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[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] RaduG:
Right, so after over two weeks of extensive camera usage, here's a summary of my findings (using the Mi Camera only, not GCAM):

- The main shooter is great. I can't really tell that it doesn't have OIS in good light conditions. In medium to low light, I find that night mode does the job well but you really need to stay still otherwise the image can be blurry. Shooting at 48mp is fantastic. At night though, things get quite ****ty on video because of EIS, in very low light it is useless.

- The wide angle camera is very useful for stills, didn't realise how much you can do with a wide angle until now. However, if you use it to shoot video, the distortion correction doesn't really work as it should and you get very weird things happening on the edges.

- The telephoto shooter is crap but I guess it's not meant to be used on its own to much so can't complain.

- The front shooter is great in my experience, a lot of detail and I wasn't bothered at all by the fixed focus.

- The sound in videos is not as bad as I thought it would be after reading initial impressions. Even in very loud environments (concert) it performed very well.

- I found that the images looked better with saturation set to High in settings.

I'll put together a selection of photos/videos soon so stay tuned.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] dxdiag:
Wow, impressive!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] neoproducciones:
I've just uploaded some photos from this phone to this album (sorry, I've had to remove the album link from this message because I haven't posted 10 messages to XDA yet)

To me, color and dynamic range are amazing, strong enough but more natural than other phones (ie., Honor 10). Anyways, I prefer not very intense HDR and colors, so I guess it's a personal preference.

Main sensor is very, very good, however, I was expecting to get some more detail and sharpness from it: in high contrast situations detail can suffer a bit, and in low light textures can get softer than in H10.

Wideangle sensor and lens are truly amazing, sharper and more useful than I was expecting. As it has 16 mpx, in good light it can get more detail than the standard mode of the main sensor.

Zooming is also great, you can get up to 4x zoom with very decent detail. I haven't tested portrait mode yet.

Overall, Mi 9 has a really good and versatile camera setup, albeit in some situations I have got more detailed pictures while testing Honor 10.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Asapakyou01:
Why mine cant do that. Can u tell me ur secret?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] deckimbal:
The link isn't working anymore!

Can you remake one?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] ndac_todoroki:
I've added some ;)

For ones you can't: Open it with your Google Photos app
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Jt380p:
Are all these pics stock? Hard to tell..

P.s. your other link
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] viper98:
I don't know if this is going to work... But here's a few pictures of my stroll around Toronto last evening

Mix of the stock cam on xiaomi.eu rom (I don't know if there is a difference in quality or if it just has additional features) and gcam

I took the watermark off of some of the stock photos. These are all straight out of the camera. No tweaks anywhere. I haven't even looked at them so I don't know how they look

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ivUrPwo4FukKVnwo6
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] viper98:
Yes I'll try to get some over the weekend

It's a pain to use becuase you have to go in and manually enable the zoom or wide angle in the settings (enabling one disables the other), which is why I didn't do any of those on gcam.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Veinth:
I just bought mi 9 and when i took a photo from very short distance there is a purple circle in the screen. What is that? Is it normal?

Thank you for the answer
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Lil Geeky:
maybe that the focus laser? if you're capturing something reflective
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Veinth:
I tried to upload some pic, but i have some problem with it. Yes its like purple reflextion. Is there a laser focus in mi 9? Because i never had one with my oneplus or iphone. Thanks for your respons btw
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] AcmE85:
Yes it is the Laser AF. The Mi9 has PDAF and Laser AF for lowlight.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] hpto:
Hello. Anyone who came from mi 8, could you confirm if there was a real improvement in photo and video quality? I'm leaving a mi5s and am in doubt between the 2 models. Thankful!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] sallam5010:
Am new to xiaomi phones and always been an HTC fan

My last phone was HTC u12+ and it has one of the best and most underrated camera

Anyways I jumped to the mi9 and I like everything about it , though I have one concern which is I don't know if it's lens quality is bad or my phone is defective

Check the pic attached ,, the camera makes weird hallow to the texts , even the texts are 100% sharp

I feel the focus is always kinda off and the photos are always soft , compared to my u12+

Is this normal ? Or my lens is defective

Any help is appreciated and thank you

Link for full quality

https://photos.app.goo.gl/931qb3GLdP3Fcs1z9
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] serkaru:
Why is battery life so bad on global ROM?

I'm on global ROM 10.2.9.0 and battery life is just terrible. Standby drain is as if the screen was on. I got better battery life on Revolution OS.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] DMart9406:
Do you think this is the thread to ask about it ?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Yerry:
Color temprature between different cameras

Could someone compare the color temprature on green (e.g. grass)

between the tele lens and the main lens.

Make a photo of grass on 1.9x zoom and 2.0 zoom with the stock app.

Compare the colors, what do you see?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] losthero15:
It's because of AI feature. It increases contrast and make letters pop out if it detects a document. Try to turn it off and take another picture.

