Deceptively Powerful 4,000 mAh Battery on the Honor 9X Pro

A friend shared this recently. Personally, yes, I do find the battery so somehow last longer on my Honor phone too. And checkout the link at the end on getting GMS for phones without GMS.

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I bought an Honor 9X Pro recently, and have found the phone to be a great value in a bunch of predictable ways. Not perfect, mind you, but well worth its price. The gaming is top-notch with a tall, bezel-free display, the 48 MP triple-camera meets my needs, and I love the gorgeous light-reflective "X" that flashes on the rear cover.

However, I've been pleasantly surprised by one aspect — how robust the battery life has been. I say surprised, because the 4,000 mAh capacity is certainly respectable, but pales in comparison to some of the other mid-range phones that I was considering.

I picked up the 9X on a business trip to China in August (it's a long story). The other phone I thought about buying, the Mi Max 3, is a model from Xiaomi with a simply massive 5,500 mAh capacity. I opted for the 9X Pro because I liked the look and feel of it more, but was a little concerned that 4,000 mAh would be insufficient as I'm a particularly intensive and… careless user.

I'll get so absorbed in watching an NBA game from start to finish, that I'll fail to notice the almost zeroed-out battery, right as I'm about to meet up with a friend. Other times, I'd simply forget to charge my phone the night before a lengthy road trip.

This has come back to bite me in the past. Once I ran out of juice just as I was landing, on a trip home to see my family. My poor parents spent an hour trying to find me while I was crouched in the corner of an airport Starbucks charging my phone. Fun times.

I've continued to use the 9X Pro as carelessly as my previous phones, and it's yet to have any adverse effect on my daily life.

Last Friday, I was grabbing after-work drinks with a couple of friends and glanced at my phone which read 9% (and the familiar scary red low-battery icon). "Oh great," I thought, "Here we go again." The culprit was a two-hour conference call in the afternoon and some binge-streaming at lunch.

But much to my surprise, that 9% lasted the entire evening. It's not as if I stopped using my phone either. Sure, I kept it on standby for most of the time and activated Power saving mode, but I did make a five-minute call, check my email, and still had enough charge left to hail an Uber at the end of the night without having to suffer the indignity of asking to borrow a stranger's power bank. And given that I was on the other side of town, after midnight, with no easy way to get home after my friends had left, that's no small deal.

Fortunately for me, the "4,000 mAh" spec seriously undersells the battery life on this 9X Pro phone. I have to think that its intelligent functions and chipset interact in such a way to work some optimization magic. I've read that the Kirin 810 on the 9X Pro is one of just a few 7 nm processors available, and that it's substantially more efficient than standard 10 nm processors because of the reduced resistance between transistors.

The 9x definitely has an uncanny ability to milk a limited charge seemingly indefinitely and get me through an entire workday away from home, complete with hours of podcast streaming, occasional gaming, and continuous calling and messaging.

I still have to remember to charge the phone before going to bed, because unlike most flagship Honor phones, the 9X Pro doesn't support lightning-fast charging. Still, given the other features, I'm more than ok with the trade-off.

In addition to Power saving mode, which is a simple switch that adjusts the display settings slightly and limits background apps, but doesn't block messages or notifications, there's a terrific Optimize battery usage function that offers further options that I can choose to implement. I also love the easy-to-read graphs that detail which apps and features consume the most power.

Given all this, I would definitely recommend the battery life on the Honor 9X Pro for normal users, much less for dysfunctional users like myself.

About Installing GMS，I download an APK from internet. Yesterday an India fans made a video for this, I think it is useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/Honor/comments/d90brc/how_to_get_google_apps_gms_onto_a_honor_9x_pro_or/