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Right, im on 2.3.3 with my X10, and ive noticed in the battery usage section in the menu that something called media has 21% so far, even though ive not used any media at all, and in 38 mins from being fully charged im down to 85% battery lol.
Anyway this media thing says when i click on it
Cpu total 11mins
Cpu Foreground 6mins
Keep awake 7 mins 54secs
included packages, DRM protected content storage
Downloads,
Download manager
Media Storage..
So out of all that anything i can do to stop this?
Do you have many media files (music, photos etc?) on your card ?
It might be that the media scanner kicked in to index / search around. If this is the case, maybe this post could help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15037379&postcount=35
viulian said:
Do you have many media files (music, photos etc?) on your card ?
It might be that the media scanner kicked in to index / search around. If this is the case, maybe this post could help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15037379&postcount=35
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aye i do, quite a few pictures and alot of music on there, But nothing changed so im not sure why it scanned again, plus it ate the battery like mad from a fully charged battery to 85%
No software is perfect...
In my case, the scanner hogged the CPU the first time I booted the phone after update, gallery worked very very poorly, freezes, etc. Eventually it finished and now it seems ok.
If it keeps doing it, just reset, and if it insists - just add a '.nomedia' file and it should not scan the big folders anymore. Please read more about .nomedia file limitations here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=626997
Right cheers for that, ill give that a shot and see what happens, was just annoying to see my freshly charged battery disapear lol
I just got the DNA the other day to replace my crappy Charge. I decided to load a 1080p movie (Iron Man 2 to be exact) to see how it looked. The movie took up about 7.4GB, and it looked fantastic. I decided I'd like to install Asphalt 7 which is huge, and to put some music on it so I just deleted the movie from the gallery app. However it doesn't appear to have actually gone away, the storage meter shows that I only have 2GB of free space. That seems odd since I don't really have anything on the phone and that 7.4GB should be freed space, the gallery no longer shows the movie either. Any suggestions?
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I just got the DNA the other day to replace my crappy Charge. I decided to load a 1080p movie (Iron Man 2 to be exact) to see how it looked. The movie took up about 7.4GB, and it looked fantastic. I decided I'd like to install Asphalt 7 which is huge, and to put some music on it so I just deleted the movie from the gallery app. However it doesn't appear to have actually gone away, the storage meter shows that I only have 2GB of free space. That seems odd since I don't really have anything on the phone and that 7.4GB should be freed space, the gallery no longer shows the movie either. Any suggestions?
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Are you rooted ? you chould install a root explorer and see what's taking up so much space
syler2012 said:
Are you rooted ? you chould install a root explorer and see what's taking up so much space
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Not rooted, didn't even know we could root yet. I literally just got the phone. I do have Astro and it'll show me the amount of storage each folder is taking up, however all it can see doesn't even come close to adding up to the 10GB I'm supposedly using.
I got it. Doing a hard restart did the trick (unchecking fast boot in settings/battery). I now have over 8GB available. Weird little glitch there.
I've had more than one weird little glitch with this phone since I got it. When I first started using it it wouldn't play music from any app or ring, but it would play sounds. After about 4 restarts it started working perfectly.
Homestar1217 said:
I got it. Doing a hard restart did the trick (unchecking fast boot in settings/battery). I now have over 8GB available. Weird little glitch there.
I've had more than one weird little glitch with this phone since I got it. When I first started using it it wouldn't play music from any app or ring, but it would play sounds. After about 4 restarts it started working perfectly.
