media battery drain - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, i was wondering if anyone knows what could be draining my battery. I cant find it? It says media is using 44% and i have no idea why.
Heres whats listed in the battery usage:
oma download
download manager
media sync
gallery
com.motorola.photowidget
drm protected content storage
downloads
purchased media
media storage
It just started in the last day or so
Thanks!

Had the same problem, fixed it by clearing data for Media Storage

thanks, i think it was something to do with my gallery cuz it was froze, maybe trying to send something with no wifi on? It seems to be ok now.

maybe a fix
i had the same problem after wipe clean and fresh install of JB.
I dont know exactly what solved it but here is what i did:
1. disable media store
2. clear media store data
2.5 executed playerpro application while media store is disabled
3. deleted all .nomedia files i could find
4. deleted the Player Pro album art directory content.
5. deleted all image caches of all applications i could find
6. enabled media store

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Samsung Music Player Duplicates

So I have been having duplicate song issues. It seemed to happen when I moved around my files. My music player list will show like 2 or 3 albums, but only one will play. The other one or two entire albums will give an error saying 'This file does not exist.' I see that 'Media scanner running' info on the status bar but it never fixes this issue. Anyone else have this problem or a fix?
If it matters this has happened both on internal and external memory.
Thanks.
Nope, never had this problem. Try to remove all music files and see if the player shows anything. If not, then add the ones that were showing duplicates and see if it happens again.
I am having the same issue but i normally use double twist
Delete your cache in Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, Music.
Also, delete the /sdcard/albumthumbs folder.
Reboot and it should rebuild your song list.
I had tried deleting cache before but didn't see it. I didn't realize there were multiple sorting options on this phone, whoops. The 'delete cache' was dark and would not let me click it, but I tried deleting data and the albumthumbs but it still didn't work. I am just going to try erasing it all and re-adding the music and not moving it around again... Thanks for the help though!
Did you find your fix? I had to leave everything out of a folder on the sdcard to stop this annoyance.
I hope this helps
If you are rooted I would recomend purchasing the full version of the app "SD Maid" from the market.
I had an issue from doubletwist that was resulting in duplicate music files.
I'm pretty sure that the reason it happens is; when we are syncing music (possibly alot at once) most programs recognize the 16g internal storage as possibly a indipendent device. This could be because of the potential to swap out your sd card to share music but on second though probably not.
its probably just a random error.
If you are unrooted or otherwise unable to use sd maid (id recomend rooting and flashing a custom rom but if thats not what you want to do then get the free astro file manager from the market and you should see in your home directory a file called music or it could within another file titled media. Regardless where you want it to be is on your external sd card.
you can delete the directory titled music but first check the file titled external media.
You should see all of your music there as well.
I have played with the settings on doubletwist as well as spotify and this is the best solution.
(If you use sd maid then go into duplicates and very very very patiently select all of the boxes it lets you and then just hit the delete duplicates up top)

[A] Media Scanner frozen at 0%

Samsung SGHT-959, stock Froyo.ka6 rooted.
A funny thing happened to me while adding some D64 images to play with Frodo C64 on my vibrant.
Media Scanner started and where it used to take just under 60 seconds was now taking close to 10 minutes to complete! WTF?!?!
Ok fine, I deleted the 4 files I added, same thing, Media Scanner frozen at 0% for 10 minutes. I have a total of 30 media files on my SD card combined ( I use Ipod touch for music & vids) so there was no reason for the scanning to exponentially increase in scanning time when all I did was add 4 non-media files. Rebooted, no change. Deleted all data from DCIM/.thumbnails from internal phone memory & SD, no change. Others recommended factory reset but then I have to re-install all apps - what a drag!!
I searched here & Google and noticed that the Media Storage service is responsible scanning - I went into application manager, running applications and noticed that Media Storage data was at 95+MB and rising! I don't even have 95MB worth of media on this phone! I force closed which STOPPPED media scanning (yay!!!) and cleared the data. I rebooted. The media scanning took about 30 seconds total!! I went to Media Storage and the data is now at 212KB which sounds about right considering what I have on this phone.
I have read that ringtones disappeared then later re-appeared, didn't happen to me, my guess is the noobs didn't wait for media scanner to reach 100%. Yes, I did have to go and reset contact ringtones (I didn't have that many) and I have read that you will lose playlists. Since many of you are running hacked roms I imagine you are also using a different media player as well so this shouldn't be a problem.
There are workarounds such as running Media Scanner on demand, probably a good solution for those of you with tons of media that use stock music player and playlists:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753294
This is obviously a bug in the Media Storage service and something to be aware of..Anyone know if this is fixed in Android 3.x?
You can also go into recovery and format the sd card there or in adb
According to what I read in various threads here in XDA that doesn't help. I have read that it's normal for media scanner to take a long time if you have thousands of media files on your SD so that didn't apply to me.
Somehow Media Storage service doesn't properly flush out it's internal data cache causing to increase in both size as well as time needed to scan. I flushed it out manually and that solved the problem. Media Storage is an indexing service for all media on your phone so either the service locks up under certain conditions or the database doesn't purge properly. This affects all versions of froyo.
Besides I don't need to go into ADB or recovery to format the card, I can do it right from the settings.

