Hi
I have had my HD2 for 1 week now. I have noticed that when I have my Wifi connetion and am watching a youtube video, there is still stutter which continues until the video has fully streamed. This is exactly the same problem I had with the touch HD and this lingered until I changed to Duttys 6.5 ROM and then corrected. How do I stop this and will I have to wait for a custom ROM to develop? I find it strang that HTC hae allowed this to hapen twice.
Thanks
I havent noticed any problems with youtube on wifi or 3g. You tried enabling wireless n? ormade sure you dont have like 20 apps open in the background?
Yes, I did no 39 on hints and tweaks.
I get this problem all the time too, especially with windows media player. Even when I am on the tube and its in airoplane mode with 1 or 2 small programs running.
Hi,
I recently came across a problem when listening to music on the DHD on stock rom and the newest OTA. When not listening to music I easily get two days on a single charge. When listening the battery is out of juice in around 11 hours, thats way too fast for me... I found out that a process called "mediaserver" is using around 50% of my battery when listening to music for more than 6 hours. HTC Music only takes around 2%. Is that normal, can the mediaserver be stopped? Already killed all of the media applications and cleared their data, also formated the SD card and put all my music back on. There are 1400 songs on that card, all in mp3 or m4a format, nothing else... 11h is a joke compared to the iPod Touch I had before...
Best regards
Oliver
I would just like to say that an ipod touch does not have cellular processes and hardware to drain the battery further.
Just saying that the comparison made may not be the best.
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Yes, I know that is a bad comparison, but I dont know why the music is draining my battery. The mediaserver seems to be the cause of the problem, but I dont know what it is and what it does. I also dont know how to solve the issue...
Best regards
Oliver
Try using a different music player. The one that is in the rom supports DLNA so it is possible that it tries to share your music with other devices. I have used it to stream music from my pc to my phone, but probably medaserver is the process that streams music from the phone.
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Could it possible be that mediaserver keeps running even when it's not supposed to? I would understand if the mediaserver was running when connected to WiFi and listening to music.
But what do I know? I'm keep using spotify instead of using the built-in player ^^
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Thanks for the replies.
Converted all tracks to mp3 today, so there are no m4a in my playlists anymore. Also renamed some songs with lots of characters, just to make sure everything is fine. Will see if it makes a difference. Are there any recommendations for alternative music players on the DHD?
Regards
Oliver
There is player pro and stock player, rest seem to drain too much battery.
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try Music Mod. i've been using it because the stock music player widget doesn't have a 'previous track' button, and so far it seems to be a better player.
Hi,
tried a different music player yesterday. Sadly, the mediaserver process still needs around 50% of my battery... I really dont know what is causing that problem. Could anyone with a lot of music on the DHD test how much battery the mediaserver needs after playing music for a few hours without pause? Maybe it is normal...
Also, I've read that mediaserver is indexing the sd-card. Maybe there is a corrupt file which causes the problem. How can I narrow it down on specific folders. Can I exclude some folders from indexing?
Best regards
Oliver
Have you tried to listen to your music while phone is in airplane mode?
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Not yet, will try that. Thanks for the hint.
What if the battery lasts longer then, where lies the problem?
Regards
Sadly, activating the flight mode doesnt help. Still drains the battery as much as before...
Any other hints, there must be a solution... A friend of mine tested playback on his DHD, the mediaserver only needs around 10% after a few hours of playback.
I used mine a lots today playing music....a hour and half playing over bluetooth to the car stereo and the way to work then i would say about 12 till 1.30 before dinner and then 3 till about 5.30 play thou exturnal speckers at work...
with a fully charged battery at 04.30 when i left to work till 18.00 when i got to the bed and breakfast and i was down to 68 present battery.
Hi,
thats impressive! Not possible with my DHD. May I ask you how much music you have on your sd-card, any which file types? I feel that there is a corrupted file somewhere in my card, but I dont know how to find it...
Using the hidden battery info tool (*#*#4636#*#*) I found out that the DHD was awake about 80% of the time. That means it doesn't get into sleep mode anymore when listening to music. Also, the back of the phone is getting hotter the longer I listen. Maybe that is the problem...
