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@jhturner108: - John. Her kernel version and android version are both older than the one on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I suspect the hardware is equally old. The problem, I'm almost convinced, is that the older versions of the hardware coupled with the old Android version and Kernel version...

A little additional information. I have written a crude Python script (am just learning Python language) to monitor the status of mdnsd and udp and udp6 port 5353 (0x14E9) for number of sockets, number of bytes that are queued on the rx_queue, and the number of dropped packets. It checks these...

I have just uninstalled the Facebook app on my Samsung Galaxy S3. At first it ran o.k. Later on I noticed that my battery was running warm. Looking, I found that mdnsd was not the problem. It appeared to be fine. However I did notice that the battery drain was considerable. Looking at the...

@CarolaVw: Thanks for the feedback. Good to know. In settings, if you tap on the word Location, you'll see "Mode". Tap on that to see the options. If you have a GPS on your device, use "GPS only". Otherwise, go back to previous screen to turn off Location. You don't need to do this test...

@CarolaVw: Thanks for the update. Did you try using browser (web) based FaceBook? The app is a resource hog, but maybe the browser based one may work. Based on one of the other respondents, another thing you might try is turning off high accuracy (WiFi + mobile data) based location services...

@oleksiy1978: Interesting. Wonder if it was the storing of the locations or the determining the location that was causing that. Determining Location in HIgh Accuracy mode, in addition to using GPS, also uses the WiFi and mobile networks to get the location. This would put additional traffic...

@CarolaVw: sounds like a good plan. From what others have posted Facebook app is one of the apps that causes trouble. The sd-card doesn't cause the problem.

@timinaust: thanks very much for your very detailed description of your in depth investigation of the problem. It was very informative and confirmed some of my suspicions. Will be waiting for further updates from you or others who have taken further steps to resolve the problem. It appears...

@wireshark007: Good detective work and explanation. Yes. There appears to be several ways of causing the failure. Still don't fully understand the mechanism of the failure, but your analysis reaffirms one of scenarios that I thought was happening. As I understand it, mdnsd is an Android...

@CarolsVw: It certainly sounds like you may have a version of the problem. Once the mdnsd comes up as a high user on the battery display, the only way out is to restart. Since you said that the device is restarting by itself anyway, It would stop that. However, the battery display will not...

@CarolsVw: How did you determine it is the mdnsd problem? Did you see the mdnsd come up in your battery app display? The reason I ask is because this problem doesn't seem to be behaving the same way as the problem we've been working on in this thread. It almost sounds like you may have too...

@vice86: By "recent installs", did you mean "Recently updated"? You need to look at all apps that were "Recently updated" as possible culprits, especially ones that might cause significant amounts of network traffic. "Nearby Devices" is not something I'm familiar with, but is definitely...

@bwg0719: On my device and also on Huku's device, the problem was being triggered by the updating of the installed Ping & DNS app. It had gotten updated in December 2016 and again in January 2017. As soon as we removed that app, the problem went away. Before those updates, Ping & DNS did not...

Not surprising that there may be more than one solution, depending on what apps were loaded on the device and what kind of device it is. Glad your wife found the problem on her device, Devils Advocate1. I suspect it might be a load and device capability problem (i.e. the straw that breaks the...

@Huku: Thanks very much for your suggestion about checking out Ping & DNS. I just removed it last night and it appears to be the culprit in our cases. Looking on the Google Play site, I see that there were numerous complaints about a new feature called NetSentry that monitors network...