media.codec is draining my battery - Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers

Hello fellas, hope you're doing OK. I would like to share with you guys the issue I'm having couple of days ago. The media.codec process is literally killing my battery, draining nearly 25-30% (even more than SOT). I thought was a chrome issue so I uninstalled it and been using Samsung browser since then. Even so, the problem persists. Any idea how to solve it?
I'm on CRAP 8.0 Exynos with custom kernel (Notorious Kernel).

HI, I've got the exact same problem, with the exact same kernel... HELP, ANYONE PLEASE

wahin.e said:
HI, I've got the exact same problem, with the exact same kernel... HELP, ANYONE PLEASE
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In my case, I realized it was due to VIPER app. When you turn off Viper it ceases the drain.

josegon30 said:
In my case, I realized it was due to VIPER app. When you turn off Viper it ceases the drain.
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It did work for me thank you, viper isn't that useful anyway.

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[SOLVED] Phone restarts regularly on every rom

Hi everyone, my desire s is acting strange since few days back.. it keeps on restarting for no reason. At first I thought its due to kernel updates to modified kernel 3. But then I installed reaper gingerbread. It restarted when I opened camera.
Then I installed Nik's project x . Still same problem sometimes when I open camera or other heavy application.
It restarts continuously 5-6 times without completely booting and battery drains to 10-15% from 80-90% within 5 minutes..
I've not got this problem when in charging mode..
I'm now using ice_ds 4.3
If anyone have same problem before , is there a solution to this?
Thanks in advance..
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I think it's my Battery problem. Now it restart as soon as I unplugged the power cable.
I didn't find a way to close this thread,
Could anyone tell me how do I close this thread ?
Just add [Solved] to the front of the title, then people will know (edit the first post)
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uktel3315 said:
Hi everyone, my desire s is acting strange since few days back.. it keeps on restarting for no reason. At first I thought its due to kernel updates to modified kernel 3. But then I installed reaper gingerbread. It restarted when I opened camera.
Then I installed Nik's project x . Still same problem sometimes when I open camera or other heavy application.
It restarts continuously 5-6 times without completely booting and battery drains to 10-15% from 80-90% within 5 minutes..
I've not got this problem when in charging mode..
I'm now using ice_ds 4.3
If anyone have same problem before , is there a solution to this?
Thanks in advance..
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I get this too on all custom ROMS.. sometimes if I knock the phone a certain way it resets.. so it must be hardware related.
Can you let me know what your 'SOLUTION' is? All I see if the cause. Thx
Ziplock9000 said:
I get this too on all custom ROMS.. sometimes if I knock the phone a certain way it resets.. so it must be hardware related.
Can you let me know what your 'SOLUTION' is? All I see if the cause. Thx
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Dudeeee read the 2nd post?
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Ziplock9000 said:
I get this too on all custom ROMS.. sometimes if I knock the phone a certain way it resets.. so it must be hardware related.
Can you let me know what your 'SOLUTION' is? All I see if the cause. Thx
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my solution: buy new battery :laugh:
Put a bit of paper between the battery and the holder clip, that fixed it for me to keep the battery in place.

