I have gone through countless battery reconditions, following various methods, very tediously, various roms (nero, bionix, trigger, etc.) trying to get acceptable battery life. After a lot of detective work I finally pinned down the problem to the 'mediaserver' process within the system processes. It runs CONSTANTLY and drains the batter within half a day from a full charge. This problem has been documented on google code: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6765
The process cannot be killed via any task manager as it seems to be a sub-process. So I finally mustered the courage to move the file from its directory into the parent directory to see if that would do the trick and restarted.
Now I'm stuck on the boot screen.
Can someone please help find a solution for this issue? I think I can recover from the boot screen issue but I know I will just encounter the same issue again and again.
I am currently on trigger 2.6.1.
Help?
I should also ask if it is possible to even ODIN back to stock from a ROM that has the voodoo fix enabled?
Just odin back, root, flash a rom, freeze the app with titanium backup.
Edit, n/m, just realized you weren't talking about an app. I'll read the link you posted.
I'm on trigger 2.6.1, no issues here. You sure it's not a bad app man?
As far as I can tell, no. It certainly could be but the I've been having battery issues since bionix 3 I think.
However I did read on that google link that certain media centric apps can cause it to go nuts. I am using the winamp beta app and youtube pretty heavily (although thats obviously unlikely to be the culprit).
I thought about freezing it but ya, its a sub process under the 'system processes'...process so I can't freeze it without taking down the whole thing and probably causing way more issues.
Thanks for the response though, appreciated.
Dude, winamp and youtube are going to use a lot of power.. How long is a full charge for you?
About 8 hours. I pull it off the charger at 7:30am, use winamp for music for about 1 - 1.5 hours and other moderate use. Dead by the time I leave work at 5. Get home, charge it up until I hit the gym (usually get it to roughly 50%) and listen to music, watch a couple videos and its begging for the charger by the time I get home.
Furthermore, I use the system panel app to find out exactly what is eating CPU cycles. That 'mediaprocess' thing is exponentially above everything else. So either a bad app is causing it to run and keep it running or something else is triggering it. I formatted both SD Cards per some of the suggestions elsewhere, but no dice.
seems like your getting normal battery life.
heavy usage on your phone will eat up the battery. especially watching videos.
So what do I make of the mediaserver process that is using up 40-50% of the battery? Watching videos, listening to music or not, I get the same results. I really don't think its that.
Are you sure you're completely killing the apps when you're not using them? Use the task manager and be sure the app is not running. Otherwise, be sure to freeze media hub and the DRM storage with TB. It should help with drain while the phone is on standby.
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Ya I'm sure. I don't even have mediahub installed on the phone however I am going to try freezing / removing the DRM storage thing.
Mediaserver constantly running is the reasons the battery drains. I didn't know if anyone has any solution as to how to kill it, or how to keep it from running continuously. This is a known bug as shown in the link in OP.
I'm guessing everytime I open up winamp or something it starts, then never stops after that. Who knows.
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Ya I'm sure. I don't even have mediahub installed on the phone however I am going to try freezing / removing the DRM storage thing.
Mediaserver constantly running is the reasons the battery drains. I didn't know if anyone has any solution as to how to kill it, or how to keep it from running continuously. This is a known bug as shown in the link in OP.
I'm guessing everytime I open up winamp or something it starts, then never stops after that. Who knows.
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Do you have allshare installed?
running Trigger 2.6
W/ dragon kernel uv/oc to 1.28
and Adw launcher ex
No sir. I've deleted pretty much anything DRM, Mediahub or Allshare related. Most of it is already removed with Trigger (ROM I'm using right now) and I removed a couple more services / apps in the quest for better battery life.
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Hi guys,
Have had my Hero just over a month now and love the thing to bits...
The one thing (battery life aside) that pees me off though is that the phone can be slow at times...
It seems to stem from apps either opening themselves and running in the background, or not closing properly when I select to close them.
