What is 'Mediaserver' and why is draining my battery?

[brianmoyano]

Hi, the other day i installed the JellyBean leak. And since that day, the battery had a GREAT life.

But, today, i don't know why (Well, yes, i do now why) my battery had a terrible life.

And, there's a curious process that is killing it.

It's name is: 'Mediaserver'.

What do i do? I don't want that proccess. I'm no't even using a new app or something.

 

[nikufellow]

Q:What do i do ?
ans : Freeze drm content using titanium backup or the like

---------- Post added at 09:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:45 AM ----------

Also this is a known issue in android !

 

[brianmoyano]

Q:What do i do ?
ans : Freeze drm content using titanium backup or the like

---------- Post added at 09:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:45 AM ----------

Also this is a known issue in android !

Done! Let's see if that helps.

Any contraindications?

 

[nikufellow]

don't know but you might need to un freeze drm for i believe some type of files needs the service to be playable

why fix it if it ain't broken ?

 

[brianmoyano]

don't know but you might need to un freeze drm for i believe some type of files needs the service to be playable

why fix it if it ain't broken ?

My question was, if i stop this proccess, any other app or service will be stopped too?

 

[nikufellow]

bro read again the first two words of my last reply - "don't know" i did understand your question

why fix it if it ain't broken ?

 

[brianmoyano]

bro read again the first two words of my last reply - "don't know" i did understand your question

why fix it if it ain't broken ?

Forget about my question. My english is bad, and i can't express myself right

I want to stop that process, because is killing my battery and i don't want to.
So, i freezed the process, and today i'll see if that process still bother me.

 

[brianmoyano]

Edit:

Well @nikufellow, your answer didn't work. I freezed the DRM content. But, still drain the battery.

But, the good part, is that i desactivated the sync, and now, i think the battery is going great.

It was that all the time (i believe). The sync of the accounts.

 

[brianmoyano]

Edit 2:

Mmm, nope. I was wrong. The 'mediaserver' process is in the top again, with 43% usage.

 

[notajith]

Are you using Google Play Music? Maybe experiment with that. Maybe disable sync for just that, or remove the app and see if anything changes.

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[Rildiz]

If you have backups on the phone and they are in DUP change them to tar.


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[jimbridgman]

WOW.... does no one read or search on google anymore?

All you need to do to get the mediaserver app to stop "searching" your phone all the time and draining the battery, and using CPU, is to put a file in all your media folders on the phone that is empty and called .nomedia

Notice that there is a dot (period) before the filename, this is important.

http://www.connect-utb.com/2012/07/buggy-android-mediaserver-draining-your-battery/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...yoHYAg&usg=AFQjCNH8MUU5ej6O3AUzwGoTRaIBP-3PKg

I am not trying to be a jerk here, but with all the posts in here, and it appears that no-one even thought to google this, just irks me a little bit.

To the OP, create an empty file in all the directories on your SDcard named .nomedia, and see if that helps to stop the 'mediaserver' from eating CPU and battery. This has been an issue since the 1.8 days of android with certain file types and has only gotten worse over the years.

 

[brianmoyano]

Are you using Google Play Music? Maybe experiment with that. Maybe disable sync for just that, or remove the app and see if anything changes.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

WOW.... does no one read or search on google anymore?

All you need to do to get the mediaserver app to stop "searching" your phone all the time and draining the battery, and using CPU, is to put a file in all your media folders on the phone that is empty and called .nomedia

Notice that there is a dot (period) before the filename, this is important.

http://www.connect-utb.com/2012/07/buggy-android-mediaserver-draining-your-battery/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...yoHYAg&usg=AFQjCNH8MUU5ej6O3AUzwGoTRaIBP-3PKg

I am not trying to be a jerk here, but with all the posts in here, and it appears that no-one even thought to google this, just irks me a little bit.

To the OP, create an empty file in all the directories on your SDcard named .nomedia, and see if that helps to stop the 'mediaserver' from eating CPU and battery. This has been an issue since the 1.8 days of android with certain file types and has only gotten worse over the years.

I already did all the pseudo-solutions that appears on google. And no one works. That's why i made this thread.
But, the solution that works for me, was, formatting the sdcard. That was the solution that i don't wanted to do.

 

[Rildiz]

You had the two solutions.

DRM freeze and tar instead of dup.


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[Lifehacker7]

As a member stated it's the google play music (i believe). Cuz since I stopped using Google play music and switched to poweramp, i don't see it on ma battery consumption list!

Life!