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Mediaserver + SD card = 100% CPU (HELP!!)

Ok this is driving me off the wall. The process called "mediaserver" is using 100% of my CPU time even while the screen is off. It forces my phone to go to max clock the whole time.
When I unmount my sd card (which has music, files, etc) it goes back to 0% instantly and the CPU clocks down to normal. The SECOND I remount it, BAM it goes back to using 100% of my CPU. The battery drain is incredible.
I have googled the issue and there are several single post threads with no response or solution.
Can someone please help me?

whats is your rom and kernel? is it an app? if it is, uninstall it.

zeke1988 said:
whats is your rom and kernel? is it an app? if it is, uninstall it.
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I am having this same problem. Here is my post over on CM forums.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5761-mediaserver-high-cpu-use/
I haven't found anyone that will even comment on the problem...

nopick said:
I am having this same problem. Here is my post over on CM forums.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5761-mediaserver-high-cpu-use/
I haven't found anyone that will even comment on the problem...
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I know!! Just a sea of response-less cries for help.
zeke1988 said:
whats is your rom and kernel? is it an app? if it is, uninstall it.
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It was happening on virtuous and ultimatedroid. And from the above post we can see that it is happening on CM too. It is not app related. Ending everything using a task manager and/or restarting the phone doesn't fix. I did a complete wipe of data/chache/davik before flashing roms.
Simply put, if your sd card has media on it (music, pics, etc), mediaserver will go nuts.
Hoping the awesome people at x-da can help us out!

I just got the 32 GB SD card yesterday and the same thing started happening to me today. I did a factory reset, different roms, back to normal and it still is happening. My verizon extended battery lasted about 5 hours today...and it was unusually hot as well. Does this happen to others on smaller SD cards?

I had this problem a while back. Turns out it was a corrupt movie file. Something vlc played fine, but the media scanning app hated and drained my battery every 3 hours for two days until I figured it out.
Remove all media from your sd card, pics, movies, music and see what happens. Add it back slowly. If that is the problem.
Another potential issue is a corrupt sd card. You can try reformatting it or scanning it for bad sectors, but my guess is that its a bad file.
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Mediaserver is an app not part of the OS so just uninstall it. It hasn't been updated for Froyo anyway judging from whats on the market.

Constant Reboots

need your advice on this, I've just unbox my Galaxy Note few days ago, it keeps rebooting itself, one time I was copying data from the SD card to the other storage in the phone suddenly it reboots. I've had unknown reboots. Now using XXLA4 and seems doesnt solve the issue. Any ideas or suggestions?

Make sure all your applications are licated on internal SD
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Have you tried changing sd cards?
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yep they are all on my internal SD ... any ideas> Thanks

1 Does it happen after you load your applications or on a clean Rom as well? Could be a app that's causing it.
2 the xla 4 install could have been a bad flash. Did you check the MD 5?
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Do one thing just clear your dalvik cache.. i was facing same thing...

so now at the moment my note is in constant reboot mode, don't know if I should let it, I haven't root my devices yet I tried every method available on this homepage but doesnt seem to work at all. I tried installing some games on my note this morning, it failed to download and ever since that it reboots all the time. Any suggestion?
Edit: Now it stops rebooting when I plugged in the USB charger but it says the temperature of the battery is too low or too high and it doesn't charged

tvmaniac36 said:
so now at the moment my note is in constant reboot mode, don't know if I should let it, I haven't root my devices yet I tried every method available on this homepage but doesnt seem to work at all. I tried installing some games on my note this morning, it failed to download and ever since that it reboots all the time. Any suggestion?
Edit: Now it stops rebooting when I plugged in the USB charger but it says the temperature of the battery is too low or too high and it doesn't charged
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welcome to the club, i am in the same boat.
my phone works fine all times without sd card but sometimes goes crazy (restaring / freezing constantly for 7-8h non stop!) with sd card in situ.
some of my apps are on internal 1.9gb memory, some on internal 11gb memory, some on external card. trying to figure out how to force on stock unrooted device to force all apps to internal memory (1.9gb or 11gb) to prevent these issues. or will try new card. my old card works fine on my htc desire. dont know if the htc folders present on sd card are causing soem issues
have tried with apps2sd pro and stock app mnager to move apps to internal 11gb memory. but the phone has a mind of its own and some stay on 1.9gb internal memory some go to 11gb internal memory and some go to external sd card and i cant seem to force moveable apps to internal 11gb memory only instead of sd card as mentioned in the other concurrent thread today on this topic.

