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I've encountered a strange problem lately. Within the last few days, my music apps seems to start playing on their own. This does not seem to be related to putting in or removing headphones, as I have not used any headphones for quite some time. Rather, it seems to happen after I perform certain functions on the phone.
For example, it happens whenever I use Astro to move or delete a file. Immediately after performing the cut or copy, the music starts. It has also happened after I disable bluetooth and/or turn of the screen.
What's strange is that it is not always the same music player which opens. Sometimes its HTCMusic and sometimes its DoubleTwist. As an experiment, I tried freezing HTCMusic with TitaniumBackup and then installing the AOSP music app from CM6. Same result.
I'm using Calukin's ROM, but have been for several weeks without issue so I don't believe that is the cause.
Any ideas as to what might be going on here?
Bump. Really need help figuring this out. Late last night, my Evo was tucked away for bed in its charger. All of the sudden, the music started blaring again. Nobody touched it. In fact, my family was all asleep when it happened and it woke up my kids. Thinking I'm just going to have to start over with a new ROM if there's no answer.
What's odd is that whenever the music starts, I will open the music app to kill it and the app doesn't know it is playing right away. In other words, the play button is displayed, rather than the pause button. To kill the music, I have to hit play, then pause.
I assume you're not running any tasker profile or other program related to running sound based on a condition?
Have you explored the possibility you have a music-loving ghost living in your home?
There is a bug where sometimes a random song off your memory card gets used for a notification sound, you may want to check those out. Last time I did an OTA update it changed my facebook notification to baby got back and the only way I could get it to stop playing was to mute or reset my phone lol
Now before anyone flames me, I did search first "DUH". I could not find any clear solution that doesn't involve flashing roms, rooting etc etc.
All of a sudden, when phone has been on standby overnight, the battery is draining mega fast and it shows that the culprit is this "Mediaserver". What is this and how do I kill the SOB?
Usually my phone battery goes from 100% to about 95% when I wake up in the morning, which is about right. Now for the past 2 days, it goes from 100% to around 50% overnight!!!!!!
Please help someone as I have searched everywhere and I have not found a clear answer. I have not installed anything new, I do not stream media etc.
Thanks in advance!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
FYI I typed "media server android battery" in to google and this was the first link.
Maybe try that next time
Umm...thanks very much but that was the first thing I tried. I actually saw that thread of the link you provided but it tells me absolutely nothing. Like I said, I did search first. I am not new here
I would like to know how one kills mediaserver.
I actually restarted my phone and up to now it has gone back to normal. Mediaserver appears near the bottom now with only 2% and the display is back at the top with 65% battery usage.
I must have read through about 10 different threads on the same issue with no clear resolution! Very frustrating indeed.
no worries, I can see you're not new here and I'm sure you've been pulling your hair out searching and reading the same thing over and over. When I read your OP it seemed like the answers in that thread covered things you might not have tried:
MACkjam said:
I could not find any clear solution that doesn't involve flashing roms, rooting etc etc
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The answers in that thread suggest moving all of your media off your sd, nothing to do with rooting or flashing
But anyway I clearly underestimated how frustrating this problem has been for you, I don't think I could suggest anything you haven't already tried!
Possibly solved mediaserver issue!
Well, I did a soft reset and everything has gone back to normal. Medaserver does not even feature now. It is only visible when I am streaming music via bluetooth stereo headset.
MACkjam said:
Well, I did a soft reset and everything has gone back to normal. Medaserver does not even feature now. It is only visible when I am streaming music via bluetooth stereo headset.
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Hi I am facing the same issue. would like to know what exactly you mean by soft reset? is it holding power button for about 10sec till phone switches off or do u mean a factory reset ?
Some of them said it worked when they cleaned up a corrupted file so i used a new SD card with just one song to test but everytime i play the song MediaServer wakes up and sucks out my batt. SO this method fails!
Second thing that i tried out was to disable stagefright settings in Build.prop which again has not worked! running out of ideas
device: Galaxy ace
ROM: Miracle V4.
Help would be much appreciated
I was facing similar issues.
here is what i observed
STOCK ROM: No issues.
