Verizon Galaxy S8 Audioserver suddenly causing massive battery drain

[gsilver0]

I'm suddenly seeing the process "audioserver" at the top of the battery usage list. It says that since my last full charger ~23 hours ago, it has used the CPU for 6h 37m 28s and has 14h 54m 5s stay awake time.

The only program that I installed recently was Google Voice, which I uninstalled after seeing this problem, but the problem did not go away.

I read elsewhere to disable "AudioConnectionService" but that made no difference.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Does this persist after a reboot? If so, then I wonder if it's similar to Mediaserver issues that are related to a corrupt media file somewhere. You may want to try backing up any music files saved locally on the phone, and then deleting them all.

 

[gsilver0]

It did persist after a few reboots in the last few days.
I do not have any music files on the device
The only media on the device is a couple of short videos that I recorded with the camera app.

I've deleted the cache partition this afternoon. I'll update tomorrow whether or not that stopped the problem.

 

[B. Diddy]

Ok, try also backing up those videos somewhere and then deleting them from the phone, in case one of the files got corrupted.

 

[gsilver0]

I figured it out:
I had installed Rayman Fiesta Run and Rayman Jungle Run on my phone a while ago. Recently, after finishing Jungle Run, I moved on to Fiesta.

Jungle Run was well behaved and only drained battery when in use.
Fiesta, on the other hand, spawned the audioserver process in the background, and a bug was causing the battery to drop off like I had been seeing. The only way to stop it was to force close the program.

I uninstalled Fiesta Run, and the problem has gone away.

 

[mary beth hale]

That's great