Help Media causing battery drain

[StrangeJack]

My trusty S3 is getting very poor battery life recently. According to battery doctor it is "Media" (aka downloads) causing the problem. I've tried disabling media - it makes no difference, it still tops the list for battery usage.

I had a screenshot lined up to post, but as a new user I cant! Instead, I'll describe it - "Media" is top of the list on 38%, followed by gmail, messenger and google services on 18, 14 and 11%. Everything else is below 10%.

This has been the trend for the last week or so - If anyone can shed light on what is causing media to gobble up my battery. I'd be very happy.

If anyone can suggest a solution, I'd be very, very happy!

 

[Rukbat]

You may be reading the data incorrectly. It's saying that 38% of the power being used is being used by media (which means music and/or video). It doesn't mean that media is using 38% of the battery's charge.

Are you listening to music a lot? Are you watching videos a lot? (Probably music, or the screen would be near the top of the list.) Using a phone as an mp3 player with the screen off will put media at close to 100% of the battery usage. Which it should be, since that's mainly what the phone would be doing - playing music.

(BTW, if you add up all the percentages both on that page and the ones not shown because they're so small, the result will ALWAYS be 100%. That just means that all the power that's being used is being used. It could be 2% of the battery charge, but it's still 100% of what's being used.)

 

[StrangeJack]

Thanks for the reply Rukbat,

Neither music nor video I'm afraid - I've been barely touching the phone over the last few days in order to try and conserve battery life.

Battery life drops while it's just doing nothing but receiving emails, messages etc. I had thought there may be a rogue app responsible for the media showing up so highly, but I've deleted a few to no avail so far.

 

[StrangeJack]

Screen shot of battery doctor attached...