Recent content by JDeckerVa

Turning chat off had had no effect for my problem. Hope it works for others.

Thanks to all for your suggestions and insight. For the moment, I seem to have mdnsd under control by closing all my apps before putting the tablet on the charger overnight. Have gone 3 days without it making an appearance on my battery usage scale! No restart required. The reference to the...

Thanks for the reply. I'm familiar with safe mode in a PC environment and assume it's similar in Android. Good troubleshooting technique that I didn't know existed in Android. Is the boot sequence specific to my tablet or the OS itself? JD

Have a Galaxy Tab Pro SM-T520 running Android 4.4.2. In the last several weeks I've noticed dramatically reduced battery life. A process labeled mdnsd is running at a higher % usage than my screen. The screen has always been the top battery drain up until now. I did some research to a...