Xiaomi Mi4i Gaming Review & Impressions after 24 hrs of usage

**Gaming Experience with Xiaomi Mi 4i**

We started our gaming experience with the Xiaomi Mi 4i by testing it on Modern Combat 5 and Nova 3. We played these games for a couple of minutes to get an idea of how the device handles them. The screen quality was actually very good, with a 1080p display that provided clear visuals. We also noticed that the sound output via the headphone jack was very good.

However, we encountered some lag and drop frames during gameplay, especially in Modern Combat 5. It's worth noting that we were running the device in balance mode, not performance mode. This may have contributed to the lag and throttling issues we experienced. We also noticed that the device would throttle down occasionally, causing laggy moments.

Despite this, we were able to play some casual games like Leo's Fortune without any issues. However, when we moved on to more demanding games like Asphalt 8 and Nova 3, we encountered significant lag and drop frames. The temperatures of the device also started to rise, touching around 44-45°C after extended gaming sessions.

**Testing Nova 3**

We decided to test another popular game, Nova 3, to see how it would perform on the Xiaomi Mi 4i. Again, we were running in balance mode, not performance mode. The experience was quite laggy, with a lot of frame drops and occasional lag. We noticed that the device would throttle down when the action was intense, causing a noticeable delay.

We tested Nova 3 for about 5 minutes to get an idea of its performance. During this time, we saw significant lag and drop frames, especially during intense action sequences. The temperatures of the device also rose significantly, touching around 44-45°C.

**Temperature Analysis**

After testing both games in balance mode, we decided to take a closer look at the temperature readings of the device. We found that the front camera was around 42-43°C, while the back camera was about 44-45°C. These temperatures are slightly higher than expected, considering the device's cooling system.

**Battery Life and UI Performance**

We also noticed some issues with battery life and UI performance. After a full charge, we got around 4 hours of screen time before the battery started to drain significantly. While this is not uncommon for devices in this price range, it's still worth noting.

Additionally, we experienced some UI lag when switching between apps or moving between different screens. This was particularly noticeable when scrolling through the app switcher or switching between different home screens.

**Conclusion**

Based on our experience with the Xiaomi Mi 4i, we can conclude that while the device has some positive aspects, such as good screen quality and a headphone jack, it also has some limitations. The device's performance in balance mode is decent for casual games, but it struggles with more demanding titles like Asphalt 8 and Nova 3.

We would recommend running these games in performance mode to see if they improve the experience. However, we must note that this may come at the cost of higher temperatures and potentially shorter battery life.

