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My SII battery life issues solved

Well I've solved my issues with battery life on the SII. It may not be a solution for everyone, but for me Tweetdeck was the issue:
http://www.smartphonegurus.com/forums/topic/13669-samsung-galaxy-sii-battery-life-issues-solved/

Oh well, you should have posted in another battery thread instead of starting a new one. It all comes down to certain apps, besides all the android system apps that run in the background. I had problems with Phantom Music Control, which drained my battery like crazy when being in stand-by.

I set Tweetdeck to manual sync a while ago when my battery issues began. I was barely getting 8 hours with almost no use. The culprit in my case turned out to be Qik. I had to download OS Monitor from the market and really watch the activity. Qik was hitting the CPU regularly, despite the fact that it wasn't actually running. I think it must check for new video mail or something in the background.
Anyway, since removing Qik, I'm back to comfortably getting 15 hours with heavy use and over 24 hours with light use. Go figure. I was about ready to switch phones again. It just goes to show that all it takes is one app to ruin your day.

Music apps draining battery

i'm running overcome 2.3.1 and it seems just about every music app i've tried is draining my battery like mad.
google play music will not let my tablet sleep, poweramp has wakelock running all the time and won't let the tablet sleep, cube same deal. i stopped testing there and refuse to use my tablet as a music player no and regulate that to one of my phones - droid charge, which seems to have the problem also. i won't install any music players on my et4g since i'd like to have at least on phone that isn't drained by the end of the day.
this happens with or without widgets on the home screens. any suggestions on a player that won't drain the battery and allow the tablets and phones to sleep?

Same problem here :/
Mediaserver always needs between 50% and 80% battery.
MIUI-Music
Winamp
PlayerPro
MSeiz5

AudioOut_2 wakelock

Anyone else getting this or know how to fix it?
Running aaronpoweruser's cm10
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I get this as well and have been for a while it seems.
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Ups, I get it for my Galaxy Nexus.

I'm having the same wakelock issue on my xoom. Seems that AudioOut_2 is holding partial wakelock ~20% of the time. Someone on google+ said they thought it was related to the clicking sounds with the keyboard and screen on/off, but that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me. Have you found anything else useful?
On my galaxy nexus (also running jelly bean) the time AudioOut_2 occupies is insignificant

I experienced this last week for my N7 and couldn't find any useful post regarding the issue. It was training my battery pretty fast and I find it running for hours often under BetterBattery. It's definitely not the clicking sound as I've disabled all keyboard and screen touch sound since day 1.
After couple of days playing around I was able to find the problem is caused by the game GTA3. When I exit the game, I didn't close it completely and it's still running in the background. As soon as I end the game process, the AudioOut_2 stopped running. It since the AudioOut_2 is associated with games. I notice this process shows up when running numerous games but so far GTA3 is the only one that kept this process running if not exiting completely.
Hope this helps.

I've been getting this on several different ROMs and still haven't figured it out. Not much about it on Google. I have it even when I don't have games installed so not sure what it could be.

i dont have GTA 3 and i still get the wakelocks. on stock and modaco roms. =\ also have keyboard on silent as well as screen off and touch sounds.
anyone got a clue?

well, not necessarily caused by gta. it could be any game or app. my dungeon hunter 3 also triggers audioout_2 process, but when i go back to home screen the process wont be running unlike gta3.

Hello, I have a Galaxy Nexus with a great (5,6%) percentage of AudioOut_2 wakelocks. Never installed GTA3.

I flashed faux kernel this morning and the wakelock is completely gone. Been about 7 hours with no issue
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Any app that uses audio can cause this. Play movie didn't close properly and caused audio out wake lock for me as well as leaving mob atbat runnng . as well as some games. You need to figure out what app didn't close properly that is leaving audio running
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I have this as #1 on my N7 as well, no games or keyboard sounds. I wish bbs listed the app which was responsible.

this is not related with any application AudioOut_2 itself, and it starts only if you open data connection or wifi and never stop again if you not restart the phone without internet. i use nexus s and i have it too.

After doing a bit of investigation, I'm pretty sure this wakelock is lingering after using either MX Player or BS Player. I haven't used either on my current charge and the battery is still at 75% after 1d 20h, with just over 1 hr screen time. The AudioOut_2 wakelock time is only 46 seconds. With media player usage and similar screen on time the wakelock time would be over 30 minutes and the battery would be below 50%.
I don't know enough about how all this works to tell whether it's a problem with the apps themselves or the Android media server. It would be great to get to the bottom of this as I really think it's contributing a great deal to my battery use.

sladflob said:
After doing a bit of investigation, I'm pretty sure this wakelock is lingering after using either MX Player or BS Player. I haven't used either on my current charge and the battery is still at 75% after 1d 20h, with just over 1 hr screen time. The AudioOut_2 wakelock time is only 46 seconds. With media player usage and similar screen on time the wakelock time would be over 30 minutes and the battery would be below 50%.
I don't know enough about how all this works to tell whether it's a problem with the apps themselves or the Android media server. It would be great to get to the bottom of this as I really think it's contributing a great deal to my battery use.
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Had this been confirmed?