Hi,
I also had similar problem like this. It appears that the Android Program at times cannot seem to access the Ext SD card program/s installed and that will cause a reboot and repeated so.
I really do not why this is happening? It will seem to work fine ant reboot when the Ext SD is removed - but those programs installed in the Ext. SD will no longer be accessible.
There is a hidden folder in the Ext. SD ".android_secure" which contain all the programs transferred to that Ext. SD. If you empty this folder of it programs by transferring them to your PC and reinsert the Ext. SD card, it will function normally and you can access your file like photos, videos, music, and ebooks. But you will not be able to access your programs in the Ext. SD.
I had tried un-installing the apps in the Ext SD and re-installing them into Phone memory it will work but it will not transfer to Int. SD (the 11 GB) and keep informing me there is no Ext SD. This of course will eat up all the 1.9 GB of the Phone memory, which is not what I had wanted. Although I still have a lot of memory in the Int. SD (about 8 GB) it will not transfer there, why I am not sure.
Can some of the Android expert please look into this problem and advise. Thank you.

juliano76 said:
Make sure all your applications are licated on internal SD
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Hi,
How do you make sure all the Apps are located in the Internal SD?
I have an Ext SD and some apps are transferred there. I cannot transfer these apps into the Int SD.
I uninstalled the apps and reinstall them without the Ext SD and then try to transfer to Int SD. It will not transfer and a message "you do not have an Ext SD card"
Will appreciate any assistance. Thank you.

I don't have any apps installed on the internal SD nor external SD, I notice this that everytime an app failed to complete (eg loading) it goes to looping reboots. The last one I was playing some game something called mission, cannot remember the game name, it was loading all the time then I decided to switch it off and turn it on again. It goes constant reboot. I need a good phone which doesn't rebooot all the time ...

maniacscorpio said:
Do one thing just clear your dalvik cache.. i was facing same thing...
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Do you think this is worth to try? Since I am planning to go to Samsung today and saw some posts that it has possibility an error on the CPU. I have a couple of friends who also have the Note and nobody has the problem like I do ...
Edit: Oh and I did the factory wipe last night too but it still doing the reboots, finally I plug out the battery, plug it again and leave it for a half an hour then it stops rebooting ...

tvmaniac36 said:
Do you think this is worth to try? Since I am planning to go to Samsung today and saw some posts that it has possibility an error on the CPU. I have a couple of friends who also have the Note and nobody has the problem like I do ...
Edit: Oh and I did the factory wipe last night too but it still doing the reboots, finally I plug out the battery, plug it again and leave it for a half an hour then it stops rebooting ...
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Its seems like you had an issue with leakage current on cpu. Its caused the battery drain fast and heat up. The only solution is to change the main board. Well, this is use to happen on htc phone. Not sure on sammy phone
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tvmaniac36 said:
need your advice on this, I've just unbox my Galaxy Note few days ago, it keeps rebooting itself, one time I was copying data from the SD card to the other storage in the phone suddenly it reboots. I've had unknown reboots. Now using XXLA4 and seems doesnt solve the issue. Any ideas or suggestions?
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yeah my phone also used to reboot after some time... the problem i found was the installation of an app called es file explorer... i disabled the app and it works flawlessly...so some of the app on your phone might be causing you the problem...

naimmkassim said:
Its seems like you had an issue with leakage current on cpu. Its caused the battery drain fast and heat up. The only solution is to change the main board. Well, this is use to happen on htc phone. Not sure on sammy phone
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Well sent the phone back to Samsung, I think this is what happen to me, excited what the result would be from Samsung ..

anyone else seeing media server drain?

So Today I noticed that I have a media server drain. No idea why this started happening out of no where. Anyone else having this issue?

create .nomedia file and put in folders with out any media (pictures, music files)

Full charge to zero overnight. Battery stats just says "media". Wtf. I thought I left this problem behind on my GS2 with cm10...
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blackguy101 said:
So Today I noticed that I have a media server drain. No idea why this started happening out of no where. Anyone else having this issue?
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Yes I had this issue. Reformatting the memory card and restarting fixed it completely for me.

If you have a lot of pictures, you may have to give it a couple of days (no exaggeration) to index all of them. Should be ok afterwards, but will run your battery down in a hurry until its done.
I've tried different sd cards using different file systems and they all gave me trouble. I think the process is buggy...

