Here's a puzzle that's got me baffled!
Last night took some photos on my phone, plugged it into the laptop to copy them over as I've done nearly everynight for a year.
Went into the \\Storage\DCIM\100Media directory and couldnt see any files at all! Weird I thought.
So went into the Photo Album of the phone to see if they were there.
The photo album showed about 10-20 photos from AGES ago, all other photos had a circle with a line through it (like a stop sign).
Looked again in the directory, couldn't see any files, so reset the phone.
Went into the Album again, only this time it showed the default photos that comes with the phone, again nothing was showing in the 100Media directory.
Paniced at the thought of losing a load of photos but still continued looking.
Something caught my eye, the fact that even though it looked like all my photos had gone, the "number available" that appears in photo mode (the number being the one that shows how many photos you've got left to take) was still showing about 1500.
So took a few random snaps.
Sure enough, the number went down, but they were no where to be found.
Checked the size of Mb free on the storage card, made a note, then set the phone to record nothing for about 10mins.
Sure enough, the size available on the storage card had gone down but still no video was appearing in the 100Media directory.
I've reset the phone several times, any picture I take results in the "number available" going down, a few more videos of varying lengths does indeed show the space available as going down on the storage card but can not find anything anywhere!
Have manually been through every directory on the storage device, can't see anything anywhere.
Anyone had this before or suss out what the problem is and obviouslly where the hell my media is being saved?
Have checked the main device, but of course not there and wouldn't explain where the space available keeps going down.
I'm stumped!!
Install Total Commander and try to search files by date.
That's best I can suggest "out of the hat".
I'm a newbie, so please bare with me if I miscommunicate something.
I know there are tons of posts regarding this issue, and I'm sure I've read every possible one I can find regarding the Android/Media Server/Battery Drain issue to no avail, so I'm hoping that someone has some other advice based on the following information.
I'm running 4.2.2 via CyanogenMod (10.1.2-d2vzw). I occasionally use GoogleMusic/Audible, and all was well until about a month ago when my battery just started to die for now apparent reason. A quick search turned up the Media Server issue (at the time Media Server was running at 53%). I tried rebooting/power off-on, but no luck. Randomly about three days after the battery drain issue started, it seemed to disappear and battery life returned to normal.
Now last week the issue has returned and then some. I wiped everything, reinstalling CyanogenMod, no wallpaper, and I purposefully left off any audio-apps, anything I could think of media-related to see if this made a difference, but it didn't. I then added back GoogleMusic/Audible, but MediaServer still hovers around 60% usage. The phone runs hot all the time, even when connected to Wifi/4G. I'm just at a complete loss at to what I can do.
I've attached screenshots if this helps at all. Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.
SABmore said:
I'm a newbie, so please bare with me if I miscommunicate something.
I know there are tons of posts regarding this issue, and I'm sure I've read every possible one I can find regarding the Android/Media Server/Battery Drain issue to no avail, so I'm hoping that someone has some other advice based on the following information.
I'm running 4.2.2 via CyanogenMod (10.1.2-d2vzw). I occasionally use GoogleMusic/Audible, and all was well until about a month ago when my battery just started to die for now apparent reason. A quick search turned up the Media Server issue (at the time Media Server was running at 53%). I tried rebooting/power off-on, but no luck. Randomly about three days after the battery drain issue started, it seemed to disappear and battery life returned to normal.
Now last week the issue has returned and then some. I wiped everything, reinstalling CyanogenMod, no wallpaper, and I purposefully left off any audio-apps, anything I could think of media-related to see if this made a difference, but it didn't. I then added back GoogleMusic/Audible, but MediaServer still hovers around 60% usage. The phone runs hot all the time, even when connected to Wifi/4G. I'm just at a complete loss at to what I can do.
I've attached screenshots if this helps at all. Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.
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Look through your SDcard look for any Pics or MP3s that are at 0KB that was my issue. once i removed all ofthe croupted pics my media server issue went away.
