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SDcard show up under battery, surprising since there is no sd card in a galaxy nexus..
Anybody know what's going wrong or how to stop the battery drain ??
I've had this exact same issue! It happened at the same time as my other issue of app sizes continuing to climb upwards and the phone getting laggier in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715363
I just resorted to a factory reset, which resolved the problem. Sorry I can't be of much help, as I still have no idea what the issue is, but it was definitely taking a noticeable toll on my battery life.
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I would be concerned of what you have installed on your device, that it is calling itself sdcard.
Nexus internal sdcard is mostly named just sdcard, but this is first time i see it in battery stats. Maybe it's some bad app? Maybe you should uninstall apps one by one and see if it's go away.
jnr21 said:
Nexus internal sdcard is mostly named just sdcard, but this is first time i see it in battery stats. Maybe it's some bad app? Maybe you should uninstall apps one by one and see if it's go away.
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Nexus does not have an internal sdcard and symlinks cannot use battery so I would say its an app.
adrynalyne said:
Nexus does not have an internal sdcard and symlinks cannot use battery so I would say its an app.
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I mean that 16gb internal storage which is called sdcard in most apps. And i know that it can't be in battery stats, that's why i said it's an app.
Same problem, a solution without having to do a factory reset?
Anyone come up with a solution here?
So I'm guessing the lack of responses in this thread (and this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1792361&highlight=sdcard+battery) means no one has any idea why SDcard usage would be so high?
Maybe it is not the amount of power that sd card uses, it is amount of power that the phone uses to read the sd card. If you did lots of things that needs reading from sd card, battery show that kind of information. Some program with wrong commands may couse this
ibrahimakz said:
Maybe it is not the amount of power that sd card uses, it is amount of power that the phone uses to read the sd card. If you did lots of things that needs reading from sd card, battery show that kind of information. Some program with wrong commands may couse this
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Thats what I figured but there shouldnt be anything thats accessing it, especially overnight in sleep mode, the SDcard has more CPU usage time than any other app, by a landslide.
Have you looked at your running apps? (Settings>Apps>Running)
Maybe you can find out what app may be running called "sdcard".
Sounds a bit fishy. While there is no physically removable SD card, the phones internal memory is partitioned so you have some space which is recognized as the 'sdcard'.
In any case I've never seen anything like that in my battery drain, and even if there was, it definitely shouldn't be draining those amounts while the phone is idle..
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I've gone through them but can't seem to figure out whats going on...i've also run logcat but that hasnt turned up any useful info either.
And when you press on sdcard under the battery usage, what screen shows up? Does it say it's an app? Could you provide a screen shot?
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sd card battery drain
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And when you press on sdcard under the battery usage, what screen shows up? Does it say it's an app? Could you provide a screen shot?
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Here are screenshots from my battery usage, after clicking on the app, and my build info. I've got the same thing and its completely eating my battery life. This was within 1 hour of use.
This just started happening to my galaxy nexus -- no idea why?
GSAM Battery Monitor shows System (sdcard) running at 17% and its really affecting battery life, I can actually watch the number drain by the minute.
I am not looking to do a factory reset again and I am running Bugless Beast 4.1.1 rom and have been for about 2 months now and never had this problem, anyone have any idea what could cause this?
Just started happening to me today. I just installed lookout so I hope that is the problem. Just uninstalled it to see if that was the culprit.
I'm 100% certain Google Music is causing mine.
Mine always says sdcard and media are the processes running that are eating my battery.
I can reboot and fix the issue, temporarily, but as soon as I play Google Music it starts back. I'm going to clear data and cache (for Google Music only). Now that I think about it this has been happening since Google Music's last update ~1 month ago.
I'm running the latest Trinity kernel and RasBeanJelly, but this happened while on Bugless Beast as well, so it's not a kernel/ROM issue either.
