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WMDRM Folder

I have recently noticed on the root of my sd card a folder called WMDRM with a file inside with a weird long name. Now I have worked out it is the Windows Media Digital Rights Management folder. I don't have any music on my trinity only a couple of videos of my daughter. Recorded on the trinity. (No bought music) What is this folder all about? Why has it appeared? Can I delete it? Will it just appear again? Will it effect windows media player if I delete it?
Thank's for any info in advance.

Anyone any ideas? Any help would be appreciated!

Windows Media Digital Rights Management - I think it holds copyright information when you play back or build a library using Media Player, even when the content is not protected. Also think it can be used to encrypt media which is being downloaded/streamed.
I'm not sure if you can prevent it being created, but it's safe to delete, although it will be created again when you use Media Player.

If you haven't bought any DRM music/video it's safe to remove. Since WM needs to store the keys that survive a hard reset, it saves it on SD card if it finds one.
Incidentally, there are numerous reports of SD card corruption, usually caused by something written to the SD card.
Therefore, you'd better to use players other than WM...

I've read some posts saying people experienced some problems after deleting this folder.
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x30-x3-x3i-forums/111690-window-media-not-working.html
Sounds strange to me but just wanted to point it out.

Arilexed said:
I've read some posts saying people experienced some problems after deleting this folder.
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x30-x3-x3i-forums/111690-window-media-not-working.html
Sounds strange to me but just wanted to point it out.
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Apparently, you didn't RTFA. It says otherwise.
I've had this before, think it's cured by deleteing the WMDRM folder on your SD/CF card.
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ww2250 said:
Apparently, you didn't RTFA. It says otherwise.
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Sorry, didn't really read it properly.
But regarding the RTFA.... FU.

Phone freezes when I navigate to the music tab

Hi All,
I have a new TMOUS HD2 with the stock rom. I've flashed HSPL and I've added a few tweaks such as landscae mode. Nothing too much for now.
Problem I'm having is that every time I navigate to the music player it seems to hang and I end up getting the "send to M$" notice and phone's locked up. Then I have to restart the phone again.
I have the music stored on my storage card under Music/Artist/Album/Song and I have about 4 gigs worth.
Any ideas to what this could be? Appreciate the help.

mobi said:
Hi All,
I have a new TMOUS HD2 with the stock rom. I've flashed HSPL and I've added a few tweaks such as landscae mode. Nothing too much for now.
Problem I'm having is that every time I navigate to the music player it seems to hang and I end up getting the "send to M$" notice and phone's locked up. Then I have to restart the phone again.
I have the music stored on my storage card under Music/Artist/Album/Song and I have about 4 gigs worth.
Any ideas to what this could be? Appreciate the help.
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You flashed HSPL, but not a new rom?
I would start by putting just one or two mp3's on your phone's onboard storage, then pulling the card out, soft-resetting, and then seeing if your music tab finds and is able to play those couple of mp3's without locking up.
If it works fine then, you're probably experiencing the same issue many HD2 owners have been dealing with when accessing a large volume of files on the SD card. There's a number of suspected causes, mainly relating to the fact that the music (and documents) tab(s) index the whole contents of the card to find and catalog those types of files for quick use in the tabs. Therefore, a large number of files on the card seem to bog down not just those tabs but often the whole phone.
Another cause is believed to be the fact the factory card shipped with the HD2 is only a class-2 card, the slowest of all the speed ratings. If you have access to a faster card (class-4, -6, etc), even if it's a smaller size card, try that and see if it improves things any. If not, then your only other option right now is to reduce the number of files on your card until it doesn't lock up when sense tries to index it all. It's rumored that there's an update coming shortly from HTC/Tmobile, and I'm hoping that it might address this issue, but I'm not holding my breath.
I personally believe that the code used to do that indexing just isn't able to scale to the volumes of files seen now in the larger SD cards.
EDIT: Also, if you're not using it, be sure to turn off the "recent documents" tab...I don't know that it will clear up the problems with the music tab, but it can possibly help avoid lagging overall.

