, not crappy hardware issue.

Yes, the battery is bad.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] cashflow67:
Turn on Adaptive battery. Disable digital wellbeing, action services, files go and other bloatware apps you don't use(like Google keep, google duo etc.) I take 9 or 8 hours SOT from my 6 months old A2 lite and Ivam heavy user. I only don't play games. I use many social apps, WhatsApp, calling, messaging during a whole day. I charge my phone once a day butbmy SOT is very good.

Also I am at Stock Pie. NOT rooted. I just disabled and uninstalled unnecessary apps and services I mentioned above. Do it you will see big difference about battery life and performance.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] AndresX:
I forgot to mention that I was rooted (just to hibernate some apps and try to debloat a bit more the system), I will do a clean install of Pie with the latest patch (March) and report back with your suggestions, thank you!.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] cashflow67:
Be careful debloating your phone. Because some system apps are really vital or provide battery optimizations for new Android 9. Just do what I said and you will see. Also don't use hibernation apps like greenify. Because new Android 9 already has hibernation system in itself
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] AndresX:
After March update, SD Card problem persists, this time I'm not rooted and the OS is clean flashed with locked bootloader.

Fingerprint sometimes recognize my finger and other don't... I just need to try battery and MTP, but I'm dissapointed that the SD Card issues is still there.

If they keep their software bugged like this, I will start calling them "Xiaochong" instead of "Xiaomi".
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] LotR656:
Well there is a confusion. You are on latest march update. I tried only february update or whatever it is called (10.0.4 (I think it was this version).

That is still beta updates, so read across forums before you update ;)
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] AnonymousAL:
How can you say battery is bad with last full charge 2 days ago 6 hours sot and 40% left? What are your expetations to last 2 month sot?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] RFD80M-75679:
Well, I have to take my words back from my old comments here, but, starting from 10.0.10.0 onwards, the OS runs not so smooth, introduced more bugs than it have to be solved, eats MicroSD out of nowhere and on top of that, lazy developments. These really hinders of what should AndroidOne is. Yes, there is minimal bloatware, yet the price to pay is the bugs it introduced and never fixed by lazily stating 'bugs fixed'. :(
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] hossman:
I believe 10 is running really good for me.

Not much bothering me other than I have to turn dark mode off to read a couple things once and awhile. Overall everything works as I expect for the amount invested in this device
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] marstonpear:
Sunlight legibility is alright. Screen goes up to 500 nits (nearly) and it's visible but if you're under direct sunlight, you're gonna have issues with seeing the screen.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] RFD80M-75679:
Great for almost any situation, but the issue starts when you're on situation with high light, especially outside and under the sun. Even the brightness is full, it seems still darker and a bit unclear.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
How well do you know your fifty shades of grey? Rate this thread to express how good the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's display contrast is. A higher rating indicates that black is true black, rather than a very dark gray.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] czeck.page:
RIP ??
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
The Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite has a crazy crisp display. Just kidding, this is automated text so who knows if this screen is any good. So, you be the judge! A higher rating indicates that it's extremely sharp and clear, and that you cannot see pixels with your naked eye.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You don't want to give your significant other yet another reason to yell at you while you're reading XDA in bed. Rate this thread to express what you think of the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's display minimum dimness. A higher rating indicates that the display can get extremely dim, ideal for reading in very dark environments.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] RFD80M-75679:
'Tis good. Not much to say but good/great.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] Deleted member 11092743:
In my opinion, the minimum brightness gets only 2 out of 5 points. Especially in complete darkness it hurts my eyes if I switch on the screen. My Lenovo k3 Note was way more dark.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you call granny, does she keep saying "Huh?! Wut?!" or does the conversation flow pretty well? Rate this thread to express how you feel about the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's call quality. A higher rating indicates that calls are clear and crisp, and that regardless of background noise, you can hear the other party clearly (and with ample volume) and they can hear you.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] na1pir:
So far that I can tell this is probably its greatest weakness. I really do not like that crackling hum or noise when waiting for line to come through. My previous androids (that is htc desire s and lg nexus 5) did not make that noise.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] ConradB:
No problems with that so far.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] lbsilva:
so far so good
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] kitaco:
No ability to call on T-Mobile USA except with spotty GSM. VoLTE appears broken on the two phones I have.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] HMMDR27D53-3002:
So far no problems yet.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Rate this thread to express how you think the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] HoangP05:
I do experience rare wifi drop, where the phone cannot see any wifi for about 15 seconds before get back to normal.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] rionline:
I am not that impressed with wifi neither. Signal is dropping from 2 Bars to Zero and back again. I have not yet had a situation in which i had 1/4 signal strength.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] cdlixucd:
why youtube video quality always open with 480p even if with good connection
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] ema93a:
I am having fast connection for normal use although the connection is terrible when I connect my Plantronics Backseat 500 headphones through Bluetooth. My wifi only supports wifi N.

Other than that range seems good to me.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] BlueMoonRising:
I get the full 36Mbps DL & 9Mbps UL that I get off my wired PC. I'll have to experiment with range.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] shydul:
My Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite wifi signal strength is too poor and couldn't download from play store smoothly how can I over come this problem.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] thorin0815:
You could try a WLAN repeater or stay closer to your router. ;)
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] Bunnysniper44:
That could be due to your carrier restrictions. For example, AT&T can stream 1080p when a certain option is selected/plan is chosen. Metro PCS only streams in 480p I believe.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] HMMDR27D53-3002:
WiFi strength is sometimes spotty if you're on at least my estimation of 12-15 meters away (disconnects and reconnects itself), especially if battery saver is on, the same experience with my previous phone. Otherwise, it's fine.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] moraess:
I work in an internet source and here a link of approximately 30Gb and in all the tests I did in mi a2 lite with all kind of router, it did not exceed 100Mbps both download and upload ... I read in a site that the maximum was 300Mbps but I believe it is false information.

I have a partner that has a redmi note 6 pro and it reaches the maximum 300Mbps
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] marstonpear:
WiFi range and strength is better than an iPhone 7, no issues there.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] savvyyy:
On 2.4ghz I get at most 72mbps but don't expect more out of a 2.4ghz connection.

On 5ghz its a bit disappointing really as I can only do 100mbps.

I know it doesn't feature AC wireless but still disappointing, thought I'd see around 150mbps.

Tried a couple of ROMs and they all perform roughly the same. Crdroid A12 and havocOS A11.

What is your WiFi throughput on 2.4ghz and 5ghz ? What ROM and android version are you using ?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] mortmaru:
I have found the signal not that great.

I tried using two sims both support 4g on two different networks in uk EE and o2.

I went to top of my road which is up a big hill and both services even on old redmi note 2 could max out 2g/3g 4g was also max on ee sim 4g could not be tested for o2 on that phone no b20 support - now on this new ones i only get half bar max 3 quarters.

I my house i always would get on o2 2g/3g max signal redmi note 2 again its now dropped to 3 quarters and ee it keeps trying to connect to 4g with 0 signal

also found gps to be off by around 25+ meters
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] mortmaru:
I am thinking of switching back to old phone the signal is just so bad on this phone its at the point now both my sims are useless in my home which is stupid my old phone didnt even support as many bands as this one yet it has far better signal
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Real Life Review] Xmister:
I think you might have a problem with that phone. If your GPS is 25m off, it can't see enough satellites. If it has a poor reception too, then you either live in a faraday cage, or have a defective phone. I have mine for 2 weeks now, and have great signal (about the same as my 4X or RN3 Pro), with fast and precise GPS.