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[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] redmyth79:
I don't know what to say except it was just released and you probably had ****ty software as it's way beyond that now. The Mi 9 take pictures with the best phones out today.

My Mi 9 destroys my S9+. Also my other top phones like iPhone 8plus and LG V20/V30. The Mi 9 is a very nice piece. It has everything the others offer and more. For all the people saying it's not on the level of a Galaxy S10 I would seriously ask them if they held both and new both sets features etc.. the Xiaomi Mi 9 is more then just on the level. It's ambitious and will a rock solid company for years to come.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] brainscollector:
Main camera is on top one of the best, wide is good, it has a lot of problems with distortion and tele camera is very noisy. So as main sensor is amazing, each other is just good. I was checking s10 camera and it's not so great in comparison, and having on mind it's 2x more expensive it's just overkill. With gcam it's even better
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] brainscollector:
Just couple of shots
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] PriPhaze:
Pro mode?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] redmyth79:
So you know there is a big article out on the EIS on the Mi 9. It infact has better then standard OIS which means it has regular OIS but it has a extra sensor that watches the motion to be more precise and much faster.

Do all the rumors that it does not have OIS and it's EIS by the chip and software is 100% bull****. I will find the link as it was very interesting and that's why the Mi 9 beats every 2019 phone on stabilization!

Before I find it if you go to the comment section of Dxomark on the Mi 9 go towards the very bottom and you will see a guy that says something about those still talking about EIS or no OIS on the Mi 9. Trust me it's got the best OIS there is!

---------- Post added at 03:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:13 AM ----------

It does but more advanced. I will post a article on it soon. I found the article on comments in Dxomark under Mi 9

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Lol funny not close as the Mi 9 smokes the Mi 8 and any 2018 phone and part of 2019 with the right software. I have global EU 10.2.28.0
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Titankahn:
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Lol funny not close as the Mi 9 smokes the Mi 8 and any 2018 phone and part of 2019 with the right software. I have global EU 10.2.28.0[/QUOTE]

Which do you think is the right software? (or combination of software?)

Cheers
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] StilianR:
Actually OIS (optical stabilisation) and EIS (electronic stabilisation) are quite different animals :).

Trust me, I am coming from photography world. Having both is the best scenario. But Xiaomi does have great EIS.

I'm wondering what mode do the people that post photos in the Google Photos Group use? Pro?

I found out that you have to adapt a lot. The 48MP resized to 12MP with slight sharpening in PS gives better result than stock MI camera app mode.

The HDR option (again Mi Camera app) gives slightly better dynamic range, but you loose detail (the grass for example receives the oil painting effect).

Goggle Cam (stock options) is worse than MI in daylight.

For Night photography Google Cam is the best (I use xtreme 6.1 + Makshow 6b11.xml).
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] brandox0:
Hi. What do you think about changing a P30 for a MI 9? what do you recommend me?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] vandal4e:
that's a downgrade in every possible way
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] nienic:
That's right! I have both mi 8 and mi 9. Camera in Mi 8 is much better.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Gokh:
First one is Stock Night mode, second one is Gcam 7.2 Urnyx Night mode

Too bad the stock camera don't have RAW shooting like Gcam on all mode, with some edits on LighRoom they become better (3rd photo)
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Claudio Santos:
Great photos!

Still didn't have time to take some from mine
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Your friends are never going to believe what you did. The only way to prove it to them is with that video you took. Rate this thread to express how videos shot on the Xiaomi Mi 9 come out. A higher rating indicates that videos are smooth (and not choppy) and that auto-focus works very well, and that the camera adjusts quickly to different lighting conditions while recording.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] justficksel:
Coming from a Mi Mix 2S I can not stress enough how great the Video quality is on this Phone. Smooth 60FPS in a 4K Video and very fast and crisp autofocus makes this camera a joy.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] cd993:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kE1YdfFzzhJZKdLAA
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] potblack2win:
The Mi 9 does suffer from judder in 4K 30fps which are a result of missed frames.

This has also been confirmed on dxomark review

Hopefully this can be fixed in a software update
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Gokh:
Yeah, a lot of my 4k 30 fps videos have this problem
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] potblack2win:
We need to hit up the xiaomi forum and get some confirmations on my thread.

https://en.miui.com/thread-6006991-1-1.html

Register and reply back to the thread and give a confirmation that you experience the same issue. This will make them investigate the issue

A video recorded by me from Xiaomi Store in London in 4K 30fps with stabilisation (judder / dropped frames)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYCKvPU-ir4
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] johnnyman25:
I have same issue with my brand new mi9..
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] potblack2win:
For some reason the videos look worse on YouTube then on my 4K Samsung TV. This may due to the way YouTube processes those dropped frames, during its conversion process.