I can see what you mean about the indexing. Does it index each time the phone is rebooted or does it store the indexing in cache that's reused?

mobi said:
I can see what you mean about the indexing. Does it index each time the phone is rebooted or does it store the indexing in cache that's reused?
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I honestly wish I knew
I've been trying hard to come up with a solution to this issue, and I'm afraid that's one of the unknowns that I'm struggling with...how/when exactly the process is triggered, and whether or not there's any cacheing. I suspect that it indexes (in some form anyway) much more often than every reboot, as you'll see if you delete a music file, and see how quickly the list in the music tab reflects that change.

sirphunkee said:
I honestly wish I knew
I've been trying hard to come up with a solution to this issue, and I'm afraid that's one of the unknowns that I'm struggling with...how/when exactly the process is triggered, and whether or not there's any cacheing. I suspect that it indexes (in some form anyway) much more often than every reboot, as you'll see if you delete a music file, and see how quickly the list in the music tab reflects that change.
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Sirphunkee..I remember a while back when I first started reading this HD2 forum. Since before I was in the Wing Section. I read somewhere about copying a file to the startup in the windows folder. I cant remember exactly what file it was but it had to do with the music so when you woke the phone up it automatically started queing up the music that way when you went to click on the music tab it was already cached and ready to play?! I have yet to come across that thread again so that I could try it out?!

toreone said:
Sirphunkee..I remember a while back when I first started reading this HD2 forum. Since before I was in the Wing Section. I read somewhere about copying a file to the startup in the windows folder. I cant remember exactly what file it was but it had to do with the music so when you woke the phone up it automatically started queing up the music that way when you went to click on the music tab it was already cached and ready to play?! I have yet to come across that thread again so that I could try it out?!
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Ok cool, thank you! I hadn't heard about that one, so I'll go look for it and see if it gives me any insight. Did you have TF3D (the older version of sense) on your Wing, with a music tab? Maybe this is behavior that HTC added to sense at some point, with the same exact intent in mind...

you can disable the docindexservice perhaps it will be of some help. I don't use NRG ROM but the cook did put this cab out and you can give it a try, if it doesnt work just simply uninstall it and your settings will be back to normal
Disable Docindexer.cab

jfmckenna said:
you can disable the docindexservice perhaps it will be of some help. I don't use NRG ROM but the cook did put this cab out and you can give it a try, if it doesnt work just simply uninstall it and your settings will be back to normal
Disable Docindexer.cab
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Sweet! Thanks again Jimmy...I'm gonna dig into this when I get home this evening, and poke around in the registry area it changes (HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\HTCService).
I'm curious if it just does the same thing as turning off the documents tab, or if turning off the service is a wider-reaching change. Since this is the personal handiwork of NRG, I'll ping him too, but I know he's busy.

there are a number of possibilities (though i agree its likely to be the indexing)
don't use sync to copy the music, use disk mode, or put the sd in the comp
excessively long path\filename.mp3
extended set ASCII characters in the mp3 tags,,,
i'd copy over a few dozen albums at a time, see if there's a noticeable point which problems start.
also some connected reading here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640948

samsamuel said:
there are a number of possibilities (though i agree its likely to be the indexing)
don't use sync to copy the music, use disk mode, or put the sd in the comp
excessively long path\filename.mp3
extended set ASCII characters in the mp3 tags,,,
i'd copy over a few dozen albums at a time, see if there's a noticeable point which problems start.
also some connected reading here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640948
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Hahaha thanks Sam...I JUST finished reading over the same thread LOL Very helpful, and it's given me some further insights into this.
toreone, the first think I noticed common to your problem and the one in the thread samsamuel posted is that your music has a rather deep file structure (4 layers deep). I haven't seen anybody mention that in the troubleshooting, so it might be worth seeing if the same volume of music, but no more than 2 folders deep, still gives the same issue.
Also, in that thread, sammybusse made and posted the cab below, which makes simple registry change related to chacheing: HKLM\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS
EnableChache 1 (changed from 0 to 1). So, perhaps the problem stems from the fact that it wasn't chacheing, rather than doing it too aggressively..
I haven't had a chance yet to poke around with it, but I think it's certainly safe enough to try and see if it makes any difference for you (it helped some people in that thread).
Another solution tried there, that had some level of success, was making sure you don't have any of the mp3's set as "read only"

toreone said:
Sirphunkee..I remember a while back when I first started reading this HD2 forum. Since before I was in the Wing Section. I read somewhere about copying a file to the startup in the windows folder. I cant remember exactly what file it was but it had to do with the music so when you woke the phone up it automatically started queing up the music that way when you went to click on the music tab it was already cached and ready to play?! I have yet to come across that thread again so that I could try it out?!
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Here it is:
Go to your Windows folder and find the file "AudioManager_Eng.exe" Create a shortcut (.lnk file) of this file and put it in your Windows\StartUp folder.