Also have it here, about 25 to 40% wakelock.

After cancelling all hiptick sounds and rebooting this seems to be all over for me.
Hope it's still relevent for someone.

16 hours uptime, 2 percent / 20 minutes wakelock audioout_2 ... Feck! I know thats not toooo much but I still hate when this stuff isnt linked to an appropriate app ...

after doing some investigation with betterbatterystats, i kept getting the same wakelocks. I pretty much was able to pin point it by seeing what apps were generally running in the background, then disabling 1 app at a time until I found what was causing mine.

sirgoob said:
after doing some investigation with betterbatterystats, i kept getting the same wakelocks. I pretty much was able to pin point it by seeing what apps were generally running in the background, then disabling 1 app at a time until I found what was causing mine.
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which was...?

mine was dice with buddies, every time a notification came in it would cause a wakelock. i turned off all sound notifications and audioout2 went from 10% down to 2%

[Q] Can't turn off Media Center/Sync

There’s no way to turn it off? Holding it for options.. Nothing. Not even Google play option
Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you.

Any help?

You mean the service that scans for new media on the device? That has nothing to do with sync

This is how the menu normally looks like. [THIS IS NOT MY DEVICE]

Come on guys, this is killing my battery.

what are you talking about? just untick whatever you dont want to sync? media server is seperate from your google stuff.

IINexusII said:
what are you talking about? just untick whatever you dont want to sync? media server is seperate from your google stuff.
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It's the Google Play Music Sync.
techsplurge(dot)com/13494/google-nexus-4-mediaserver-battery-drain-problem-solution/

urhideless said:
It's the Google Play Music Sync.
techsplurge(dot)com/13494/google-nexus-4-mediaserver-battery-drain-problem-solution/
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If you read further down this only is a fix if there is a media server issue if not using a media player...
It seems to be the consensus in the xda community that it media server issue is related to corrupted media files, be it images or music. However I don't think this is the case.
I have the issue only when playing my sd card music from a music player like power amp. It doesn't happen when not using it. I turned off all scanning within the app and it is still happening. I think this is a 4.2 issue... I deleted all of the files on my SD card then resynced and it's still happening! This was not an issue with the same EXACT content on the galaxy nexus. Can anyone help fix battery drain issue!?
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bleys121 said:
If you read further down this only is a fix if there is a media server issue if not using a media player...
It seems to be the consensus in the xda community that it media server issue is related to corrupted media files, be it images or music. However I don't think this is the case.
I have the issue only when playing my sd card music from a music player like power amp. It doesn't happen when not using it. I turned off all scanning within the app and it is still happening. I think this is a 4.2 issue... I deleted all of the files on my SD card then resynced and it's still happening! This was not an issue with the same EXACT content on the galaxy nexus. Can anyone help fix battery drain issue!?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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Could be a poweramp issue if its not optimized for 4.2 so stop using poweramp and try something else. And is it really a battery drain? I have poweramp installed, mediaserver uses about 16% but its had no effect on my battery life. I also didn't have this issue when poweramp wasn't installed and I used google music, mediaserver then was a minimal % but I had the same battery life. I just switched to mixzing and will see if mediaserver is still as active. I'm thinking it's poweramps widget causing the issue.

kzoodroid said:
Could be a poweramp issue if its not optimized for 4.2 so stop using poweramp and try something else. And is it really a battery drain? I have poweramp installed, mediaserver uses about 16% but its had no effect on my battery life. I also didn't have this issue when poweramp wasn't installed and I used google music, mediaserver then was a minimal % but I had the same battery life. I just switched to mixzing and will see if mediaserver is still as active. I'm thinking it's poweramps widget causing the issue.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "is it really draining your battery". It has a higher consumption than screen on battery stats... I've never known battery stats to be incorrect as far as actually draining battery. I don't think you notice it because you might not listen to music as much as I do. I usually listening to it all day on and off at work. Battery is noticeably less when media server issue is rampant.
Also still showing up with Google music as the music player on SD card music.
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bleys121 said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "is it really draining your battery". It has a higher consumption than screen on battery stats... I've never known battery stats to be incorrect as far as actually draining battery. I don't think you notice it because you might not listen to music as much as I do. I usually listening to it all day on and off at work. Battery is noticeably less when media server issue is rampant.
Also still showing up with Google music as the music player on SD card music.
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I listen to music for 2 hours a day while working out, mediaserver never even showed up in my battery stats when I used google music. When I started using poweramp it now it shows over 20%. So in my mind poweramp is the problem and I uninstalled it and am now using mixzing and the percentage of battery mediaserver uses has dropped significantly. It dropped 10% in 4 hours. If I wiped the battery stats I'm sure it would be non-existent again.
And by is it really draining your battery I mean is it really a problem with mediaserver, the service behind all media players, or is it you just play music for such a long time that it would naturally be a big drain on the battery. Just like if you made calls all day you couldn't expect your battery to last over 8 hours.

