Hello everybody,
Media server is eating my battery so fast, i had read a lot of topics before i decided to post my problem
mainly Media Server seems to eat the phone battery when we use any kind of media (pictures, music or videos)
well, i do not have any kind of media on my device at all, but i also removed the sd card and restored the device to the factory setting but still the Media server is eating up my battery...
what should i do guys? any advises?
Thanks in Advance
Mohamedloza said:
Hello everybody,
Media server is eating my battery so fast, i had read a lot of topics before i decided to post my problem
mainly Media Server seems to eat the phone battery when we use any kind of media (pictures, music or videos)
well, i do not have any kind of media on my device at all, but i also removed the sd card and restored the device to the factory setting but still the Media server is eating up my battery...
what should i do guys? any advises?
Thanks in Advance
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What did you do to make the media server kick in and start draining the battery? Streaming, gaming, etc!
I say that because when I play some games my media server will pop up with high usage! Something is making it come on.
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Bajanman said:
What did you do to make the media server kick in and start draining the battery? Streaming, gaming, etc!
I say that because when I play some games my media server will pop up with high usage! Something is making it come on.
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no streaming, no gaming nothing at all
after resting the device to factory setting i just installed back everything i had before and then restarted the phone, i did not even made any phone calls
but the media server appeared and eating up my battery....
so weird ........
Media server is scanning your sd card and external sd card. Whenever you flashed a new rom or reset the phone to factory default, media server will run depending on how much stuffs you have in those SD.
Best way is format the internal SD card with twrp or cwm(of cuz backing up all the files that you will need first). Check the external SD card with chkdsk make sure everything is working properly. To test it out, take out the external SD as well. Let your phone run for a day or so. Check with better battery status and your media server will not/should not be running anymore.
Mine only run about 5% the most.
you probably have a samsung ultra 32 gb memory card that is about to be fried. LIke was posted, take the card out or put another card in. You can check the phone after a short period of time and your media process will probably be normal.
Probably time to transfer your files to your computer and attempt to reformat the sd card or trash it and get a new one
mutantblack said:
Media server is scanning your sd card and external sd card. Whenever you flashed a new rom or reset the phone to factory default, media server will run depending on how much stuffs you have in those SD.
Best way is format the internal SD card with twrp or cwm(of cuz backing up all the files that you will need first). Check the external SD card with chkdsk make sure everything is working properly. To test it out, take out the external SD as well. Let your phone run for a day or so. Check with better battery status and your media server will not/should not be running anymore.
Mine only run about 5% the most.
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I have removed my external sd card already, even if I know it does not have any kind of media
Also my device memory does not have any kind of media after and before restoring the factory settings
And am still having the exact same problem
My device is not rooted can I still use cwm to format it, I do not know plz advise
livingaboard said:
you probably have a samsung ultra 32 gb memory card that is about to be fried. LIke was posted, take the card out or put another card in. You can check the phone after a short period of time and your media process will probably be normal.
Probably time to transfer your files to your computer and attempt to reformat the sd card or trash it and get a new one
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As I said I already removed the external card but am still facing the dame issue
Any other advices.?
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Mohamedloza said:
I have removed my external sd card already, even if I know it does not have any kind of media
Also my device memory does not have any kind of media after and before restoring the factory settings
And am still having the exact same problem
My device is not rooted can I still use cwm to format it, I do not know plz advise
As I said I already removed the external card but am still facing the dame issue
Any other advices.?
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Question did you try clearing media storage by any chance? Since your facing the same issuers.. That's helped me one b4, with a similar issue. Not sure if it'll help you but worth, a try.
Another thing try turning off everything. No data, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc, nothing few hours or so if you don't need your phone! And see if it's still running. If not then it's something that's pulling in data from somewhere
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Bajanman said:
Question did you try clearing media storage by any chance? Since your facing the same issuers.. That's helped me one b4, with a similar issue. Not sure if it'll help you but worth, a try.
Another thing try turning off everything. No data, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc, nothing few hours or so if you don't need your phone! And see if it's still running. If not then it's something that's pulling in data from somewhere
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i formatted the device, and also formatted the sd card and then restored the device to factory settings, but still the same problem
i removed the sd card, still the same issue
the device does not have any kind of media (pictures, music or videos) i did not even opened the gallery to change the wallpaper
i can root the device if its necessary but as i read here in the forums there are some friends here who had rooted their devices and still facing the same problem
any other tips or advises?