mobi said:
Hi All,
I have a new TMOUS HD2 with the stock rom. I've flashed HSPL and I've added a few tweaks such as landscae mode. Nothing too much for now.
Problem I'm having is that every time I navigate to the music player it seems to hang and I end up getting the "send to M$" notice and phone's locked up. Then I have to restart the phone again.
I have the music stored on my storage card under Music/Artist/Album/Song and I have about 4 gigs worth.
Any ideas to what this could be? Appreciate the help.
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Try to sync your music with Windows Media Player. This worked for me.

Nibbley15 said:
Here it is:
Go to your Windows folder and find the file "AudioManager_Eng.exe" Create a shortcut (.lnk file) of this file and put it in your Windows\StartUp folder.
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Nibbley, when I did this, for some reason the file would only be renamed as AudioManager_Eng.lnk.exe. And once you do it, you can't seem to delete the file. Just a heads up.

do you have a more detailed way for doing this?

mobi said:
do you have a more detailed way for doing this?
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Here you go I created a shortcut and made a cab to put it in start up. Let me know how it works

Vibrant "loses sight" of downloaded media periodically

My Vibrant periodically "loses sight" of media I have downloaded. I have downloaded ringtones off of zedge and podcasts through Dogg Catcher. Periodically (not sure what causes it), the phone cannot find those things. This means that if I have set a custom ringtone, my phone does not ring. I have missed several calls because of this. At first, I thought it was a Zedge issue, but it happens in DoggCatcher as well. I will go into play a downloaded podcast, and I get an error that the file cannot be found. If I reboot, it fixes itself, but it happens later.
I am running Bionix Nextgen, but I know it's not a ROM issue, because it also happened on other ROMs I have used. I think it's a matter of my phone looking for a file in a certain place instead of where it is housed. Could it be an SD issue? Anyone have this happen to them? Any help is appreciated.

its an sd card issue most likely, try a different SD card. I'd recommend you reformat your SD card, Odin back to stock and then flash a new rom

i had similar issues try an app like sdrescan i tend to be able to find everything after running that n it only takes a matter of a few minutes

shreddintyres said:
i had similar issues try an app like sdrescan i tend to be able to find everything after running that n it only takes a matter of a few minutes
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I doubt it's an SDcard issue, it sounds more like a problem with media scanner since the files become visible once you reboot (after media scanner re-scans).
ld006 said:
its an sd card issue most likely, try a different SD card. I'd recommend you reformat your SD card, Odin back to stock and then flash a new rom
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That's not going to help. He has already tried different roms, same problem. Android Media Storage Service, which controls Media Scanner is buggy. Lots of threads here about Media Scanner stuck at 0% or taking over 15 minutes to complete.
First thing to do is flush the cache.
Go to application manager -> running applications -> Media Storage and clear data. Reboot phone or run the sdrescan app shreddintyres recommends. This will restart Media Scanner. Anytime your Vibrant "loses" sight of any media you have downloaded you need to re-run Media Scanner either by app, reboot, plugging into PC and enabling/disabling USB storage.
It is also recommended that you put an empty file named .nomedia into any folder in your phone that does not contain media. This tells media scanner to ignore these folders and will make media scanning faster since it has less folders to scan.

