/system/bin/mediaserver hanging at 20% CPU

besez — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:31:19 GMT

Today while vacuuming I used "Pocket Casts" to play some podcasts. The phone got noticeably hot, which it should not get while playing audio.

I had 100% at 09:00 and now it's 13:30 and I am at 20% battery left. I attached adb and checked CPU usage, and noticed media server hanging at 20% CPU utilization.

adb shell top -m 10

  PID PR CPU% S  #THR     VSS     RSS PCY UID      Name
 2544  2  23% S   276 920448K  97432K  fg media    /system/bin/mediaserver
 2946  1   5% S   174 2524684K 175680K  fg system   system_server
  634  0   2% S    40  52348K    460K  fg sensors  /system/bin/sensors.qcom
 2575  1   1% S     4  53976K    824K  fg camera   /system/bin/mm-qcamera-daemon
 8321  0   1% S     1      0K      0K  fg root     kworker/u8:2
 8046  0   1% S     1      0K      0K  fg root     kworker/u8:8
10166  2   0% R     1   6524K   1696K  fg shell    top
  302  3   0% S     1      0K      0K  fg root     cfinteractive
 8054  3   0% S     1      0K      0K  fg root     kworker/u8:9
18108  0   0% S     1      0K      0K  fg root     kworker/u8:11

I used "close all apps" in application switcher / multitasking menu, but it did not help.

Rebooting the phone resolved the issue for me.

Re: /system/bin/mediaserver hanging at 20% CPU

MarlonUk1 — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 14:03:47 GMT

Most likely a software problem, try to reinstall your podcast app or perform software repair using Xperia Companion

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