Overall, we think that the Xiaomi Mi 4i is a decent option for casual gamers who don't require top-notch performance. However, those looking for more demanding gaming experiences may need to look elsewhere.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is ranit and I have the xiaomi mi4 I with me and in this video we'll be doing the gaming review and I'll also share my Impressions it's been almost 24 hours since I've started using this device so I'll share my thoughts Also regarding that but let's start some gaming and we'll also be testing the temperatures because I've noticed that this device tends to get uh warm pretty quickly I would say so let's start with the gaming and we'll start with Dead Trigger 2 and then quick move to other games so this is Dead Trigger 2 and this uh xiaomi mi4i uh is part by the second generation Snap Dragon 615 chip set it has 2 gigs of RAM and the GPU is the adreno 45 and we know that Snapdragon 615 uh tends to heat up pretty quickly but shami says this is the second generation so let's see if this one also exhibits some heating issues and as you can see it's handling this uh Dead Trigger as of now pretty well and what I really like about this device is uh the screen quality It Sports a 1080p panel and the screen quality is actually very good so it's handling this uh Dead Trigger actually pretty well as you can see no issues so it's handling this game as you can see very well so let's actually move out of this game and move to some other games and uh I'll just get out and I'll just stab this and we'll exit everything else and out of that two gigs we do get about one gig when you kill everything so uh let's move to Leo's Fortune now so this is Leo's Fortune the graphics are actually very good on this game and as you can see it's running at very well very smooth I don't see any lag whatsoever till now yes so looks like you'll have a good experience playing this Leo's Fortune very smooth as you can see I wonder how it works so very smooth uh game play on this Leo's Fortune till now and guys I am in an AC environment uh so the ambient temperatures we'll test it a bit later might be a bit high if you play Outdoors or something like that just want to make that thing very clear but it's handling this Leo's Fortune as you can see very well very smooth game play no issues so you'll have actually a very good experience playing this Leo's Fortune on this device so as you can see it's playing it actually very well uh so let's do one thing let's get out of this game also and let's try some other games and it's been just around 7 minutes since we were gaming uh so let's look at the temperatures and as you can see around the screen it is about the 40° C Mark and here at the back uh again about the 40.5 Celsius uh to around 40° one thing I've noticed with this device and it's very pecular is that even if you do web browsing for just about 5 minutes uh it touches around 41° C that'sit little bit strange and let me actually also show you uh the settings that I'm using and if we go to additional settings and if you go to battery as you can see the power settings I have kept it to balance this is not in performance mode uh so you got to be aware of that in uh in performance mode uh the CPU uh gets full power but in Balance mode it is uh I would say sort of power saving uh but let's continue let's take out this game also from memory and now let's move move to some heavier games like asphal 8 and this is asphal 8 let me actually show you the settings as you can see uh by default it was on the medium Graphics settings so we'll play with that and I'm using the onscreen controls so this is the Iceland level and we'll play this for some time and I'm using the onscreen steerings and I noticed do frames right away yeah a lot of choppiness and animation very high drop frames and this is in medium graphic uh settings mind you guys not at uh High very choppy I hope you are able to see that so looks like it's actually throttling now generally this happens and now I feel a little bit of heat uh near the camera we'll check the temperatures also later on but definitely it is dropping a lot of frames it's simply not that smooth with this asphal 8 though we are at just the uh medium graphic settings not even high sort of disappointing I would say and uh I got this device just yesterday I purchased it while flip cart and I had applied that 800 OD MB update that we got so looks like still they have some performance issue but uh it is actually very much playable I would say it's not like that it's not playable uh so if you have also got this uh me4 I uh would love to know if you're facing some heating issues after about 10 15 minutes of usage the most surprising thing was for me was uh that even with just casual web browsing for about 10 OD minutes uh the temperature was going up to 41 to 42° C which was very surprising anyways uh it has finished this game and it's been 13 minutes since we started gaming uh so as you can see on screen it's around 42 it did touch as you can see 42° C it is between 41 and 42 uh let's look at the back and here again uh about 40 ° C and this is the weird part about this device as you can see 43 it is touching around 43 it Max it registered uh but earlier today uh when I was just downloading some apps via WiFi it touched almost 44.5 de C but again guys I'm in an AC environment uh if you test it Outdoors uh the temperatures will rise a couple of deg Centigrade but let's continue and now what we'll do is let me just swipe this away also everything off memory and let's try Modern Combat 5 and then we'll also test Nova 3 and this is Modern Combat 5 and we'll play this for a couple of minutes and then uh we will also play Nova 3 for some time and see how it handles it I'm going to LV grenade there and again the screen quality is actually very good on this device the 1080p screen also another thing is that the sound output while the headphone jack is also very good anyways let's just kind here and I saw some drop frames there so looks like it's throttling sometimes again guys remember we are in the balance mode uh we are not in the performance mode and again you saw that lag was strange so some hiccups that I am noticing yes it's simply not that very much responsive so looks like it might be throttling it down again you saw that lag so this level is almost done now so let's look at the temperature does not feel that hot but again looks like it was throttling because uh I saw quite a bit of lag yes 42. 