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[Verizon] *#%$en Mediaserver

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kismetgeek

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After my screen, the mediaserver is the 2nd biggest consumer of my battery life.

Is there any way I can turn off this mediaserver?

I'm running CM10.
 
MediaServer is usually a media. If you're listening to music or watching YouTube all day, then MediaServer will represent that
 
I had this problem... found a suggestion about syncing somewhere. I didn't have any media set to sync, but I toggled on anything I thought might cause media to sync, let it sync, and then toggled them all back off. That seemed to kill the running media process. And it didn't seem to come back after a reboot.
 
I've discovered that the media process hogging battery ends at most a couple hours after a reboot. So there is no need to kill the process (it might just restart too)... just gotta let it do its thang and it will end... hopefully having access to a charger and not needing to reboot too often.
 
It looks like it is a bug that is caused by a corrupt image file like the album art. I just started having this issue after downloading some album art. The process gets into a loop and then eats your battery.
 
Yeah it's a corrupt media file or a no media file that the media server is endlessly searching for killing your battery. I had the same problem once or twice. Deleting the file fixed the issue.
 
This has been killing my battery life as well. I usually uninstall and reinstall Spotify for it to be ok, but this morning was horrendous. Had a 100% charged phone at 6:30am and when I got into work at 8:00am, my phone was down to 10%. Mediaserver was taking up 86% of my battery. The only thing I did was dismiss my alarm in the morning and check my emails.
 
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