Install rescan media root it should take care of it.. If you are rooted
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This causes more problems than it solves. By force closing media process, you lose a great deal of functionality (for example your camera pictures will not show in gallery).

blackguy101 said:
So Today I noticed that I have a media server drain. No idea why this started happening out of no where. Anyone else having this issue?
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Check out this thread. It will fix your Media Server problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272594

Grant H said:
Check out this thread. It will fix your Media Server problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272594
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Not true!
I've tried several cards and have reformatted them several times. In my case, the S4 is completely unusable with my media library (about 20GB worth of pics and music).
On a side note, I should point out that my old Moto Defy running CM10 processes the same SD cards with the same content without any problem. This is definitely a bug with the S4!!!

dew.man said:
Not true!
I've tried several cards and have reformatted them several times. In my case, the S4 is completely unusable with my media library (about 20GB worth of pics and music).
On a side note, I should point out that my old Moto Defy running CM10 processes the same SD cards with the same content without any problem. This is definitely a bug with the S4!!!
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Hmmmm.. Well, I tried Did you try the android transfer program to put the music/pictures back on the card after reformat by chance?
Also, are you from White Lake, WI by chance?

Grant H said:
Hmmmm.. Well, I tried Did you try the android transfer program to put the music/pictures back on the card after reformat by chance?
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Interestingly enough, if I transfer the files directly through the phone, it appears to work fine for a period of time. Unmounting and remounting the card, however, causes the "infinite" scan to start over and the phone becomes useless.
Grant H said:
Also, are you from White Lake, WI by chance?
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No, White Lake, MI

[Q] com.samsung.indexservice.service.IndexService is EATING my CPU at 186%

Hi all,
I bought a note 3 LTE (9005) last wednesday in Paris. As usual when I change android phones, I put on the new one all the stuff from the old one. So before even putting the sdcard in it, I put in the Note 3 download directory some pdfs (a hundred of pdfs, each < 20Mb), and other photos (<300Mb in total) coming from the sames places on my previous Note 2.
Then I spotted that my battery was discharging very very quickly, even after the three/four complete charge complete discharge of the battery. In battery settings I then saw that a process called "index service" was using a lot of the battery, in permanence between 32% and 50%.
Then I installed the "CPU Memory Monitor" from the play, which showed to me that the process in question, com.samsung.indexservice.service.IndexService, was in permanence using not less than 186% of cpu...
As soon as I erased all files transfered, all traces of com.samsung.indexservice.service.IndexService disappeared...
I am quite puzzled. I know what com.samsung.indexservice.service.IndexService is in charge of : indexing all files present of the phone, but I don't understand why I have never saw its analogue on 4.1.2 bothering me like that on my previous Note 2 or on my previous S3.
By the way : i put also a sd card, just to see, and the phenomenon occured again, but was even worse, dued to the size of my sandisk micro sd card (64Gb) and the fact that it was a class 6. (By the way, this same micro sd card worked flawlessly with my note 2...)
Even worse : I didn't wait to post on xda to act : I went this afternoon to exchange the note 3 for an other one, and guess what, the same problem occurs... If I can't do something as basic as putting pdfs on the Note 3 without making the file system indexing service crazy, what could I do instead of going for a refund to the samsung store ?...
Any advice ?...
Thx a lot,
Kind Regards,
MEF
PS : specs of the phone are :
Model number : SM-N9005
Android OS version : 4.3
Baseband version : N9005XXUBMI6
Kernel version : 3.4.0-1628120
Build number : JSS15J.N9005XXUBMI7
SELinux status : enforcing

