Anyone have problems with Index Service eating up your battery?
Not sure what it is, and what's causing it to run non stop.
I just finally solved this exact issue yesterday as my 1 week old Note 4 was doing the Index Service non stop and I had horrible battery drain! Besides a lot of other things, it was suggested to me to remove the SD card. Mine was actually old as it was from 2 previous devices. Removing it made a World of difference to my Note 4! I also found that Picasa was syncing my photos. I turned that off and deleted apps I wasn't going to use..... Here is a link to the thread.Remove sd card, if it solves the problem then it is some file on the sd card. You can add a ".nomedia" file to the directories without media, see if that fixes it. If it is a media directory then try the same to isolate which directory then you will have to isolate which file.
Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Try the SD card suggestion earlier mentioned here. It should resolve it for youIve had my Note 4 since release date for Sprint, with email checking, website browsing texting and stocks i usually end the day with 50% maybe once 40% range.
It was great, great battery life until the recent NK2 update.
Ever since my battery is near 15% at 3pm.
My index service was at 75% at times and now 54% WTF is this crap? and how the F do we stop it from draining out battery?!
if you goto the note 4 sprint forum
search NK2 update battery drain
since I cant post links here yet.
ive tried removing the SD card it was the same. What I did do was delete old pdf and other files I didnt need.
lastnight as I went to sleep it had 40% index service, this morning its gone. Ive been off the charger for 2 hours and still have 98%.
ive tried removing the SD card it was the same. What I did do was delete old pdf and other files I didnt need.
lastnight as I went to sleep it had 40% index service, this morning its gone. Ive been off the charger for 2 hours and still have 98%.
It has nothing to do with the SD card, it is the FILES that are on the SD card OR internal storage. If you pull the SD card and it fixes it, it was likely just a file or files on the SD card. A file delete or SD card format would also likely fix it.
I had a load of work files that I sync with my other devices to my Note 4 INTERNAL storage. It appeared that a number of document and/or PDF files cause indexing to run constantly. It would eat through the battery in a few hours. Pulling the SD card did nothing. I was able to change the name of my sync folder from "My Documents" to ".My Documents". Putting the period on the front hides the directory and everything in it from the indexing service. I am still able to access the files I need, and the indexing service never bothers looking at any of them. Fixed. The Indexing Service hasn't shown up at all since.
Yes. I even reset my whole phone and it still came back again even with the sd card out of it this time.