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mediaserver is killing my battery!

Mediaserver killing anyone else battery? Media server is is working while my phone is idle.

Better Battery Stats and figure out which program. Its something you loaded 100% sure... Start uninstall till you find out which one.

Are you playing music?
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tvp480 said:
Mediaserver killing anyone else battery? Media server is is working while my phone is idle.
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I have been in the habit since my S2 LTE i727 of clearing out my background apps. With the S4, I hold down the home button which will show all current apps, click on the icon at the right (three lines with an X). This will kill the apps you last run and should help.

rsarwar said:
I have been in the habit since my S2 LTE i727 of clearing out my background apps. With the S4, I hold down the home button which will show all current apps, click on the icon at the right (three lines with an X). This will kill the apps you last run and should help.
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This usually doesn't kill the background process. I had issues when I first got the phone with Google services hogging battery. Used Gsam battery to figure out what is running and then you can disable whatever you don't need. But first you have to figure out what exactly is using the battery.
I thought I read somewhere that if your SD card is bad and you are playing media off of it, it was causing something to stay awake and eat battery. Though, I could have just imagined that???

hamzer11 said:
This usually doesn't kill the background process. I had issues when I first got the phone with Google services hogging battery. Used Gsam battery to figure out what is running and then you can disable whatever you don't need. But first you have to figure out what exactly is using the battery.
I thought I read somewhere that if your SD card is bad and you are playing media off of it, it was causing something to stay awake and eat battery. Though, I could have just imagined that???
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I read about the SD card issue as well. I had issues initially with Google Maps eating battery, not as bad as some have reported but still it bothered me. Media Services running was a bit of a pain as well. Then I read someone mentioned that a factory reset should be done, so then I backup what little I had and did the reset. Now, the phone is much better than before along with me doing the home button, removing apps thing .. battery easily goes for 2.5 days (data usage via LTE and wifi on when needed and gaming / music) I also turn on airplane mode at night. My SD card is a 16gb Class 10 Sandisk which previously used on my S2 LTE i727 from Rogers which I formatted prior to using on the S4.
Hope my little tid bit helps

Mediaserver is a biotch. If you have a bad Media file on your card the phone looks for a way to decode whatever .ext (extension) the media file has and will continue to do so until it finds the correct decoder. When you have a bad file mediaserver continues to loop over and over until you get rid of that file. Best bet is to back up all your stuff onto your pc and format the card. Then re-load the card and this should rid of your mediaserver drain.

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[ISSUE RESOLVED] Media Battery Drain -.-

All we have always heard about the "media server" draining battery bug on S3/Note 2...
Well, i never suffered of this bug... but today my phone wake up with media being on top of the battery panel and being always active...
My rom is XDME6
what shall I do? Any other with that issue?

u probably need to use better battery stats to check first.
1) It could be due to Corrupted SD card , either the songs or pictures.
- My personal experience for this. My SD card when i check number of files, it shows 900, however, when i check i only have 700 mp3.
200 extra hidden files are creating problem. I formatted the card and recopy the mp3, issue resolve
Or it could a new App you have installed, it doesnt shut down properly leading to wakelock
- I too have this issue, after i installed one game, i realise this issue. (probably coz i play the game with max volume )
anyway in the end, i greenify the game, issue resolved.

I too experianced this recently. But after searching a bit I understood that the problem was in my 32gb external SD. So I copied everything in my sd to my PC and formatted it. Then put the only the important files back. It takes sometime but it's worthy. And now I'm having superb battery life
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I experienced this when I had it plugged from my phone micro-USB to built-in USB port in the car.
It turns out the car was constantly looking through my phone to browse for music and show on the dash. Once I stopped plugging it into the car, I no longer saw it.

Cauchon said:
I experienced this when I had it plugged from my phone micro-USB to built-in USB port in the car.
It turns out the car was constantly looking through my phone to browse for music and show on the dash. Once I stopped plugging it into the car, I no longer saw it.
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The problem is REALLY SERIOUS.
MicroSD unmounted. 4 cores at 100% .... process android.media 84% cpu usage...

