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Constant Media Scanning

Hey,
My Vibrant CONSTANTLY keep rescanning the media on the SD, and its slowing the phone to a crawl. Ill watch it start, finish, and then start again 30 seconds later (or so). Anyone else have this, and if so, did you find a solution?
Thanks!

Sounds buggy...mine usually just does it if I reboot the phone
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Actually my ONLY complaint about this phone not constantly but every time I reboot and it takes a good while scanning, if I try to press on any button while scanning the phone freezes, there has to be a tweak to disable this feature when vibrant roms become available..

Thats my issue too....it freezes, the screen goes off, the button backlight stays on, and I cant do anything but hard-reset it by holding the power or pulling the battery. ive deleted almost everything of the internal SD, so I have no idea why its freezing

I remove the external card and still experiencing the same thing, I just don't understand how my old HD2 with buggy winOS never did this, come on Developers Android is an awesome OS and extremely configurable, PLEASE fix this issue for us.

Mine does it on reboot and after I unplug it from my pc. It is a little annoying but it doesn't last too long.

It's scanning 16gb of memory for media changes. Why would you expect that to be faster than 20-30 seconds. Are you guys serious?
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If it's doing it constantly and not just on reboot than that is definitely a defect.
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The media scanner runs for me, at least, every time the userspace filesystem is modified, so on unplug from PC, file copy/deletes in the file manager, bluetooth unpair...etc. If you have an app that is frequently writing to /sdcard then that's probably triggering it for you.

Did you replace your SD card with one from another phone? I don't get any major scanning issues

Just exchanged the phone for a new one. Will report back.
No, I am using the stock SD card (Not ready to lose Avatar yet)

zimphishmonger said:
Just exchanged the phone for a new one. Will report back.
No, I am using the stock SD card (Not ready to lose Avatar yet)
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I know you can copy avatar to the internal memory and it will still work... but the link on the app won't find it, you'll have to go to files, ect. I'm pretty sure you can copy it to another SD card without any trouble. As far as the media scanner, it is pretty annoying...scanned alot when I first got the phone ..of course moving around avatar, it took a long time to rescan and it scanned several times. Now it seems to scan evertime I move or delete a file ...sometimes it scanns more than once but its usually pretty fast. It would be cool to change the settings to rescan only when you specify or something.

i have just over 7 gig of music on my sd card, scan after reboot lasts less than a min.
<edit> it is a class 6 card, so that might help with the speed etc...

I was messing around in /system and looked at one of the .conf files. There's a line in there for media with a value of "on". I'm sure if you edit it to "off" it'll stop scanning but who know what the negative effects would be.

Ya, I never had this media scanning on my G1, on any build. Wonder if it has something to do with the Internal SD and some sort of database it maintains of it. No idea why it wouldn't be simple flash memory though, exactly like an SD card

It's because of the Music player and such.
I'd still say try a reset. I just did and things (besides the GPS which is not going to be fixed by this) like the market and such aren't giving me such long loading screens. I was installing 3-5 apps at a time. Even the Friends feed widget doesn't have the looooooong loading screen anymore.

zimphishmonger said:
Hey,
My Vibrant CONSTANTLY keep rescanning the media on the SD, and its slowing the phone to a crawl. Ill watch it start, finish, and then start again 30 seconds later (or so). Anyone else have this, and if so, did you find a solution?
Thanks!
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I have this same problem. Typically it will kick into the media scanning mode when opening Google Maps. The phone becomes unusable for several minutes. The screen will shut off and then comes back on close to a minute after hitting the power button. Sometimes it will display "Safe Mode" in the lower left corner.

yeah, I have an 8 gig card which is basically full and the media scanning I only notice on boot ups. And this takes very little time (20 seconds maybe).
I'm curious if you have a corrupt file or app that is causing the issue man?
Have you moved avatar to your computer, stuck the SD card in your PC and formatted it? I wonder if you put it back in your phone and rebooted if you would still have this issue?
Worse case you just move the folder with avatar back to the card, nothing lost.
Do you mind trying a format?

Someone should try the "Autostarts" app. I would try it, but it requires a rooted phone, and mines not rooted yet. This app may be able to prevent the media scanning...
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-autostarts

Thanks for the tips. I have wiped, exchanged phones, wiping the internal and external SD, and attempted to prevent the scan using autostarts (although I didnt find anything specific), all w/o luck. Ive removed ALL my music from my internal SD, only pictures are left.
It seems to scan every few minutes or so, and it almost always causes a restart of the Touchwiz process (w/ a reload of all the widgets) and lags the phone a lot (so much that it doesnt respond to button touches for a minute or so)
Im about ready to dig in and disable this scan unless we can find a legitimate fix or purpose for it.

