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[Q] Problem: Screen doesn't show anything after some time

I have a problem with my Xt720.
I have the Froyo Rom by khalpowers V3. (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993)
Everything works just fine and how it should. But after about 20 minutes when my screen turns off or when I turn my screen off, I can't turn it on again.
I press the Powerbutton and all that happens is that the led row lights up but the screen stays black.
I'm not sure but I think the touch screen doesn't work either because I can't unlock it by sliding the unlock thing. (or I just can't find it when the screen is off)
This began today and I did nothing extraordinary with my phone. When it started I had the Dexter's Froyo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939644) Version 1.2. But it has never been a problem before.
Then I flashed the above called Rom by khalpowers and it's still the same problem.
Everytime it happens I have to remove the battery and reboot the phone to use it again. This is very annoying and not how it should behave.
Wat do?

Monthana said:
I have a problem with my Xt720.
I have the Froyo Rom by khalpowers V3. (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993)
Everything works just fine and how it should. But after about 20 minutes when my screen turns off or when I turn my screen off, I can't turn it on again.
I press the Powerbutton and all that happens is that the led row lights up but the screen stays black.
I'm not sure but I think the touch screen doesn't work either because I can't unlock it by sliding the unlock thing. (or I just can't find it when the screen is off)
This began today and I did nothing extraordinary with my phone. When it started I had the Dexter's Froyo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939644) Version 1.2. But it has never been a problem before.
Then I flashed the above called Rom by khalpowers and it's still the same problem.
Everytime it happens I have to remove the battery and reboot the phone to use it again. This is very annoying and not how it should behave.
Wat do?
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Let it charge for a while and try again. Your battery may be extremely low. Turning on the button lights is one thing it does when there isn't enough power to boot even to the "display a charging battery" mode. This has happened to me.

I've had this issue ever since I got my phone. This would just happen completely randomly (nothing to do with battery or anything else). It happened pretty unfrequently and barely ever happens ever since I put on Dexter's 1.3. Not sure what causes it - but it looked to be completely random for me.

Monthana said:
I have a problem with my Xt720.
I have the Froyo Rom by khalpowers V3. (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993)
Everything works just fine and how it should. But after about 20 minutes when my screen turns off or when I turn my screen off, I can't turn it on again.
I press the Powerbutton and all that happens is that the led row lights up but the screen stays black.
I'm not sure but I think the touch screen doesn't work either because I can't unlock it by sliding the unlock thing. (or I just can't find it when the screen is off)
This began today and I did nothing extraordinary with my phone. When it started I had the Dexter's Froyo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939644) Version 1.2. But it has never been a problem before.
Then I flashed the above called Rom by khalpowers and it's still the same problem.
Everytime it happens I have to remove the battery and reboot the phone to use it again. This is very annoying and not how it should behave.
Wat do?
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Another suggestion. Since you've already swapped ROMs, maybe it's related to the SD card. Perhaps try backing your SD card up, reformatting it and copying the data back (do this on the PC not through USB access). Then reinstall your rom in OpenRecovery and factory wipe.
(You don't happen to be running WidgetLocker?)

@Mioze: The battery was at 70% a few hours after I loaded it to 100%, so that's probably not the problem. I don't have widgetlocker and it also happened with the sd card taken out.
But it didn't happen since I've started this thread so maybe I'm lucky and syrenz was right.

i have had this problem on every rom. it is related to sdcard. happens to me almost everytime i try to unrar one of khals rar files it always happens when im doing something sdcard related. last time it happened i did a battery pull and when it powered up my sdcard would stop checking for errors and everytime the screen turned off it wouldnt come back up. i had to plug into pc and check for errors and then it worked again without having to reformat it. my advice is get a faster sdcard. the stock one just doesnt cut it.

Trying a 4Gb Kingston Sd card now I used with my Dslr before.
I used the stock sd the whole day after I checked it for errors yesterday and it went well until I tried to download something from the store.
By now there seems to be no problem. Going to update my post if the problem still exists.
If it's ok: Thank you all for your efforts to help me.

Now this is ironic, as my phone began doing this today after put a new 32GB class 10 (Patriot) microsdhc card and reflashed Dexter's 1.3 and added bugfix v3 to it. After some tinkering, I think I nailed it down to me undervolting the processor.
I'm assuming the new microsdhc card need's a little more power than I was allowing. I was clocking the processor to 720Mhz/Vsel43, I left the speed at 720Mhz, but increased the vsel to 45, which seems to have solved the above described problem. However when I tried to copy my music over to the phone, it borked out again. So I've increased the vsel to 50 and things seem to have settled down. (fingers crossed)
G.
Ack! I spoke too soon. I just tried to install Steve Lin's Gingerbread keyboard and the phone reboots at the end of the download, even though I tried increasing the vsel. Going try clearing the Dalvik/Cache and see if that helps any.

I've flashed my XT720 to the khalpowers MIUI-Optimized V3 with the camera update.
I originally had a Sandisk 8GB Class 4 SD card, but after installing a new Adata 8GB Class 6 SD card, I started having the same issues. I was running Milestone Overclock on non-custom overclock settings, so it was running at 1GHz @ 74 vsel.
Honestly, I don't know that I've seen a discernible difference between the Class 4 and Class 6 card, so I may go back to the original card until I get more concrete data on how to fix this.

