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Battery life with just music.

Hey, does anybody know the battery life of the G1 when you're in airplane mode and just listening to music?
I ask because that's what I'm about to do in a few days, and I'm planning to buy a new SD card for Apps2SD and music, but if the battery still sucks even when I'm just listening to music, then I might just get an 8GB card instead of the 16GB I was planning to get.
Thanks for the info.

For me, this is actually the one activity that doesn't seem to effect the battery life all that much. I listen to music quite a bit in my car and using headphones and it doesn't seem to drain the battery much at all. I don't use bluetooth, but I would imagine that will kill the battery much faster.

[Q] Can't turn off Media Center/Sync

There’s no way to turn it off? Holding it for options.. Nothing. Not even Google play option
Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you.

Any help?

You mean the service that scans for new media on the device? That has nothing to do with sync

This is how the menu normally looks like. [THIS IS NOT MY DEVICE]

Come on guys, this is killing my battery.

what are you talking about? just untick whatever you dont want to sync? media server is seperate from your google stuff.

IINexusII said:
what are you talking about? just untick whatever you dont want to sync? media server is seperate from your google stuff.
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It's the Google Play Music Sync.
techsplurge(dot)com/13494/google-nexus-4-mediaserver-battery-drain-problem-solution/

urhideless said:
It's the Google Play Music Sync.
techsplurge(dot)com/13494/google-nexus-4-mediaserver-battery-drain-problem-solution/
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If you read further down this only is a fix if there is a media server issue if not using a media player...
It seems to be the consensus in the xda community that it media server issue is related to corrupted media files, be it images or music. However I don't think this is the case.
I have the issue only when playing my sd card music from a music player like power amp. It doesn't happen when not using it. I turned off all scanning within the app and it is still happening. I think this is a 4.2 issue... I deleted all of the files on my SD card then resynced and it's still happening! This was not an issue with the same EXACT content on the galaxy nexus. Can anyone help fix battery drain issue!?
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bleys121 said:
If you read further down this only is a fix if there is a media server issue if not using a media player...
It seems to be the consensus in the xda community that it media server issue is related to corrupted media files, be it images or music. However I don't think this is the case.
I have the issue only when playing my sd card music from a music player like power amp. It doesn't happen when not using it. I turned off all scanning within the app and it is still happening. I think this is a 4.2 issue... I deleted all of the files on my SD card then resynced and it's still happening! This was not an issue with the same EXACT content on the galaxy nexus. Can anyone help fix battery drain issue!?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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Could be a poweramp issue if its not optimized for 4.2 so stop using poweramp and try something else. And is it really a battery drain? I have poweramp installed, mediaserver uses about 16% but its had no effect on my battery life. I also didn't have this issue when poweramp wasn't installed and I used google music, mediaserver then was a minimal % but I had the same battery life. I just switched to mixzing and will see if mediaserver is still as active. I'm thinking it's poweramps widget causing the issue.

kzoodroid said:
Could be a poweramp issue if its not optimized for 4.2 so stop using poweramp and try something else. And is it really a battery drain? I have poweramp installed, mediaserver uses about 16% but its had no effect on my battery life. I also didn't have this issue when poweramp wasn't installed and I used google music, mediaserver then was a minimal % but I had the same battery life. I just switched to mixzing and will see if mediaserver is still as active. I'm thinking it's poweramps widget causing the issue.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "is it really draining your battery". It has a higher consumption than screen on battery stats... I've never known battery stats to be incorrect as far as actually draining battery. I don't think you notice it because you might not listen to music as much as I do. I usually listening to it all day on and off at work. Battery is noticeably less when media server issue is rampant.
Also still showing up with Google music as the music player on SD card music.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