mm-qcamera-daemon

I am running a stock Nexus 5 with 4.4.2. and mm-qcamera-daemon has been significantly lowering my battery life and I do not know which app is causing it. Does anyone know where this originated from or what it is?
doomjuice20 said:
mm-qcamera-daemon has been significantly lowering my battery life and I do not know which app is causing it. Does anyone know where this originated from or what it is?
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it comes from the camera, when you take hdr+ photos.
Are you using any battery saving apps? If so, get rid of them.
Always swipe the camera away from recents when you finished
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Ben36 said:
Always swipe the camera away from recents when you finished
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WOuld Killall -HUP /system/bin/mm-qcamera-deamon by shell script fix the camera crash without reboot?
I had the same thing I deleted most things that I recently downloaded that used the camera and I rebooted the phone and it worked
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I'm having this problem too. I don't have snapchat or any of the other applications that have been claimed to cause it.
I haven't installed any new camera using apps so it's probably due to some update. Stock rom, was happening on stock kernel, is still happening on linaro.
doomjuice20 said:
I am running a stock Nexus 5 with 4.4.2. and mm-qcamera-daemon has been significantly lowering my battery life and I do not know which app is causing it. Does anyone know where this originated from or what it is?
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I'm not sure if this helps or relates to your situation but I had that problem about a month after installing jishnu's camera...kinda came out of nowhere one day. I deleted the app/ mod, rebooted and reinstalled it and haven't had the problem since.
this is a nightmare, as it is unpredictable, with no solution, and not addressed by google.. Even after a factory reset, it ends up coming back.
I got this 2 days ago, first time ever. And I have been using my camera consistently.
First when I start my camera, I get Unable to connect to camera, so I rebooted, and camera works again, but at the end of the day, I saw the high memory usage. I rebooted the phone again yesterday and it seems fine again. Buggy...
And this process have no "Report" button like Google Search or Google Maps have, so I have no way of reporting this issue to Google.
One of the culprit is Yahoo! Messenger's voice/video plugin... Or any other apps that will use the camera..
If you were trying to upload a picture but failed in the mid way... this might occured as the app will always trying to upload the pic eventhough it got failed..
Per my similar topic here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2564457 the culprit for me seems to be an update to Skype pushed out a few days ago.
Gaffadin said:
Per my similar topic here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2564457 the culprit for me seems to be an update to Skype pushed out a few days ago.
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hmm, now you mentioned it, I did install skype on my phone a while ago.
Let me uninstall it!
Since I removed Skype I've had zero more black screens; I'm pretty confident that this is the cause for me.
Negative Guys....
I'm sure that is not third party apps that is causing that drainage,
Why in the world suddenly all people are experiencing this batt drainage with many different apps and blaming them?
I have the problem with weather channel and the mm-qcamera-daemon, others with skype, others with yahoo messenger and so on, this problem suddenly?
I believe that google is working on that problem but not saying anything about it.
Please read all these reports in these 2 links and after that tell me that I'm wrong.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/c__1mTUbOIE%5B101-125-false%5D
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=60058
hmm.... for me, it was skype, uninstalled and back to normal. i only had skype for a week, was wondering why my battery was so messed up so i googled and landed here, took off skype and wallah.
stealthj said:
hmm.... for me, it was skype, uninstalled and back to normal. i only had skype for a week, was wondering why my battery was so messed up so i googled and landed here, took off skype and wallah.
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I know that some people just uninstall an application and then it works again as before, but later on the problem shall arise in a few days or something, I've read this. Let me uninstall it and let you know, maybe it was an update that caused the problem but I got The Weather Channel that said it was something similar to mm-qcamera.daemon and I uninstalled it and the same problem, I deleted the cache and davlik cache as well and it did not work, I have rebooted several times and it seems that I have to do a nandroid restore and see what happens after that.
rayosx said:
I'm sure that is not third party apps that is causing that drainage,
Why in the world suddenly all people are experiencing this batt drainage with many different apps and blaming them?
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I am not actually blaming them, just want to find out HOW to make sure this doesn't happen to me. If it involves uninstalling Skype, then let it be.
This is definitely a OS process, its whether there's a bug in the OS, that was triggered by Skype, OR its that Skype is not using the API correctly, either way, the "solution" for now is just to uninstall Skype.
/Skype/any other apps that's reported here/
Gaffadin said:
Per my similar topic here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2564457 the culprit for me seems to be an update to Skype pushed out a few days ago.
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I would agree with this. I've frozen Skype with TiBackup to see what happens.
reboot with clearing cache did the job for me

