media server and battery drain - my solution

[Thrillhouse617]

Noticed some battery drain yesterday and warm phone...battery confirmed with 60+ percent going to media server, media, or downloads. I screwed around with reboots, closing apps, not syncing in gallery,*and searching online for other ideas.

I found nothing short of deleting most media or resets. I don't like nuclear options.

What I did find was quickpic flashed something about no folders but it would load. I had two identical "downloads" folders. Same contents. One was "downloads" and the other was "Downloads" File properties showed the path as /mnt/sdcard in one file and the other folders twin file had a different path. I suspect this created some sort of loop in media scan.

I downloaded an image and then went in and deleted it via quickpic. This ended up forcing some sort of rebuild and the duplicate folder was gone

Battery returned to normal and no more media scan chewing up the battery.

Stock, rooted gs3

 

[Golfdriver97]

Noticed some battery drain yesterday and warm phone...battery confirmed with 60+ percent going to media server, media, or downloads. I screwed around with reboots, closing apps, not syncing in gallery,*and searching online for other ideas.

I found nothing short of deleting most media or resets. I don't like nuclear options.

What I did find was quickpic flashed something about no folders but it would load. I had two identical "downloads" folders. Same contents. One was "downloads" and the other was "Downloads" File properties showed the path as /mnt/sdcard in one file and the other folders twin file had a different path. I suspect this created some sort of loop in media scan.

I downloaded an image and then went in and deleted it via quickpic. This ended up forcing some sort of rebuild and the duplicate folder was gone

Battery returned to normal and no more media scan chewing up the battery.

Stock, rooted gs3

Very intuitive. Congrats on fixing the problem.

 

[Thrillhouse617]

This started happening again... found some more "same name" folders. GoSms had a download folder, I removed all files from that and also renamed the other dcim folder on the SD card.

Fixed.

I think that some people are getting lucky by removing or formatting the SD card. They are removing the duplicate folder names by doing those two things.

The root issue seems to be folders with the same name.