bleys121 said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "is it really draining your battery". It has a higher consumption than screen on battery stats... I've never known battery stats to be incorrect as far as actually draining battery. I don't think you notice it because you might not listen to music as much as I do. I usually listening to it all day on and off at work. Battery is noticeably less when media server issue is rampant.
Also still showing up with Google music as the music player on SD card music.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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I listen to music for 2 hours a day while working out, mediaserver never even showed up in my battery stats when I used google music. When I started using poweramp it now it shows over 20%. So in my mind poweramp is the problem and I uninstalled it and am now using mixzing and the percentage of battery mediaserver uses has dropped significantly. It dropped 10% in 4 hours. If I wiped the battery stats I'm sure it would be non-existent again.
And by is it really draining your battery I mean is it really a problem with mediaserver, the service behind all media players, or is it you just play music for such a long time that it would naturally be a big drain on the battery. Just like if you made calls all day you couldn't expect your battery to last over 8 hours.

I was having your problem with all of the ticks gone.
Go into Settings->Data Usage->Menu and tick "Auto-sync data". That will bring back the ticks so you can uncheck whatever you don't want to sync anymore.

Mediaserver seems to be a fairly common complaint for just about every phone. This thread on rootzwiki for the GNex had about the best recommendations as to whats causing it and how to fix it, though I've pretty much seen the same answers in other threads here, this is about the 4th thread someone's started on this topic for the Nexus 4. I turned on show cpu usage in the developer options for a couple minutes and I saw mediaserver popup a number of times, I'm thinking its because I have sounds enabled for just about every thing in the sounds setting section. Anything that has to do with media of any type (videos, pictures, sounds, games, music) will call it up.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/35241-media-server-drain-advice/

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after fully charging my nexus 7 for the night i went to sleep, when i woke up in the morning the battery was down to 49%, wondering why the battery was going down so quickly, i moved to battery usage and guess BAM Media server top of the list with a whopping 46%. Wonder what caused this i searched around a google and concluded it is related to music, videos, pictures etc. However, since i recently bought the tablet i haven't gotten the chance to input any music vids or pics into. The next logical culprit for the high % is the apps,but since i downloaded a bunch of apps before hand i just opted for factory reset. now here comes the problem, even with Currents, googlenow disabled and no apps downloaded, media server is still at 35%! Does any1 know of any other things that might be causing such a high media server battery usage? Thank You very much.

silentsaber said:
after fully charging my nexus 7 for the night i went to sleep, when i woke up in the morning the battery was down to 49%, wondering why the battery was going down so quickly, i moved to battery usage and guess BAM Media server top of the list with a whopping 46%. Wonder what caused this i searched around a google and concluded it is related to music, videos, pictures etc. However, since i recently bought the tablet i haven't gotten the chance to input any music vids or pics into. The next logical culprit for the high % is the apps,but since i downloaded a bunch of apps before hand i just opted for factory reset. now here comes the problem, even with Currents, googlenow disabled and no apps downloaded, media server is still at 35%! Does any1 know of any other things that might be causing such a high media server battery usage? Thank You very much.
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For me its not more than 10% always, & as per my knowledge mediaserver is all about CPU & keep awake , so maybe some crappy apps causing the issues, so try to test by unistalling them, For me "screen " is always drains almost more than 60% , Got lucky to prove Asus that its battery fault so getting replacement of battery .

I have seen posts that point to the cause being a corrupt media file. Some have mentioned fixing by deleting corrupt video files and my wife had a bad music file that was causing all kinds of problems until I found and deleted it. Also, you can copy a 0-byte '.nomedia' file into any folder you don't want indexed by media server.

