Archive for March, 2013
High battery usage mediaserver
by james on Mar.26, 2013, under Uncategorized
I noticed on my gtab2 that the mediaserver process was using >37% of the battery. Searching the web doesn’t provide much, but that it’s probably hung up trying to scan some file. Great! I’ve got a bunch of MP3s on the SD card.
I wasn’t able to quickly determine what file it’s choking on. Online advice basically says you have to eliminate files 1by1. Very tedious for a large number of files!
I had a hunch it was the BMP cover art files I had on there. I deleted them all and the usage dropped to ~3%. Not bad! I can live without album art on there. Problem solved!
