Media server, make it stop!

[Claghorn]

For a brief period of time, I was able to get the "Media Server" that constantly ate my battery to go away by creating a .nomdeia file in /sdcard.

Now I see "Media Server" coming back to haunt me, and someone has deleted the .nomedia file I made. If I create it again, it eventually goes away again.

Is rooting this thing and removing the damn media server the only way I'll ever be able to get it to stop eating my battery? Anyone know who deletes .nomedia all the time?

 

[MarkMRL]

You have one or multiple corrupted media files on your sd card or maybe the entire memory is corrupted, so the media server gets stuck and never finishes indexing the memory. I have 20gb of music and art least 60gb of movies on an external 128gb sd card and I have no problems with media server.

 

[Indopilot]

For a brief period of time, I was able to get the "Media Server" that constantly ate my battery to go away by creating a .nomdeia file in /sdcard.

Now I see "Media Server" coming back to haunt me, and someone has deleted the .nomedia file I made. If I create it again, it eventually goes away again.

Is rooting this thing and removing the damn media server the only way I'll ever be able to get it to stop eating my battery? Anyone know who deletes .nomedia all the time?

I have the same problem as u do - for 5 months i had no issues whatsoever with that but suddenly the media server started to consume my battery quite a bit. It happens for last 2 months and is really annoying. No clue about the fix though!

 

[Claghorn]

You have one or multiple corrupted media files on your sd card or maybe the entire memory is corrupted, so the media server gets stuck and never finishes indexing the memory. I have 20gb of music and art least 60gb of movies on an external 128gb sd card and I have no problems with media server.

I've read that theory before, but it doesn't explain why something keeps deleting the .nomedia file I create, plus I have essentially zero media files on my tablet, just the beeps and stuff that come with it for making standard noises (and the promo video that came with it as well).