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Folks,
My phone seems to be guzzling battery when playing mp3s using the new music 3.0. I think I can get about 6-8 hours of music playing which seems pretty low with nothing else happening, screen mostly off unless I have to pause it, and set cpu running at 245mhz when the screen is off.
Looking at the battery use stats in Gingerbread (I'm currently using oxygen 2.3.3 ROM) it seems that the phone is pretty much constantly awake which I'm guessing isn't a good thing. If I stop playing music then the phone seems to sleep OK.
So is it normal for the phone to remain awake when playing mp3s? If no, is there something that could be causing this or a way to try and stop it. If yes, is there something I could try to get some battery life back?
Try another music player. If it's still happening then I would say that's normal. I get about that time on my phone.
i don,t think Desire can be used both as a phone and Music player , itd bound to die out in 6-8 hours
Guys.
Thanks for the replies.
I was able to use my touchHD as a phone and music player, with about 2x the battery life I get on the desire.
I must admit that I wasn't expecting such a big difference between these two devices.
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I tend to chew through about 10% battery in a regular 90 minute train journey playing music and sending the odd SMS or making a 1-2 minute call. I use poweramp player.
I think that's not bad!
Stringer
That's more like what I'd expect. I was watching things closely yesterday and I got less than 4 hours of mp3 playback with no calls, texts or web (except weather updates every 4 hours and Gmail background checking).
I think I may have found the culprit though. I was running widget locker with the phantom media controls widget. It appears that this may have resulted in 2 copies of the music 3 app running and draining the battery. Have removed both apps and I'll see how things go.
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Yes 4 hours to a dead battery just through music seems excessive.
Hope the above works for you. What is your standby battery drain like? I found android status app useful for keeping an eye on running processes
To find out the battery drain in standby, you can use battery monitor widget:
https://market.android.com/details?id=ccc71.bmw
In standby drain should be about 4-8 mA, not higher.
Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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nitens said:
Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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Like meaple just said, seems to be normal.
ytup desire drains battery very quick
When I look at the battery usage, I can see Mediaserver is below screen in terms of battery usage.
Any idea what it is?
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Same here man
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I recall it has something to do with corrupted media file (picture, music file etc) or failing to play streamed video. Reboot your phone and DO NOT start gallery, camera or anything that reads media files from phone. Use the phone and report back.
EDIT: I also recall this is an android issue, not spesifically HOX issue..
I did not have that on Galaxy Nexus, now it's there on One X, despite using it in the same manner, same apps. Hopefully it's simply some software bug.
I'll try restarting later today...
It seems to start on my HOX when I plug it into my monitor through the HDMI.
Unfortunately, even with the power adapter plugged into the HDMI adapter, it still uses more power than it can get through charging, which is really rather annoying and makes it pretty pointless in having HDMI out. How can they have designed it this way?
mediaserver system wakelock
Hi, i am having a nightmare with the system (*wakelock*) mediaserver process. Everytime i start listening to music either through stock music player, poweramp, winamp or realplayer, I can see it burning my battery.
I am using Badass battery monitor app. I tried soft resets multiple times but the problem appears again everytime i play music. It is using far more battery % than the music app itself.
I have deleted all music and pictures on my phone, leaving only the ones that came with phone, but the problem still crops up when i play the music.
On my first day of use I managed to get good battery hours.
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then went downhill with mediaserver...
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any ideas?
bump. anyone?
today i got
18.4% system (*wakelock*) -- it had CPU usage 1h 23m, keep awake 1h 35m, number of wakelocks 31
6.2% Music.
40% screen.
I've been having the same problem on my Galaxy Nexus. It has been very frustrating because my battery will last only about 4/5 hours with light - moderate usage. For the life of me I cannot figure out what is causing this wakelock all of a sudden. My phone was completely fine on 4.03
Hello,
I have the same problem. I have just charged my phone. And one hour later the Mediaserver has used 3% of the battery.
I have make one "normal" phone calls, sent 3 text messages and send 2 messages with Viber.
I haven't actively used "anything" (as far as I know) that uses a mediaserver?!
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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Just force close it from the application list.