OK PROBLEM FIXED
:victory::victory::victory::victory::victory:
It was my fault!
On formatting and restoring my old settings (upgrading the rom) I copied the EA Real Racing 3 data folder on the wrong directory :laugh:
So the media scanner was going crazy for this..... :silly:

[Q] Batter Drain When Not Using N10

I am not sure if this is a legit complaint, but sometimes I don't use my N10 for a few days and my tablet will be completely drained. I really only use my tablet for some general browsing/emails/videos. I generally turn off all automatic updates/notifications/etc as I know I may go days between use and want to conserve as much battery life as possible.
With that said I have noticed lately that my entire battery will drain after 3-5 days even if I am not using. Is that just the case? Or should I expect to not lose too much battery when inactive. I looked and 90% of the batter drain was the Android OS.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
The same problem just happen to me. I've fully charged my tab yeaster day night and I found her with only 14% left. Didn't use it the last 23 hours.
WTF!
I've attached a screenshot

admiralwilly said:
Hi,
The same problem just happen to me. I've fully charged my tab yeaster day night and I found her with only 14% left. Didn't use it the last 23 hours.
WTF!
I've attached a screenshot
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When your N10 is sleeping, you still have several things happening such as looking for updates, synchronizing RSS feeds (like your greader), WIFI connection and communication. By looking at the programs that consume the most battery during those times, you can start tackling them 1 by 1. There are a few apps that will help with battery life and to reduce drain. You can also try turning WIFI off when not in use and you don't want updates. You can also change your WIFI - Advanced settings to Keep WIFI on during sleep only when you are plugged in. You can google battery life during sleeps as there are lots of threads about this topic, which is more Android related than N10.

Just like SmokinCharger said there are other apps running, try turning off Sync initially and don't forget to turn off WiFi, this may save a little your battery, if it doesn't try uninstalling some apps that may cause this, like Facebook.
"This Story Ends Where It Began" - Octavarium (Dream Theater)
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admiralwilly said:
Hi,
The same problem just happen to me. I've fully charged my tab yeaster day night and I found her with only 14% left. Didn't use it the last 23 hours.
WTF!
I've attached a screenshot
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That graph looks exactly like a wakelock going on all the time and your tablet never actually sleeps. OP probably has the exact same problem.
My own personal Nexus 10 will lose about 1% battery every 20 days when sleeping.

Thanks for the help. I really do t use that many apps and don't have Facebook. I have attached some pics. Media server is using all my battery? I even turned my wifi off while sleeping.
Any other ideas?

seagood3 said:
Thanks for the help. I really do t use that many apps and don't have Facebook. I have attached some pics. Media server is using all my battery? I even turned my wifi off while sleeping.
Any other ideas?
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Do you have your N10 set as a media server? If not, media server could be just looking for changes in your N10 in order to have media available - i.e. downloaded a jpg and to show up in Gallery. I believe there is a setting to not allow it to auto detect, but I don't remember where in the settings it is.

Don't have it set up as a media server. Like I said I really don't use it too much.
Enigma - you only lose 1 percent? How is yours set up?

seagood3 said:
Thanks for the help. I really do t use that many apps and don't have Facebook. I have attached some pics. Media server is using all my battery? I even turned my wifi off while sleeping.
Any other ideas?
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While i may not say there is a wakelock, you can clearly see that because the app has been on and running for over 14 hours time that that process is what is causing the wakelock and draining all your battery. I forget how to fix the media scanner thing, I know I have seen it before in the forum for the Galaxy nexus, which was my old phone. What Media Scanner is is the process that scans your storage for files so that it has an index of what is on the device and so it can display the files and folders for you in Windows. most likely Media Scanner is stuck on a specific file and cant get past it so the process is staying on forever.
My personal setup is the RaSaber ROM (not available anymore) 4.2.2 and KTManta kernel (whatever the last 4.2.2 version was). I probably will never upgrade to 4.3 because this setup is perfectly smooth and the only bugfix that 4.3 brings that I would ever care about does not matter to me since I never hit the bug (playing video in specific apps using hardware rendering). I mainly use my tablet for games and book reading on trips, so it goes long periods without use these days. I never charge it in between because I know it will still have basically the same exact battery level as I left it whenever the next time I pick up the tablet is. I posted some screenshots before in some other thread a while back because no one believed me on the battery life. I went something like 70 or so days of idle and was at 97 or 98% still, then went on to use it for gaming and got like 7 hours of screen on time still before I needed to charge the thing.

