Our Poco X7 Pro battery life test is now ready

14 January 2025
It's an improvement over the last generation, but perhaps not as good as the battery capacity would make you believe.

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This is exactly why I tell people all the time not to worry about the S25U Ultra. This has the new Mediatek chip and a big battery and still falls flat. Optimization does a lot. One UI 6.1 seems to be awful on my S23 Ultra since AI or circle to search ruined battery life (atleast to some extent), which One UI 7 aswell as the new chip should help improve again. The S23 Ultra wasn't bad at all either, still holding up well to the new oh so amazing phones. Honestly, even with the same 5000 mAh battery, the new chip should help the S35 Ultra to be very competitive

    Anonymous, 14 Jan 2025Stop it with the mediatek SoC is not efficient, geekerwan r... moreClearly something is not right, especially with a battery that big. Either the optimizations are absolute crap, or the chip isn't as efficient as hoped for.

      Anonymous, 14 Jan 2025Stop it with the mediatek SoC is not efficient, geekerwan r... moreEfficient of cpu/Gpu doesn't equal battery life, atleast in Gsmarena test. Call test is more of modem efficient, video streaming is affected by media engine and display Quality, Browsing display/Cpu/Gpu etc

      Batterylife wise Cortex A55 is still best core available with power consumption around 0.1-0.5 Watts.

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        • Anonymous
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        • 14 Jan 2025

        I had the Poco X6 Pro and Poco F6.
        I have now the Poco X7 Pro, which is much more fluide in every aspects, especially while scrolling. I guess that its power needs more energy.

          rizki1, 14 Jan 2025he tests like GSMArena too, there is gaming, stress test, t... moreIf you stress test any soc with cortex X core it will likely lose to soc without X cores, These cortex X use lot of power, that's one thing.

          About youtube you need more details, if software render or hardware render was used, codecs used etc.

          Am not saying GSMARENA or that YouTuber is right but usual it's hard comparing different methodology.

          You can check Phonearena, Notebookcheck etc consistency Xiaomi regressed a lot in battery life, In Phonearena test Redmi note 11 series are still ranking above all poco/redmi released past 3 years.

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            • CbI
            • 14 Jan 2025

            Xiaomi 14 has very good battery life with hyper os 1, screen is slightly smaller and ltpo but also has a much smaller battery. They only optimize it for 1 or 2 phones for global i guess.

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              • Anonymous
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              • 14 Jan 2025

              Stop it with the mediatek SoC is not efficient, geekerwan reviewed it and it's very efficient, actually close to snap 8 gen 3, that's why xiaomi have to buy the exclusivity of the chip otherwise it would be obvious competition do so much better with equivalent hardware.

              Xiaomi is the worst brand for battery life by far, there is no question about it look at the xiaomi 14 ultra there flagship it's sooooo bad.

                Wow, I'm surprised by the result.
                Either the SOC is terrible with energy efficiency, since this is 1st phone with this soc.
                Or Hyper OS is not properly baked.

                With 6000 mah, this result is disastrous.

                  Mediately chips have such poor efficiency

                    Hemedans, 14 Jan 2025What did he test? Did he do video streaming for 16 hours? D... morehe tests like GSMArena too, there is gaming, stress test, tiktok everything but for a few hours.. I don't know, Nord 4 and other phones should get more hours on YouTube if GSMArena gets longer battery but in fact it doesn't... so who would browse and stream for that many hours? well, if there is a phone better battery in browsing, that means it's nothing if gaming can only last for 1 hour... like you once said to me about UFS speed.

                      The culprit are HyperOS, 1,5K screen resolution, and poweful soc?

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Sr6
                        • 14 Jan 2025

                        Just flash custom slim MIUI rom and enjoy blazing fast xiaomi speeds and very long battery times.
                        With custom ROM, xiaomi easily beats all Samsung, apple and pixel devices in every single test.

                          rizki1, 14 Jan 2025Geek Abhishek channel has tested the X7 Pro battery test re... moreWhat did he test? Did he do video streaming for 16 hours? Did he do browsing for 11 hours? Or gaming for 8 hour? Different mechanism yield different results. Gsmarena test is for average user.

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                            PetrovBG, 14 Jan 2025Nah, this would mostly impact standby times. I have removed... moreNot sure, tbh. If you have telemetry/ad services listeners, etc. those will fire up when the corresponding network activity is happening.. e.g. browsing, media streaming incoming,etc.. only the background spyware like location and mic/camera data collection services would impact standby times, imho.

                            So probably a good way to check it is if you can play an offline game. Turn off all radio and see gaming time. Then enable all radio and do the same..
                            If you have a way to sniff wifi traffic you might also catch what is going on background...
                            But it's pointless, we know what is happening, just there is no easy way to fix it

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                              I have expected at least 13-14 hours of battery life for poco x7 pro :(

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                                Distraneurin, 14 Jan 2025Beaten by iPhone 16 with almost 2x smaller battery. Nobody asked, Apple fanboy

                                  PetrovBG, 14 Jan 2025Nah, this would mostly impact standby times. I have removed... morelol, then that’s even worse. Wow, HyperOS is truly junk. Amazing how many people are defending it.

                                    Xiaomi battery life used to be good. What has happened to them? Too many ads in their software..?

                                      potato4k, 14 Jan 2025No. It's probably due to too many telemetries running ... moreNah, this would mostly impact standby times. I have removed telemetry crap via adb and battery life is still the same.

                                        I AM AMAZING, 14 Jan 2025What I think is the issue here is Xiaomi's "optim... moreNo. It's probably due to too many telemetries running in the background.

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