[HOWTO]Make Spotify cache offline playlists to SD card

As of the newest Spotify version (0.5.12.52) the app has a built-in (yet hidden) feature of saving playlists to SD card:
Go to Settings and in the bottom select to "Delete cache and saved data". You will be logged out.
Log in again and go to Settings and set Download/Stream Quality to "Extreme Quality"
Download your playlists and they will be saved to SD card.
Thanks to user nomadjr for the info
Source: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Hel...w-save-to-external-SD-card/td-p/46803/page/60
The old version of the "hack" which is no longer needed:
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[COLOR="Red"]The old version of the "hack" which is no longer needed:[/COLOR] Found this info on the Spotify forums and thought I'd share it with you guys. It enables Spotify to save your downloaded/offline playlists to your external SD card without using any other apps such as DirectoryBind and Apps2SD and whatever.
Basically you install a previous version of Spotify which supported selecting SD storage (no idea why this feature was removed!) and then upgrading to the latest version while keeping that feature intact.
[LIST]
[*]1. Uninstall Spotify and check that the Spotify folder in sdcard/Android/data has been removed.
[*]2. Install the old version of Spotify from [URL="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?64njb8peymtkawn"]here[/URL]
[*]3. Start the app and don't log in (if you are logged in auto, log out) and press the menu button and select the SD storage option.
[*]4. Change the standard location to /mnt/extSdCard or /storage/extSdCard and then log in (if it bugs when you log in, just exit the app and try again)
[*]5. Select a single playlist to download/offline play and let it finish downloading before you go to the next step. Don't download all your music here, just a little playlist with a few songs is enough.
[*]6. Go to the Play Store and update the Spotify app to the newest version.
[*]7. Now enable Extreme Quality in the new Spotify app and begin downloading all your play lists :) Provided you did everything correctly, Spotify will now save all offline/downloaded music to the external SD card now until you uninstall the app (unknown if future updates will break this feature)
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Check via your file browser that Spotify is indeed saving to the external SD before downloading your entire collection :p If it's not saving to the SD card, the path to the SD card you typed is probably wrong..check it again.
All credits go to:
Chr1212 @ [url]http://community.spotify.com/t5/Mobile-Android/Samsung-Galaxy-S3/td-p/82955[/url]
neo-x @ [url]http://community.spotify.com/t5/Mobile-Android/REQUEST-Previous-version-of-the-client-APK/m-p/79997#M4161[/url]

Thats a nice catch dude, nice one
I assume its working perfect as no-one has commented yet...lovely!

Darkside Agent said:
Thats a nice catch dude, nice one
I assume its working perfect as no-one has commented yet...lovely!
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Thx. Hehe probably or they're using one of the mods for having all apps on the ext SD
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This worked for me too! Thanks for info.
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This appears to still work! Thank you sooo much!!!

Perfect. Many thanks!!

Thanks! Works great on Razr M running Jelly Bean.
One added note:
I used /storage/sdcard1 as the location.
I found this by going to Files > selecting a file on the SD card, viewing details, and finding the path there.

y3sh said:
Thanks! Works great on Razr M running Jelly Bean.
One added note:
I used /storage/sdcard1 as the location.
I found this by going to Files > selecting a file on the SD card, viewing details, and finding the path there.
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Cool..glad you found it useful
Yeah, the actual path to the SD card probably varies on different devices.
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I get a loop
Hi, it doesn't work for me! After I have set the location for the offlinefiles i choose login and get a warning message about data transfer, that keeps coming back all over again like a loop! Any suggestions?

Cygnusa said:
Hi, it doesn't work for me! After I have set the location for the offlinefiles i choose login and get a warning message about data transfer, that keeps coming back all over again like a loop! Any suggestions?
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Works great for me!
Loop issue when trying to log in eith the old version but at least able to set correct location!
Force close the app, update at Google Play and there you go!

Thanks everything worked great!

Worked for my on my S3 with 4.1. Thanks so much for posting this thread; it just opened up 4gb of storage on my phone. The only issue I had was that the app would crash as soon as I opened it, but as long as you set the storage path before it still works.

Cygnusa said:
Hi, it doesn't work for me! After I have set the location for the offlinefiles i choose login and get a warning message about data transfer, that keeps coming back all over again like a loop! Any suggestions?
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Try force closing it and try again. Or just reboot and try again. Might take a few tries since the old Spotify probably isn't so compatible with Android 4.1.2
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Ok thanks. How ever when I look in the app menu it says the llarge amount of data for the app is stored in the cache... So I guess it didn't work for me...