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Yeah I think I read somewhere else that it still keeps it in memory somewhere until you restart the phone. Not really sure why but someone else has mentioned that before. Seems kind of weird that they would do that considering we only have 11gbs to use in the first place lol
That is dumb. I like the fast boot function though. I guess from now on I'll just have to delete stuff from the computer or Astro. Man watching a 1080p video on this thing is epic though. Netflix won't stream that high yet (and understandably so, there's only one phone that could use it), but it still looks pretty good.
i updated my galaxy s2 i9100 2days back.uk version.but since installation my 4n overheat like hell and battery drains like hell.I USE MY S2 AS A TAB.so it always in airplane mode.never occur such issue with gingerbread.is cpu clock over heating?i updated via odin.all my gingerbread applications there after i upgreaded.i like the update.but overheating is really problem.what should i do my dear friends????i am from india region.any help????plzzzzzzzz
THANK YOU :crying:
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i updated my galaxy s2 i9100 2days back.uk version.but since installation my 4n overheat like hell and battery drains like hell.I USE MY S2 AS A TAB.so it always in airplane mode.never occur such issue with gingerbread.is cpu clock over heating?i updated via odin.all my gingerbread applications there after i upgreaded.i like the update.but overheating is really problem.what should i do my dear friends????i am from india region.any help????plzzzzzzzz
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You flashed which ROM in your phone?? XXLSJ or XWLS8 ?? Is it a custom ROM/leaked??
Official update in india should come in within a few weeks(coz S3 JB already came)...go back to stock ICS and you can wait for it..
For now try Wiping your Battery Stats and see if it gets fixed..
Press Thanx if i helped..
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[my dear friend it is xwls8.only problem is when screen on also 4n is heat like hell.what can i do?is it softwear problem.what is it may be cpu overheating?what is cpu optimum level?...thanks 4 ur help bro :good: hope further assistance.
Probably an overactive media scanner (android media process). I have the same problem since updating to the stock official 4.1.2 XXLS8.
I'm not sure what the solution is. You can disable the android media process (application manager -> media storage -> select and disable). However, if you do so then not only do you lose access to media files in the standard music and video players, but you also lose all your sound files for ringtones, notifications, email and SMS alerts etc. So as solutions go that one's a bit rubbish...
Rescan Media Root is also ineffective. I don't know why, possibly something to do with Jellybean that prevents it from working.
I've seen many posts in different forums about this, it seems to be a common issue with the 4.1.2 JB releases. Some say it is partly fixed in JB 4.2 but that isn't much use to us right now.
You could try reformatting your memory card as some say that corrupted files cause the problem. However, others say this 'fix' is unsuccessful and the excessive scanning continues regardless.
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Probably an overactive media scanner (android media process). I have the same problem since updating to the stock official 4.1.2 XXLS8.
I'm not sure what the solution is. You can disable the android media process (application manager -> media storage -> select and disable). However, if you do so then not only do you lose access to media files in the standard music and video players, but you also lose all your sound files for ringtones, notifications, email and SMS alerts etc. So as solutions go that one's a bit rubbish...
Rescan Media Root is also ineffective. I don't know why, possibly something to do with Jellybean that prevents it from working.
I've seen many posts in different forums about this, it seems to be a common issue with the 4.1.2 JB releases. Some say it is partly fixed in JB 4.2 but that isn't much use to us right now.
You could try reformatting your memory card as some say that corrupted files cause the problem. However, others say this 'fix' is unsuccessful and the excessive scanning continues regardless.
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Try this workaround:
Copy you DCIM folder to your External SD Card. Empty Internal SD card's DCIM folder (files, not the folders, just leave it empty).
Set your external SD Card's DCIM folder to default for pics & video.
Reboot.
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Try this workaround:
Copy you DCIM folder to your External SD Card. Empty Internal SD card's DCIM folder (files, not the folders, just leave it empty).
Set your external SD Card's DCIM folder to default for pics & video.
Reboot.
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tried this, it worked. thanks
good
i will try it and see brothers...thanks any way:good:
gastonw said:
Try this workaround:
Copy you DCIM folder to your External SD Card. Empty Internal SD card's DCIM folder (files, not the folders, just leave it empty).
Set your external SD Card's DCIM folder to default for pics & video.
Reboot.
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Sadly no change for me.
Emptied DCIM on internal SD, camera was already set to external SD for storage. Rebooted, and Android Media Process is now busy hammering my CPU again.
