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The android.media.process is taking a large chunk of my battery. I haven't seen this process on any of the previous ICS passion roms. Can anybody tell me why this is constantly running?
Here's a couple screen shots. I would ask the dev but I'm a couple posts away from being able to do so. Hopefully he'll read this and explain why it would be different than the previous versions..
Try clearing data for all those services mentioned.
It's weird, I've seen this problem a lot in the thread, but I don't have it.
What are you syncing, by the way? Which do you have enabled?
Only thing synced is my gmail. I make sure to go through all of the settings and uncheck anything that would run in the background. I'll update after I clear out my cache.
Alright, hm.. could be a faulty app, too.
Let me know how it goes.
Cleared cache from recovery, set permissions.. etc. Its still running. It must be something different with this rom... I may just return to 6.5. I had no problems with it and I have gotten used to no GPS.
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pillowmissile said:
Cleared cache from recovery, set permissions.. etc. Its still running. It must be something different with this rom... I may just return to 6.5. I had no problems with it and I have gotten used to no GPS.
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I'm having this issue with V7 too. I read online that it could be a corrupt media file causing it. Apparently, you need to move your media off you SD card to see if it helps.
Haven't tried it yet
You can figure out what media it is scanning and then in that file open it up and put a .nomedia file in it and when your media scanner is engaged, it will skip over that particular file.
Be careful with .nomedia files b/c if you put them in say DCIM or you album art, take a wild guess what you'll see in your media player or your gallery.
.nomedias work as long as your make sure you know where they go. Wouldn't make sense to put on right in the root of your SD now would it? But find the file it keeps scanning and put one in there.
In my experience just let media process run until it eventually stops 10-15 min.. then reboot. Should stop excessive CPU usage after a couple reboots and data built.
I also .nomedia titanium backup and CWM.
Otherwise you may have a corrupt file causing this. I thought so at 1st but maybe its something with this ROM. I formatted my SDcard and media process still loose at boot. So just give time for it to settle and it usually goes away.
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Hi all,
I've been using my Galaxy S2 for a few weeks, and finally decided my 16gb SD card was not quite big enough. I bought a 32gb card and used my PC to transfer everything from the small card to the large one. Then, I placed the new card in my phone and booted up.
Everything seemed ok, but then I noticed that I now have two of every media folder in my gallery app.
My first thought was that the folders and pictures must have gotten deplicated in the transfer process, but I checked with root explorer, and there is only one of each folder on the card.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
Thanks,
-Matt
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Hey Matt
I think the reason your seeing duplicates of everything is because with android they store everything on the pre-installed sd card you can try to delete the old ones but make sure you make a backup before you do anything.
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don't delete anything.
Go to the media storage application under manage applications (in settings) and clear the cache for that app. You may need to reboot. then check the gallery to see if the duplicates are still there.
This happened to me a while back.
That was one of the first things I tried, but the clear cache button is greyed out. Should I try clearing the data from that app?
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yes, clear data. that should work. that's actually what i meant before.
Hope it works.
Has anyone experienced apps that become uninstalled because you restarted the phone? It has happened twice and both times the phone had been running for several days. If I restart it right away to try and duplicate it, it does not seem to happen. Doesn't seem to be related to apps that get installed into phone memory versus internal. Last time it happened there were about 20-30 apps that were uninstalled. They still have shortcuts on the desktop but would just pop up this app is not installed when I would go to use it. Very annoying to have to re-install that many apps! Thanks for any help!
I haven't noticed that but did notice some apps i freeze in titanium seem to unfreeze on reboot. Maybe the issues are related to the stock ROM somehow.
Random Uninstalled apps would be a lot more annoying though.
Thanks for the reply! It is very annoying. Would fast boot have anything to do with it?
I've also noticed a few apps uninstalling themselves.
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Did it happen right after a restart?
Well, I think it is fixed but not sure which change fixed it. I uninstalled appBrain, app2SD and turned off fast boot. None of these were issues with the OG EVO. I wonder if app2SD was causing issues now that there is phone storage and external SD?