seagood3 said:
Don't have it set up as a media server. Like I said I really don't use it too much.
Enigma - you only lose 1 percent? How is yours set up?
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Your tablet is searching for more media, maybe you can check the settings and see if there's anything set up to be syncing. Also you can try installing another ROM to check.
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seagood3 said:
I am not sure if this is a legit complaint, but sometimes I don't use my N10 for a few days and my tablet will be completely drained. I really only use my tablet for some general browsing/emails/videos. I generally turn off all automatic updates/notifications/etc as I know I may go days between use and want to conserve as much battery life as possible.
With that said I have noticed lately that my entire battery will drain after 3-5 days even if I am not using. Is that just the case? Or should I expect to not lose too much battery when inactive. I looked and 90% of the batter drain was the Android OS.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I had a similar problem, after upgrading to Android 4.3 a couple months back. The battery seemed to run down much quicker when the screen was turned off. However, the problem seems to have gone away now. I'm not sure if there was some media scan or whatever running in 4.3 that finally finished or if it was a webpage I had loaded in my browser that kept refreshing itself. See if you can reproduce the problem with all browsers, email, video players turned off. Check the app switcher to make sure nothing is loaded. If so, the problem might be in the OS itself. Maybe it will go away with time, as it did for me. :victory:

Hi,
You can try leaving it off, the battery will stand by then . And as Nexus 10 boots really fast you won't see any problems (mine has 2GB free and booted in 20-25sec).
Hope this suggestion helps ,
~Lord
"We think so supersonic and we make our bombs atomic" - Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)
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I found this in relation to this topic on a different site:
"All you need to reset is that media scanner: Settings > Apps > All > Media Storage: Force stop & Clear data. Then, reboot."
Most people seem to think this works. In a follow up, someone posted this:
"I had the same problem and none of these fixes worked. It turns it that my Spotify was the problem. It had crashed and could not find the media files i had downloaded. I uninstalled Spotify and that solved the problem"
Good luck.

[q](STUCK) MULTIPLE ISSUES

Hey guys.
there are several major problems with my device.
first of all, lets see what we have here.
Exynos powered SM-N900 note 3 device
About 2 months old
rooted with CF- Auto Root
4.4.2 N900XXUDNA6_N900SERDNA6_SER firmware
that was the situation of device when the first problem showed itself.
Whiel i was watching video from an sd card, suddenly ı realised even if the device is on charge, (wall type) the battery percentage was dropping. when ı saw that, ı stopped watching the video, put down the phone and went to sleep. (it was 15 % at that time)
after 8 hours of proper sleep, I took my phone and saw that it was just 60%.
then ı began searching for slow charging issues. tried exactly everything about it, no luck. ( 5 different brands of different cables, 3 different brands of wall chargers, 2 different original note 3 batteries. tried both for AC and USB charging.)
All of them gave me the same result of charging current of 300 mah.
then ı tried all the wipe options, (wipe from recovery, factory reset from the settings menu, flashing another firmware which is CAC-N900XXUDNA8-20140210150816. ) still no luck. and things started to get worse.
a pain in the ass lag showed up, I'cant even use the camera. its like it comes and goes, but most of the time its there.
slow charging still continues, sometimes it does not charge at all,(had to reset couple of times) and when it charges, it's always 300 Mah and shows in the battery section as USB all the time ( even if I'm charging with the wall charger) ( already tried cache wipe for this, didn't make any difference.)
When I plug it to the PC, it does not recognize the device as a usb device, nor Kies, but ODİN does. (thankfully).
got this really weird screen, and some other screens close to it. (the screen actually faded away like in the picture ı uploaded. waited for it to go out for 10-15 seconds when ı pushed the wake button, the screen came itself just like nothing else happened 10 seconds ago!)
those are my problems, and the device is rooted, there is no warranty issue, so that means I'm stuck. it's not my first android device, and i consider myself just above average android user, but my hands are tied for this. any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!!

Really? No one can answer that?

rompinpumpkin said:
Really? No one can answer that?
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Did u try charging when mobile is off?if not give a try

Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I tried that. It kind of shortens the time of charging, but still, there are also other problems and some way ı think all of them are connected. That can be a solution only for slow charging, but the other issues still there.

rompinpumpkin said:
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I tried that. It kind of shortens the time of charging, but still, there are also other problems and some way ı think all of them are connected. That can be a solution only for slow charging, but the other issues still there.
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may all your problems linked each other possible, try to uninstall third party apps you have installed, may some app is causing all the problems.

jdomadia said:
may all your problems linked each other possible, try to uninstall third party apps you have installed, may some app is causing all the problems.
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I'm afraid that is also not a solution, because i already performed a full wipe and flashed a clean firmware, which cleared all 3rd party apps, still problems go on.
appreciate the effort though!