Media server: Stay awake

I noticed the battery life on my I9505 has been getting worse recently, even though i've been using it very infrequently, sometimes it's just sat untouched for 4+ hours while i'm working. I looked at the battery stats and while the "screen" is usually at the top, "media server" is usually second, taking anywhere from 10-20% of my battery, when i look into this, it lists "stay awake" as the amount of time the phone has been off charge, plugging the phone in will stop the time counting up but the moment i unplug the phone, the timer continues to count up. Battery stats plus also shows the media server to be keeping the phone awake.
I've removed all my music and also pics + video from the phone as suggested elsewhere with media server problems and corrupt files, but this has had no effect.

mrbish said:
I noticed the battery life on my I9505 has been getting worse recently, even though i've been using it very infrequently, sometimes it's just sat untouched for 4+ hours while i'm working. I looked at the battery stats and while the "screen" is usually at the top, "media server" is usually second, taking anywhere from 10-20% of my battery, when i look into this, it lists "stay awake" as the amount of time the phone has been off charge, plugging the phone in will stop the time counting up but the moment i unplug the phone, the timer continues to count up. Battery stats plus also shows the media server to be keeping the phone awake.
I've removed all my music and also pics + video from the phone as suggested elsewhere with media server problems and corrupt files, but this has had no effect.
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Same here

I have just tried something that may have worked...
I have always tried to stop any Samsung store apps from updating or running, but i read that there was a media scanning issue with samsungs music hub or something, i just let all the samsung apps update through the samsung hub and then rebooted the phone, the media server isn't running any more.
I'm going to use the phone like usual for another day to see if this has actually worked.

I had the same problem today. My phone lasted only 5 hours and media server was on top of the list after listening to music. I think it has to do with Samsung's music app because that's the only time I notice significant battery loss.
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mrbish said:
I noticed the battery life on my I9505 has been getting worse recently, even though i've been using it very infrequently, sometimes it's just sat untouched for 4+ hours while i'm working. I looked at the battery stats and while the "screen" is usually at the top, "media server" is usually second, taking anywhere from 10-20% of my battery, when i look into this, it lists "stay awake" as the amount of time the phone has been off charge, plugging the phone in will stop the time counting up but the moment i unplug the phone, the timer continues to count up. Battery stats plus also shows the media server to be keeping the phone awake.
I've removed all my music and also pics + video from the phone as suggested elsewhere with media server problems and corrupt files, but this has had no effect.
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Do you have an external SD inserted? Such cards can also keep media server (/scanner) running if there is a corrupt file on it. If so, either format the card and/or root the phone and use RescanMediaRoot to disable the media scanner service altogether.

Pfeffernuss said:
Do you have an external SD inserted? Such cards can also keep media server (/scanner) running if there is a corrupt file on it. If so, either format the card and/or root the phone and use RescanMediaRoot to disable the media scanner service altogether.
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No i don't have an external SD. I haven't had the problem today for the first time in about 3 weeks, so i think letting the samsung store update all the apps has fixed it.
Meda scanner stay awake time is 23 miinutes today after 8 hours use, before that, it would have said 8 hours.

Use Greenify and hibernate your music app and see if media server is still appearing in BetterBatteryStats

Battery tanked while listening to music

Hi,
I was using Google play music to listen to music, but that was draining my battery like 30% for about 2 he's of music(locally stored) it's never done that before. I switched to Pulsar with music stored on a SD card..but today I have 50% battery drain in 3 hrs just listening to music.
Locally stored music shouldn't drain a battery like this? Would clean wipe of the phone solve this issue?
Thanks

truf28 said:
Hi,
I was using Google play music to listen to music, but that was draining my battery like 30% for about 2 he's of music(locally stored) it's never done that before. I switched to Pulsar with music stored on a SD card..but today I have 50% battery drain in 3 hrs just listening to music.
Locally stored music shouldn't drain a battery like this? Would clean wipe of the phone solve this issue?
Thanks
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Did you even check to see if it was in fact play music that was draining your battery? It could have been something else completely unrelated. My brother had something similar that happened on his 6p and it turned out to be something to do with Gmail that got stuck syncing

KUSOsan said:
Did you even check to see if it was in fact play music that was draining your battery? It could have been something else completely unrelated. My brother had something similar that happened on his 6p and it turned out to be something to do with Gmail that got stuck syncing
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Well, looking at the battery usage.. I see that Android system and Play music were the highest when used.. I never noticed that Play music sent and received data, I don't think that's normal.