Iv tried stopping disabling many aps but mediaserver constantly runs from the beginning of a full charge. Doesn't give any explanation on what its doing? Iv also deleting any images stores my the camera app which was suggested. Any thoughts on how to stop mediaserver or what its doing?
nielo360 said:
Iv tried stopping disabling many aps but mediaserver constantly runs from the beginning of a full charge. Doesn't give any explanation on what its doing? Iv also deleting any images stores my the camera app which was suggested. Any thoughts on how to stop mediaserver or what its doing?
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CameraAwesome somtimes will dump corrupted jpg's into its data folder on our internal storage. When there is corrupted jpgs, the media server service enters into a loop, trying constantly to read them. This can be a very heavy drain on the battery. Find those jpgs and delete them.
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I'm sure this has been posted already, but I wanted to centralize this information after having seen and helped a few people with battery screen shots that indicate high Media Server and Google Maps battery drain/CPU usage.
Google Maps and Media Server should not be your two highest battery drain apps Unless you are using Google maps all day long. Even then, Screen should be eating more battery than Google Maps.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps. Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
Media Server scans your SD card and phone for new media files. I found that I needed to reformat my SD Card and then copy my big library of pictures back to it to fix the high amount of battery drain and cpu usage from this app. Before the reformat, Media Server was my higest drain application and the Gallery would slug around. After the reformat, Media Server doesnt even show up on my battery information and gallery flies as it should.
Grant H said:
I'm sure this has been posted already, but I wanted to centralize this information after having seen and helped a few people with battery screen shots that indicate high Media Server and Google Maps battery drain/CPU usage.
Google Maps and Media Server should not be your two highest battery drain apps Unless you are using Google maps all day long. Even then, Screen should be eating more battery than Google Maps.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps. Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
Media Server scans your SD card and phone for new media files. I found that I needed to reformat my SD Card and then copy my big library of pictures back to it to fix the high amount of battery drain and cpu usage from this app. Before the reformat, Media Server was my higest drain application and the Gallery would slug around. After the reformat, Media Server doesnt even show up on my battery information and gallery flies as it should.
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Google now uses maps to know your location and give you relevant content. If you disable it after enabling google now, you will be affecting the usefulness of google now. That being said, I have google now off anyway.
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I've been struggling with runaway Media Storage for the last few days and am giving up!
Two different SD cards (32gb and 64gb). About 10gb of Music and Pictures copied to music and pictures folders. Fresh formats using exFAT and FAT32. No matter what I do, it gets hung up for hour after hour after hour and runs the battery down with less than 2 hours of screen time.
My last experiment confirmed that it's an S4 bug:
Took the 2 cards, formatted them FAT32, copied over my media. Stuck one in the S4, the other in my old Moto Defy running cm10. After boot, the Defy was done indexing (Media Storage dropped off task status list in System Tuner) within 15 minutes. The S4 was still spinning after 3 hours.
So I powered off the devices, and switched the cards between the two. Booted them up, and the same thing happened. The Defy was done within 15 minutes while the S4 was still bogging after several hours.
Keep in mind that the Defy is merely a single core overclocked to 1.2ghz. Everything else is painfully slow on it, but it still manages to spank the S4 in indexing my media. And as a result, the battery also outlasts.
Arg! Was really hoping this S4 was going to work out for me, but it looks like it won't be of any use until the custom roms start rolling out...
I've essentially been unable to get rid of the mediaserver wakelock, well, since jellybean has been released. It is persisant whether there is a memory card or not. Even if I delete every picture and music file on the phone it persists. It seems it cannot be stopped!
Also, I have been able to rid the maps wakelocks by disabling google now, but I'll give your method a shot.
Hi everyone,
At a bit of a loss here. My gf has a nexus 5 running android 6 and she keeps getting loud adverts playing when her phone is sleeping.
It is intermittent, no set pattern and as soon as the power button is pressed there is no trace of anything.
I have googled excessively and can find no one else who has experienced it.
I have removed lots of her apps that could be suspect but today it happened and I heard it with my own ears. They appear to be targeted ads as it played an audio ad for a national car chip repair service.
Any help or advice welcomed.
Thinking of doing a factory reset of the phone.....
hawkyhawk1404 said:
Hi everyone,
At a bit of a loss here. My gf has a nexus 5 running android 6 and she keeps getting loud adverts playing when her phone is sleeping.
It is intermittent, no set pattern and as soon as the power button is pressed there is no trace of anything.
I have googled excessively and can find no one else who has experienced it.
I have removed lots of her apps that could be suspect but today it happened and I heard it with my own ears. They appear to be targeted ads as it played an audio ad for a national car chip repair service.
Any help or advice welcomed.
Thinking of doing a factory reset of the phone.....
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One way to find out which app is causing this is to go to Settings->Apps->Running and see what all apps are listed here.
Try looking uninstalling the user apps listed here one by one and check if the problem is fixed.
Normally it has to be a Game app or sth. like that.
Cheers.
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One way to find out which app is causing this is to go to Settings->Apps->Running and see what all apps are listed here.
Try looking uninstalling the user apps listed here one by one and check if the problem is fixed.
Normally it has to be a Game app or sth. like that.
Cheers.
