Xperia SP MediaServer stands on

[Mansur]

Hi Folks.

Here I am, a new guy in your community of Sony users.

Here is my problem - having my phone on standbye, I always find a service called MediaServer which is always on, and does a lot of a battery consumption  . Well mostly more than anything else. I do not know when and where it seemed to be started from, but this one is a serious troublemaker to my phone longlife. First when I bought it, like a month ago, the phone was easily able to last up to two days. Now it not like that anymore. A day maybe of casual using. The service that I have mentioned cannot be stopped by usual steps. Okay, maybe I am just not just quite informative about that.

What I did is:

I turned off the External Memory Card and cleaned that out via PC.

I put .nomedia file in the music directory, I had read that it might be helpful in cases alike sometimes.

I did a manual scan of media files, after I dropped some on an empty card.

All these councils said I took from other people, who had experienced the same problem with MediaServer service.

Not much of luck I tell you. Now your turn to guess please.

[_alexdon_]

Are you using battery savers or task killers?

[Mansur]

Yes, I tried one yesterday. Unfortunately, that task killer did not show MediaServer service as itself. Maybe it is chosen wrong. After I launched it and killed all obscure processes from Sony, the MediaServer consumption stopped at 25%. Then there was a reboot needed. I probably turned off some even more that I wanted to. In the morning I found that service eaten 30% of the whole consumption during the night. Must say that I left the "VK" service on (Social Network manager), but it's dependence on the MediaServer occurs unlikely.

[_alexdon_]

I suggest you to try a force shut down of the phone(press the little button on the back of the phone).After that,try to run the phone in safe mode,see if that drain occurs.To restart in safe mode:

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/How-to-boot-your-phone-into-safe-mode/m-p/348008#U348008

[dm84]

Mediaserver comes on when you've been listing to music or watching videos stored on the phone could be gracenote downloading file info you may have a large number of songs on the device or movies