same issue with index service.
is a samsung service needed by my file app (it has a new search function) and i think is needed by s-finder too.
that service writes files in a folder in android/data.
after lot of time (3 hours in my case) service finished indexing and now all is ok.
media service eats cpu too in some occasion...
i have a samsung sd card 64 gb class 10 but the service is active also if you write many files on your internal sd card.
i'm waiting for a method to root without lose the warranty (probably not possible with samsung knox) then I will try to disable it ... or we need to wait some samsung optimization with next firmware
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Thx for your prompt answer !
Oh okay, so you would basically advise the following things (before a solution passing by rooting would be available) : do the 3 cycles discharge charge to set up the battery correctly, and then put all files on the phone, put the sd card in it, plug the phone to its charger, and wait for the indexing service to finish its work ? If so, after it has finished, how many % of battery does it use in baterry setting on your note 3 pls ? (So that I could have at least one benchmark...)
Speaking of rooting : I didn't know that rooting was already available for note 3 (I don't really care about knox & warranty if it is sure that rooting with a custom rom would solve this indexservice problem...), didn't saw any rom except the test roms from beginning of september, but that's another question.
MEF
soloilmeglio said:
same issue with index service.
is a samsung service needed by my file app (it has a new search function) and i think is needed by s-finder too.
that service writes files in a folder in android/data.
after lot of time (3 hours in my case) service finished indexing and now all is ok.
media service eats cpu too in some occasion...
i have a samsung sd card 64 gb class 10 but the service is active also if you write many files on your internal sd card.
i'm waiting for a method to root without lose the warranty (probably not possible with samsung knox) then I will try to disable it ... or we need to wait some samsung optimization with next firmware
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MisesEnForce said:
Thx for your prompt answer !
Oh okay, so you would basically advise the following things (before a solution passing by rooting would be available) : do the 3 cycles discharge charge to set up the battery correctly, and then put all files on the phone, put the sd card in it, plug the phone to its charger, and wait for the indexing service to finish its work ? If so, after it has finished, how many % of battery does it use in baterry setting on your note 3 pls ? (So that I could have at least one benchmark...)
Speaking of rooting : I didn't know that rooting was already available for note 3 (I don't really care about knox & warranty if it is sure that rooting with a custom rom would solve this indexservice problem...), didn't saw any rom except the test roms from beginning of september, but that's another question.
MEF
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when the Note 3 is in stand-by, the indexservice process is in stand-by.
Indexservice has little impact on the battery.
If the file on scan by indexservice is > 200Mb, indexservice abnormal stop

no problems with rooting but warranty will be void (at the moment)
I'm waiting chainfire (the most famous android dev in the world) if he can find a solution... if not I will provide my custom rom (called X-Note, see n7100 and n5100 forum) with finder and related services disabled (anyway hoping in a samsung fix)
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M3r71n0 said:
when the Note 3 is in stand-by, the indexservice process is in stand-by.
Indexservice has little impact on the battery.
If the file on scan by indexservice is > 200Mb, indexservice abnormal stop
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The cap is 200Mb per file, or on the whole set of files ?... Because I don't have no file of that size, but I have the problem nevertheless.
I never did this, but is it possible the debug this indexservice process somehow, I would like to understand how it works ?
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MisesEnForce said:
The cap is 200Mb per file, or on the whole set of files ?... Because I don't have no file of that size, but I have the problem nevertheless.
I never did this, but is it possible the debug this indexservice process somehow, I would like to understand how it works ?
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200Mb per file.
Maybe is also locked for some other reason

soloilmeglio said:
no problems with rooting but warranty will be void (at the moment)
I'm waiting chainfire (the most famous android dev in the world) if he can find a solution... if not I will provide my custom rom (called X-Note, see n7100 and n5100 forum) with finder and related services disabled (anyway hoping in a samsung fix)
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Oh ok, I didn't even knew that rooting was solved already, because I thought official roms weren't yet out. (If you could redirect me to a right place for this (rooting) in pm, I'd be grateful !)
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MisesEnForce said:
Oh ok, I didn't even knew that rooting was solved already, because I thought official roms weren't yet out. (If you could redirect me to a right place for this (rooting) in pm, I'd be grateful !)
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Look in Development section of this forum..
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M3r71n0 said:
when the Note 3 is in stand-by, the indexservice process is in stand-by.
Indexservice has little impact on the battery.
If the file on scan by indexservice is > 200Mb, indexservice abnormal stop
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I have also the indexing issue. After rebooting the phone second time the indexing service started to eat my battery. Battery has come down 20% in one hour..
It also crashes approx every minute when phone is not in standby. I have 64gb microsdxc from Sandisk with all my camera shots, pdfs, videos etc.
Just before the service crashes the phone freezes for 3 to 5 seconds. Pretty annoying feature. Hopefully there will fix soon.
M3r71n0. Where did you found out that indexing will crash when file to be scanned is larger than 200Mb?
Note 3 SM-9005

I had the same issue after the first setup. Phone was didcharging even while charger is plugged in. Reseting and configuring from scratch solved the issue for me.