43° C here and here at the back again about 43 Dead Touch yes as you can see almost 44° C uh and looks like it was throttling because I saw some lag with this game but uh let's just uh now uh move to Nova 3 and see how it handles it so this is Nova 3 and again as you can see lagginess actually pretty laggy I would say and actually the first level was very very laggy um lot of frame drops so looks like it is actually just uh throttling down at times and due to that we see some lag it's not like the lag is there always so when there is a lot of action I'm noticing quite a bit of lag so it is playing this NOA 3 but again the experience is a bit laggy I would say not that great uh experience we woohoo yeah so it's been about 5 minutes since we were gaming with this NOA 3 let's look at the temperatures and as you can see it's now at 44° C did touch 44 yeah 44.6 and let's look at the back and here also about 45° C so NOA 3 is really pushing it and uh the thing with Nova 3 was that uh I saw a lot of drop frames when we were playing this game so looks like it's throttling uh so guys uh again do remember that uh this gaming session we did in the uh what do you say balance mode not in the performance mode uh so what do I feel about the gaming performance of this device as we have seen as we are in this balanc mode yes it could play many of the Casual games fine like Leo's Fortune and even uh Dead Trigger but when we started uh moving to some heavy games like Asphalt 8 and Modern Combat 5 and even Nova 3 I saw quite a bit of lag uh so I'm not sure if we move to the performance mode will it improve uh but even in this balance mode um after about 15 odd minutes of gaming or so uh especially we started noticing that with Modern Combat and Nova 3 that the temperatures were touching around the 44 to 45° C Mark so I would say yes it heats up with extended gaming if you guys want I again do a review of this device in the what do you say performance mode do let me know uh I'll try to do a gaming review in the performance mode now to talk about my experience with this device over 24 hours I would say the screen quality as I mentioned earlier also is very good it's a very good 1080 panel that they have used also the headphone jack is actually very good and the sound output via that was very nice also it Shi says that it has sunlight uh display and even in direct sunlight it was very easily legible so I would say that works pretty well also in terms of battery life it's too early to uh assess it's been just 24 hours but with the first charge I got uh a screen on time of around 4 odd hours just over 4 hours and it was at 20% so looks like the battery life will be also pretty good but one thing I I have noticed is that as you can see there is quite a bit of UI lag with this device uh even when you switch between the apps and move between the apps so that is one thing that I have noticed uh coming to the cellular call Quality that was also very good so again guys do let me know in the comment section if you would like that I do again a gaming review in the performance mode so that's it for now for this gaming review with the xiaomi mi4i in the balance mode thanks for watching this video this is Ranjit and I hope to see you in my next videohi there this is ranit and I have the xiaomi mi4 I with me and in this video we'll be doing the gaming review and I'll also share my Impressions it's been almost 24 hours since I've started using this device so I'll share my thoughts Also regarding that but let's start some gaming and we'll also be testing the temperatures because I've noticed that this device tends to get uh warm pretty quickly I would say so let's start with the gaming and we'll start with Dead Trigger 2 and then quick move to other games so this is Dead Trigger 2 and this uh xiaomi mi4i uh is part by the second generation Snap Dragon 615 chip set it has 2 gigs of RAM and the GPU is the adreno 45 and we know that Snapdragon 615 uh tends to heat up pretty quickly but shami says this is the second generation so let's see if this one also exhibits some heating issues and as you can see it's handling this uh Dead Trigger as of now pretty well and what I really like about this device is uh the screen quality It Sports a 1080p panel and the screen quality is actually very good so it's handling this uh Dead Trigger actually pretty well as you can see no issues so it's handling this game as you can see very well so let's actually move out of this game and move to some other games and uh I'll just get out and I'll just stab this and we'll exit everything else and out of that two gigs we do get about one gig when you kill everything so uh let's move to Leo's Fortune now so this is Leo's Fortune the graphics are actually very good on this game and as you can see it's running at very well very smooth I don't see any lag whatsoever till now yes so looks like you'll have a good experience playing this Leo's Fortune very smooth as you can see I wonder how it works so very smooth uh game play on this Leo's Fortune till now and guys I am in an AC environment uh so the ambient temperatures we'll test it a bit later might be a bit high if you play Outdoors or something like that just want to make that thing very clear but it's handling this Leo's Fortune as you can see very well very smooth game play no issues so you'll have actually a very good experience playing this Leo's Fortune on this device so as you can see it's playing it actually very well uh so let's do one thing let's get out of this game also and let's try some other games and it's been just around 7 minutes since we were gaming uh so let's look at the temperatures and as you can see around the screen it is about the 40° C Mark and here at the back uh again about the 40.5 Celsius uh to around 40° one thing I've noticed with this device and it's very pecular is that even if you do web browsing for just about 5 minutes uh it touches around 41° C that'sit little bit strange and let me actually also show you uh the settings that I'm using and if we go to additional settings and if you go to battery as you can see the power settings I have kept it to balance this is not in performance mode uh so you got to be aware of that in uh in performance mode uh the CPU uh gets full power but in Balance mode it is uh I would say sort of power saving uh but