Also I don't experience any battery drain from it..
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donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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^^ This.
Even when I have my player set to ONLY play On-Device music, my 4 gets all hot and bothered, and at the end of it all, my battery can sometimes drop 15-25% over 45 minutes...
donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.
Try disabling mobile data, I've been able to listen to music for hours and only experience 5% battery drop
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I have the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I listened to music for an hour a few days ago and ever since Music Player has been draining about 20% of my battery even if I don't listen to music at all.
In other words I've charged my phone multiple times to 100% since I listened to music (100% charge resets the battery monitoring statistics, so previous listening to music should not show up anymore), I never ever opened Music Player in these last days, I've force stopped the Music Player days ago, but still, it's constantly chewing on my battery...
I'm on Android 4.1.2.
I had a similar problem, but found that if I disabled sync for music, but left evrything else synched it stopped it eating my battery
No problems for me. Streamed music on Google Play for more rhan 5 hours yesterday and I still got 24 hours on my phone!
wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:
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wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:
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lol yeah sounds about right. In settings, under Accounts - Google - you can choose what to sync and what not to
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nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.
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Search in the apps section for the Better Battery Stats thread; somewhere in there is a nice tutorial on how to kill Maps wakelock battery drain.
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Hey guys.
I have read multiple times that i should'nt be expecting anything but slow transfer speeds of music from phone running walkman app to the SW3...but mine is rediculous. Even with the battery above 70% im getting around 1 song every 20 minutes and thats if it works at all. Most of the time it just gets stuck after 3-4 songs go over.
Ive been trying to put a play list of 165 songs over since 7pm last night and it is now 10am.
Is there i can do to fix this?
cheers,
nedmmo
Use "Wear Media" from the Playstore transfers are fast....One song takes about 1 or 2 minutes. Make sure your wifi on you phone is turned off
Yesterday during my sleep time in sleep mode my watch used 75% of the battery today in 3hours I'm down 25% any ideas ?
I checked my watch 51% of the battery on the music app.. I don't have music on my watch.... anyone can help me explain that ?
Glad I came to this site. Havent downloaded this update and hesitating to do so.
My app says its R820XXU1CTI4 so I have icon on my phone.
I found the problem it was reporting 50+ % of music app usage it seems that when I'm watching twitch it thinks it's music so it send the pasuse continue play to the phone, I disabled music control from the phone to the watch and voila , however music control uses too much battery
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I found the problem it was reporting 50+ % of music app usage it seems that when I'm watching twitch it thinks it's music so it send the pasuse continue play to the phone, I disabled music control from the phone to the watch and voila , however music control uses too much battery
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Where did you find the disable music control setting?
I would like to know how to disable the music control as well, as I have the exact problem. Listened to podcasts overnight and saw a %50 batter usage from the music app despite having never opened it.
hydroxide said:
I would like to know how to disable the music control as well, as I have the exact problem. Listened to podcasts overnight and saw a %50 batter usage from the music app despite having never opened it.
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go to the music app, to the right it has a phone icon, press it, it will change to a watch icon, it will disable the controls... and basically the same happend to me I slept with music, and woke up to 25% of battery this fixed it
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go to the music app, to the right it has a phone icon, press it, it will change to a watch icon, it will disable the controls... and basically the same happend to me I slept with music, and woke up to 25% of battery this fixed it
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This works one time, hitting pause and play again resets it on my device.
Manually having to turn off music control every time you hit play is not ideal for my use. Apparently another Samsung watch had the same problem a year or two ago and was only resolved with an update.
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This works one time, hitting pause and play again resets it on my device.
Manually having to turn off music control every time you hit play is not ideal for my use. Apparently another Samsung watch had the same problem a year or two ago and was only resolved with an update.
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Update, this setting did not initially stick reversing itself. It now appears to be sticking and working as intended.
How did you get it to stick ? Mine keeps automatically switching back whenever I stop and start a new track.
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How did you get it to stick ? Mine keeps automatically switching back whenever I stop and start a new track.
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I just played with it and now it's not working again. I'm not able to figure out a sequence to get it to stick.