Miracle ROM V4: Media server prob. Used a clean formatted SDcard with just one song on it and the problem still persisted
Other CM7.2 based ROMs: Media server prob. Used a clean formatted SDcard with just one song on it and the problem still persisted
Factory reset: On CM7.2 based ROMs: No use. problem no solved
Finally i used OmegaROMV4.: No media server problem here. Looks like its only for CM7.2 based ROMS.
I'm getting this on UNOFFICIAL CM9 for Evo. Started after I installed 5 different Portal Soundboards as well as a theme for CM9's Theme Chooser. Going to look into BetterBatteryStats but I'm not too confident based on other forums I've looked through. Also may consider a cache/dalvik wipe... If anyone has tracked this problem down please let me know.
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I'm getting this on UNOFFICIAL CM9 for Evo. Started after I installed 5 different Portal Soundboards as well as a theme for CM9's Theme Chooser. Going to look into BetterBatteryStats but I'm not too confident based on other forums I've looked through. Also may consider a cache/dalvik wipe... If anyone has tracked this problem down please let me know.
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I'm using a Nexus 7 that I've only had for a few days, so it was fairly easy to track down the culprit responsible for MediaServer gobbling up my battery.
The Internet did not provide any real solutions, just suggestions, so what I did was disable and/or uninstall any apps that I had installed today (the problem only started today) and also disabled other apps that keep popping up in the task manager, even after killing them a minute before, all to no avail.
One of the things I had also done was copy over a folder of wallpapers that I also have on my HP Touchpad.
I reconnected the N7 to the PC, open the N7's storage, deleted the folder and INSTANTANEOUSLY, MediaServer disappeared from my battery stats. I can't say if this will happen to any folder of pix or music that I might copy over, as this just happened to me a few minutes ago.
Some have spoken about corrupt files, and there is that small chance that one of my pics is corrupt, but it's a darn good start for anyone else, at least knowing where to look first.
I may experiment with it later and if I have anything to report, I'll post it.
Edit,
After experimenting with the wallpapers folder, copying it over to the N7, then removing it, using the wallpaper, rebooting, plugging the USB cable into the PC, then the charger, and disabling and enabling "Gallery", I have found that there is a relationship between having that folder on the N7, and MediaServer coming on and using a lot of battery power. Getting the Media Server to come on, or go off, is not as instantaneous as it was the first time I did it, thus all the other actions mentioned above, until Media Server turned off. One thing for sure is that when the Wallpapers folder was on the N7, there was nothing I could do to stop the Media Server, and to get it to turn off, amongst other things, I had to remove the folder and disable "Gallery".
Once the Media Server is off, it stays off, even after enabling "Gallery", as long as the Wallpapers folder isn't present.
I hope I explained that well enough to be useful.
Hey all,
So I'm posting this thread regarding a couple pretty weird glitches and bugs occurring on my G3, 3 specific ones.
The first: (Probably the least serious but still REALLY annoying) At EXACTLY 12:00AM every night no matter what timezone I set the phone to (I'm in AU on the AEST GMT+10 timezone but it does this at the same time on any timezone) the phone will switch it's WiFi off automatically without warning, reason or explanation. It just goes off and then I have to manually turn it back on. Sure I could use an app such as Tasker or AutomateIt to turn it back on but I don't see why this is occurring in the first place?
The second issue (Most recent): Lately after updating to the V20E firmware for my D855 I've noticed that a graphical glitch (Specifically related to the colour Blue) occurs when there are fast moving elements on my phone's screen (Such as when I move a chat head around on my phone from Messenger, or when I'm scrolling Facebook or my App Drawer fast, there's just a blue box around whatever object/s appear to be moving on my phone's screen. I've not dropped the phone at all, and it has only been present since updating from the V20D ROM. Not sure what could be causing it.
The third and by far the MOST ANNOYING of the issues I'm having, is that for no apparent reason, whenever I am listening to Music with the stock Music player, and I lock the screen (The screen goes off) about 5 seconds later weird stuff starts to happen..
