Use Doubletwist on ICS to improve battery life

[sinical]

I have tried texasice, medroid, and BCM all with really poor battery life. With minimal use, I was getting 4-5 hours with minimal use. I tried multiple wipes and calibrated the battery after every flash with no avail. After looking at the battery info I found most of my drain was from music, which was never a problem with CM7.

However, I decided maybe it wasn't ICS that was the issue but the music app itself. (I used both stock and CM music). I decided to try other music players, including winamp, poweramp, and doubletwist. Doubletwist seemed to have the best battery life.

Using the stock and CM players, my battery was draining at 13-15% per hour of playing music, but using double twist it was down to only about 10%. It's a small improvement but since I use my phone as my primary mp3 player, it made a huge difference for me.

If anyone else is having battery problems with the music app, please try doubletwist to confirm this. I want to make sure its not just a coincidence.

 

[GuestK00105]

If battery life is a concern for you as like me i would avoid ICS and stick with gingerbread or play with your cpu settings trying to change min frequency and try different govenors like smartass.
The ICS roms with hwa enabled will always suck the battery life as its using the gpu. Double twist prob doesnt use much cpu power for the eq
Try MIUI, CM7 or im having alot of luck with runny rom v6.

I think im going to skip ICS all together as my battery the way i use it is dead in 5 hrs

 

[sinical]

I think you misunderstood my post. I am not complaining about the battery. Battery life is not a concern for me anymore. I made this thread to ask others having trouble with the music app killing battery to try using doubletwist and confirming or debunking my results. I'm just offering a suggestion based on my experience.

 

[Closed Source Project]

Like previously stated, if you use your N1 as a daily driver, especially with music (like me), then get off ICS. ICS is cool to have but absolutely worthless if you plan on using your phone in the real world. Simple.

 

[sinical]

Once again, I have been using my n1 running ICS as a daily driver, and I have been using it for music. With little to no problems. The battery life is not an issue seeing that right now its very similar to the battery life i had running CM7. The N1 never had spectacular battery life to being with, so i was already adjusted to managing the battery to make it last as long as possible.

For me, the N1 with ICS (I'm using BCM) is fine as a daily driver.

 

[disgustip8ted]

i would try doubletwist for you but im not having that terrible battery youre describing on texasic ics. mine lasts around 13 hours when listening to music with poweramp or subsonic cached tracks.

 

[sinical]

Thanks for the reply. I guess any app works better than the stock app for battery.

 

[behelit]

I find deleting dsp helps

and ICS is fine for daily use, I've had no problems with BCM