This needs to be fixed as its a big disappointment.

The Snapdragon 855 has more than enough power to handle 4K at 30fps with AI stabilisation but the Mi 9 lack of OIS could be the reason why it struggles during panning
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] RedWave31:
The video is EXTREMELY SHAKY - EIS seems nonexistant.

- Audio is 14/20 (concert recording ok, quieter scenes a bit less nice)

EDIT:

- This is due to limitations on 4K60

- EIS is good on 4K30 - but then there are dropped frames.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Androidzor:
I dislike the EIS implementation of Xiaomi (so called stabilization) on the Mi 9. It crops the image and you loose sharpness over stabilization. If you turn it off you also have a wider view.

My other phone (Mi 9 SE) the EIS is less agressive, so the crop is less perhaps due to the lesser cpu. The actual image looks better because it is sharper, detailed and has a wider view. The problem is that EIS causes judder when panning because the software is not optimized and more judder with lesser cpu. I actually prefer that they implemented the EIS on the Mi 9 with less cropping.

Strange is that I disable stabilization on both Mi 9 and Mi 9 SE but the video is still sharper and more detailed on the Mi 9 SE.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] meroupow:
To be noted that now Gcam supports EIS in 4k 30 fps and 60 fps with much less cropping.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] leledumbo:
The stabilization is not as slider smooth as MIUI cam, though. I'd still prefer to disable EIS and have my gimbal for serious video recording.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] AdrixStrife:
Its excellent actually thanks to the new GCAM mod by urnyx05. It supports 100Mbits 4K 60fps videos with working video stabilization!! Working video stabilization on 4k 60fps is really uncommon. Non of the flagships have it nor even iPhones support it.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] leledumbo:
Actually, many of today's flagship can stabilize 4k@60fps including but not limited to iPhone 11 series, Samsung S20 series, even OPPO Find X2 Pro can do it as well. Xiaomi isn't left behind as Mi 10 series can do it, unfortunately as typical Xiaomi, they don't backport many features to older devices.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] clclcl:
Hi, can you please point out which version of the GCam you're talking about? I've been looking for ways to get at least 1080p 60fps with EIS on my Mi9 but no luck so far.. :(
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] leledumbo:
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-urnyx05/
[Xiaomi Mi 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 Xiaomi Mi 9 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] NightM@re:
my selfies are super soft , I mean the photo turns out okay but I got no details in my face at all .

It's like an oil painting . any ideas ?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] alese13:
Did you turn the "beauty" feature off?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] lubikem:
use a gcam port, problem solved.

Odoslané z MI 9 pomocou Tapatalku
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] leledumbo:
It's great, at least in decent amount of light or more. The details are close to gcam, but gcam can do in low light as well.
[Xiaomi Mi 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 Xiaomi Mi 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.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] ToneLa:
Very very very fast though I haven't taken a 48mp one yet. You won't be disappointed. The processing time is negligible - the whole phone is lightning fast
[Xiaomi Mi 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 Xiaomi Mi 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.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Dyrex2004:
Pretty decent
[Xiaomi Mi 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 Xiaomi Mi 9 can charge. A higher rating indicates that it charges extremely fast.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] dealova2008:
Really want to know what protocol of the optional 27W wired charger (MDY-10-EH)
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] retal_to:
If uou want the info on the Mi 9 power supply. Seems QC4+ but only paid licencing for QC3
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] memocatcher:
So are other 27W chargers (like this: https://www.amazon.de/AUKEY-Ladeger...?ie=UTF8&qid=1552148377&sr=8-1&keywords=PA-Y8) working aswell?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] mNiosu:
If you don't already have one why bother buying it?

For that money you buy the 20W wireless charging pad + cable + original 27W Xiaomi charger set from Ali. - LINK
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] brathaneq:
I charged yesterday, from 1% to 100 % within 61 minutes. Box charger (chineese). Phone was ON, screen was off, I checked the level of charge a couple of times, but I doubt that it would charge quicker without it. I am thinking of checking on a phone OFF, how much will be the difference.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Deleted member 5408779:
Seems OnePlus Dash charging is a lil bit faster.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] VilanovaBlue:
I've got a 27 watt Motorola charger which is £20 quid on Amazon. Much faster than the 1 included in the box. For the money the Xiaomi is virtually flawless.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] fp1707:
It should
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] tomsag:
I've measured the charging with the supplied 18W charger, and (at least mine) charges with 20W total, which I find super. So, with the same 18W charger, MI9 charges about 10% faster than my MI 8.

It takes less than an hour for full charge (from 3%).

So, I think I do not need the (very expensive) 27W one.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] elkorany:
Fast charge
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Mahdian57:
after miui 12 and edl flash there is no fast charging available so tried to check the cable and adaptor.