Recently my Galaxy Note 2 has started giving me battery trouble. Till about 10 days ago it used to give me approximately 18-20 hrs battery life on moderate use. Now for some reason i get only 8-9 hrs max without any usage. It just shows a high usage of media and the phone never goes to sleep mode. After reading a few threads i tried the following:
> I removed the external sd card and wiped it.
Result: The phone was back to normal without the external sd card. As soon as i put it back. It kept rescanning for no reason. Even though there was nothing on it. I know for a fact that the sd card isnt spoilt or even non compatible, as it was working fine for so many months. It works fine on my other phones too.
I'm attaching the log file of Better battery stats app as i was told it would be useful in answering my query. Could someone please solve this problem for me. Thanks in advance.
Media scan bug is pretty common on jelly bean. Unfortunately the only fix I have been using is using mediascan root from play store. If you are rooted then download media scan root.
Only side effect is that if you have a new media file.. You need to re enable it. But all it takes is just a click and a reboot.
Check it out and I'm sure itll fix the media scan bug.
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You have a corrupted file in your sd card probably.
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same problem
hey i am havin de exact same problem on my note 2 ... how did u rectify it ???
thank u
I flashed back to 4.1.1 and noticed media scan running duration is much shorter on 4.1.1
Which rom are u using?
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It might be a corrupt MP3 on the card. Happened to me, even though the music played OK. I ran MP3 validator (Windows app) and it fixed it.
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Note II 16GB, stock ROM, not rooted.
I had exactly the same problem - overnight my battery life dropped from 2 days to less than 12 hrs. Mounting the SD card on my pc a msg popped up that the card was corrupt, I ran the scan and fix, put the card back in the phone and it's working perfectly again. I was very surprised but not unhappy.
This is the second card, the first (Kingston 32GB) was killed after just 8 months, 4 months later the replacement card was corrupted. All the other Kingston cards I've bought for myself and my family work perfectly, some are many years old. Could it be a Samsung problem? After using SD cards in Windows phones for the last 10 years and finding them very reliable, having one card irreparably damaged and another corrupted on the same phone in 12 months makes me wonder if it's more than a coincidence.
I've been having the media server drain for about 3 weeks now. I've used mp3 checker and removed any bad mp3s I've also tried Drketans media scanner disabler and still have the drain. It's about 10% if my battery per day and about 2 1/2 hours phone awake. Anyone any ideas?
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Hello guys my battery experience on my note 2 it was awesome until i receive a small update 32mb from a week
Now my battery drain too fast when the phone is locked and normal drain when switched on
In settings >battery i found media server is on the top of the list i search all the topics format my microsd with pc but still the same
I also try to format it from the phone itself but the problem still the same i search over all my files for corrupted files may cause mediaserver from preventing the device to sleep but i didn't find something wrong my files are so clean
Please does someone know what causing mediaserver to use this amount of battery ?
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hannarecord said:
Hello guys my battery experience on my note 2 it was awesome until i receive a small update 32mb from a week
Now my battery drain too fast when the phone is locked and normal drain when switched on
In settings >battery i found media server is on the top of the list i search all the topics format my microsd with pc but still the same
I also try to format it from the phone itself but the problem still the same i search over all my files for corrupted files may cause mediaserver from preventing the device to sleep but i didn't find something wrong my files are so clean
Please does someone know what causing mediaserver to use this amount of battery ?
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Maybe media scanning process.
if your is rooted , download this
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot&feature=search_result
you can disable the media scanner in this app, see if this media process usage decrease or even disappear.
IF your phone doesn't have root
download this version
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascanner&feature=search_result
I have a 7100 with a 32GB card.. with around 1500 songs. My phone is always warm to touch and the battery drains like anything.. from 100% to zero in 6 hours or so. I've check the stats and it seems like the process Media runs ALL the time.. keeping the phone from going into deep sleep, and consuming CPU cycles and battery.
I've tried removing the SD card.. formatting it.. copying everything back, and putting it back in. No difference.