Let me share my 2 cents regarding sd cards.
first trouble shouting:
1. use the phone without the sdcard to see if the problem disapear
2. while doing 1. test the sdcard. Have in mind that sdcards are little bit different from normal hdd. For example i had 2 sdcards which locks the phone, but seems good on normal fs checking (even bad sector check option forced). but this 2 cards failed on the following test
test read speed of the sdcard for every 100 MB of it. for my desktop the script looks like:
Code:
i=0; while [ $i -lt 75 ]; do echo $i; dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 skip=`expr $i \* 100`; i=`expr $i + 1`; done
dd utility will probably report the speed (else just type time dd ....., then you will have the time)
if the card is good, then the speed has to be almost constant
for example on the good card i am using now is almost constant from 13.1 till 13.6 MB/s
for one of the bad, i observerd droping from 10 MB/s to 3 MB/s for a specific space range. then had run several tests just in this range and it turnout that this area of the sdcard is slow. That means that the card is on it way to the RIP.
For us it means that some sdcard io will timeout and soft lookup can happen (e.g. so called warm reboot, or just system_server kill by the watchdog). The other possibilities is more worse, just freeze and the watchdog cannot kill the system_server (probably because hang io operation)
Personally i was runing adb shell when the phone had freeze. it turns out that the linux works somewhat, but even as root i was unable to kill any process (probably because io hung operation), also every operation with the sdcard has hangt the current adb session, so i have to open new one....
secondly performance
0. If you wish you can perform the read speed test from above, but with write and to observe weak areas of the new sdcard
1. align the partitions on 8192s boundary (both of them to start on 8192*X sector)
2. format the fat32 so 64k logical cluster is formed (i use mkfs.vfat -S 4096 -s 16 options )
3. do the read_ahead tweak
4. be sure to using noatime mount options
5. vold checks the fat partition for you, make sure that thex ext[234] partition is checked before is mounted
6. If you decide to move the /data/dalvik-cache, move it to the /cache partition, not the ext[234] one
and do not forget, that free internal phone storage has no benefits. so as the internal nand is faster, use it as much as you can
p.s. and just to share: i have troubles with the thumbnail service. it turns out that when it runs (e.g. when i lock the display) it find some broken images and crashed badly, invoking warm reboot. after deleting this broken images, this problem was solved

I've been using the Kingston 4gb sd for a few days now and the problem's gone.
So that might be the solution.

I use 8GB C2 sdcard, and turn off desktop cache in system setting of ADW, this problem was gone.
It seem to be caused by ADW places cache in SD.

I've left my Adata 8GB Class 6 SD card in for now, but after removing the SD Speed Boost app, it appears my problem has gone away. I've never had the persistent memory setting enabled on ADW, btw.
Edit: I was curious if the SD Speed Boost would work after a reinstall, but 20 minutes after, I was pulling my battery, so I'm pretty sure it was that app at fault.

easye420 said:
i have had this problem on every rom. it is related to sdcard. happens to me almost everytime i try to unrar one of khals rar files it always happens when im doing something sdcard related. last time it happened i did a battery pull and when it powered up my sdcard would stop checking for errors and everytime the screen turned off it wouldnt come back up. i had to plug into pc and check for errors and then it worked again without having to reformat it. my advice is get a faster sdcard. the stock one just doesnt cut it.
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I got the issue even I'm using the class 10 SD card it seems not related the SD speed.

Annoying.......
This problem just started happening to me but I doubt that it is a SD card problem. Mostly since my phone has been unresponsive since yesterday afternoon and I can't even get the LEDs to light up or get the screen on at all. I got it to work after relentless battery pulls and taking the SD card and SIM out. But I decided to turn it off so I could pop the SD and SIM card back, it went back to its non-responsive mode. I also am unable to get to recovery mode or even the bootloader. My tech always seems to break all on the same day (my bike too >_<).

just try without sdcard
Sent from my Milestone XT720 using Tapatalk

I'm almost positive this is sdcard related it only happens to me when I'm doin something sdcard related. Happens like clock work when I try to unrar one of khal themes that's 100 or more megs same when I use the unyaff app to extract my data.img from my back up. Ive had this problem ever since upgrading to 2.2 never happened on 2.1 I've just gotten used to it. I dont think its gonna go away I'm thinking the sdcard must timeout or something.

easye420 said:
I'm almost positive this is sdcard related it only happens to me when I'm doin something sdcard related. Happens like clock work when I try to unrar one of khal themes that's 100 or more megs same when I use the unyaff app to extract my data.img from my back up. Ive had this problem ever since upgrading to 2.2 never happened on 2.1 I've just gotten used to it. I dont think its gonna go away I'm thinking the sdcard must timeout or something.
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Well just did a battery pull again and just took out the SD card and put the battery back in and tried to turn it on again but to no avail. Really annoying not having having my phone.....