Thanks. I assume you are talking about my internal SD card? I unmounted my external SD card to see if that made a difference...its was negligible. Then only folder on my internal card that seems to really have anything in it is the "blobs" under ClockWorkMod, but there are over 3000 folders with files under it. Could it be somewhere in there? And if so, any suggestions on how to quickly find it? Thanks again.
squito said:
Look through your SDcard look for any Pics or MP3s that are at 0KB that was my issue. once i removed all ofthe croupted pics my media server issue went away.
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I would say nandroid and backup internal sd card. Then do a clean wipe and format of internal sd. Restore nandroid and then copy back data that you need from backup. ( if a file gets corrupted while playing it can cause media scan to hang up and keep goung over and over it. Option 2 (a short fix) downloaad rescan media root from play store and run. I always select disable a second time then close it. If you add media and it doesn't show up run rescan and enable then see if it shows up. if so run again and disable.
Cruzin' tha Galaxy SIII via Obsessed Rom / "INAPPROPRIATE" Kernel
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bbolton_98 said:
I would say nandroid and backup internal sd card. Then do a clean wipe of everything and format of internal sd. Restore nandroid and then copy back data that you need from backup. ( if a file gets corrupted while playing it can cause media scan to hang up and keep goung over and over it. Option 2 (a short fix) downloaad rescan media root from play store and run. I always select disable a second time then close it. If you add media and it doesn't show up run rescan and enable then see if it shows up. if so run again and disable.
Cruzin' tha Galaxy SIII via Obsessed Rom / "INAPPROPRIATE" Kernel
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Cruzin' tha Galaxy SIII via Obsessed Rom / "INAPPROPRIATE" Kernel
I have this issue no matter the ROM; TW and AOSP it doesn't matter. I've formatted my SD card in both a PC and in the phone. I have 25+ gigs of music and video on my sd card and I'm not going through that to find the culprit. The only thing I can get to stop this is an app in the market called "Rescan Media Root". It stops the media scanner and the drain. Unfortunately (and obviously) you have to be rooted.
Fixed by changing a developer option
I'm running LiquidSmooth 10,2 and was able to fix this by unchecking "Scan for media at startup" in developer options.
I'm not totally sure as to the downside of this, I've not noticed any difference in how or where my media is displayed but it does get rid of the battery draining service that runs all the time. YMMV of course.
marcusleemitchell said:
I'm running LiquidSmooth 10,2 and was able to fix this by unchecking "Scan for media at startup" in developer options.
I'm not totally sure as to the downside of this, I've not noticed any difference in how or where my media is displayed but it does get rid of the battery draining service that runs all the time. YMMV of course.
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The only downside to that is if you put new music n your device your music player may not see it unless you manually scan for media.
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I haven't had this problem lately but I have definitely had it in the past. In my case I had a corrupt Jpeg that caused it. I wonder if there is a way to find out which files the media scanner is having trouble with... at the time it didn't say anything in the log.
I saw this too
CrustyMcLovin said:
I haven't had this problem lately but I have definitely had it in the past. In my case I had a corrupt Jpeg that caused it. I wonder if there is a way to find out which files the media scanner is having trouble with... at the time it didn't say anything in the log.
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I also had a corrupt JPEG from the screenshot folder. I'll find out later if deleting it helps the battery drain. But how I found it was kind of neat: plug it into a Windows 7 machine with a micro-USB cable, open up Windows Explorer and use the search bar in the top right to search for files of empty size. It found several other files too, but that was the only media-looking one.
SABmore said:
I'm a newbie, so please bare with me if I miscommunicate something.
I know there are tons of posts regarding this issue, and I'm sure I've read every possible one I can find regarding the Android/Media Server/Battery Drain issue to no avail, so I'm hoping that someone has some other advice based on the following information.
I'm running 4.2.2 via CyanogenMod (10.1.2-d2vzw). I occasionally use GoogleMusic/Audible, and all was well until about a month ago when my battery just started to die for now apparent reason. A quick search turned up the Media Server issue (at the time Media Server was running at 53%). I tried rebooting/power off-on, but no luck. Randomly about three days after the battery drain issue started, it seemed to disappear and battery life returned to normal.