I tried stopping all Media related services, clearing the cache and data, and restarting the phone. No difference.
My phone is virtually unusable now. If I force stop the media service, then any new songs I add don't show up in my media library. When that happens, even running a SD card scanner doesn't do anything. It just runs forever and I have to kill it.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?
Running 4.1.2 DDDLK6, Build XXDMB2
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I have a 7100 with a 32GB card.. with around 1500 songs. My phone is always warm to touch and the battery drains like anything.. from 100% to zero in 6 hours or so. I've check the stats and it seems like the process Media runs ALL the time.. keeping the phone from going into deep sleep, and consuming CPU cycles and battery.
I've tried removing the SD card.. formatting it.. copying everything back, and putting it back in. No difference.
I tried stopping all Media related services, clearing the cache and data, and restarting the phone. No difference.
My phone is virtually unusable now. If I force stop the media service, then any new songs I add don't show up in my media library. When that happens, even running a SD card scanner doesn't do anything. It just runs forever and I have to kill it.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?
Running 4.1.2 DDDLK6, Build XXDMB2
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Always been a problem with Samsung devices:
1. Install a startup manager from Play and go into system apps and disable Mediastorage.
2. Install Rescan Media Root. Open and enable it, close it and you`re done.
Reboot and that should fix you problem.
Thanks a lot.. just a little clarification. In Rescan Media Root, there are two buttons.. Re-Enable Media Scanner, and Disable Media Scanner. Which one do I click?
Disable media scanner
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Ok thanks a lot.. will do and let you know how it goes. Hopefully that would solve the problem!!
The underlying problem is with one of your media files being corrupt... it can be hard to pinpoint though there is software that can assist (faster to find something for your pc) in locating corrupt media. Using a bandaid (disabling the scanner) can have negative implications...
Yes I've figured that there is a problem with a file.. but how to pinpoint it? I don't recall when it started happening.. disabling the scanner is not ideal. Now if I add more media, I'd have to manually scan the card, right?
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Yes I've figured that there is a problem with a file.. but how to pinpoint it? I don't recall when it started happening.. disabling the scanner is not ideal. Now if I add more media, I'd have to manually scan the card, right?
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No rescan Media Root should do that automaticaly.
You can put a ".nomedia" file in the directory you don't want to be scanned. It's works very well to prevent media scanning. Disable media storage in the app manager is not a good idea, you lose all multimedia, can't play video and music or view pictures with stock apps, can't change ringtone and notification.
You have a corrupted file on the internal or external SD card.
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Ok so I got the Note 10.1 2014 edition as a christmas gift. It is working fine. The only thing that is wrong with it is the battery is dropping from 50% to like 8% in a matter of 5 min. Or when I power off my device at say 70% and turn it on, it is at like 3%. I do not understand that a battery can just drop like that. Should I return it? Try to fix it? What should I do? Please Help!!!!!!! Thanks in advance
I'd check it with an app like a better battery stats and see what's causing the drain. Have you also updated it?
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I'd check it with an app like a better battery stats and see what's causing the drain. Have you also updated it?
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I did do all the updates. I will try the Better Battery Stats
There is an indexing service that searches through your files and indexes the contents.
On initial startup, this can take a while and really eats into the battery. Once it's complete it should be OK though.
Unless it has found a corrupt file, then it just keeps running and draining the battery. If it has an SD card, then try removing it and see if the problem goes away. If it does then you might have a bad file and need to format the SD card.
Bulbous said:
There is an indexing service that searches through your files and indexes the contents.
On initial startup, this can take a while and really eats into the battery. Once it's complete it should be OK though.
Unless it has found a corrupt file, then it just keeps running and draining the battery. If it has an SD card, then try removing it and see if the problem goes away. If it does then you might have a bad file and need to format the SD card.
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Thanks I do have an SD card I will try re-formating it and removing the not needed files!
Any new news about this problem? Having the same problem.