Help MediaScannerService running at 96% battery usage on Jelly Bean

[andrewducker]

I got my upgrade onto Jelly Bean this morning, and noticed an hour ago that my batter was lower than usual.

Checking the battery stats pointed at something called "Media", so I checked in BetterBatteryStats and that told me that the MediaScannerService had had partial wakelocks for 96% of the awake time of the phone.

I restarted the phone, but this service immediately started chewing through the battery again.

Anyone else experienced this?

Thanks!

 

[RazorSharp]

You'd be best off asking this question in the Root forum for whichever carrier you have.

 

[andrewducker]

I bought my phone outright - it's not through a carrier. Is there somewhere specific I should ask in that situation?

 

[Tim K]

I had something similar on my old Droid. Basically, the phone kept re-scanning the SD card contents for media. I wish I could tell you what I did to make it stop. If I recall, it was a corrupted file that kept causing problems on the scan. If you've added any media files lately maybe see if one of them is causing a problem.