Interesting! with a Samsung fast charger adaptor my phone didn't charge. . . and stopped working.

so I am confused is it a firmware bug or a faulty adaptor or e.g phone has malfunction or etc?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] Dyrex2004:
My phone takes around 90 minutes with the 18W charger, which is pretty good coming from a P9 Lite without fast charging capabilities at all!
[Xiaomi Mi 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 Xiaomi Mi 9 before depleting the battery.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] dxdiag:
So far, so good.

Excellent battery life with 3.300 mAh - First charge!

7,5 hours SOT and 31 hours standby - playing some games, Instagram, music over spotify, ...
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] dxdiag:
Second charge - a little bit less battery life, because of poor network signal at my work :(

22% left and 4,7 hours SOT, 39 hours standby - bad network signal at work, most surfing with chrome, Instagram, hearing music over spotify, ...
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] phnikola:
Hi can you confirm SoT in hours you get from single charge?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] prolaxnz:
any reason Android is eating up such a large portion of my battery? would it be GPS usage?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] dxdiag:
Yes, tested only with single charge :)
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] phnikola:
Well what is it?

Can you write it?

I only see photos in german.

Thank you
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] dxdiag:
First (single!) charge:

10% left and 7,5 hours SOT, 31 hours standby - playing some games, Instagram, music over spotify, ...

Second (single!) charge:

22% left and 4,7 hours SOT, 39 hours standby - bad network signal at work, surfed mainly with chrome, Instagram, hearing music over spotify, ...
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] baustoff:
1% left; SOT 10,75h; 36,5h StandbyView attachment 4729787

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[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] BrunoSPFC3:
In a single charge?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] dxdiag:
Yes, its possible.

Now, in last charge I had exactly 7h SOT and 37h standby with heavy usuage and bad network (WiFi, LTE, E ...)

Sometimes I get very good SOT about 7h and sometimes only 5h with 35h standby.

From tomorrow I get VoLTE and VoWiFi - I think the battery stats will be better, when I only turn on WiFi @ work and disable mobile connection.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] brainscollector:
For me it's quite average, 7-8h sot.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] doggydog2:
exactly same result here, also first charge.. but now in real life (when moving, different wifis, 3g) it got pretty bad.

- some suspect bluetooth (just turned it off for 1.5hr, and battery stayed completely flat with ETA 6days... hmm we will see)

- some suspect office wifi (which normally poses as a battery saver, also getting bad standby there)

- some suspect EU version 28 (new version will come in 2 days)

all is premature now, will find out how to improve. Some short tests show potential of 6 to 10 days of pure wifi standby (just like 6T), discount some wakelocks and maintenances, and small SOT, would be good for 2days of operation. Someone please make a proper kernel!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] bartosz.wapniews:
I have similar observations, while on mixed mode, I get around 5h sot. This looks like an idle battery drain issue, because if longer I stay with screen on the better the sot result is shaping. I have currently 2h 15m of sot and 82% battery remaining, brilliant result, but for most of the discharged 18% the screen was on

Wysłane z mojego MI 9 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] klanac8901:
Use it like a phone (not only wifi and youtube) its hard to get 5h SOT with 24h sb

Send it back
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] doggydog2:
yep, it's terrible so far even with Naptime and Servicely, and GMS disabler, the only available hacks on nonexisting kernel modification.

11.5hr runtime, 3hours SOT... 25% left. Pretty bad, hardly one day.. Thats why i kept my 6T still configured in case i give up. It used to greet me with 75% after the day...
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] bartosz.wapniews:
26h runtime, 6h 35m SOT, 13% left.

Disconnected from charger yesterday evening. I have disabled all connectivity for night (only LTE was on) to see self discharge and it ate only 2% (from 76% to 74%) during all night. I had 3h SOT yesterday. Today 2 times GPS, multiple YouTube, Tapatalk, Chrome, taking and watching videos and photos. Nothing more. No gaming.

And I'm not using any battery managers

Wysłane z mojego MI 9 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] drc007:
Hi guys, thinking about official Xiaomi ROMs, do you recommend Beta ROM over Stable ROM?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] S.AMU:
Coming from a LG G6 this phone has really great battery life.

On my G6 I charged overnight and in the evening the battery was almost empty again.

Now on the Mi9 I only used Wireless charging (the slow one) and never needed a full battery the last 5 days:

View attachment 4741405

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[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] doggydog2:
Testing in 1hr blocks. Bluetooth off no impact. Wakelock kernel no impact. Naptime, Servicely no impact. Office wifi no impact. Home wifi helps. Already got a 1%/hr one hour block.

Time to real-time record what's happening. I see some maintenance windows during deep doze that burn battery -20%/hr in few minutes. Some Xiaomi horror might be happening in the background. But still outside home the situation is bad.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] brainscollector:
Well, this is kind of record for me
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Real Life Review] brainscollector:
Sorry for double post