googhalava said:
I had the same issue after the first setup. Phone was didcharging even while charger is plugged in. Reseting and configuring from scratch solved the issue for me.
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What do you mean by resetting and configuring from scratch ? You meant you passed through recovery mode, wiped out everything, rebooted and reconfigured the phone from scratch ? (Cause I did this and this did not solve the issue for me.) How just factory reset from settings ? Thx
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pamatika said:
I have also the indexing issue. After rebooting the phone second time the indexing service started to eat my battery. Battery has come down 20% in one hour..
It also crashes approx every minute when phone is not in standby. I have 64gb microsdxc from Sandisk with all my camera shots, pdfs, videos etc.
Just before the service crashes the phone freezes for 3 to 5 seconds. Pretty annoying feature. Hopefully there will fix soon.
M3r71n0. Where did you found out that indexing will crash when file to be scanned is larger than 200Mb?
Note 3 SM-9005
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Never had this problem with the battery.
The crash is caused by file >200Mb and other unknown reasons.
I dropped a pdf file ( from 220Mb to 190Mb) and the problem is solved.
The freezes for 3 to 5 seconds is "normal" when indexservice stopped.
Try checking the names and file integrity.
Remove the . in names of the file (not for extension), the problem also may be caused to this.
I have also removed ertain files with strange names, file type html, chm files, exe files, etc..
The link with files> 200Mb was suggested to me on a Japanese forum.

MisesEnForce said:
What do you mean by resetting and configuring from scratch ? You meant you passed through recovery mode, wiped out everything, rebooted and reconfigured the phone from scratch ? (Cause I did this and this did not solve the issue for me.) How just factory reset from settings ? Thx
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Just a factory reset from the settings saved me. Two days with no indexing issue so far.

I have same problem!
I did not find any file >200MB (I had one MP4 but deleted it).
Because it came every view minutes I freezed now S Finder and the service itself with Titanium Backup and will see if it still appears!
p.s.: Factory reset would cost me another day to setup everything again.

fscherz said:
I have same problem!
I did not find any file >200MB (I had one MP4 but deleted it).
Because it came every view minutes I freezed now S Finder and the service itself with Titanium Backup and will see if it still appears!
p.s.: Factory reset would cost me another day to setup everything again.
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delete ALL files in internal and external sd, check, then add files you need time by time checking the service
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Same happened to me for about four hours... and now all is fine ..
The indexing service reminded me of windows vista where the search gave results from within PDF files. i used to leave the computer ON all night and even sometime more than a day ( Gigs of books ) but then the benefit is fast search ..
so if i were you , I would wait a few days ( if replacement warranty allows it ) and then reep the benefits of the indexed search,

fscherz said:
I have same problem!
I did not find any file >200MB (I had one MP4 but deleted it).
Because it came every view minutes I freezed now S Finder and the service itself with Titanium Backup and will see if it still appears!
p.s.: Factory reset would cost me another day to setup everything again.
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Try checking the names and file integrity.
Remove the . in names of the file (not for extension), the problem also may be caused to this.
I have also removed ertain files with strange names, file type html, chm files, exe files, etc..

M3r71n0 said:
Try checking the names and file integrity.
Remove the . in names of the file (not for extension), the problem also may be caused to this.
I have also removed ertain files with strange names, file type html, chm files, exe files, etc..
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This feature is absolute bs. I have a 64gb microsd card full of files I transferred from my Note II and I can't even make a phone call without the phone stuttering and the index service causing my phone to stutter once every 15 seconds.
Frigging samsung and their crappy bloat.

I found out that diactivating Air Commande in Control Tab in Settings for few minutes allows IndexService to finish indexing and solved the problem for me. Please try and confirm
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I think I found a solution to the stupid Android System battery drain...

This is REALLLYYY a PITA but as of right now I'm pretty sure it actually worked. So if your Android System is taking up 25%+ and higher than your screen for taking up battery (in Settings--->Battery stats), then try this. As of right now my screen is #1 and Android System is only at 15%!
**Try this while your charging your phone to 100% to see if it actually worked!!**
1. Download and install Kies3.
2. Copy all contents of your ext SD Card to your computer.
3. Go into Settings-->Scroll down to System and click on Storage.
4. Format your ext SD Card by pressing "Format SD Card".
5. Go into Kies3 and and copy all of your contents back onto your SD Card.
6. Once that process is finished, download SD Scanner.
7. Go into the SD Scanner app and scan the internal storage (default one) and ext SD Card (/storage/extSdCard <-- must be typed exactly like that).
8. Reboot your phone once your phone has hit 100%.
9. See if it worked for you, hope this helps, and if it doesn't then I'm sorry but it worked well for me!