This is also happening to me too... regardless if i have anything installed or accessing any files on my SDcard... and i already flashed my xt720 back to stock... and still the same... already changed my SDcard from the 8gb that was included on the package to 16gb... but still the same... i am very dissapointed with this device... just got this last week...

Still Annoyed....
My problem is still persisting after 2 days now and I'm torn between junking this phone and getting something else or trying to find a way to get my phone back in working order. I've tried just about everything I can do physically with the phone (battery pulls, w/o SD or SIM or with both in or one or the other out, etc........). So far all I have right now is a $400 dollar paper weight.
On another note, for some reason it keeps phoning my dad or sending him text messages with random assortments of code or error messages..........

[SOLVED] LGO3D randomly shuts off.

My newly bought shiny LGO3D phone has a habbit of randomly shutting itself down no matter what ROM / Firmware i have on it.
I've tried stock, king ROM, and a few others. all randomly shutdown. i wouldnt mind if it had rebooted by itself at least it would come back on but it just goes off!
i reach into my pocket -- lo and behold the phone is off!
I've read lots of Optimus2x threads about a similar issue ... some blame the android system and some blame the hardware.
i wonder why there isnt a log in the android system describing an error or whatever?
can anyone help?

maybe your battery is a bit loose?
go stick some strips of paper at the bottom edge of the battery to make sure its nudged tight.
not sure, maybe a possible solution

i think i may have solved this issue...
what i did was this:
install CWM and reboot into the CWM menu.
i deleted everything. cache, delve cache, battery stats, everything thats deletable i did it.
i am currently using king_rom (which was doing the same problem for me to start with) and i can say the phone has been running ok for about 2 days now.
keeping fingers crossed.

usually cache + dalvic + battery states are deleted on every rom flash
if it appears again pull out your sdcard
fixed all reboot issues for me... wonderful to have a phone able to play 3d + record 3d/1080p and cant use a sdcard
hoping the 2.3 update will fix it

Blezz said:
usually cache + dalvic + battery states are deleted on every rom flash
if it appears again pull out your sdcard
fixed all reboot issues for me... wonderful to have a phone able to play 3d + record 3d/1080p and cant use a sdcard
hoping the 2.3 update will fix it
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i never sacrificed the sdcard though its in there and its working fine.

MIUI Screenshot Broken

So up until recently my built in screenshot with VolDown + Menu worked great, but I just noticed today that it's not saving any of my screenshots. The screen flickers as if it takes the picture, but no files are left in sdcard\MIUI\screenshots. I'm pretty sure the ROM is okay, since it worked before (GB MIUI.us 2.4.6). I downloaded screenshot from the market and tried that, and it was able to save files but they were all black.
Unmounting the SD card works, and then remounting it transfers the screenshots back to the SD card, but doing so everytime is quite a hassle. I've tried fixing permissions, clearing cache, and nothing has worked. Only recent change I can think of that MAY affect this was I installed nenamark2, ran the benchmark, and saved a screenshot from within the app. I've since then uninstalled the app, and no change...
Any ideas?

[A700] crash instead of powering off when empty

Hi devvers,
The last update for the German version of the tablet is not working so well for me.
First things first: the tablet drains a lot of battery power! Have you noticed that too??
And second: when the tablet is almost empty like 7%, the tablet turns off instantly. I don't see the second warning screen because there's still over 4% left. It used to show me the second screen and then when it's really empty, Android powers off.
Turning the tablet back on isn't an option anymore. You have to plug the charger and then it'll boot again.
I'm using a stock rom and no root whatsoever.
Am I the only one out there? :/
Ps. Are there people having a notification showing that the sd card is inserted every hour or so?

Okay, this problem has occured multiple times and today nothing happend and everything went how it should. Awesome.

TomONeill said:
Okay, this problem has occured multiple times and today nothing happend and everything went how it should. Awesome.
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Self-Healing
With battery drains though, it's better to check your Applications and see if you downloaded some apps that might be using too much battery. Go to Settings/Apps and select Apps running. This will show you what's running in memory.
MD

Thanks for your reply.
Yeah, it's self-healing xD
I did last week and I didn't notice any particular app eating too much RAM memory. I also checked the cached processes, but that wasn't a problem either. I did turn off some notifications from games I didn't play anyway, but that did not really help.
May I ask how much RAM you have left when having nothing running?
I have between 200-300 MB left, sometimes after a boot 300 to 400, but not really that often.
I'm running the stock ROM by the way.
Another thing: Do you have a SD card in your SD card slot? Cause every now and then since the JB update I get the notification "SD Card is inserted". Which I'm sliding away and it pops up back after having my tablet in stand-by modus for a few minutes (perhaps hours).
Edit:
I have to say that I have been installing a lot of apps, but that I deleted a lot of them 2 weeks back. Then I checked my sdcard data (internal data) for any traces of deleted apps, but I was quite surprised how little there was left of traces of deleted apps. Microsoft could learn from that (though it's not Microsoft who makes their uninstallers not fully deleting everything. But am going off topic now.). Could that may have effects on the RAM? I don't assume it will, but just FYI.

Android Media Server Battery Drain

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.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

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.
Check the screenshot

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?
Sent from my GT-I9505G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

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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