This is so frustrating. I lose 50% battery in ten hours, and I'm now scared to actually use the device at all when I'm out and about for fear of losing power altogether. Google have known about it since October - see this issue thread.
I had similar issues after I've installed the same rom on my phone. After a few awful days of fiddling with it and endless cycles of recharging, I've decided to do a clean reinstall. After I did a clean install last night, everything seemed better. The battery wasn't overheating, wasn't even draining that fast. During the night (5 hours of sleep I got, actually), BetterBatteryStats had shown me that I had only ~5 minutes of awake state vs the 5hrs of deep sleep.
But! Today after work, my battery started going crazy again. Left work with ~35% and I've discharged it completely after some 30-40 minutes of Ingress play (gps + 3g + screen on). Something's awfully wrong with this version, no fix worked for me (except the mediascanner issue which resolved itself after I did a clean install).
Any and every advice is more than welcome.
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Sadly no change for me.
Emptied DCIM on internal SD, camera was already set to external SD for storage. Rebooted, and Android Media Process is now busy hammering my CPU again.
This is so frustrating. I lose 50% battery in ten hours, and I'm now scared to actually use the device at all when I'm out and about for fear of losing power altogether. Google have known about it since October - see this issue thread.
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Try freezing gallery as soon as it boots, check with betterbattery stats if media scanner stops when you do.
If it stops it within 50 seconds or so make sure you have no files at all in internal DCIM, only the -empty- cache folder inside.
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Not working
did same but it getting worse and worse.....this is worst update ever seen.thinking roll back to gingerbread again.....its better than this....any custom roms help?is there anyone know better solution.....
anjuhiru said:
did same but it getting worse and worse.....this is worst update ever seen.thinking roll back to gingerbread again.....its better than this....any custom roms help?is there anyone know better solution.....
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Post your battery detail screen shot.
Are you all stock?
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Post your battery detail screen shot.
Are you all stock?
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Hello,
I have also installed JB through Odin and facing same battery drain issue. It's finishing like a in a day without using any high app ( FB, Browsing, Twitter etc)
Please help me or I'll need to roll back to ICS .
you're kidding me right?
20 hours with 35% left on battery and 44% screen usage?
Bluetooth on, avast and who knows what more crap you got there. Every app running in background drains your battery, but again, you are looking at a 3 % / hour drain.
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you're kidding me right?
20 hours with 35% left on battery and 44% screen usage?
Bluetooth on, avast and who knows what more crap you got there. Every app running in background drains your battery, but again, you are looking at a 3 % / hour drain.
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No, I am not kidding. it was just opened to test and received a reply on twitter once the wifi connected. If I am not using my phone and let it without open anything. Next day it will be at 70% which does not seem right to me. ICS was much better, I was using wifi and 3g as well almost all day than it used to go be on 40-50%.
MrGadgetGuy said:
No, I am not kidding. it was just opened to test and received a reply on twitter once the wifi connected. If I am not using my phone and let it without open anything. Next day it will be at 70% which does not seem right to me. ICS was much better, I was using wifi and 3g as well almost all day than it used to go be on 40-50%.
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Post your partial wakelocks since boot.
gastonw said:
Post your partial wakelocks since boot.
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Here you go!! Just for info, the android thing on top is an Easy battery saver and avast is security stuff which was running in ICS as well.
Also, Could you please tell me the process to roll back ICS as I have downloaded the file from samobile, in case I need
It's not rooted and neither locked with operator.
Thanks for you help
Here is the pictures -
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Here is the pictures -
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Since Boot, not since unplugged.
gastonw said:
Since Boot, not since unplugged.
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It's appearing only two options screen off or unplugged. I have attached both of them.
Is it normal to have a steady 10% battery usage by Media Server?