Cygnusa said:
Ok thanks. How ever when I look in the app menu it says the llarge amount of data for the app is stored in the cache... So I guess it didn't work for me...
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Okay, that's strange. Also double check that you are using the correct path to the SD card with a file manager app like Root Explorer or something. The standard one i wrote in the post may not work for everyone
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Is this still working?
Can't believe that Spotify haven't officially fixed this issue yet! Going to try this tonight once @ home on my Wifi connection.
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Just tried this by creating a playlist with a couple of songs in it to save on data and I think it has worked lol?
Which folder would the music now be stored in on the ext SD card? Checked in the Internal storage>Android>Data folder and the Spotify folder isn't in there as expected if being stored on extSD, but I can't find it's location on the extSD either

Can confirm this works fine. Had the old apk crash a few times, just kept restarting it and used the force stop in app settings. Now have a lovely 29GB to fill up with some awesome tuneage!
Thanks OP :good:

This is great and all.. BUT
Yes, there is a but ..
I want extreme quality when I sync.
This is not possible on the old spotify-app.
Is this even doable?
Can you update to the newest spotify-app after syncing,
then turn on extreme quality on the newest and get extreme quality on the SD-Card ?

dmbardal said:
This is great and all.. BUT
Yes, there is a but ..
I want extreme quality when I sync.
This is not possible on the old spotify-app.
Is this even doable?
Can you update to the newest spotify-app after syncing,
then turn on extreme quality on the newest and get extreme quality on the SD-Card ?
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I'll take a look at the file size if possible.
As soon as I updated back to the 'new' version of Spotify, I set the download to 'Extreme Quality' and then downloaded another couple of songs.
Anyone know the average size of Extreme Quality file as compared to a normal or high file?

Not sure how large the "normal" files are, but I think extreme are roughly 10mb's...

Media is draining my battery

Hi,
I have noticed that "media" in the battery usage list is draining my battery. Even with screen off and without using the phone, the CPU total in
the "Media list" doesn't stop.
I thought that my Note 3 was faulty and brought it back to exchange it but with the new one same story. I am almost using the same programs that I was using with my Note 2.
With screen off and without using the phone (only Wifi and Bluetooth on ) ; I am loosing more than 10% an hour.
Any help please.
Thank you.
Daniel

Danielfr said:
Hi,
I have noticed that "media" in the battery usage list is draining my battery. Even with screen off and without using the phone, the CPU total in
the "Media list" doesn't stop.
I thought that my Note 3 was faulty and brought it back to exchange it but with the new one same story. I am almost using the same programs that I was using with my Note 2.
With screen off and without using the phone (only Wifi and Bluetooth on ) ; I am loosing more than 10% an hour.
Any help please.
Thank you.
Daniel
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You need to do what people have done for the note 2. Either go into app manager and find media server and clear it then run a scan or copy all to pc then dump it back in to phone and reboot.
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BACARDILIMON said:
You need to do what people have done for the note 2. Either go into app manager and find media server and clear it then run a scan or copy all to pc then dump it back in to phone and reboot.
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I don't have in app manager "Media server" .
What do you mean by copying everything to PC? Media files of ExtSdcard and of Internal Memory ?
Daniel

Danielfr said:
I don't have in app manager "Media server" .
What do you mean by copying everything to PC? Media files of ExtSdcard and of Internal Memory ?
Daniel
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Sorry meant media storage. If that sd card was in another phone u might have to format it to new phone. Transfer stuff to pc off card then put card into phone format with phone and then with phone connected to pc transfer all the stuff back
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BACARDILIMON said:
Sorry meant media storage. If that sd card was in another phone u might have to format it to new phone. Transfer stuff to pc off card then put card into phone format with phone and then with phone connected to pc transfer all the stuff back
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Do not delete it just clear cache
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BACARDILIMON said:
Sorry meant media storage. If that sd card was in another phone u might have to format it to new phone. Transfer stuff to pc off card then put card into phone format with phone and then with phone connected to pc transfer all the stuff back
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Do not delete it just clear cache
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Thank you.
I will try. You are maybe right because I have unmounted my SDcard and the CPU In "media" has stopped increasing.
Could it be because I have added 6500 pictures on my ExtSDcard?
Daniel

Danielfr said:
Could it be because I have added 6500 pictures on my ExtSDcard?
Daniel
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LOL
ummm..... yeah. Gallery tries to make thumbnails of each picture...

The phone is indexing your media. Wait for the indexing to finish then it will stop draining the battery.

