excessive heat, battery dead in 5 hrs, memory card fix

[joewoo]

I'm just posting this in case someone else runs into this issue...

I had inserted a 64gb card into the m9 a couple hrs after setting it up (installing spotify being one of the things during the setup)... I had noticed the phone was staying hot but being new to it and having heard it gets warm, I just carried on.... It wasn't until I noticed that the battery was dying in about 5 hrs... So I knew something was up.... Did a fresh install, no backup/restore.... Still having problems...

Anyways, to cut it short, I just so happened to notice some error message as I was starting up spotify that mentioned something about the memory....

I took the memory card out and the phone has been operating perfectly with the battery doing extremely well....

So maybe it's not just spotify but other programs that access the memory and maybe other users who are having really short durations can try taking the sd card out....

 

[B. Diddy]

Thanks for the tip! A bad SD card (or a corrupt file on the SD) can cause overheating and battery drain, because the system's Media Scanner may be getting stuck on the bad file. This causes a spike in CPU usage and heat generation, as well as battery drain. I would suggest you try a different card to see if the problem is reproducible. You can also insert that bad card into your computer and run chkdsk to look for bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html

 

[Habiib]

It's also possible that an app has spawned the Mediaserver process as well. Usually I see that happen when an app such as Google Music attempts to read songs stored on my SD Card. I find that Mediaserver process to be very destructive and is prone to perform wake locks and nuke the battery. Just a thought.

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[B. Diddy]

Yes--but oftentimes, the Mediaserver issue is connected to the Media Scanner getting stuck on a corrupt file. I'm not sure, but Media Scanner might have changed its name to Mediaserver (or got folded into it) at some point, because I don't really see Media Scanner appear in more recent versions of Android.

 

[Jamie Blatt]

I find my M8 to run hiccup free without an sd card inserted. Tried several different ones and I always notice more lag and stutters.

 

[neo905]

This is one of the big reasons why companies are removing SD card slots. They worry people are going to cheap out on a card or encounter problems and blame them when things go awry.

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[msm0511]

I'm just posting this in case someone else runs into this issue...

I had inserted a 64gb card into the m9 a couple hrs after setting it up (installing spotify being one of the things during the setup)... I had noticed the phone was staying hot but being new to it and having heard it gets warm, I just carried on.... It wasn't until I noticed that the battery was dying in about 5 hrs... So I knew something was up.... Did a fresh install, no backup/restore.... Still having problems...

Anyways, to cut it short, I just so happened to notice some error message as I was starting up spotify that mentioned something about the memory....

I took the memory card out and the phone has been operating perfectly with the battery doing extremely well....

So maybe it's not just spotify but other programs that access the memory and maybe other users who are having really short durations can try taking the sd card out....

What are you putting on the SD card. Only reason I'm asking is because I plan on getting one soon. Just to put music on. I'll still use device memory for photos and other stuff.

 

[joewoo]

There was lots of random stuff.... Movies podcasts pictures exe files.....

It wasn't full about 20gb on a 64gb card

 

[madankrishna]

why this happenes

 

[James E1]

why this happenes

Bad card.

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