only recently today i noticed that my phone was extra warm ~40c in my pocket and i noticed my battery % was dropping like crazy. i went and checked running processes in about phone and also in spare parts and noticed mediaserver was running at 60% and constantly increasing and running for 2 hrs. i didnt run any videos, music or apps this after noon, but however i did try to install googles new voice search from the market, but it would fail to install because it said the file was not signed correctly or something (still cant install it). would this be the cause of the wild mediaserver process?
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Mediaserver is draining a lot of my battery as in 54% im on Galaxy Droid 3.3 JVA and ive search other related threads but they dont seem to have a fix anyone have answers?
I noticed that to, Media Server was taking 35% of my battery so I searched and found this post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575 .
According to that post a corrupt file (like a picture or mp3) can cause the battery drain. So I went through my files and found that I had 3 corrupt pictures. I deleted them and boom, battery usage from Media Server went down to 7%.
Three days later the battery usage was back up to 30%. This time I haven't found a solution .
Btw I'm using a Nexus S.
My phone's Cell Standby is eating like 80% of my battery even in flight mode. even if I don't use the phone at all after full charging, the battery goes from 90% to 20% in just about 10-12 hours. I don't know what's causing the problem.
In the cell standby battery status it shows Time without network: 100%
Is there any solution to this? This problem started after I flashed to Gingerbread 2.3.4 XXJVP (GT-I9000)
same problem here on ICS 4.2. Media server is keeping my phone awake and so unable to get into deep idle. Really draining the batter hanging the CPU around 400mhz. So far after resetting my galaxy, it's been able to delve into deep idle. But still not sure what caused the media server problem in the first place, and i doubt it's the last time ill see it. In which case i may have to try going through my sd files as in the post above.
i have that problem too..
but only when i listen music with poweramp.
i have even deleted my photos and stuff
is it possible somehow that songs id3 tags causes these problems?
Hmm yeh not sure. I also had a problem with my stock music player not being able to play any songs at all. So I wonder if that did it for me.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Well idont know.maybe there is corrupted file in my music files.but this is first time i have these problems. Been using many roms before and never had problems with mediaserver..
Installed Skype and called once. Battery drainage after installation, turned out the Skype contact sync was causing the issue. Unticked the sync box and battery life back to normal.
How to fix it
The mediaserver thing runs when you open media(photos, music videos) in any program. If you inactivate it you will not be able to access your media. So when your finished with viewing photos or music just go to
apps-->all-->mediastorage-->force stop
DONT CLEAR DATA, I DID IT ONCE AND I COULDN'T ACCESS MY MUSIC FOR A DAY!!!
So I rooted my s5 via towel root, installed a and busy box no problems. This of. I installed xposed framework. Rebooted and there was some serious lag. Rebooted again still as laggy. It's so lagging I was able to type most this sentence before it started showing up on screen. The screen takes 3-5 seconds to turn on, buttons take multiple presses before doing anything. And I know I'm not the only person experiencing lag like this after installing xposed on an s5.
Additionally, S Health stopped working with xposed installed, and was a large drain on my battery. A normal day consists of about 8+ hrs of pandora streaming at work by the end of the day I have around 50% battery. Today only about an hour of pandora, and went home early, hadn't used my phone pretty much the rest of the day until I un installed xposed and i only have 30% left. I'd still be streaming pandora for another hour roughly if I was at work. Currently have it un installed, lags gone and s health works again. I really want xposed to work.
Please see: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/xposed-s5-t2725405
hey everyone. I noticed recently that my battery life on my m7 was really poor. The battery was draining at 6-8% per hour idling in my pocket, so I decided to see what was up. I noticed my cpu usage never went below 80%. I checked my app usage, but nothing specific was showing under battery usage in settings, so I did some googling. I downloaded a bunch of apps including Gsam and better battery life and saw mediaserver was thrashing the cpu nonstop, as well as logcat, and google play services was constantly waking the device.
I tried all sorts of things from the common reboot to adb commands. Finally, I found something that at least partially worked.
I downloaded an app from the play store called system tuner, which let me kill mediaserver, and instantly my cpu usage went from 80% to 7%. logcat also stopped when I stopped mediaserver. I have noticed no side effects from doing this. I hope this can help someone out there.
Now I just need to figure out 2 things:
1) prevent play services from wakelocking (up to 46 times per hour, wow!)
2) automate killing mediaserver on startup, as I noticed the issue returns everytime I reboot the device.
If someone out there can help me, it would be appreciated, and if I find out on my own, I will share this info here for all the people with the same problem.
EDIT: I found an app called mediaserver killer, which didn't work at first, but after updating my play store opened just fine. I set it to kill mediaserver on screen on, and hid the toast and app icon, which is about as automated as its gonna get.
play services is still wakelocking the device a lot, but much less since the update. I'm just going to call it a day and move on.
so my phone has been exceptional since the 236 update so not related to that in any way
Yesterday a few apps were updated from the appstore just the usual stuff like FB etc etc, then I noticed that the phone was staying warm (not hot) after not using for a while which is not normal, it usually goes cold, this indicated to me that something was remaining active when it shouldn't be, I checked the battery drain profile and android OS was unusually high, I have not really investigated this issue yet but was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing - the clue is that the phone stays warm when not being used (active doing something)
I'm having serious battery issues that just started out of nowhere. I'm currently only getting about 4 hours of light use before having to recharge.
I'd like to look at what apps are using the battery but there are only 5 apps listed and they add up to only 27% (the highest is screen at 12%).
Phone is not rooted and I haven't loaded any new apps recently.
I noticed this as well. I used to use Better Battery Stats when I was rooted, so I didn't know if it was normal to act this way or not. Sounds like it isn't.
Currently having the same issue. Seems like my battery started tanking right around Christmas. I got a Huawei watch and originally suspected that but turning it off and leaving it home for a day didn't seem to help. The battery stats on the S6 are garbage and I can't track down what is going on.
Been noticing the same issue on my G920A. I tried doing a cache clear, but that doesn't seem to have helped. I went through all the running apps and services to try and find anything that could be eating the battery, but nothing seems to be reported that adds up to the amount that's getting eaten.
I use greenify for handling the hibernation of apps when they don't seem to act right by themselves, but since the phone isn't rooted, I have to manually run this operation - and that really doesn't help much anyway. Figured I'd add my experience to this thread just as a means of documenting the situation.