Ars spoke about this in their review of the Note 3 here: http://goo.gl/sogcdt
"One of the most shocking blunders in the software department is the Gallery, which is literally unusable with the default settings. In the smartphone world, an app taking one second to launch is considered slow, but the Gallery on the Note 3 takes anywhere from 15 seconds to two minutes-plus to open. Albums take another 10 to 30 seconds to open. While this loading is happening, scrolling and touchscreen input often just don't work. The video below shows how crazy this is.
The issue is that the Gallery on the Note 3 wants to display all the pictures on your phone, plus everything from Google+, plus everything from Dropbox. It just can't handle that many pictures. The device has been synced for several days, and it takes forever even with Airplane mode on, so it's not a data issue. While all this loading is happening, System Monitor shows a light CPU workload, almost no disk I/O, no network activity, and no change in RAM usage. We're really not sure what is taking so long. If you go to the settings, turn off Dropbox pictures, and clear data, the Gallery goes from "completely unusable" to just "slow," but at least it will work without a multi-minute delay. I'm only using about 5GB of Dropbox storage, and the Note 3 comes with a 50GB Dropbox storage boost, so it's not like I have a crazy amount of data in my account. Having a quad-core 2.3GHz beast of a phone turn in this kind of performance is kind of sad."
It's the only thing that I have read so far that gave me pause about getting the Note 3. But hopefully it's like @MohJee said and it will only happen once while indexing the photos.

Techngro said:
Ars spoke about this in their review of the Note 3 here: http://goo.gl/sogcdt
"One of the most shocking blunders in the software department is the Gallery, which is literally unusable with the default settings. In the smartphone world, an app taking one second to launch is considered slow, but the Gallery on the Note 3 takes anywhere from 15 seconds to two minutes-plus to open. Albums take another 10 to 30 seconds to open. While this loading is happening, scrolling and touchscreen input often just don't work. The video below shows how crazy this is.
The issue is that the Gallery on the Note 3 wants to display all the pictures on your phone, plus everything from Google+, plus everything from Dropbox. It just can't handle that many pictures. The device has been synced for several days, and it takes forever even with Airplane mode on, so it's not a data issue. While all this loading is happening, System Monitor shows a light CPU workload, almost no disk I/O, no network activity, and no change in RAM usage. We're really not sure what is taking so long. If you go to the settings, turn off Dropbox pictures, and clear data, the Gallery goes from "completely unusable" to just "slow," but at least it will work without a multi-minute delay. I'm only using about 5GB of Dropbox storage, and the Note 3 comes with a 50GB Dropbox storage boost, so it's not like I have a crazy amount of data in my account. Having a quad-core 2.3GHz beast of a phone turn in this kind of performance is kind of sad."
It's the only thing that I have read so far that gave me pause about getting the Note 3. But hopefully it's like @MohJee said and it will only happen once while indexing the photos.
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Think they got a dodgy one or the gallery was still indexing all their photos. Mine opens instantly like usual and you can use it immediately with no lag.
EDIT: just thought Id add that I have around a thousand photos, as well as another thousand on dropbox that syncs to the gallery.

Usually Media Scan issues are connected to SD Card issues :
- one of the reason is because the SD card has been used and taken from another phone
=> backup your SD Card
=> format you SD Card once inserted in your phone
=> put back your data on the SD card
- other reason is compatibility problem between Samsung phones and SanDisk SD Card
=> it's better to use Samsung SD Card to avoid this kind of problem.

Nani said:
Usually Media Scan issues are connected to SD Card issues :
- one of the reason is because the SD card has been used and taken from another phone
=> backup your SD Card
=> format you SD Card once inserted in your phone
=> put back your data on the SD card
- other reason is compatibility problem between Samsung phones and SanDisk SD Card
=> it's better to use Samsung SD Card to avoid this kind of problem.
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I will try,
I have made a backup of my SD card and have done a format using my phone.
I have copied back my 6500 pictures on my sd card and will see what happens.
Daniel
PS: I don't think that there is a compatibility problem with my SD card because before having made a format, I have deleted the pictures on the SD card and have used it without battery drain.

Here we go again:
I have made a backup of my SD card and have done a format using my phone.
I have copied back my 6500 pictures on my sd card
AND "Media" is again draining my battery:
Cpu total doesn't stop to increase.
Daniel

There are tons of things left over on the SD card from my last phone, but I am not sure what things I need to keep. I don't want to lose all my app settings. There are so many folders that I don't know whether my phone needs. Any help?