Thanks
Mohamedloza said:
i formatted the device, and also formatted the sd card and then restored the device to factory settings, but still the same problem
i removed the sd card, still the same issue
the device does not have any kind of media (pictures, music or videos) i did not even opened the gallery to change the wallpaper
i can root the device if its necessary but as i read here in the forums there are some friends here who had rooted their devices and still facing the same problem
any other tips or advises?
Thanks
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I'll do some research! Hope you have been using the same changer. And not mixing with those 1 amps. Those are also problems!
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I'll do some research! Hope you have been using the same changer. And not mixing with those 1 amps. Those are also problems!
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same changer? mixing with 1amps???
sorry i can not understand that? what do you mean?
Mohamedloza said:
same changer? mixing with 1amps???
sorry i can not understand that? what do you mean?
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Meaning are you only using the same changer that came with the phone. Because it's a 2.1 amp changer which your phone needs. But older chargers for our older phones were 1 amp chargers. That's why I'm saying we're you using just only one charger or different ones. Sometimes chargers can give you problems was my reason for that statement!
Did a lil searching and like I taught its something that's on there. Either a file you loaded or downloaded? Just not sure what it is. But check this link out to see if it helps you..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
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Media server on my device was eating up battery before I could make it through a day with zero use...just sitting all day. I didn't know what the issue was, so I rooted, fomatted the sd card and flashed cleanrom 4.5 and phone has been perfect since.
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Meaning are you only using the same changer that came with the phone. Because it's a 2.1 amp changer which your phone needs. But older chargers for our older phones were 1 amp chargers. That's why I'm saying we're you using just only one charger or different ones. Sometimes chargers can give you problems was my reason for that statement!
Did a lil searching and like I taught its something that's on there. Either a file you loaded or downloaded? Just not sure what it is. But check this link out to see if it helps you..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
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faded03cobra said:
Media server on my device was eating up battery before I could make it through a day with zero use...just sitting all day. I didn't know what the issue was, so I rooted, fomatted the sd card and flashed cleanrom 4.5 and phone has been perfect since.
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Thanks everybody, i tested every single app on my device and after installing Viber the media server shown up , so i just removed it and now the problem solved... i think its something with the JB and the new Viber update, i do know but i think i can live without viber for a while
Thanks again everybody for your support and help
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Well, I pulled a boneheaded stunt. I accidentally formatted my internal storage instead of the SD card in my phone.... SIGH.... The bad part is, I had a couple of pics I hadn't moved up to the cloud yet, and they're irreplaceable. (One was of my wife and her 4 cousins after her grandfather's funeral) I'm hoping someone has an idea... I've tried Recuva and Pro Discover Basic to try to recover, with no luck.
Any other ideas?
None that I know of, sorry bud. You should start backing up you're pics and important files. I hope someone else can find something but from what I know people have never been able to recover after a format
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Yes, I usually do. Thanks for the sage advice. I never would have thought to back up important files and pics.
Robbzilla said:
Yes, I usually do. Thanks for the sage advice. I never would have thought to back up important files and pics.
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Look at the get more storage from drop box thread and u can have it upload photos automatically so you never loose them. I have 7 GB on there now
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Try unformat software using your PC. You must stop using your phone immediately though. As when you use the phone new stuffs are being written on the internal card and less chance of you recovering old data from it.
I've had some success with Recuva before.
after upgrade to 4.2 from 4.1.2 the phone is waking up at random, even with wifi, 3g snd sync off
same thing also keeps happening to me. another problem i'm having is also my gnex randomly turning off on its own.
One reason could be the Mediaserver process keeps running. 4.2 completely changed where the SD card saved, so your phone has to find where your music, pictures, and videos were moved to.
Factory reset if not already done.
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factory reset fixed all my problems for me! thanks guys.
I have the same problem and I don't want to reset my phone.
harveydent said:
One reason could be the Mediaserver process keeps running. 4.2 completely changed where the SD card saved, so your phone has to find where your music, pictures, and videos were moved to.
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do u know how I can test this? i have bettere battery stats but I cannot find this service
some have suggested it could be the usb port being bent and making contacts
for those that did a factory reset...
has titanium worked? I think I've herad there could be problems...
also, did u backup only 3rd party apps?
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One reason could be the Mediaserver process keeps running. 4.2 completely changed where the SD card saved, so your phone has to find where your music, pictures, and videos were moved to.
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for factory reset you mean full wipe? from the setting? from CWM?