[Q] False Duplicates of songs

Hi,
I´ve got the problem that since i use resurrection mod 2.0 my S2 always creates copys of my songs and pictures.
Those copys have the same name but with the endig *.data .
Now my galerie and winamp shows this copys but cant play them and just stop.
Why is this?
I had this and a temporary solution is to do this. If it happens again and again I don't know what to do. I posted another thread on media scanner troubles.
go to application manager> all application and search
-media storage,
-music player,
-gallery application
and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base

(Solved) Unknown Ringtone in Marshmallow

Root or Non-Root
This problem occurs due to MEDIASCAN
If mediascaner Scans files at boot then you will not face this problem.
If Media Storage not run at boot
you will not see any photo & video in your stock Gallery and also no audio in Music
This will also solve this problem.
We will run media scan manually to solve the problem
To run media scan manually
Non-Root Users
Download the app from Google Play
media Re.Scan.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Open the app and check all the file types
Now Tap START MEDIASCAN
After the app finish the scan check your Gallery and Music apps
Root Users
If you have GREENIFY installed then check whether you have hibernated MEDIA STORAGE
CAUTION:
NEVER greenify MEDIA STORAGE
It also prevent Stock Camera app to save Photos
(this happened to me when I hibernated MEDIASTORAGE)
After checking Do the same as mentioned for NON-ROOT USERS
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Hit Thanks if this solves your problem
Thanks. Hope fixes mine, about to reboot. Think been suspicions of that media program running, looks like I cut its balls couple weeks ago w/ app ops. Thought this was maybe my imagination, but digging and seeing "unknown ringtone." We'll see. Thanks

My phone doesn't see a lot of the media on it. (not a .nomdeia issue)

Ok, so I've been trying to sort this issue out for almost half a year now.
All of a sudden my phone just stopped being able to 'see' all the current media on it, I initially noticed this because my ringtone changed back to a standard one, when I checked the gallery it was empty.
At first I thought it was a .nomedia file hiding everything but I couldn't find any, and when I took new photos they appeared in the gallery as if everything before them had just been deleted.
I installed a different gallery app that had the option to "view hidden files" and there it all was, but the thing that puzzled me was that the new photos and videos were in the same folders as the old ones.
Even weirder anything I downloaded couldn't be seen, literally the only media the phone would see is media it created ITSELF (photos, videos, sound recordings and screenshots).
I became curious and checked the files on the PC and the main difference was that many of the media details like photo dimensions and video duration were missing on all the old non-visible media while it was present on all the new media.
I copied a few photos and videos over to the PC, let it add it's own info to the files, checked them to make sure dimensions and durations were all there, then copied them back to the phone to see if they would show up and all the information disappeared! Which explains why I can't see new files downloaded from the internet ect.
List of things I've tried:
- .nomedia files
- force stop/delete cache of gallery
- force stop/delete cache of media storage
- wipe phone cache from boot menu
- repopulate/rescan for media using a large number of app including fx, ex file explorer, media re.scan ect ect
- backed up all media onto PC and deleted from phone, then replaced from back-up
I'm honestly at a complete loss, does anyone know what could be causing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Do you have any app locker/privacy locker apps installed?
Thanks for the reply, I had a look through and wasn't able to find anything, I never knowingly installed an app like that.
There is the standard 'private' setting on the phone but turning it on or off makes no difference.
Faawks said:
Ok, so I've been trying to sort this issue out for almost half a year now.
All of a sudden my phone just stopped being able to 'see' all the current media on it, I initially noticed this because my ringtone changed back to a standard one, when I checked the gallery it was empty.
At first I thought it was a .nomedia file hiding everything but I couldn't find any, and when I took new photos they appeared in the gallery as if everything before them had just been deleted.
I installed a different gallery app that had the option to "view hidden files" and there it all was, but the thing that puzzled me was that the new photos and videos were in the same folders as the old ones.
Even weirder anything I downloaded couldn't be seen, literally the only media the phone would see is media it created ITSELF (photos, videos, sound recordings and screenshots).
I became curious and checked the files on the PC and the main difference was that many of the media details like photo dimensions and video duration were missing on all the old non-visible media while it was present on all the new media.
I copied a few photos and videos over to the PC, let it add it's own info to the files, checked them to make sure dimensions and durations were all there, then copied them back to the phone to see if they would show up and all the information disappeared! Which explains why I can't see new files downloaded from the internet ect.
List of things I've tried:
- .nomedia files
- force stop/delete cache of gallery
- force stop/delete cache of media storage
- wipe phone cache from boot menu
- repopulate/rescan for media using a large number of app including fx, ex file explorer, media re.scan ect ect
- backed up all media onto PC and deleted from phone, then replaced from back-up
I'm honestly at a complete loss, does anyone know what could be causing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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If you know the folder where they are all saved the just check the name because maybe there can be a dot(.) Before the folder name thus making it hidden
If yes,then just rename it without the dot and your work will be done
It is also possible that the properties of the folder maybe somehow changed thus in that case, connect your device to pc and right click on the folder and goto properties. If you see 'read only' , 'hidden' etc.. Then goto advance settings and change the properties to 'full control'
Hope this helps
Regards,
milkyway3

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