Hi,
I'm running fulmics rom 3.5 on my LG G6 and while the battery life overall is pretty satisfying, it seems to drain it like crazy when listening to music. It's around 20 to 30% per hour.
According to Gsam the 4 biggest battery draining sources today are :
-Android system
-System (*wakelock*)
-retro music (my music player)
-System (*wakelock*) yes there are 2 system wakelocks
This is with my phone basically sitting with the always on display the entire day doing nothing except for 60min of music listening to get those stats.
When checking Wakelock detector the number one wakelock by far is retro music with "android.media.mediaplayer" being the one that's active the longest.
I installed fulmics with viper so I tried uninstalling the driver to see if it changed anything but it didn't.
I installed naptime but again it didn't change anything.
I tried playing music from the SD card and from the internal memory with no difference between the 2.
I wanted to give amplify a shot since I have xposed installed but for some reason it just refuses to work (every tab is just blank without a single wakelock or service displayed)
I tried several music players but all gave the same result.
So I'm kinda out of ideas. The only thing I can think of is to wipe and reinstall from scratch but that's a bit of a pain given all my two factor authorization apps would need to be reconfigured so if anyone has any other idea, I'd appreciate it.
Thank you.
I'm using fulmics with stock music player. I get 0-2% drain an hour with viper installed.
Might be your music player app
Confirmed, change your player
siggey said:
Confirmed, change your player
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basicreece said:
I'm using fulmics with stock music player. I get 0-2% drain an hour with viper installed.
Might be your music player app
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Just re-enabled the stock player and left it to run for an hour with music and again 20% loss over an hour...
Elvenstar said:
Just re-enabled the stock player and left it to run for an hour with music and again 20% loss over an hour...
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No idea then. I get great battery with music player.
Having the exact same issue on my g6, even after factory reset. Did you find a solution?
The app 'ForceDoze' fixed my battery drain music playing issues, and battery drain in general. No negative effects observed and it's been nearly 2 weeks! I use Amazon Music btw.
Edit: forgot to mention that the fingerprint scanner is less responsive for unlocking the phone from standby (often takes 2 taps or a long tap), but it's an easy tradeoff for me.
About 0.5% per hour. I'm on Fulmics 4.2 (I debloated about 100 useless apps and services) + Poweramp + V4A + ARISE Sound Systems with DIRAC installed. I'm listening only to Hi-res FLAC8 (yes, it matters too).
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Hello guys
I have no idea if this is GingerBlur related (I'm pretty sure it isn't) but after listening to music on any player (Stock, Winamp, Player Pro), the media server process seems to continue working in the background and decreases battery level as hell. I noticed that these days. After exiting the player, the media server process kept consuming battery as indicated on the battery status. Don't know if it's kernel related but I have to reboot in order to stop the process from consuming more battery. After reboot, battery consumption came back to normal.
Have you experienced the same issue? I read a thread about someone losing his charge in just a few hours because of the same process.
I think this is Froyo bug. Other than that, my Atrix rocks and battery lasts like no other phone I've had.
joyo22 said:
Hello guys
I have no idea if this is GingerBlur related (I'm pretty sure it isn't) but after listening to music on any player (Stock, Winamp, Player Pro), the media server process seems to continue working in the background and decreases battery level as hell. I noticed that these days. After exiting the player, the media server process kept consuming battery as indicated on the battery status. Don't know if it's kernel related but I have to reboot in order to stop the process from consuming more battery. After reboot, battery consumption came back to normal.
Have you experienced the same issue? I read a thread about someone losing his charge in just a few hours because of the same process.
I think this is Froyo bug. Other than that, my Atrix rocks and battery lasts like no other phone I've had.
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The process always runs in the background regardless of you having used the program or not. My guess is that the program is holding the song on pause and not actually shutting down properly.
Instead of rebooting, you can always force stop the program in Applications. This should result in the same as a reboot.
I can not say if it is a gingerblur issue or a stock issue as I stream all my music through audiogalaxy (you simply can not fit 130 gigs of MP3s on the atrix).
It seems to happen randomly. I close the application but the media server thing keeps consuming battery. If I try to FC the service, it reopens by itself.
I'm going to try to figure out how it can actually close properly
i'm running overcome 2.3.1 and it seems just about every music app i've tried is draining my battery like mad.
google play music will not let my tablet sleep, poweramp has wakelock running all the time and won't let the tablet sleep, cube same deal. i stopped testing there and refuse to use my tablet as a music player no and regulate that to one of my phones - droid charge, which seems to have the problem also. i won't install any music players on my et4g since i'd like to have at least on phone that isn't drained by the end of the day.
this happens with or without widgets on the home screens. any suggestions on a player that won't drain the battery and allow the tablets and phones to sleep?
Same problem here :/
Mediaserver always needs between 50% and 80% battery.
MIUI-Music
Winamp
PlayerPro
MSeiz5
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.
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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/
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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!?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
Soo, I'm experiencing very high battery drain trough Media Server.
When I click on it, it shows "Downloads", "Media Storage", "Download Manager" & "DRM Protected Content".
I'm currently running uXylon 2.9.0 (4.2.2) if it helps, while I haven't heard from anyone having the same problems.
The problem started ever since I installed Play Music, it suddenly starts consuming battery like a mad man,
when I uninstall Play Music, the problems seems to be solved, as Media Server stops showing a higher drain than my SoT
and I get overall better battery life, but even so my SoT usually caps at 2 hrs with sync off, gps off, nfc off...
I just don't get it, what's wrong? I used to get 4-5 hrs SoT, should I change ROM?
I am new to N4. I get around 2 hrs of SoT. ( with playing like max 10 mins of gaming - like subway surfer ). Most of the time, the phone is with 2G data, and whatsapp. That's it. what is wrong with my phone?
Settings->accounts/google/click name, untick sync google play music .. having it on makes any new song you put on your phone upload to the cloud.
For better battery, turn off all the crap, use low brightness for the screen.
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.