I've been having the media server battery drain problem and a lot of people are saying it's because of a corrupted media file. So how exactly do I find out if I have any? Some are saying to reformat the sd card. But if I'm transferring my files to my comp and then reformatting the card that is not going to fix any files right? So how can I find out which ones are bad?
Easiest way to do it is load them up onto a computer and if they display a thumbnail and play/view without issues then they are fine.
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elesbb said:
Easiest way to do it is load them up onto a computer and if they display a thumbnail and play/view without issues then they are fine.
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At that rate I'd rather just delete all my music since it's all on google music and I'm usually on wifi anyway. That's 20 gigs out of like 24 used on my SD card so... that would probably be the easiest route.
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At that rate I'd rather just delete all my music since it's all on google music and I'm usually on wifi anyway. That's 20 gigs out of like 24 used on my SD card so... that would probably be the easiest route.
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It normally is lol.
It's what I do. I just format the sd card.
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For some reason Media server won't let my phone go to sleep. I tried clearing the cache sand Dalvik but that isn't helping. Any suggestions on how to fix this issue. I'm using 1.5 clean ROM based on the stock att code.
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I have had this problem before. It was my sd card that was causing it. You can know for sure by removing it for a battery cycle and then see if you still have a large drain from it. I had to buy a new sd card because phone kept on saying card failed or unexpectedly removed, even formatting didn't help.
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I had this happen one time after a rom flash. Media scanner would run for 20-30 minutes randomly. Here's what worked for me. .. $0 cost and will only take a few seconds, so worth a shot. Download "Rescan SD Card!" from Market. Run it...basically it is asking phone to reload the SD file-system. Don't know if this will fix your issue but again worth a try.
I've been on the cm 10.1 rc2 since it was released without issue.
I'm constantly listening to music stored on my sd so I know this problem is short lived.
Last night my phone would start skipping every couple of songs and eventually it would stop reading the sdcard. A restart would fix this for about 5 minutes. All of today up until about 20 minutes ago my phone would constantly say "preparing sd" or "sd card removed unexpectedly"
I tried removing and reinserting the sd card multiple times and same issue. My sd card became inaccessible on my phone. I tried accessing it via twrp and it worked sort of. It was EXTREMELY laggy trying to navigate through sd card contents.
I thought my sd card was gone so I put it in my evolte and the phone read it no problem and played my music no problem. I put it back in my s3 and it still wouldn't do anything. Now it seems to have fixed itself but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again soon
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It sounds like the SD Card is on it's way out. But you might be able to salvage it. I use SD Formatter. It works wonders. I would back up everything. Then format the SD Card.
prboy1969 said:
It sounds like the SD Card is on it's way out. But you might be able to salvage it. I use SD Formatter. It works wonders. I would back up everything. Then format the SD Card.
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Thanks, I'll try formatting it. The odd thing is my s3 stopped reading the sd card completely but I popped it into my evolte and its reading it just fine.
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Just an update. Haven't had a chance to format the card but my evo lte has had no trouble reading as where my s3 wont even detect when the card goes in
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jesuscash said:
Just an update. Haven't had a chance to format the card but my evo lte has had no trouble reading as where my s3 wont even detect when the card goes in
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It is still possible that the problem is the sd card - if the evo has better sd hardware, then that could explain why it isn't affected yet...
But it is also possible that the gs3's hardware is starting to fail - one way to test it is to try another sd card in the gs3. If it reads the other card just fine, that should be enough to reasonably rule out failing hardware (trying the card in a different phone is a good step, but not definitive proof by itself). If you don't have any spare sd cards, see if you can borrow a friend's for a minute (no need to alter their files, so hopefully you can find at least one person who won't have any objections)
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It is still possible that the problem is the sd card - if the evo has better sd hardware, then that could explain why it isn't affected yet...
But it is also possible that the gs3's hardware is starting to fail - one way to test it is to try another sd card in the gs3. If it reads the other card just fine, that should be enough to reasonably rule out failing hardware (trying the card in a different phone is a good step, but not definitive proof by itself). If you don't have any spare sd cards, see if you can borrow a friend's for a minute (no need to alter their files, so hopefully you can find at least one person who won't have any objections)
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Well I've put in 3 different cards right now, including the one that initially gave me trouble(without any fotmatting) and the phone has read all of them no problem.
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jesuscash said:
Well I've put in 3 different cards right now, including the one that initially gave me trouble(without any fotmatting) and the phone has read all of them no problem.
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Weird (hopefully in a good way) - did you make any changes to the phone between then and now?
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