let's continue let's take out this game also from memory and now let's move move to some heavier games like asphal 8 and this is asphal 8 let me actually show you the settings as you can see uh by default it was on the medium Graphics settings so we'll play with that and I'm using the onscreen controls so this is the Iceland level and we'll play this for some time and I'm using the onscreen steerings and I noticed do frames right away yeah a lot of choppiness and animation very high drop frames and this is in medium graphic uh settings mind you guys not at uh High very choppy I hope you are able to see that so looks like it's actually throttling now generally this happens and now I feel a little bit of heat uh near the camera we'll check the temperatures also later on but definitely it is dropping a lot of frames it's simply not that smooth with this asphal 8 though we are at just the uh medium graphic settings not even high sort of disappointing I would say and uh I got this device just yesterday I purchased it while flip cart and I had applied that 800 OD MB update that we got so looks like still they have some performance issue but uh it is actually very much playable I would say it's not like that it's not playable uh so if you have also got this uh me4 I uh would love to know if you're facing some heating issues after about 10 15 minutes of usage the most surprising thing was for me was uh that even with just casual web browsing for about 10 OD minutes uh the temperature was going up to 41 to 42° C which was very surprising anyways uh it has finished this game and it's been 13 minutes since we started gaming uh so as you can see on screen it's around 42 it did touch as you can see 42° C it is between 41 and 42 uh let's look at the back and here again uh about 40 ° C and this is the weird part about this device as you can see 43 it is touching around 43 it Max it registered uh but earlier today uh when I was just downloading some apps via WiFi it touched almost 44.5 de C but again guys I'm in an AC environment uh if you test it Outdoors uh the temperatures will rise a couple of deg Centigrade but let's continue and now what we'll do is let me just swipe this away also everything off memory and let's try Modern Combat 5 and then we'll also test Nova 3 and this is Modern Combat 5 and we'll play this for a couple of minutes and then uh we will also play Nova 3 for some time and see how it handles it I'm going to LV grenade there and again the screen quality is actually very good on this device the 1080p screen also another thing is that the sound output while the headphone jack is also very good anyways let's just kind here and I saw some drop frames there so looks like it's throttling sometimes again guys remember we are in the balance mode uh we are not in the performance mode and again you saw that lag was strange so some hiccups that I am noticing yes it's simply not that very much responsive so looks like it might be throttling it down again you saw that lag so this level is almost done now so let's look at the temperature does not feel that hot but again looks like it was throttling because uh I saw quite a bit of lag yes 42. 43° C here and here at the back again about 43 Dead Touch yes as you can see almost 44° C uh and looks like it was throttling because I saw some lag with this game but uh let's just uh now uh move to Nova 3 and see how it handles it so this is Nova 3 and again as you can see lagginess actually pretty laggy I would say and actually the first level was very very laggy um lot of frame drops so looks like it is actually just uh throttling down at times and due to that we see some lag it's not like the lag is there always so when there is a lot of action I'm noticing quite a bit of lag so it is playing this NOA 3 but again the experience is a bit laggy I would say not that great uh experience we woohoo yeah so it's been about 5 minutes since we were gaming with this NOA 3 let's look at the temperatures and as you can see it's now at 44° C did touch 44 yeah 44.6 and let's look at the back and here also about 45° C so NOA 3 is really pushing it and uh the thing with Nova 3 was that uh I saw a lot of drop frames when we were playing this game so looks like it's throttling uh so guys uh again do remember that uh this gaming session we did in the uh what do you say balance mode not in the performance mode uh so what do I feel about the gaming performance of this device as we have seen as we are in this balanc mode yes it could play many of the Casual games fine like Leo's Fortune and even uh Dead Trigger but when we started uh moving to some heavy games like Asphalt 8 and Modern Combat 5 and even Nova 3 I saw quite a bit of lag uh so I'm not sure if we move to the performance mode will it improve uh but even in this balance mode um after about 15 odd minutes of gaming or so uh especially we started noticing that with Modern Combat and Nova 3 that the temperatures were touching around the 44 to 45° C Mark so I would say yes it heats up with extended gaming if you guys want I again do a review of this device in the what do you say performance mode do let me know uh I'll try to do a gaming review in the performance mode now to talk about my experience with this device over 24 hours I would say the screen quality as I mentioned earlier also is very good it's a very good 1080 panel that they have used also the headphone jack is actually very good and the sound output via that was very nice also it Shi says that it has sunlight uh display and even in direct sunlight it was very easily legible so I would say that works pretty well also in terms of battery life it's too early to uh assess it's been just 24 hours but with the first charge I got uh a screen on time of around 4 odd hours just over 4 hours and it was at 20% so looks like the battery life will be also pretty good but one thing I I have noticed is that as you can see there is quite a bit of UI lag with this device uh even when you switch between the apps and move between the apps so that is one thing that I have noticed uh coming to the cellular call Quality that was also very good so again guys do let me know in the comment section if you would like that I do again a gaming review in the performance mode so that's it for now for this gaming review with the xiaomi mi4i in the balance mode thanks for watching this video this is Ranjit and I hope to see you in my next video\n"