rompinpumpkin said:
I'm afraid that is also not a solution, because i already performed a full wipe and flashed a clean firmware, which cleared all 3rd party apps, still problems go on.
appreciate the effort though!
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Read carefully & flash from below link, hop u will get your all problems sort out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519897

jdomadia said:
Read carefully & flash from below link, hop u will get your all problems sort out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519897
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are you suggesting EFS back-up /restore?
By the way, i have fresh brand new issues!!
now device doesn't close, if i close it and connect it to a charger, it reboots itself to recovery mode!!!
ı discovered something about the lag issue. if i run the cpu enough, (like playing games) lag goes out. when ı quit the game, it turns back!!
I opened up cpu monitor from the developer options, everytime lag shows up, i see from the cpu list this thing:
irq/563-sii8240
I think this causes all of my problems.
any ideas???

rompinpumpkin said:
are you suggesting EFS back-up /restore?
By the way, i have fresh brand new issues!!
now device doesn't close, if i close it and connect it to a charger, it reboots itself to recovery mode!!!
ı discovered something about the lag issue. if i run the cpu enough, (like playing games) lag goes out. when ı quit the game, it turns back!!
I opened up cpu monitor from the developer options, everytime lag shows up, i see from the cpu list this thing:
irq/563-sii8240
I think this causes all of my problems.
any ideas???
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EFS backup is very IMPORTANT, no Idea about what u say about CPU

jdomadia said:
Read carefully & flash from below link, hop u will get your all problems sort out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519897
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jdomadia said:
EFS backup is very IMPORTANT, no Idea about what u say about CPU
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I know the importance of the EFS, just couldn't figure out the relevance.

rompinpumpkin said:
I know the importance of the EFS, just couldn't figure out the relevance.
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It looks like a problem with a interrupt of the video driver. I read you already flashed a other firmware, correct?

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Have you installed any apps to monitor battery drain? I use GSAM Battery Monitor and every time I start to see weird things with my battery, I have a look to see which app is running wild. Removing the app usually sets my phone back to very good battery life. The other day HD Widgets updated their app and all of a sudden I was dropping battery life about 15% per hour when hardly using the phone. HD was the culprit, removing it put me back to normal again. This happens often when companies update their apps.
One other thing, does you phone run hot? In the notification screen, you can see the current temp of your phone. If your battery is draining fast, it will run hot.

Thank you for the feedback. I downloaded the app, here are my first results. Do you think its normal that my kernel alone 74% ? I recently turned into cvm recovery, any ideas for alternative kernels?
SM-N900 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi

S5 overheating

Hello everyone,
My new S5 overheats sometimes. I do nothing special like gaming or any heavy duty/force on CPU.
Even, sometimes when I pick up my phone from my desk I feel overheating. I just take the battery out for around 5 minute, and then it will be ok for a day.
Please help and tell me what to do.

Sorry, post it twice. Seems there is not any option to delete a post!

Try using a ram manager and determine which app/service is persistently running in the background. Kill it.

Which version?
Also it might be a rogue app as previous poster suggested, or Media Scanner getting stuck (that was an issue I experienced back in the Jellybean days...)

Try checking first the games you have installed, there are some games that persistently run in the background and send notifications from time to time. Also, check your microsd, there was an issue with microsd persistently being read by the media scanner, this could be what drakester09 is referring to. It's not really clear if persistent microsd scanning is the microsd's fault or the phone itself, but most reports point to Samsung devices and Sandisk microsd. I've been using both brand combo through Omnia, S1, S3, and now S5 without ever experiencing it though. Microsds used are 2GB, 8GB, 32GB, 64GB.

Thanks for all replies.
(A) There is not any micro SD installed in the phone. (B) No game is installed in the phone. (C) I am monitoring the phone by "watchdog lite" and "battery doctor" for any app unusual activity. Nothing special is found.
Please notice that, exactly in same situation, it happens sometimes once a day or once within two days.

I had the same problem a few years ago with my SGS1. When i used my phone very much and not restarted it for a few days it was becoming very hot and emptying the battery. Finally it was closing itself due to zero percentage of battery. I updated my SGS1 and the problem was fixed. Maybe your device has some software problems and need to be updated. Overheating can be dangerous especially when your phone is plugged to electricity.
Sorry for poor English.

If it is easier, you can always take it back and exchange it for another one, rather than going to the time and effort of fixing it yourself.