The song will pause, play or even stop completely, seemingly on its own. The "phone" will change songs, artists and sometimes complete albums and playlists completely by itself, with me doing nothing but staring at the lock screen (It keeps doing it until I re-enter the Music app, then when I lock the phone the whole cycle just repeats itself.)
I've done some looking around and careful observations on the phone itself, and it seems that before the weird stuff starts happening to my music, the phone opens Voice Mate by itself, and then if I'm not present, it apparently closes it and then that's when the stuff happens. I've tried everything I can on a non-rooted phone to stop this. I've tried re-installing the Music app, Uninstalling all updates to the Voice Mate and it's packages to the factory version, force-stopping Voice Mate, everything and no matter what I do the phone still opens Voice Mate and the weird stuff starts happening (It's like it's taking commands from Voice Mate to do something but I'm not even doing anything ) It's been doing this since I got my phone when it came with Android KitKat 4.4 (I was on the D10M ROM until I moved to the D20D Android L ROM) and I moved ROMs doing a completely fresh start ( I factory wiped the phone and then upgraded via a CSE flash and put all my stuff back on it manually) and I would've thought a completely fresh start would have fixed it but apparently not... Either it's a bug that's been present for a while, or it's something deeper than the ROM.
So yeah some pretty weird issues, if someone knows what could be causing them, please let me know, especially if you know a way to solve them.
Cheers guys.
I'm having a very similar problem with regards to #1 but it's doing it with Bluetooth for me!
At midnight on the dot, it will disconnect my connected Bluetooth devices. It doesn't shut Bluetooth off, it just drops the connection. I posted about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/bluetooth-disconnects-midnight-t2973187
Your phone sound possessed! Call 1-800-Exorcism now.
You right, weird/unusual.
So, this one I put in General section on purpose, rather than the Troubleshooting and Q&A section, cause main purpose is to disguise about the bugs and things that are simply wrong.... Mainly probably Android issues rather than HTC, but their team has big impact on those...
I'm gonna start by the fact that I got the M8 just a couple days ago, and it's an upgrade from my previous M7 (Stock 4.3, TWRP Unlocked & rooted).
The first thing that I did after turning it on was, Wifi -> Software updates -> and got 3 OTAs in a row, to get me to 5.0.1... After that, I started to "migrate" the phone; Loging in G-acc, downloading apps from PlayStore.. and bump, here's the issue number 1:
- PlayStore keeps saying "Connection lost. Retry" or giving an error 923 on downloading apps, like every few minutes or so. This only happens when using 3G or 4G connection. Writing reviews is impossible, cause at the time I actually write something, and press Apply, the message is lost, and "Try again" notification appears instead... Never happened before on M7, so I checked with my carrier and we've done all the testing - It's for sure something with the phone, not the signal. carrier or tower-switching....
Next thing was, youtube has the same issues: Every few minutes (even less), a "Retry" button appears, and has to be pressed 2 or 3 times to load search results, videos, etc... Never breaks the connection during video play though. But, still, playing playlist is impossible, due to error being in between every video change...
Issue number 3: Gallery keeps getting everything that's on the phone. This includes Messenger (Facebook) app's emoticons, which are shown one-by-one in it's own albums, resulting in having over hundred albums in a gallery, - I know this can be hidden, but hiding over 100 folders is not that easy either...). I checked data on my M7 - same folders, same files of messenger, but Gallery never showed them at all.
It also shows all of the pictures I've ever shared with a particular person, since Messenger downloads those pictures in a folder... What have they done with the Gallery app?!? Is there anyway to downgrade to some older version...?
Issue number 4: Cloud gallery notification pops-up every single time the Gallery is opened. Even though I hit "No thanks" button, the next time the app is opened, notification saying "Gallery just got better with cloud service" pops-up. Any way of disabling this notification?!??? I guess that mentioning the uselessness of Zoe app due to not having Save button is irrelevant, right...? This Cloud things seems to mess up the heads of the HTC Dev team, ha?
Issue number 5: Power saver notification can't be hidden from the Lock screen; My life with M7 was 90% of the time with "Power saver" option turned on (All except for the data cut-off option selected). I always had the notification in the upper bar of the screen, but never on the Lock screen itself, in the middle of the screen. Now, on M8 this is visible. Along with the big "X" symbol that turns it off. I swear I've gone through all of the settings, but nowhere found any option to hide it.