I seem to spend half my time using the phone in TaskKiller getting rid of everything that shouldn't be running before I can do anything.
Has anyone got any smart ideas on how I can improve the problems above?
I've also noticed when I switch the phone off and back on a) it improves things slightly, but b) it also runs lots of things that I don't need open so is there a way to stop things running on start up?
Thanks for the help guys.
To show you what I mean, I just restarted the phone and killed everything except:
WaveSecure Beta
com.google.android.apps.mapssomething that goes off the screen) - can't kill this
HTC Sense
Touch Input
com.htc.provider
Go back to it 10 minutes later and I also have the following open:
Settings
vizBattery
Wi-Fi Status
Google Mail
Thats without me touching it at all.... if I had also used the Twitter app, Facebook, messaging etc then they would all still be open, the browser and music player would probably be there too.
It's normal fo it to start some apps on its own, for example peep (htc's twitter program) the music player (only if you have a widget on one of the homescreens)
same goes for calander etc etc google mail is push so it has to be opened to recieve messaged realtime.
Things like batterystatus thingy's often drain your battery and sometimes slow down your device I suggest removing that.
Also I don't know about wifi status but can imagine that draining battery to since
I don't think that will be running without your wifi being on. When continuosly searching for networks your device also will slow down, and drain the battery
My english isn't perfect so I hope you understand what I'm saying.
edit: do you use the official t-mobile rom or a custom? Don't know if htc released the last update for t-mob devices. That update really improved almost everything
so if you don't have that it's ''normal'' for the device to lag.
Some apps register themselves to start automatically. Obviously Gmail needs to run if you're syncing a Gmail account.
There's at least one app (paid) that can override this - I believe it is called Startup Auditor.
However, for the most part, it doesn't really matter since many of the apps that appear to be "running" will not be consuming any CPU time (and by extension battery life) unless they are designed to run in the background.
In addition, as Stafflover has already said, I'd also suggest you try removing vizBattery - whilst I've no specific experience with this app, I've heard that many battery status widgets drain the battery significantly.
Regards,
Dave
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There's at least one app (paid) that can override this - I believe it is called Startup Auditor.
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AutoStarts does the same job, also paid. using it for weeks, works great.
programs starting up
gk141054 said:
Hi guys,
Have had my Hero just over a month now and love the thing to bits...
The one thing (battery life aside) that pees me off though is that the phone can be slow at times...
It seems to stem from apps either opening themselves and running in the background, or not closing properly when I select to close them.
I seem to spend half my time using the phone in TaskKiller getting rid of everything that shouldn't be running before I can do anything.
Has anyone got any smart ideas on how I can improve the problems above?
I've also noticed when I switch the phone off and back on a) it improves things slightly, but b) it also runs lots of things that I don't need open so is there a way to stop things running on start up?
Thanks for the help guys.
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Hey Pal! I had the same problem then I got into a bit of app development and understood. Some service need to be "broadcasting" and some other to be "listening". Best you can do is sometimes tell them how often to "wake up and check". But if you think about it, a program MUST be checking on a few things, at least sometimes, to give you the "android experience". Also, no matter how much you care about that number you see in the "free ram" widget (assunming you use taskiller with the widget), it is not very important until it REALLY does slow your phone down. Some apps are worse than others at clogging up or draining your battery: try them, weigh how useful they really are for you and then decide what to keep (running) Ciao!
I can't figure it out, but in the last two-three days, I've had considerable slowdown on all apps and ADW menus and homescreens. Is there an easy way to figure out what is using all the resources and remove it? I have gone over everything that I have installed in the last few days and deleted most of them, but I still have the lag and I can't figure this out. From the time I rooted and updated to 026, the phone has been great and pretty fast and the batt life has been pretty good as well, but now all of that has changed, so something is killing my phone slowly. Any ideas/help/similar stories??
Thanks for your help guys..
"spare parts" gives you various stats under battery usage, you could check what apps etc have been using up CPU time - could give you a clue?
Also bug reporter will let you email the log files to yourself for inspection.