Re: Media Server battery usage
Do you listen to a lot of music, or listen regularly, more to the point? 10% usage indicates to me you are just listening to music, if it jumps right up then you might have the media bug, but doesn't sound like it to me, from that stat
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Do you listen to a lot of music, or listen regularly, more to the point? 10% usage indicates to me you are just listening to music, if it jumps right up then you might have the media bug, but doesn't sound like it to me, from that stat
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Actually I don't listen to music at all (with the phone), that's why I don't understand the media server running constantly.
I have the latest BTU EMB1 firmware. Installed wiping all data.
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jurijvi said:
Actually I don't listen to music at all (with the phone), that's why I don't understand the media server running constantly.
I have the latest BTU EMB1 firmware. Installed wiping all data.
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Hmm, well you can disable the media scanner with rescan media root from Play, do you have a lot of pictures or other media?
It can also run a lot if your sd card is corrupt, if you ever get messages that your card has been ejected then the media scanner will run again after each mount.
Another problem can be nandroid backups, if you use the wrong format you end up with thousands of tiny files which makes the scanner run for ages.
Re: Media Server battery usage
Just to share, yesterday I changed my stock battery for an extended Hyperion 4400, media scanner drain 5% of it in 15 min, the device was also hot, I had to force close the media scanner several times until I reboot twice and it stopped, got annoyed by it, and it's also first time it happens, nothing abnormal in my sd or internal.
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boomboomer said:
It can also run a lot if your sd card is corrupt, if you ever get messages that your card has been ejected then the media scanner will run again after each mount.
Another problem can be nandroid backups, if you use the wrong format you end up with thousands of tiny files which makes the scanner run for ages.
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I don't have problem with the card being ejected. However I have titanium backup running twice a week. It does create a fair amount of files.
Could that be the issue?
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Hmm, well you can disable the media scanner with rescan media root from Play, do you have a lot of pictures or other media?
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I have a "normal" amount of pix, like less than a hundred. Few videos and that's about it.
jurijvi said:
I have a "normal" amount of pix, like less than a hundred. Few videos and that's about it.
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I turned off Google+ while having the same issue and it fixed the problems. Turn off all the settings for it.
wga22 said:
I turned off Google+ while having the same issue and it fixed the problems. Turn off all the settings for it.
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I have all the settings deselected for Google +. No notification, no instant upload etc..
I just re-flashed the latest BTU rom. No more media server draining the battery. However after rooting with CF-root, the media server started to show up with a steady 10% rate!
Hi all, thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I've been going between 2 ROMs recently (Tron 2.1 and PAC-Man 23.0). For both of them, it is showing that the "Media" app is using a larger percentage of my battery (around 18%). I'm just not sure what this app is, or how to disable or remove it.
When I click on the app from the Battery details, "Force Stop" and "Report" are disabled buttons. Down below, it shows the included packages being "Downloads", "Media Storage", "Download Manager", "DRM Protected Content". I haven't been downloading anything, nor adding songs or movies, so I'm not sure what this "app" is spending its cycles doing.
Thanks!
I guess that it would be a better idea to report this incident to the ROM developer..
I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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sanders539 said:
I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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That is really interesting! Using a previous ROM, I do have a few corrupted images from a camera-app-gone-haywire. I'll have to clean those out (which I should have done anyway), and see if that helps.
Great idea!
No problem! I should go through and clean my SD card out, but I am too lazy and don't have the time to spend on it. I just deal with it because I usually have a charger nearby most of the time.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
Dan_L said:
So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
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Just following up (I asked the original question). What I've found is that between various ROMs, I have two images folders on my sdcard. Mostly, I just went through and deleted a few invalid images (I think my Tron 2.0 ROM used to take corrupt images, but no longer). I cleaned out many many images I no longer needed as well.
Also, not sure if this is related: I uninstalled and reinstalled Google+ (which has an image auto-backup feature). I had been restoring it from a backup, and I think it got corrupted along the way. It was no longer automatically backing up images, for example.
Since then, I've been in much better shape, and I haven't noticed the Media process taking as much battery.