[Q] Mysterious battery drain

Hello everyone.
This morning I woke up and I found my phone in this state, I took some printscreens so that maybe you could help me to figure out what happened, I'm truly lost...
Stock rom, Xposed with 3 modules installed (GravityBox, minminguard and intelli3g),stock kernel.
Can you help me understand why that happened? Please don't tell me I need to rma!
Thank you,
Td
tylerdurden83 said:
Hello everyone.
This morning I woke up and I found my phone in this state, I took some printscreens so that maybe you could help me to figure out what happened, I'm truly lost...
Stock rom, Xposed with 3 modules installed (GravityBox, minminguard and intelli3g),stock kernel.
Can you help me understand why that happened? Please don't tell me I need to rma!
Thank you,
Td
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This is now the third thread I've seen regarding this, including mine. I'm really hoping it's a software problem.
Reboot phone to fix. Toggling airplane mode may fix it also.
Just to assure you it's not GravityBox.
Here's my typical battery life with GB. I don't use any other modules.
https://plus.google.com/116827098689898644151/posts/fCrkmcJ4iaC
Aerowinder said:
This is now the third thread I've seen regarding this, including mine. I'm really hoping it's a software problem.
Reboot phone to fix. Toggling airplane mode may fix it also.
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May I ask you if the issue arised only after installing xposed framework? My phone was fine until the very same night that I installed it...
I resolved it by going into recovery and wiping cache/dalvik, and using Battery Monitor Widget to recalibrate (not sure if it really does anything). It is rather annoying when it does happen.
tylerdurden83 said:
May I ask you if the issue arised only after installing xposed framework? My phone was fine until the very same night that I installed it...
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I've done extensive testing on this issue. Xposed is not the problem. Nor is GravityBox. I'm not sure about the others, but I don't think they are the cause either.
Thanks to both. I'll try some stuff around, it's just a strange coincidence that it started right after i installed xposed, but if you tested it, i trust your findings!
Aerowinder said:
I've done extensive testing on this issue. Xposed is not the problem. Nor is GravityBox. I'm not sure about the others, but I don't think they are the cause either.
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May I ask you if you used anything that triggers connection changes? Like a night profile turning stuff off, or gb or intelli3g to turn 3g to 2g while under wifi or with the screen off, etc?
tylerdurden83 said:
May I ask you if you used anything that triggers connection changes? Like a night profile turning stuff off, or gb or intelli3g to turn 3g to 2g while under wifi or with the screen off, etc?
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I use Tasker to toggle off wifi while I'm at work. Other than that, nothing.
C3C076 said:
Just to assure you it's not GravityBox.
Here's my typical battery life with GB. I don't use any other modules.
https://plus.google.com/116827098689898644151/posts/fCrkmcJ4iaC
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How do you get 5 hours screentime with stock rom and kernel AND have 30% left..... Max i will get is 3.5 and by then the phone is dead.
my curiosity is asking.. why dont you charge your phone overnight??? no, it does not hurt the phone.

Weird battery drain

My phone has now twice needed a total reset to fix a weird battery drain issue. Anyone else seeing this.
CrazyPeter said:
My phone has now twice needed a total reset to fix a weird battery drain issue. Anyone else seeing this.
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Screenshots
Nobody can help with so few information. At least mention your Android version, if you are stock / rooted / if you have crappy apps like FB, and so on...
Sorry, just noticed ibposted this in the nexus 5 rather than 5x. Please ignore

Drain

Hello guys, im just new here and i have a little problem on my phone which is the battery...
Whenever i get to 50% or half of my battery percent it drains so much faster than the other half (100% - 51%)
I havent tried calibrating yet but im about to try it today, it drains 1% like every 20-30 secs.. my phones model is lenovo a7000-a and rooted.. any ideas? thank you in advance
hyakuya said:
Hello guys, im just new here and i have a little problem on my phone which is the battery...
Whenever i get to 50% or half of my battery percent it drains so much faster than the other half (100% - 51%)
I havent tried calibrating yet but im about to try it today, it drains 1% like every 20-30 secs.. my phones model is lenovo a7000-a and rooted.. any ideas? thank you in advance
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The battery is beginnig to break down and fail. Replacement is the only fix, eventually it will get worse then quit on you.
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Droidriven said:
The battery is begging to break down and fail. Replacement is the only fix, eventually it will get worse then quit on you.
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Thank you, ive done calibration and seems to fix it a little, i think its just the device miscalculating the actual percentage of the battery, what do you think? Also to be specific , i just finished flashing a rom from lollipop to marshmallow back to the last version of lollipop .. problem doesnt seem to occure before i flashed :/
hyakuya said:
Thank you, ive done calibration and seems to fix it a little, i think its just the device miscalculating the actual percentage of the battery, what do you think? Also to be specific , i just finished flashing a rom from lollipop to marshmallow back to the last version of lollipop .. problem doesnt seem to occure before i flashed :/
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It would have been better if you had provided that information when you first posted. If you want help with issues, it helps for us to know the things that have been done to the device that potentially caused the issue.
Don't just say "I'm having "this" issue". This implies that the issue is a random issue that started on its own and not something you did to cause it.
It's better to say "I did "this" to my device, now my device is having "this" issue". This implies that something that you altered is causing the issue.
Failing to post the details we need about the situation leads to inaccurate or incorrect answers. It can even lead to receiving incorrect answers that don't help or answers that might make things worse for you.
If you flashed a ROM and then this started happening then yes, the battery may be out of calibration.
If it had started doing this on its own then I'd say it was the battery.
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