Solved the battery drain. I put a NoMedia file in the folder that has all my PHD files. I also turned off smart stay.
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What is draning your battery (how to find out & kill Media)
Battery draining may be caused by various reasons. Android takes care of battery use in Battery menu in Settings - there is how to check it:
Go to main home screen (press main hardware button in the middle under display), then press Menu (left softkey), then chose Settings, then choose General tab, then scroll down and find Battery. Here you can see what is going on. You may see what is eating your battery since last full recharge.
The main drainer is "Screen" in normal condition.
I had "Media" on the first place. It was caused by "face recognition of my friends" inside all photos and videos I put inside my phone and MicroSD card. This could be simply disabled by going to Gallery application (Samsung's default tool for viewing photos and videos). Go to main home screen (press main hardware button in the middle under display), then touch Apps (should be in the lower right corner of your display), find Gallery (by sweeping left/right), inside Gallery press Menu button (left softkey), choose Settings and there disable "Tag buddy" and "Face tag". You may unset (switch off) all "Cloud sync" too (probably Dropbox sync at least) - touch it and switch off all syncs (Pictures, Videos, Documents).
Hope helps.

Milan Kerslager said:
Battery draining may be caused by various reasons. Android takes care of battery use in Battery menu in Settings - there is how to check it:
Go to main home screen (press main hardware button in the middle under display), then press Menu (left softkey), then chose Settings, then choose General tab, then scroll down and find Battery. Here you can see what is going on. You may see what is eating your battery since last full recharge.
The main drainer is "Screen" in normal condition.
I had "Media" on the first place. It was caused by "face recognition of my friends" inside all photos and videos I put inside my phone and MicroSD card. This could be simply disabled by going to Gallery application (Samsung's default tool for viewing photos and videos). Go to main home screen (press main hardware button in the middle under display), then touch Apps (should be in the lower right corner of your display), find Gallery (by sweeping left/right), inside Gallery press Menu button (left softkey), choose Settings and there disable "Tag buddy" and "Face tag". You may unset (switch off) all "Cloud sync" too (probably Dropbox sync at least) - touch it and switch off all syncs (Pictures, Videos, Documents).
Hope helps.
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Thank you so much, turning off face recognition & buddy tagging in Gallery resolved the CPU hogging by Media, it was still hogging the CPU usage for a while then it'll be gone from Battery usage list once these features are turned off.

I have the same issue with my note 3. I'm hampered by the media thing since a long time now. I have no sd card installed. I have something about 12,000 images+ in my phone. I have tried clearing the thumbnails and it doesnt work. Battery works like ****. I had the mediaserver thing too but it stopped once i closed the tag buddy thing. Any help for the media thing please?

zchamp96 said:
I have the same issue with my note 3. I'm hampered by the media thing since a long time now. I have no sd card installed. I have something about 12,000 images+ in my phone. I have tried clearing the thumbnails and it doesnt work. Battery works like ****. I had the mediaserver thing too but it stopped once i closed the tag buddy thing. Any help for the media thing please?
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That's because Indexingservice/Mediascanner keeps indexing every single image over and over and over again. The poor thing can't handle that many files.
The best solution is to place a .nomedia file in the folder that contains the large collection of images, as well as anything containing lots of documents, books, magazines, videos... This will tell the Media scanner that there is nothing in the folder, and they won't be processed.
However, this means Gallery, Facebook etc won't see them. They can still be accessed, opened and used by a file manager and every app that uses file manager display instead of media. Using Quickpic and setting it to show Hidden will also allow you to view the images even though there is a .nomedia file in there.
Simply copy the .nomedia file from your Android folder to the folder that contains all the images. (It excludes subfolders as well.) You will need to set hidden files to be shown in the file manager to see it.
Take care not to place one in or above a folder containing ringtones or alarms, as this will exclude those files as well. (So not in the main directory!)

Also got a Note 3 recently and the battery was getting smashed.
Loaded amplify and auto runs manager and the battery life is very decent now.
Also did the Sd card tweaks, that seems to be a big issue with the Media/Download process draining the battery.