[Q] thoughts on possible hangouts bug? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, I wanted to post a question for everyone an see others thoughts on what I think may be a potential bug I've come across in hangouts.
Ive been having issues with the "mediaserver" eating away at the battery and ive been trying to figure out what is causing it since we had not had this issue before.
From what I've found, one issue with the mediaserver is if it comes across a broken file (image or picture) it hangs and this is what causes our problems.
Well I noticed that the battery has gotten worse over the course of the last few weeks and couldn't figure it out.
Come to see, hangouts cached images that transfer back an forth in the chats. Well I, along with a bunch of other people have those broken images in those folders.
So...there isnt any way as of yet to disable these images from being cached yet. Does anyone have any thoughts on how the images are called to be saved? Im not sure where to start. Given a direction I can edit code an fix it.
Anyone who has noticed a decrease in battery ever since the update let me know if you too also have these broken images in your gallery folder.
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ok well i have found a temporary work around for this situation as it was driving me nuts.
One of the new additions for hangouts is the ability to send pictures via hangouts. Well this also changed how things worked as the pictures are stored as they are sent in Picasa Web Albums.
This all creates a potential issue with Mediaserver as it scans your phone and sd card in a mannor similar to the disk indexing service on a Windows PC.
If things go wrong, and they always will in poor data environments...the image corrupts and Mediaserver hangs in a endless loop.
So to work around this to the following:
Go to settings/accounts
Google
uncheck "Sync Picasa Web Albums"
go to apps management/ all apps
Clear data on the Gallery
After your done reopen the Gallery application. This may take a few minutes as your phone rebuilds the thumbnails and list.
I did not record and data that fully supports this, so dont ask for it. What i did see is that when i did this earlier today the mediaserver finally stopped and lowered down the list as battery hogs.
I hope this helps anyone thats noticed battery issues after using hangouts.