Well, it did it again. This is getting old fast. No one else has this issue? Guess it's time for a factory reset.
I've had this issue with the 3D and hope not to have it with this phone. Another restart usually fixed it.
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I had that issue all the time with my Samsung Galaxy E4GT. I haven't seen that going on with my Evo 4G LTE.. Hope I don't start having it..
OK, so it will definitely fix itself if I reboot again. It's almost like if you try to use something too soon after a reboot it gets hosed. I have no idea what that is, but if I try to use the phone too soon after reboot it seems to have the issue. And the issue stays even if I wait a long time so it's not that it hasn't had enough time to read everything. Very annoying! Original EVO did not have this issue for me.
Well, this time restarting did not fix it. I restarted many times and shutdown. All the apps this is happening to are now shown as com.appname.xxxxx So com.pandora.android or com.google.earth as examples. So the system still has them in the apps downloaded under settings but if you run them it says they are not installed. Will try hard reset and if that doesn't work, back to the Sprint store it will go.
Did you try turning off fast boot? The speed of the fast boot, even during reboot, makes me think that its not a full cold reboot. The way that fast boot works is that it puts the phone in to a low power sleep mode, which some apps have problems with.
Are you sure the app is completely gone? What happens if you go in to the app management menu when the app appears to be missing from the app drawer? I have a problem like this occasionally where stuff disappears from the app drawer for ADW EX, and a restart of the launcher did the trick, which is why a reboot helps for sense, because that does force the launcher to rescan for apps present to repopulate the app drawer.
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Well, this time restarting did not fix it. I restarted many times and shutdown. All the apps this is happening to are now shown as com.appname.xxxxx So com.pandora.android or com.google.earth as examples. So the system still has them in the apps downloaded under settings but if you run them it says they are not installed. Will try hard reset and if that doesn't work, back to the Sprint store it will go.
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Are that apps that are disappearing happened to be moved to Phone Storage instead of Internal Storage?
You have to have the card GET formatted by the phone & move the apps using the built-in method .vs Apps2SD.
I think it's more of an ICS thing, I had the same thing happen to music & photos until I did the above.
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Did you try turning off fast boot? The speed of the fast boot, even during reboot, makes me think that its not a full cold reboot. The way that fast boot works is that it puts the phone in to a low power sleep mode, which some apps have problems with.
Are you sure the app is completely gone? What happens if you go in to the app management menu when the app appears to be missing from the app drawer? I have a problem like this occasionally where stuff disappears from the app drawer for ADW EX, and a restart of the launcher did the trick, which is why a reboot helps for sense, because that does force the launcher to rescan for apps present to repopulate the app drawer.
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Yes, fast boot is off. App still appears in the apps under settings as downloaded buy now either has a com. in front or an org. and then the app name etc... I can uninstall it at that point. The shortcut on the desktop just doesn't work and it is missing from the app area of the phone.
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Are that apps that are disappearing happened to be moved to Phone Storage instead of Internal Storage?
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Yes, I believe all the apps this is happening with are in phone storage but it does not happen to all apps in phone storage. Many of them are fine.
Noiro said:
You have to have the card GET formatted by the phone & move the apps using the built-in method .vs Apps2SD.
I think it's more of an ICS thing, I had the same thing happen to music & photos until I did the above.
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I did try using only the built-in method the last two times and thought it had fixed the issue. Obviously it did not. I will try formatting the card with the phone before I do the hard reset. The apps are not stored on the card right? Only in internal or phone storage? Or can apps install themselves to the external? I don't see a way to move them. I am not having any issues with photos, music, etc.. on the external.
Can I just copy everything off the card, format it, and then copy it back on? Or should I only copy music, photos, etc.. and not system folders?
Thanks to all you guys for all the help!
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I did try using only the built-in method the last two times and thought it had fixed the issue. Obviously it did not. I will try formatting the card with the phone before I do the hard reset. The apps are not stored on the card right? Only in internal or phone storage? Or can apps install themselves to the external? I don't see a way to move them. I am not having any issues with photos, music, etc.. on the external.