Issue number 6: Google drive downloads low-res videos instead of originals! So, I keep a lot of my FullHD ([email protected]) of the GoPro on my Drive. Now, when I wanted to see those videos on my phone, I hit the Download button, and look what I got: 720p (1280x720) videos @ 25fps. Converted MP4 files. Without any notification, any option set, nothing... And I've downloaded the same files on M7 non-converted, so that I could edit them and upload them on social networks etc... Why is this the case, and why is this behaviour nowhere even documented? At least I haven't found it...?
Resolved issues:
- SD Card write error; It's a pain in the ass what they did. More than that, its the pain in the ass that in 5.0.1. where this was repaired (via Documents app approval), the app crashed when selecting SD card -> due to the card not having any name set (after format). It would be nice if this was documented somewhere too...
- Whole device freezes for around 10 secs whenever message is sent in Facebook Messenger app: This is resolved by turning off "In-App sounds" option in the app's settings. Still have no idea why this would happen, and why only on M8, (Nexus 5 and 6 don't have these issues running same system and app version...), so can't say who to blame, but at least it can be bypassed...
Facts (rather than issues): About M8 itself... Well, the camera is far from what they promised, and the battery is nowhere near the capacity they claim it to be. While the screen is pretty much the same as it was on the M7, I'm really starting to wonder what is the big change in the model at all (apart from louder speakers, very dumb headphones jack reposition, and gladly SD card support back in game...).
Now for the worst of it all: The playstore review content; HTC Development team seems to simply delete all reviews that are not saying what they'd like to hear. Either 1 star, 2 star, and comments that points to some issues - the review gets deleted within couple hours. I've been mentioning bugs on 3 apps, like 4 times so far, and all my reviews were gone... While they are kept on many other apps. I mean, is this the way to treat customers?!?
What are your thoughts? What are the bugs you found and I haven't yet...? I really want to know as much as I can, because I'm starting to regret for my choice....
No idea where to start. Even upgraded my phone to a S9+ six months ago in a desperate attempt to fix the issue(s).
YES - as per the Title, the issue is that I receive a notification from e.g Google Discover and although I see the notification (and it's short description/summary), when I click it (i.e. to open & read the story), the notification never actually opens. Well - that'd kind of a lie because it may open anywhere from 5 to 30 mins later. What's interesting is that this behavior is NOT seen on notifications from e.g. Google Messages or WhatsApp. So perhaps there seems to be a priority or white listing going on.
Here's where it gets even more interesting:
This extremely annoying issue will come-and-go i.e. just when you're ready to throw the phone in the ocean, it magically starts working again. After 1.5 years of living with this problem, I haven't managed to figure out what I've done to either fix or break it.
When I'm experiencing this annoying notification issue, I ALSO experience the following OTHER issues:
Apps that I download from Google Play will download to around 99% and just sit there and never "install" >> however like I mentioned above, that's somewhat of a lie because wait 5 to 30 mins and the App will magically complete the installation
YouTube will regularly crash
High battery consumption
Notifications for "big-name" apps like Outlook and WhatsApp are very irregular and in the case of Outlook, I wont receive anything for an hour and suddenly, I get a flood of notifications (one after the other at a "machine gun" frequency)
The point I make is whenever I have the problem with the Notifications explained above in [1] I will ALSO (concurrently) have the problems that I've mentioned above in [2].
It's like a horrible 2-for-1 deal.
Here's a bunch of things I've tried in the last 1.5 years:
Mentioned above, I've bought a new phone
Endlessly tried factory-resetting the phone >> on the last attempt, I even restrained from "restoring" the backup just in case
Removed my Google Account >> re-installed
Clearing cache from Play Store and Play Services
Uninstalled updates for Play Services
I'm totally out of ideas and sadly, totally out of patience. I have no idea where to turn because HTC (old phone) or Samsung (new phone) don't want a piece of my problem.
I'm convinced this is an account issue or perhaps some Google heartbeat issue but don't have the resource or knowledge to confirm it.
At your mercy