Thanks for the quick response... I totally forgot about spare parts. It was helpful and the problem has been resolved. Back to normal and fast again...
Thanks for the help...
I find that if I leave my phone on too long without restarting then it tends to start lagging up a lot. I usually have to restart every 3-4 days.
agreed.. I find the same issue-- a required restart every few days or the phone begins to lag quite a bit. Not sure of the cause though.
Jikenda said:
Thanks for the quick response... I totally forgot about spare parts. It was helpful and the problem has been resolved. Back to normal and fast again...
Thanks for the help...
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Could you tell what the problem was and how you managed to isolate it? Thanks
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The problem seemed to be with fancy widgets, so I figured the update didn't install right, so I uninstalled it, re-installed it and rebooted the phone and everything is a-ok..
But, I did use spare parts to isolate the usage stats..
where is everyone getting fancy widgets? cuz i'm not seeing it on the market
edit: kk so i found a download for it on google. next question. you said your's recently updated.... to what version? i just got 1.2.4..
I'm sure 1.3.0 was the last version they made before they stopped..
here ya go!!
http://db.tt/XtRs4j
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The laggy problem after long time not reboot which your guys mention was caused by applications running, i think. Did you try Task killer? If not, after a day, there are many running program in the cache and your fone would soom run out of memory.
I do use advanced task killer pro and some cache cleaner as well, but even so, I still have to reboot every few days or the slowdown problem re-emerges..
I am keeping my eyes on the usage stats in case I have some rogue program that just eats memory too often.
Installed CM10-20121205 and the latest GApps. Did not restore any apps or data using Titanium. Flashed to s-off using DirtyRacun method.
Wiped System->Factory Wipe->Installed CM10 Rom->Installed GApps->Rebooted
Alright, so I did all of that and everything seems to be working fine. However I still feel as though the phone is behaving just as badly as it used to with regards to multi-tasking. I'll give two examples with my favorite browser (Dolphin) and music player (Poweramp).
The browser issue I don't think is anything the folks here won't be familiar with. Use browser, exit browser for a bit, return to browser only to have to reload all pages/tabs. Annoying...
My next example involves the Poweramp widget. I listen to a lot of MP3s that call for a functioning bookmarking feature. I like/need to be able to resume tracks where I left off when pausing, putting the device to sleep for later use. When resuming a track by going to the Poweramp app ->Now Playing->Unpause it resumes just fine. If I unpause from the widget on one of my home screens it almost ALWAYS restarts the track from the beginning. This happens with both long (4 hour) mp3s and short songs (2-3 minutes).
Perhaps someone could explain why that's happening? It doesn't appear after about a day of use that the phone is any "better" for multi-tasking. I've heard input from some folks describing this as unusual and others saying that Android is just sort of like that. I don't know. I just sort of got it in my head after hearing so many people complain about how this phone (Sense) handles multi-tasking that I thought flashing to a new rom would fix the problem.
If this is a case of lofty expectations it would be super to know. That way I don't go flashing to a hundred different roms to fix a problem that isn't technically considered a problem by anyone other than myself.
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Second question! I've had no trouble using most every app that requires SU permissions (Titanium BU notably). However I've noticed that I am constantly having to grant SU permissions to apps even when I tell SU to remember my preference to allow. I've also not been able to get Wireless Tether OR WiFi Tether for Root Users to work correctly. I tried FoxFi and that seems to work just fine but doesn't require root (and costs money for the good version.
Any input would be vastly appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: I didn't see the "Is this post a question?" icon before posting this thread. I do apologize! Any input on this matter would be greatly appreciated. This forum and its community have been invaluable up to this point in my making my phone my own!
Just flashed over the MeanRom ICS and having the same problem.
I don't have that many widgets. Weather widget not on my home screen, power settings widget, power amp, and Google Search.
Wireless and WiFi Tether not working. Perhaps there's something wrong with how I rooted my phone? However, I ran a "root checker" app that came out okay, and my phone says s-off when in recovery mode.