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I tried doing that, and nothing obvious was running. The only thing it claimed was running was Android Web View - which would make sense, the ads are probably javascript and HTML5 audio elements., but I could not see what was invoking the web view to open.
I did run a malware scan using malwarebytes for andorid and it ALWAYS crashed when scanning chrome, even after I cleared the chrome cache and data. Which made me suspect chrome was infact infected.
On a more depressing note, I did end up factory reseting the phone, and did a clean install, and installed her "vital" apps (to make sure it did not restore a "bad" application) and my gf has just alerted me to the fact it has begun speaking to her again! Arrghh.
I would of thought a factory reset would have removed all traces of this thing.
Would it be worth doing (the rather drastic) full factory reset, using the google provided factory images and ADB/Fastboot?
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I tried doing that, and nothing obvious was running. The only thing it claimed was running was Android Web View - which would make sense, the ads are probably javascript and HTML5 audio elements., but I could not see what was invoking the web view to open.
I did run a malware scan using malwarebytes for andorid and it ALWAYS crashed when scanning chrome, even after I cleared the chrome cache and data. Which made me suspect chrome was infact infected.
On a more depressing note, I did end up factory reseting the phone, and did a clean install, and installed her "vital" apps (to make sure it did not restore a "bad" application) and my gf has just alerted me to the fact it has begun speaking to her again! Arrghh.
I would of thought a factory reset would have removed all traces of this thing.
Would it be worth doing (the rather drastic) full factory reset, using the google provided factory images and ADB/Fastboot?
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Just out of curiosity, does this music play while there is an incoming notification?
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Just out of curiosity, does this music play while there is an incoming notification?
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The odd thing is there is NO notification at all. You can just hear the advert, and once the screen comes on, there is no sign of it ever happening!
No notifications, no open applications in the app draw. Very annoying!
hawkyhawk1404 said:
The odd thing is there is NO notification at all. You can just hear the advert, and once the screen comes on, there is no sign of it ever happening!
No notifications, no open applications in the app draw. Very annoying!
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Well,that's strange.
Only thing that is left to try is a full reset, as I guess the media is stored somewhere in the internal storage and is played by some adware.
Just back up only the essential folders ( like DCIM,Music,etc.) and nothing more from your internal storage prior to a full reset.
That should solve the problem.
Cheers.
Hi! I just bought the note 5 and everything's been great. I just started having a leaky battery though. It started after I restored my apps with an app from the Play store. Additionally, I downloaded previous problem apps like Skype. I wanted to confirm that restoring apps instead of downloading them still causes battery problems with the battery and if Skype is still a problem. Additionally, I had modified the sync settings of my social media apps, news feed, etc but I saw no significant change.
I just uninstalled all of my apps, drained the battery all the way, and charged it up fully. I do still notice a rapid decline though. I wanted to upload a pic but it said it was an invalid file Any comments are greatly appreciated and if you need more info, just ask, thanks!
So I have the AT&T Galaxy S6 Edge and out of no where about 2 weeks ago I started getting the dreaded Mediaserver drain. I can't figure out how to resolve the issue and it's really killing my battery. In regards to troubleshooting here's what I've tried so far. A reboot fixes the issue for about 1-2 days and then it comes right back.
-I cleared the cache for media storage and rebooted.....didn't fix it
-I cleared all the cache on the phone....didn't fix it
-I did a factory reset and wiped everything....didn't fix it
-I upgrade chrome and webview to the 53 beta as I saw some people with the S7 stating they were causing a drain on their phones.....didn't fix it
-I installed a 3rd party app which lets you clear mediastorage and rescans only a few media dir's.....it removes all ringtones and still doesn't fix it.
-I have .nomedia files in all of the folders on my local storage that I don't want scanned
At this point short of running odin I am out of ideas. I can't figure out the cause of this drain, in the past any of these steps have resolved the issue. My mediastorage is at about 5.31MB so it's not crazy big. I have no media on my device except for pictures I take which I upload to google photos and then locally delete and I only stream music through google play music. I really am at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas what else I can try? I'd rather not do an odin on my phone. I'd greatly appreciate any help.
I noticed my battery has been getting killed the last few weeks. Last week I finally checked, and I kept seeing vanced (which I do not use often, nor do I use its version of youtube) with ridiculous usage of 40% with 1 min used. I finally uninstalled both it and its version of youtube. Nothing changed, the battery is still dying, and it's still showing up. Help, please!
Stock load? It could be malware or the user data partition somehow got corrupted. Factory reset if you can't resolve it very soon.
Developer options>running processes, can you spot it there?
I loaded it from the site. I got the link here a year and a half ago. Not sure why its an issue lately.
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I loaded it from the site. I got the link here a year and a half ago. Not sure why its an issue lately.
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yes i see it in processes
badbeats said:
I loaded it from the site. I got the link here a year and a half ago. Not sure why its an issue lately.
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Punch on the running services entry and see what info it has. Try killing it there.
Go into apps and search for it.
Clear system cache if you have that option.
It may be a false report; another app may be the culprit. You need to track the cause down or do a factory reset.
Scan with Malwarebytes.
Run Autostarts and see what it finds.
It found it, I can't disable it. Application info does nothing.
badbeats said:
It found it, I can't disable it. Application info does nothing.
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Uninstall it. It may be listed under another name in apps.
So it does not show up in apps, and I do not see a way to uni install it since I already did.