Mediaserver is a process that is playing back media on android. This includes sound and hardware accelerated video playback. It doesn't actually have anything to do with the internet, its name implies that it "serves media" to Android, to the user, to you.
Kill the mediaserver and you also kill the sound.
Also, it's normal for a phone to not go to sleep when it's playing audio. Something has to feed the mp3 data to the decoder right? In general, phones are not the best for listening to audio since they have to be awake to play it and keeping them awake wastes battery. Keep in mind that an iPod is a music player and has been designed as such so it probably supports a hardware mode to play music where the main processor is not required and can sleep (and not waste battery).
got about 10 albums all mp3, which rom are you using , some manage better then others.
Power management / battery better i mean..
I've had my u8800 for about a month now and in the past two weeks I've noticed an odd performance degredation; Youtube HD videos will now no longer play properly, instead they will stutter, skip and sometimes just won't display anything at all. I've uninstalled the new programs that I've chucked on in the past couple of weeks (I've been trying out a lot of media players) yet youtube is still failing.
Is there any chance one of these media players (V media player, rock media player lite were a few among the number that I tried) have left behind something that is messing with my youtube HD video playback ? Am I going to have to re-flash?
Thanks, William =)
Ps. I'm running B136SP02 Australian update, rooted with Z4root
Sounds like you might have to flash the Rom...Try one of the latest, perhaps 138, you'll notice a lot of improvements.
Thanks - will do =)
Hey guys, i'm new here to S4 coming from S3.
I have a problem.
I used usage timelines to figure out what was draining my battery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.als.usagetimelines&hl=en
and I found out that com.android.providers.security is eating some cpu.
Is anyone else having this issue?
Is it normal to eat around 5%?
Can i do something about it or not?
I'm on tw omega v9 rom and ktooonsez latest kernel.
Thanks.
I used a friend's S4 and i saw the same thing.
Can anyone answer me please?
Mine too but differs alittle !
i also am used to engage with DOWNLOADMANAGER service running in background taking pretty cpu and battery on -both- my phones
this always happens on boot or right after managing my files(rename cut paste etc...)
whats the relationship between file managing and DOWNLOADMANAGER service while being offline ? dose the process trigger the media scanning ? it keeps running for even hours till phone gets warm!
even i myself tested it so when i press he mediascan widget on desktop the same process DOWNLOADMANAGER comes up (not the mediascan process)!
i wonder if the phone has media scan precess at all or not?
(my phones both rooted:Xperia mini GB and Xperia go JB
my cpu monitoring app is usage-timeline
excuse my bad English )
Anybody experiencing this issue?!
nobody Answer?
Running Paranoid Android 3.99, android 4.3.
I do not have google play music installed. No Apollo. I do have mx player and codec installed.
I currently have no movies or music saved on my device. No custom ringtones or notifications.
I've used TiBU to convert some system apps to user apps and then greenified everything that isn't a required system app. Sync is off. I do not have currents installed at all.
I do not know what would be causing this. I'm only getting about 3 hours of screen time, and the second most % of anything shown in battery is mediaserver, right behind screen.
I've downloaded better battery stats and it is showing me that the tablet is going to deep sleep, 81.8% after 15 minutes which seems right about where it should be. Right now I've powered it down and doing a full charge to get a better reading with better battery stats.
I've searched, google and xda and other people have had a similar issue but the fixes they've suggested do not apply to me. As I said earlier, no music files, no movie files, only one picture, no google currents, google now is disabled, no play music, no apollo, only mx player and codec.
Does anyone have any ideas that might help me out? I'm at a complete loss.
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Edit I think I may have found the culprit - A game I recently downloaded called Arc Squadron Redux, after letting the nexus sit for an hour after a full charge mediaserver was nowhere to be found, so I started testing my apps to see if I could find the cause, this happened to be the first one I tested and sure enough, after 10 minutes in the game mediaserver was in my battery list, 3rd this time behind screen and arc squadron... After closing out of the game mediaserver was steadily climbing in the usage percent, and I found arc squadron was showing as a cached process.
I may have to go change my review for that game, or let the devs know what it's doing.
Upon further reading I found this app http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552255 and I thought I would leave it here just in case anyone else was having similar issues.