Help SD Card draining battery?

[Chellinn]

I know there are a lot of forums like this before, but i really want to ask, does SD card able to drain battery? I sometimes play my phone while charging and last week i bought a sd card. I dont know whether it is a coincidence or not but my battery had been draining like crazy. Before i inserted the sd card my battery would stay from 100% to 99% for like 1 hour with mobile data on and normal usage(facebook line instagram). And now it drained from 100% to 95% for 30minutes. I tried to remove the sd card and yes, my battery stayed longer than when i had the sd card on. Pardon my english

 

[tube517]

Welcome to Android Forums!

For us to help you, can you answer these questions:

What phone do you have? What carrier? What android version?

Also, what brand name is your sd card and where did you buy it?

 

[Bg260]

Might be the Media scanner running rampant.

 

[Chellinn]

I have Samsung Galaxy A5 2016. Well i live in Indonesia so you probably dont know, but my carrier is Telkomsel Simpati and i use android lollipop. I bought sandisk ultra 16gb and i bought it on official store

 

[Hadron]

The SD card itself won't drain the battery, but as Bg260 says it's possible that there is some app that behaves differently when the card is present. Have you checked the battery monitor (either built-in or a 3rd party one like GSam Battery Monitor) to see what is using the power, especially any apps that are using more power than without the card?