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.
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Running CyanogenMod 6.1.2 - 0.10 (Android 2.2.1+) , with boot2.img and Go Launcher Ex.
Is anybody having trouble playing flash and youtube video with boot2.img or boot5.img?
After a few days without rebooting, neither the youtube app or flash video on browser (stock or miren) would play flash video anymore. In you tube, it would play for 10 seconds, before stopping with an error. In browser, it would say video cannot be played.
Quick reboot (only rebooting the UI) through link2d doesn't fix it. Only a full reboot, either with fastboot boot2.img, or regular reboot would fix it.
I only have this problem running CyanogenMod with fastboot. No swap works fine. Never had this issue with MIUI. I have seen it around 3-4 times for the past 2 weeks.
Maybe my swap partition is corrupted? Or maybe there is a problem with swap handling in CyanogenMod?
Thanks.
Posting what I found in case someone else is hitting the same issue.
I found this. I tried removing twitter and reboot, but I still had the same problem. Then I also removed moboplayer and reinstalled youtube, and the problem went away. I am guessing re-installing youtube fixes the codec previously corrupted by other apps.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=3ef52f711434ba6d&hl=en
Cheers.
Hello all,
I have Samsung Galaxy Nexus, running CM 10.2.0. I had no problems until about 2 weeks ago.
I noticed that my phone got rather sluggish and I investigated what is going on. Looking at the list of running apps I immediately noticed that Google Play Services is using 130MB of memory instead of usual 30-40MB. By looking inside details of that process, I can see that the culprit is android.process.acore, which is using 84MB.
Similarly, looking at memory footprint using application OS Monitor, I see Search Applications Provider sitting on top of the memory usage list with 108.2 MB.
Restarting the phone gets everything back to normal for a while. I can trigger this problem reliably by going into Dialer app and calling someone. But even if I am not calling anyone, this issue seems to come back by itself. I am not sure, but maybe contacts synchronization?
It seems like Search/Contact provider is not releasing the resources and gets stuck.
What I tried so far:
-> freezing Search Applications Provider with Titanium backup. This solves the issue, but I lose Google Now functionality, which I would really like to keep using :/
-> deleting Search Applications Provider data - problem persisted
-> deleting Contacts and Contact Storage data - problem persisted
-> Disabled all categories that Search should be indexing in the phone - problem persisted
Please advise how to solve this issue. I have searched this forum, went through a lot of threads, but all I found was acore crashing, not acore using too much memory.
p.s. I am not an newbie, I know my way around android, linux, programming, debugging etc.
Thanks.
No one ? Please help, this is still an issue.
I can't find a solution to the issue I am having. It happens with all Gaming apps and if I click on a link in Facebook it will close out. The app will close out with no error message. Not sure how to fix it. If traced it down to the initial Google updates after activating phone. If you factory reset the device and stop the auto updates. It will work just fine. If you install the 30 something random google / bloatware apps. The issue comes back. ive also tried flashing the factory firmware a couple times and that didnt work. The S8+ is an ATT phone if that helps.
If anyone can enlighten me, with a fix for this issue that would be grand.
I've search google up and down and cannot find even a mention of this issue.
I noticed yesterday that I am unable to shoot video anymore. I tried all the sizes and formats available. I just can't. The video starts shooting and stops after a second. Sometimes it saves 1s clips, other times it just doesn't save anything. Same happens with Slo-mo video.
I tried some 3rd party video app - it records without issues.
Anyone else experiencing this issue? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Someone in one of the other threads mentioned the same problem being fixed by a factory reset.
I recently updated to software version *.120. It worked without an issue before that.
I cleared the cache partition - not helping.
I refuse to factory reset my phone, because I spent the last month and a half finely tuning it to my preference.
Applying small updates should not be cause for factory resetting your phone! This software experience is getting frustrating! Huawei's software department is just bad!
No such issue. I can record video in all formats and framerates.
I cleared the data and cache for the Camera app and it works fine now.
If anyone has this issue after an update - this is the way to go.
Settings > Apps > Camera > Storage > Clear Data and Clear Cache
TL;DR: Audio/video freeze on my phone even after factory reset. Flashing new ROM solves the issue except when I start certain apps which causes it to reoccur until I restart the phone.
I have a Poco X3 NFC and shortly after requesting to unlock bootloader I stared having a bug where whenever I played media (spotify, youtube, netflix, etc), the audio and video would stop/stutter every few seconds. The issue occurred both on speakers and bluetooth. After trying unsuccessfully to solve the issue I factory reset the phone and thought that would be it. However even after a factory reset I was still unable to play videos or music. I then tried the next best thing. I flashed the stock fastboot ROM from my computer using the Mi Flash Tool but the issue still continued.
Thinking it could be a problem with MIUI itself I then flashed TWRP and installed ArrowOS with the Optimus Drunk Kernel which greatly helped performance and battery life. For a little while the issue seemed gone but after opening facebook messenger I started having the same issue. A bit of experimenting revealed that some messaging apps like facebook messenger and the dialer caused the issue to reoccur until I restarted the phone and it worked again.
My only theory is that somehow a low level program like the bootloader somehow got corrupted and causes this issue when my messaging apps are running something in the background (although the issue continues after force stopping those apps). Does anyone have any thoughts on this issue or ideas how I can fix it?