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...

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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...
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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.

Files can't be played (so far music and photos)!!! & Rapid decrease in battery!

Hi, ever since yesterday i been having a strange little problem; All my music files and photo/Videos are gone from my music player and gallery apps!.. I check the SD cards (both internal and external) all the content is still there except it wont load it! even when trying to access it with a different app (such as Play by AOL, Amazon MP3 player, Winamp, etc)... also when trying to switch my ringtone or notification sound it clashes! I tried rebooting the phone, downloading apps to re-scan my SD card and so far no luck...
another strange thing that stated happening yesterday also (I think it was around the same time, it sure seem like it) my phone started draining the battery really quickly. it gave me about 5 hours of life from 70% to 0%. this is waaay to quick! it usually gives me at least twice if not triple this!...
I have also notice that phone starts getting really warm when trying to load the music and gallery app...
has this happen to anyone else? or any suggestions? would really appreciate some helps... thanks...

Did rebooting help anything? I had a weird thing just the other day where all music and my ringtone were playing at really high speed. Rebooting fixed it, though I wonder what the issue was. There are programs that log cpu use by apps and things. For the battery issue I'd try one of those or go into your Battery Monitor in settings and see if you spot any apps that are eating all your battery. System Panel also works. It will keep a week long log of your cpu usage among other things.

You do anything else right before this?
Install any apps/p-roms anything like that?
Try a battery pull?

Try watchdog for a cpu monitor, it can notify you when an app is using excessive cpu.
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no, rebooting didn't help. I tried it multiple times. Tried pulling the battery leaving off for a couple of hours. Nothing
OK, i tried looking at the battery manager and it said that Media was taking up 35% of it!!! I tried force closing it. And after that some of my music became playable. But still it was very sluggish.
Unfortunately I did update alot of apps the previous day. So it may be attribute to one of them... but my phone is pretty much stock. Only with side loading enable... so no custom roms.
Thanks for your feedback, ill keep trying a see what happens and of course post my results for future reference..
PS my battery drain at an astonishing rate!; from 80% to 0% in less about 3hrs...

[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:

[HELP] Mediaserver Battery Drain + Heat

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My phone heats up then mediaserver is at 40% :/ how do i get rid of it? i tried to do some searching and came up with turning off Quick connect, Samsung push services but this still happens. i dont have any SD card mounted too. im on sm-900f. any fix for this? currently i restart the phone but it usually happens again after i restart >_<
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.

poch21 said:
[HELP] Mediaserver Battery Drain + Heat
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Mediaserver is just a generic category. You need to find out what app is using mediaserver. It's, as you might imagine, probably a media app e.g. audio or video player. An app like GSAM would help you track that down.
There is also an app that kills mediaserver every x hours. But it would be more effective to find the actual app that is the root cause.
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Had the same problem. Happened to be some youtube-downloaded videos that I had recently downloaded and were somehow corrupted. Renamed then to .old and mediaserver disappeared right away. I've heard it also happens with big m3u or playlist files.
Hope this helps.

I just had this problem for 2 days. Media server is sipping the phone's battery at 45%. First, I tried turning off the phone and restart but it didn't solve the problem. But just this morning, when I was not connected to wifi, the media server disappeared. Then when I reconnected, it was completely gone (well, for now). That's just my observation. I have microsd with lots of data and media but I did not delete any of them. It like it went away on its own. :/

If you have an external SD card it's easy to reproduce the problem, just mount / unmount and you will see it starting / stopping. With internal you can backup the whole card and start deleting folders till it stops. It is cause of a faulty file, you just have to find it

I had the same problem, 45% battery used by media server on galaxy s5 stock rom. I solved problem by finding corupted file on micro sd card. I had 5 GB on micro sd. I have created folder name "backup" on internal storage. Then I select all files on sd and moved it to internal memory in "backup" folder. It took some time. At the end is says that it can't move two files. All other files were moved. Those to files were corrupted. The files which remains on sd card were videos taken with phone and when you tried to watch them they were freezing. I have format micro sd and at the end move everything back from backup folder to sd. Problem solved.

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poch21 said:
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My phone heats up then mediaserver is at 40% :/ how do i get rid of it? i tried to do some searching and came up with turning off Quick connect, Samsung push services but this still happens. i dont have any SD card mounted too. im on sm-900f. any fix for this? currently i restart the phone but it usually happens again after i restart >_<
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.
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try to flash another firmware different country...:good:
it happned with me on stock rom but after i flash 5.0 russian this problem fixed:good::good:
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