Can I just copy everything off the card, format it, and then copy it back on? Or should I only copy music, photos, etc.. and not system folders?
Thanks to all you guys for all the help!
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OK, now I have erased all data on the card using the phone itself but I do not see anything to format it. Is erasing and preparing all I need to do?
Hello Folks! I've been lurking these forums for a few months now, but now it's time to join up! You guys are awesome.
I've got a question relating to the CM10 A2 ROM. Install went smoothly from a fresh SBF/Root/Flash. I got all my applications installed and moved them all to the phone. I have a problem that occurs when connecting the phone to my computer via USB. If I leave it in charge mode, no problem. Upon clicking the option to allow USB Mass Storage, I get quite a few apps that FC. The list is as follows:
sManager
AutomateIt Pro
App Protector Pro
ROM Toolbox Pro
TiBu
I get popup notifications that the apps' processes have stopped and upon going to the app drawer, the icons have been replaced with the Android Robot. The problem persists after disabling mass storage and the apps FC on attempting to launch them. The only thing to fix them seems to be rebooting. I know each of these apps have permission req's that read/write the SD card, is that what is causing the problem? Any way to fix? Thanks a bunch!
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Hello Folks! I've been lurking these forums for a few months now, but now it's time to join up! You guys are awesome.
I've got a question relating to the CM10 A2 ROM. Install went smoothly from a fresh SBF/Root/Flash. I got all my applications installed and moved them all to the phone. I have a problem that occurs when connecting the phone to my computer via USB. If I leave it in charge mode, no problem. Upon clicking the option to allow USB Mass Storage, I get quite a few apps that FC. The list is as follows:
sManager
AutomateIt Pro
App Protector Pro
ROM Toolbox Pro
TiBu
I get popup notifications that the apps' processes have stopped and upon going to the app drawer, the icons have been replaced with the Android Robot. The problem persists after disabling mass storage and the apps FC on attempting to launch them. The only thing to fix them seems to be rebooting. I know each of these apps have permission req's that read/write the SD card, is that what is causing the problem? Any way to fix? Thanks a bunch!
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Maybe because the apps are installed on your SD card and when you turn on USB storage, it cant display on your phone anymore. Are they installed on your SD card?
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Maybe because the apps are installed on your SD card and when you turn on USB storage, it cant display on your phone anymore. Are they installed on your SD card?
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That was the first thing I checked and unfortunately they aren't installed on the SD. I moved all my apps to the phone.
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That was the first thing I checked and unfortunately they aren't installed on the SD. I moved all my apps to the phone.
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I cant think of any other reason why they would stop working in USB mode. Maybe there are certain things they use that are on the SD Card and not necessarily the app itself. It does warn you that some apps will not work when you select USB mode.
IMHO I think it has something to do with the new SD card directory. I've used almost all the ROMs for the x2 including the cm7 and cm9. This seems to only occur with cm10.
Edit: I noticed some of these apps have folders located on the internal SD. I doubt that has changed across ROM's, any idea why it would change with this one?
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Alright. So it appears that the problem is caused by a new way the play store distributes paid apps to JB. From reading around in various sites, these apps are sent to the "app-asec" folder as .asec files instead of .apk. When connecting to USB, CM10 seems to go through some internal trouble (i.e. lots of screen flickering/redrawing and sometimes it seems to soft reboot). My theory is that how the play store is installing is causing the issues app developers are seeing. The app is attempting to start before the app-asec folder is mounted, causing FC's.
Edit: Other users have reported a workaround that if you restore the apps with TiBu or something similar it places the actual .apk file in the correct directory. The issue only seems to affect paid apps installed by the play store.
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Sorry to keep posting on my own thread, but I've found a workaround. This also seems to have fixed the launcher redraws and screen flickering I mentioned above.
Navigate to the /data/app-sec folder
Make note of all the apps installed there as .asec files.
