Help "Media" draining battery [VZW]

[dhworph]

Media -- DownloadService (android.process.media) is what shows up in running apps.

Media -
Download Manager
DRM Protected Content Storage
Downloads
Media Storage

is what shows up under battery usage.

I've seen it use about equivalent usage to "cell standby" over a period of 9 hours from 100% to 35%. (screen 33%, phone idle 20%, cell standby 15%, media 11%, sdcard, 7%, android system 5%, ...)

If I kill the download process the battery usage issue goes away, but it always pops back up after a reboot.

Any clues?

 

[Tim K]

Do you use Google Music? If so, its possibly syncing or caching files. Do you have it set up to sync? Is it set to sync on wifi only? Do you have it set to display all your music or "offline only"?

Its also possibly stuck. On my old Moto Droid I remember I had a corrupt music file once that kept the media scanner process bogged down for hours. I had to wipe all my music and reload it.

 

[dhworph]

I do use google music to play music, but rarely, and it isn't synced. But I think I might have found a solution... turn on all media syncs, let them sync, and then turn them back off.

It seemed to make the running media process disapear.

 

[quickaudi]

still be good to know what media is syncing so much.

 

[sperho]

I had this problem. Turned out that the offline maps that I had cached were being scanned and given that there were thousands and thousands of files associated with the caches, it would kill about 15-20% of the battery every time I booted the phone. You might check to see if you have some cached...

 

[dhworph]

luckily killing all those processes keeps them from popping up, except after a reboot. now i just need to learn how to write a script or app that will automatically kill them on boot.

i'll try the map cache trick and report if it helps... thanks for the tip.