It sounds like you have too many apps installed that run as services and are hogging memory. You can use an app like OS Monitor to see what's still active in memory and how much it's using up.
Just tried using the McTweaker Root app cynic method to fix multi-tasking and it unfortunately still seems broken. :/ I'm at a total loss.
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It sounds like you have too many apps installed that run as services and are hogging memory. You can use an app like OS Monitor to see what's still active in memory and how much it's using up.
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Tested this theory but it doesn't really hold water. I'm not running that many apps all things considered, and I was having this problem when it was fairly app free...
Oi vey this is frustrating. I've spent the better part of a long ass time.
Hi, I searched but couldn't find and answer. When I start my Rezound, the media server gets going and doesn't stop. It will drain it completely if I don't remember to go in and stop it...I have read solutions in the past, but can't find them either!
Any thoughts?
Thanks in Advance!
did u tried to erase data of media server ?
I had this problem when I first switched to CM 10.1, though I suppose it was probably happening on ICS as well. After reading a bunch of threads about it, the common theme seemed to be corrupted media files. At some point I had some pictures and MP3s that had become corrupted. Wiped them off and the mediaserver process dropped off my battery use stats entirely. Apparently corrupted files causes the mediaserver process to loop or something like that and presto: excessive battery drain.
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did u tried to erase data of media server ?
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I have, but thanks
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I had this problem when I first switched to CM 10.1, though I suppose it was probably happening on ICS as well. After reading a bunch of threads about it, the common theme seemed to be corrupted media files. At some point I had some pictures and MP3s that had become corrupted. Wiped them off and the mediaserver process dropped off my battery use stats entirely. Apparently corrupted files causes the mediaserver process to loop or something like that and presto: excessive battery drain.
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That might be the ticket, though replacing all music is not a happy thought! I'll have to try it...
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agent511 said:
I had this problem when I first switched to CM 10.1, though I suppose it was probably happening on ICS as well. After reading a bunch of threads about it, the common theme seemed to be corrupted media files. At some point I had some pictures and MP3s that had become corrupted. Wiped them off and the mediaserver process dropped off my battery use stats entirely. Apparently corrupted files causes the mediaserver process to loop or something like that and presto: excessive battery drain.
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This is most likely the issue, I have had it on my Rezound and my son's Bionic had something very similar... although in both of our cases I don't know if the problem was a corrupt file exactly, in my case I am about 98% sure it is an MP3 with tags mediaserver doesn't like. I had a file that if I put it on the phone would drain the battery in hours with media server, remove it and it was fine, worked perfectly on my PC and MP3 player... ran the file through a converter to WAV and then back to MP3 and it was fine, but it back on the phone and no issues. I did spend WAY too much time trying to figure this out though. :/
find app that disable wake lock for apps
I've noticed that Chrome dies every few minutes, (sometimes it can go 30+ minutes depending on what I'm doing.) Just yesterday when I was on KK, Chrome NEVER lost the tabs, even when I had 20+ of them.
I tend to stream talk radio/pod casts from websites, and up until now, it hasn't been a problem. This is actually a really big problem in the base Lollipop code. Is anyone else noticing this?
http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2q6bed/lollipop_memory_leak_still_on_501/
I've rebooted my phone several times today, yet I'm at 1.2GB+ system usage, and 850MB+ app usage. I can't compare this to KK directly because I never once cared to check those metrics. This is making the phone quite unusable. I'm using the odexed stock ROM. This is fairly disappointing.
What android version is the LG update? Was the memory leak fixed in 5.0.2? Cuz I'm running bliss ROM, which I believe is 5.0.2, and don't seem to have memory leak issues.
Haven't noticed anything like what you're describing, but battery life is taking a major hit on 5.0.1. Eight hours at work on KK and the battery still had around ninety percent. The same thing on Lollipop and it's around sixty percent. This is just sitting in my pocket for all but 15 minutes or so during lunch.