Using your backup program of choice (I used TiBu for the majority and ROM Toolbox so I could backup TiBu), backup all the apps you found.
Uninstall the previously mentioned apps.
Restore using the same backup program(s).
Go back to the /data/app-sec folder and verify that all the files are gone.
Go to /data/app folder and you should see the .apk's from the restored apps.
Hope this helps someone else!
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Good to see you figured it out and also, good find. I noticed plugging in my device as USB and having it "soft reboot". Lately I haven't had the issue happen again. Your theory makes sense now since there is one app in that location and it is a theme I was using but lately, have not been. Ill move it as you suggested.
Phone is over heating ( near the symbol of nfc) even in stamina mode... I updated through pcc on yesterday ( India) ... I did factory reset with clean up media files... Hope somebody here can help me by analyzing these attachments...
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No "close all" button
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I could live with that overheating.
It didnt fix the sound bug for mine. Pain in the ass to restart my phone everytime i unplug my earphones.
- That's the media_scanner running wild. You may have a corrupt file on your SDcard or internal memory.
- Sony ROMs have never had a "Close All" button, so that's not a bug.
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- That's the media_scanner running wild. You may have a corrupt file on your SDcard or internal memory.
- Sony ROMs have never had a "Close All" button, so that's not a bug.
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Z2 and Z2 Tablet do, but seeing as though very few features where back ported to these phones, as you say, it's no bug
Games frequently crash when previously they never did.
Some apps do not work as they should with Kitkat.
So you guys had your sound bug fixed?
Does not save new wifi passwords (any password saved after upgrading to 757).
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I didn't get the previous update so I went from 4.3 to 4.4 straight to the 757 build.
A problem I have on 757 is that it when I use the wireless headset which is supplied and it's connected and press play it just plays in speakermode and have to enable disable bluetooth and/or throw to connect again but it's irritating.
Another problem I found is that the Google Speech (extra button on your keyboard) doesn't appear to be working anymore, it doesn't pick up anything at all.
After the update my 32gb Micro-SD seems to be read-only, I can't copy/paste anything there while in Windows I can (so it's not the micro-sd card), I did a format of the whole SD card anyway, tried it with fat32, ntfs, exfat but all the same, anyone else got issue's with that?
I do like that you can enable 16 toggles and they have extra functionality like on Samsung, when you keep pressing WIFI you can enter the wifi settings from there. And swiping 2 fingers down from the top menu bar makes you go straight to the quicksettings.
I wish the keyboard had this option to separate words though, the spacebar is too small, so you just keep putting ... between the words instead of zero's, Samsung's keyboard is a bit smarter to identify the right words (even glued together) and spaces.
Overall it's faster then 4.2 and 4.3 and a big improvement over the battery (but it needs like 1 or 2 complete battery cycles to fully use that.
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- That's the media_scanner running wild. You may have a corrupt file on your SDcard or internal memory.
- Sony ROMs have never had a "Close All" button, so that's not a bug.
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And how to find that file
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Phone is over heating ( near the symbol of nfc) even in stamina mode... I updated through pcc on yesterday ( India) ... I did factory reset with clean up media files... Hope somebody here can help me by analyzing these attachments...
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My best guess was that your sd card is corrupt. Try to format it with your PC and start clean. That should fix it.
Some battery drain occured with me yesterday (about a day after updating to 757). It was draining like hell, like 20% after only 9 hours since unplugged and about 3 hour of screen time. but nothing crazy on the battery usage graph. So i was suspicious about hidden wakelock somewhere inside. So like a dumb boy, i just opened up one by one of the installed apps. So it was found that somehow Waze and Line app will FC on open. I decided to erase data on Waze and uninstall Line and voila no more battery drain after the next charge! Turns out that i have restored both with Helium and never tested them after restoration.
Moral of the story is, don't do a sloppy restore and backup after clean install. Better for you to find app with cloud save or at least local backup support and clean install the app and then restore the data by per app.
