media server draining battery???

[not on the rug]

this is something new. I just looked at my phone and the battery is down to 84%. I've been off the charger for nearly 5 hours already, but I've barely used it. I turn it off and turn it on every morning, and I don't have any new apps or anything weird that should be causing my phone to be awake the whole time because of the "media server." my phone is saying there are no active applications. I don't have any sports alerts, email alerts, streaming music, etc going on. what could be causing this?

 

[bhero]

That's like the catalog of the device. Matches photos with songs files, lists your music that sort of thing. If you stick a SD card in it thats the service that indexes what's on it and displays it so you can use it. Very important service.

 

[not on the rug]

That's like the catalog of the device. Matches photos with songs files, lists your music that sort of thing. If you stick a SD card in it thats the service that indexes what's on it and displays it so you can use it. Very important service.

yeah, I get that. i'm just wondering why, all of a sudden, its chewing up battery.

 

[PiscesCloud]

That's like the catalog of the device. Matches photos with songs files, lists your music that sort of thing. If you stick a SD card in it thats the service that indexes what's on it and displays it so you can use it. Very important service.

There has been a post that Media Server was so frustrated in its attempts to do the above that it went slightly berserk and IIRC, it caused excessive battery drain.

The SD Card can cause problems if it is either corrupted, or it has a corrupted file or even if it is simply too full. Hence un-mount the SD card, remove it and restart the phone. Check if the situation has improved before re-inserting the card. Incidentally, there are some reports on the this forum that SD cards have been damaged by doing the upgrade from ICS to JB.