What exactly does this do? Just wondering but thanks for your active posts you have some really helpful stuff here
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timothylockhart said:
What exactly does this do? Just wondering but thanks for your active posts you have some really helpful stuff here
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It made the Android System battery drain go down, and instead of Android System being the #1 battery drainer, screen is!

But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3 - media scanner always running)?

crazymook said:
But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3)?
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This is more what I was asking what cons does this have
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crazymook said:
But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3)?
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It scans ALLL of your media for you (hence why I said to scan internal, then your ext Sd Card). Thus eliminating the need for Android to scan your media.

Pretty sure media scan would still run tho...no? Especially if ure taking pics, adding music, etc etc.

crazymook said:
Pretty sure media scan would still run tho...no? Especially if ure taking pics, adding music, etc etc.
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Yes but if you're like me and have a 32GB EXT SD card and have 28 Gigs worth of stuff on it... Then it deff works and is worth it lol.
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

Well i tried it... Will hope for the best but..... Kies wouldnt let me add any of my files I carry on my SD card like my titanium backup youtube apk or ceberus apk....
only media files...
Also I have heard of people just removing their sd card and getting god like battery maybe we just have junk sd cards? Planning on getting a 32gb micro class 10 soon enough....
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Joe0113 said:
Yes but if you're like me and have a 32GB EXT SD card and have 28 Gigs worth of stuff on it... Then it deff works and is worth it lol.
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So how do you add non multimedia files through kies? what does this sd scanner do? caches it or? Like i dont see how this does anything at all i have heard people talking about removing their micro sd card and getting a huge boost of battery so maybe I just have a junk one planning on getting a micro sd 32gb class 10 soon

Joe0113 said:
This is REALLLYYY a PITA but as of right now I'm pretty sure it actually worked. So if your Android System is taking up 25%+ and higher than your screen for taking up battery (in Settings--->Battery stats), then try this. As of right now my screen is #1 and Android System is only at 15%!
**Try this while your charging your phone to 100% to see if it actually worked!!**
1. Download and install Kies3.
2. Copy all contents of your ext SD Card to your computer.
3. Go into Settings-->Scroll down to System and click on Storage.
4. Format your ext SD Card by pressing "Format SD Card".
5. Go into Kies3 and and copy all of your contents back onto your SD Card.
6. Once that process is finished, download SD Scanner.
7. Go into the SD Scanner app and scan the internal storage (default one) and ext SD Card (/storage/extSdCard <-- must be typed exactly like that).
8. Reboot your phone once your phone has hit 100%.
9. See if it worked for you, hope this helps, and if it doesn't then I'm sorry but it worked well for me!
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Noticed this method of Wipe SD Card in another thread, seemed to have worked for me as well. Now battery drain most from screen.

I'm getting terrible Android System drain as well. I've greenified everything and battery life is noticeably improved, but AS drain is still top battery hog. Guess I'll try removing my SD card and if that works I'll wipe it. Pretty frustrating though that this is an issue
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What are you guys formatting your SD Card to? (what format)

Formatted it to whatever phone formats too... this actually really worked and helped but can I add files to my sd card and such as normal or am o limited now
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I'll try this and report back also. I'm on a Note 3 with the S5 port. It's going to take a long time to move over 50gb of stuff back and fourth though lol

MikeyLee said:
I'll try this and report back also. I'm on a Note 3 with the S5 port. It's going to take a long time to move over 50gb of stuff back and fourth though lol
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Literally took almost 2hrs to move 28 GB worth of stuff... Good luck brotha haha.
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Use usb 3.0 its faster.
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JoshBeach said:
Use usb 3.0 its faster.
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I did -__-
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I'm in the process of moving around 50gb of files from the card to my PC and then will go back tomorrow and do this. It is actually high time that I re-organize all of the thousands of images on my card anyway. I think I'll store them by quarter to keep to only a few thousand per folder. Thanks!

This doesnt work. After you start an app or scan folders, for music player for example, Android OS and Android System are right back at the top

MikeyLee said:
This doesnt work. After you start an app or scan folders, for music player for example, Android OS and Android System are right back at the top
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Worked for me. I'm averaging one day six hrs total use with 5hrs on screen time per charge.
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