I was having your problem with all of the ticks gone.
Go into Settings->Data Usage->Menu and tick "Auto-sync data". That will bring back the ticks so you can uncheck whatever you don't want to sync anymore.

Mediaserver seems to be a fairly common complaint for just about every phone. This thread on rootzwiki for the GNex had about the best recommendations as to whats causing it and how to fix it, though I've pretty much seen the same answers in other threads here, this is about the 4th thread someone's started on this topic for the Nexus 4. I turned on show cpu usage in the developer options for a couple minutes and I saw mediaserver popup a number of times, I'm thinking its because I have sounds enabled for just about every thing in the sounds setting section. Anything that has to do with media of any type (videos, pictures, sounds, games, music) will call it up.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/35241-media-server-drain-advice/

Media server: Stay awake

I noticed the battery life on my I9505 has been getting worse recently, even though i've been using it very infrequently, sometimes it's just sat untouched for 4+ hours while i'm working. I looked at the battery stats and while the "screen" is usually at the top, "media server" is usually second, taking anywhere from 10-20% of my battery, when i look into this, it lists "stay awake" as the amount of time the phone has been off charge, plugging the phone in will stop the time counting up but the moment i unplug the phone, the timer continues to count up. Battery stats plus also shows the media server to be keeping the phone awake.
I've removed all my music and also pics + video from the phone as suggested elsewhere with media server problems and corrupt files, but this has had no effect.

mrbish said:
I noticed the battery life on my I9505 has been getting worse recently, even though i've been using it very infrequently, sometimes it's just sat untouched for 4+ hours while i'm working. I looked at the battery stats and while the "screen" is usually at the top, "media server" is usually second, taking anywhere from 10-20% of my battery, when i look into this, it lists "stay awake" as the amount of time the phone has been off charge, plugging the phone in will stop the time counting up but the moment i unplug the phone, the timer continues to count up. Battery stats plus also shows the media server to be keeping the phone awake.
I've removed all my music and also pics + video from the phone as suggested elsewhere with media server problems and corrupt files, but this has had no effect.
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Same here

I have just tried something that may have worked...
I have always tried to stop any Samsung store apps from updating or running, but i read that there was a media scanning issue with samsungs music hub or something, i just let all the samsung apps update through the samsung hub and then rebooted the phone, the media server isn't running any more.
I'm going to use the phone like usual for another day to see if this has actually worked.

I had the same problem today. My phone lasted only 5 hours and media server was on top of the list after listening to music. I think it has to do with Samsung's music app because that's the only time I notice significant battery loss.
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mrbish said:
I noticed the battery life on my I9505 has been getting worse recently, even though i've been using it very infrequently, sometimes it's just sat untouched for 4+ hours while i'm working. I looked at the battery stats and while the "screen" is usually at the top, "media server" is usually second, taking anywhere from 10-20% of my battery, when i look into this, it lists "stay awake" as the amount of time the phone has been off charge, plugging the phone in will stop the time counting up but the moment i unplug the phone, the timer continues to count up. Battery stats plus also shows the media server to be keeping the phone awake.
I've removed all my music and also pics + video from the phone as suggested elsewhere with media server problems and corrupt files, but this has had no effect.
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Do you have an external SD inserted? Such cards can also keep media server (/scanner) running if there is a corrupt file on it. If so, either format the card and/or root the phone and use RescanMediaRoot to disable the media scanner service altogether.

Pfeffernuss said:
Do you have an external SD inserted? Such cards can also keep media server (/scanner) running if there is a corrupt file on it. If so, either format the card and/or root the phone and use RescanMediaRoot to disable the media scanner service altogether.
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No i don't have an external SD. I haven't had the problem today for the first time in about 3 weeks, so i think letting the samsung store update all the apps has fixed it.
Meda scanner stay awake time is 23 miinutes today after 8 hours use, before that, it would have said 8 hours.

Use Greenify and hibernate your music app and see if media server is still appearing in BetterBatteryStats