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No the SD card isn't corrupt. Google did this in the Kit Kat update. SD cards cannot be written into by third party apps. Only sony apps can write into it like "File Commander". This is to improve security as they said, but it's proving to be more of a problem than a security enhancement -_-
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It is the mem card causing all these problems... Might be some corrupt file is there... I removed the card and everything working fine right now.. ( Over heating and battery draining issues solved completely) thanks for everybody... Anybody know how to find the corrupt file cuz I'm using 64 gb strontium card and its almost full.. Don't want to format and lose whole data...
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matthewsucks said:
So you guys had your sound bug fixed?
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Yup.
jeffrey2000 said:
After the update my 32gb Micro-SD seems to be read-only, I can't copy/paste anything there while in Windows I can (so it's not the micro-sd card), I did a format of the whole SD card anyway, tried it with fat32, ntfs, exfat but all the same, anyone else got issue's with that?
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That's not a bug. It's a "feature" in KitKat, and it's entirely Google's idea. You can no longer move, copy or delete your own files on SD cards. A new SD card permission is in place, so apps (Facebook, Spotify, games etc.) can save files to it, but you can't manually do it unless you root and run SDFix (you can uninstall it after you're done), or you'll have to use the File Commander app, or whatever it's called, which came with the update.
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It is the mem card causing all these problems... Might be some corrupt file is there... I removed the card and everything working fine right now.. ( Over heating and battery draining issues solved completely) thanks for everybody... Anybody know how to find the corrupt file cuz I'm using 64 gb strontium card and its almost full.. Don't want to format and lose whole data...
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I guess you'll have to manually check every file on there. It could be as simple as a corrupt photo, so move everything from your SD to your computer and move one and one file (or folder if you're certain that it doesn't contain a corrupt file) at a time.
You have any idea why mine isn't fixed? I'm on 757 too.
FYI: my update crashed with a "software failed to update" and I had to perform wipes using the SUS.
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LordManhattan said:
Yup.
That's not a bug. It's a "feature" in KitKat, and it's entirely Google's idea. You can no longer move, copy or delete your own files on SD cards. A new SD card permission is in place, so apps (Facebook, Spotify, games etc.) can save files to it, but you can't manually do it unless you root and run SDFix (you can uninstall it after you're done), or you'll have to use the File Commander app, or whatever it's called, which came with the update.
I guess you'll have to manually check every file on there. It could be as simple as a corrupt photo, so move everything from your SD to your computer and move one and one file (or folder if you're certain that it doesn't contain a corrupt file) at a time.
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You have any idea why mine isn't fixed? I'm on 757 too.
FYI: my update crashed with a "software failed to update" and I had to perform wipes using the SUS.
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You have any idea why mine isn't fixed? I'm on 757 too.
FYI: my update crashed with a "software failed to update" and I had to perform wipes using the SUS.
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What's not fixed? Your SD card? You need to be rooted for it to work.
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What's not fixed? Your SD card? You need to be rooted for it to work.
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No, I'm talking about the sound bug
Now I'm not facing any issues, also feels like everything running smooth and better than previous update especially battery back up... Once again thanks for lord manhattan...
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I have an issue with the battery to and I found it only happen when I turn on location service.
I think this phone keep trying to determine the location, even you're not connect to wifi or mobile data.
But overall, everything are good, and I found that X-reality engine are improved.
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I have an issue with the battery to and I found it only happen when I turn on location service.
I think this phone keep trying to determine the location, even you're not connect to wifi or mobile data.
But overall, everything are good, and I found that X-reality engine are improved.
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Go to Settings -> Wifi -> Advanced -> Uncheck "Scanning always Available"
Plus, if you rely on High Accuracy mode and using it for Waze/Maps/Any other Geotag enabled apps, don't you ever turn off Location after exiting the app. Just leave the Location on. It won't wakelock your device for GPS signal. Otherwise the app will show you that it eats battery in battery usage because it awaits for the GPS to be turned on and the only Solution is to restart the phone.