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Haven't noticed anything like what you're describing, but battery life is taking a major hit on 5.0.1. Eight hours at work on KK and the battery still had around ninety percent. The same thing on Lollipop and it's around sixty percent. This is just sitting in my pocket for all but 15 minutes or so during lunch.
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From what I understand the bug persists in 5.0.2 but the ROM developer might have made some tweaks to mitigate the problem. Stock/OEM versions of 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 have this issue. My brother with a Sprint S5 is having the same problem. After a few hours of runtime, then you'll notice the home screen redrawing when you hit home... you'll notice your tabs in Chrome re-drawing as well. If you were streaming something like audio or video, then it dies in the background. People are also complaining that this happens with Google Music, and things of that nature. I haven't played around enough to see what all will close.
With bumped stock ROM, I never once had Chrome close in the background. At this point, I'm having a hard time seeing the benefits of LP over KK. A few fun things like unlock w/ BT connection, but what else? I see that framerate improved by about 20%, but didn't eliminate stutter completely from this phone. That's likely never going to be fixed, as it's a result of the 2K screen.
I also find it bizarre that I can CAUSE Chrome to die on-demand. If I'm listening to this particular podcast, and Chrome is the only app running in the background, then I go to Setttings > Apps > Running, within 5 seconds, the audio stops. Chrome dies. I see the System RAM usage drop from 1.5GB to 1.0GB. App usage stays around 800MB.
Rebooting the phone seems to help a bit, but it comes right back after I go through a few apps in normal use. On KK, I almost NEVER swiped away apps, or closed Chrome tabs. I only did that if I had clutter and I wanted things to be more neatly organized in the recent apps dialog.
Can anyone else try loading up a podcast like thebiggestproblemintheuniverse.com in Chrome/Chrome Beta, then using their phone like normal with this all in the background for a bit. Try going to Running apps and see if it kills/freezes the Chrome process.
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Can anyone else try loading up a podcast like thebiggestproblemintheuniverse.com in Chrome/Chrome Beta, then using their phone like normal with this all in the background for a bit. Try going to Running apps and see if it kills/freezes the Chrome process.
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So I went ahead and tried the above on my non-rooted / stock KK and as soon as I went into the Apps settings Chrome stopped playing the podcast and closed. I tried this multiple time and it happened each time. FYI - Am on Chrome V.40.0.2214.109.
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I also find it bizarre that I can CAUSE Chrome to die on-demand. If I'm listening to this particular podcast, and Chrome is the only app running in the background, then I go to Setttings > Apps > Running, within 5 seconds, the audio stops. Chrome dies. I see the System RAM usage drop from 1.5GB to 1.0GB. App usage stays around 800MB.
Rebooting the phone seems to help a bit, but it comes right back after I go through a few apps in normal use. On KK, I almost NEVER swiped away apps, or closed Chrome tabs. I only did that if I had clutter and I wanted things to be more neatly organized in the recent apps dialog.
Can anyone else try loading up a podcast like thebiggestproblemintheuniverse.com in Chrome/Chrome Beta, then using their phone like normal with this all in the background for a bit. Try going to Running apps and see if it kills/freezes the Chrome process.
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I'm rooted, L odexed, and on the latest Chrome beta and can confirm this happened exactly as you described. Within 2-3 seconds of going to running apps, the podcast died. When I opened chrome again, it came back to that web page but had to reload it.
Forgive me if I am entirely off base here as I am not a dev,
It was noted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/g-watch/development/android-5-0-lollipop-memory-leak-fix-lg-t3030871
that the LG G watch suffered from the same thing, and from this git hub: https://github.com/temasek/android_...services/core/java/com/android/server/display
The dev made a patched services.jar, could this point in the right direction
To be fair, I never tried to go to the 'Running' apps while streaming on KK, because I never had a problem with the podcast stopping. It's possible that Android 'cheats' by clearing up RAM when you visit this page to make things look more efficient. That's actually kinda shady.