Now last week the issue has returned and then some. I wiped everything, reinstalling CyanogenMod, no wallpaper, and I purposefully left off any audio-apps, anything I could think of media-related to see if this made a difference, but it didn't. I then added back GoogleMusic/Audible, but MediaServer still hovers around 60% usage. The phone runs hot all the time, even when connected to Wifi/4G. I'm just at a complete loss at to what I can do.
I've attached screenshots if this helps at all. Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.
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Fixed all media scanner issues: [Fix] Android Media scanner sdcard CPU utilization, battery drain
Probably this could help, I wrote a small app, just for a little workaround, till this is fixed.
#MediaserverKiller
Playstore - http://bit.ly/18ebi5D
thanks
rori~ said:
Probably this could help, I wrote a small app, just for a little workaround, till this is fixed.
#MediaserverKiller
Playstore - http://bit.ly/18ebi5D
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i will try out your app. Hope it works.
Happy holidays!
rori~ said:
Probably this could help, I wrote a small app, just for a little workaround, till this is fixed.
#MediaserverKiller
Playstore - http://bit.ly/18ebi5D
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Thanx for the app dude! Used your app, but did not help for me. Im not saying it doesnt work, just not for me. Thanx alot for your work. hope you will write some more apps soon !
How to stop Media drainig your battery
I had "Media" on the first place in battery chart (under Settings). It was caused by "face recognition of my friends" inside all photos and videos I put inside my phone and MicroSD card. This could be simply disabled by going to Gallery application (Samsung's default tool for viewing photos and videos). Go to main home screen (press main hardware button in the middle under display), then touch Apps (should be in the lower right corner of your display), find Gallery (by sweeping left/right), inside Gallery press Menu button (left softkey), choose Settings and there disable "Tag buddy" and "Face tag". You may unset (switch off) all "Cloud sync" too (probably Dropbox sync at least) - touch it and switch off all syncs (Pictures, Videos, Documents). You may try to enable something and check out your battery chart in Settings again (you have to fully recharge to reset battery usage chart under Settings).
Hope it helps.
Milan Kerslager said:
I had "Media" on the first place in battery chart (under Settings). It was caused by "face recognition of my friends" inside all photos and videos I put inside my phone and MicroSD card. This could be simply disabled by going to Gallery application (Samsung's default tool for viewing photos and videos). Go to main home screen (press main hardware button in the middle under display), then touch Apps (should be in the lower right corner of your display), find Gallery (by sweeping left/right), inside Gallery press Menu button (left softkey), choose Settings and there disable "Tag buddy" and "Face tag". You may unset (switch off) all "Cloud sync" too (probably Dropbox sync at least) - touch it and switch off all syncs (Pictures, Videos, Documents). You may try to enable something and check out your battery chart in Settings again (you have to fully recharge to reset battery usage chart under Settings).
Hope it helps.
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Thank you so much! I just got a S3, updated to 4.3, all of a sudden the battery would die with in hours. I have the media server bug, no sd card (yet), factory reset the phone, still had the issue. I just tried the above, Gallery settings then disabling those couple things. So far (3 hours in) media server isn't on my "battery" list. Hope this is the fix for me!
northvibe said:
Thank you so much! I just got a S3, updated to 4.3, all of a sudden the battery would die with in hours. I have the media server bug, no sd card (yet), factory reset the phone, still had the issue. I just tried the above, Gallery settings then disabling those couple things. So far (3 hours in) media server isn't on my "battery" list. Hope this is the fix for me!
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Yeah, nvm. It worked for about 6-8 hours. I woke up and Media Server has used a crap ton of battery/resources :/ ugh. I'll try the fixes thread.
Media Server handles all apps using WiFi/Mobile Data for sync/update purposes. If you have any RSS readers installed, or if you have auto backup enabled in apps like Google+/Photos/Goggles, turn them off.
It reduces the CPU usage and you'll have normal battery life again.
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I listed to some music for 2 hours this morning and media server was upto 44 present that's from listing to music off my external sd card, is that normal?
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Often your Media scanner can misbehave and eat lot of CPU, Battery un-wantedly.
I had been digging out how to fix it, and here are my solutions. Perhaps try al of them, it would definitely relieve your cpu and battery usage by large. Solution works on any Android version:
Solution 1. Clear media storage data
Settings > applications > Media Storage > clear data, force stop and reboot.
Solution 2. Remove unwanted media files
Navigate to /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails and delete all files. Repeat for external sd card.
On AOSP roms, Android gallery creates too many of thumbnails that later becomes problematic for media scanner.
Solution 3. Analyze and delete excessive media files
Find out what files are causing media scanner to go mad.
Use any sdcard analyst (I use ES file manager > menu > Sd card analyst) to determine which directory has lots of files/subdirectories inside it. Any directory having >1000 files/folders is an alarmingly high number. Get rid of them (if you can).
step 3 is the easy way to solve it any noobers can do this.
mediaserver 50% of battery usage IMPOSSIBLE to stop this sh_t ....!!!!!!
kill mediaserver apk not working,no one of the suggested solutions worked on my case.......Until i used Root Booster 2.9 and applied battery extreme settings.....after reboot the problem with mediaserver drain magically disappered from my phone !!!!!!!!!!
Have a good day ahead everyone !!!!!!
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This is a new problem... i originally deleted the settings for media storage after reading that that would get rid of the 3 times my ringtones were showing up in my selection list (when they only exist in one location.... i tried to make sure they werent duplicating themselves, the first 2 were silent and the 3rd was the real file.). so deleting that got rid of the 3 times thing, and i thought i had it licked. but every reboot, my phone forgets my ringtone setting... when i go to repick it, its not in the list, only the factory ones are.
Now, i *know* there is the work around of putting the one i want to use on the internal memory.... but thats kinda not the point... id like this to work properly. as it should. as it did before i reflashed. i reflashed the exact same rom and am using the exact same SD card.
upon googling and reading advice, i put a new folder on my sd card called media, and within there, ringtones, and notifications. (the site i read also recommended making one for alarms but i never use my phone as an alarm, ever. and the very rare time i will ill just pick a factory sound). As of right now, every reboot, i have to move the ringtone i want to use out from that folder, and then put it back in, causing media scanner to re-run, which then finally, once that is done, allows it to show up in the list along with the factory default choices.... but doing this every reboot just to have the sound i want is a ROYAL pain......... before i reflashed, it would forget what i had chosen on occasion, but at least then i could just go into the list and reselect it before... it didnt forget it existed, but only that i had chosen it. at the time that was a royal pain.... but now, id take that over whats been going on.
before reflashing i had a folder called "sounds" that it was able to see, all the time.... i had left it the same... but when my phone couldnt see that anymore, i looked for other ways of making it work.
Not sure if this is related but i have on occasion (2 or 3 times now) had my gallery forget about ALL of my pictures on external (whcih is where i keep all of them). deleting gallery data at least fixes that, and that doesnt happen every reboot either.
and before anyone asks, there is no ".nomedia" file in with my ringtones, or in with any of my pictures.
advice anyone??
anyone?? Ive already tried everything google-able
Greetings,
My M2 recently threw a wobbler and decided that it didn't like the SD card which wa sinstalled, so reported that there wasa problem with the card, and then promptly decided to format it.
The problem that I now have is that in the Alphabetical list of apps there are two icons/short cuts with a red circular sd card image in the top right hand corner of the icons and the icons simply show a rectangular blue image in perspective. These are now the first two in the list.
Code:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ae4bhsbzk39ppg7/Screenshot_2015-12-22-19-59-26.jpg?dl=0
Pressing either returns a message saying, 'Application not found' and I cannot figure out how to remove them having tried everything I can think of, including reboots and resets etc.
Apaert from a factory reset is there any way to get rid of these useless icons ???
Thanks
I also am having this problem. Except my phone recognises the sd card, but I can't transfer items to it, I have r/w permissions, the apps I have on there I can't use, but I can listen to my music and view pictures that I have on there, I have stock lollipop rom and rooted