S3 sifus, plz help
My phone battery drains quite fast. From gsam it states i have media server wakelock and its the 1 eating my battery when not in use. I googled this prob and it seems the prob is not for s3 only, other android phones are affected since honeycomb n till now theres no proper solution.
Just want to ask how u guys deal with this issue?

I use gsam battery monitor pro. 2 nights i reboot my phone b4 going to sleep, n leave the phone fully charged. The next morning, my battery reduced almost 20% overnight. Checked in gsam theres a wakelock n in detail it states media server is the couse of the wakelock. I also checked with cpu spy n it shows my phone did not go into deep sleep the whole nite. It stays at 200mhz.

Nope, turned off. When I 1st got this phone, the battery drain only 6-10% overnight. Now almost 20%. As some forumers point out there maybe a prob with charger, i checked the charging current is 999 n max 1000,so no prob there. So i googled around and found many have the same prob, not just s3 users. Something got to do with android os. The media server wakelock has no definite solution.

Ok will try 2nite. Will use step 1. Should i restart the phone b4 going 2 sleep?

Hi, tried option 1. In the partial wakelocks it states *overflow*1013 as the one eating my battery. I googled to see what it means and it is the mediaserver.

Nothing thats noticeable, but dont know if its related or not but my phone gets really hot. By just surfing using dolphin my phone can get to 48c, b4 this the hottest my phone can get is 43c. But still looking around if its the update problem or dolphin thats causing this

I use temp+cpu from play store

To all forumers here who complains of bad battery life, through the help of forumers here i have successfully solved my battery issue.
*overflow*1301 and audioout_2 keeps popping up causing a wakelock, solved it by disabling touch/lock screen n key tone sound in the sound option. It solved the overflow problem but not audioout_2.
So after endless googling, it seems viber is the culprit, uninstalled it and voila, my phone can go into deep sleep.
It seems these 2 wakelocks are caused by apps that has to do with sound. In my case those 2 are the problem. Some cases i read in forums are coused by beautiful widgets n amp player. Had to do try n error in this case.
So thanx again forumers who helped me, took me 4 nights to settle this issue.

And here is a link i found quite usefull in solving wakelock issue

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827676

This post has been edited by silent_stalker: Apr 27 2013, 06:18 PM

Left the phone overnight, like 6 hours or so 20% gone.

And plus my temp now after surfing max 42.5c. B4 this 48c.

I use the link as a point of reference. so i can minimize my search scope what kind of apps thats causing the wakelock. Hope u can solve ur problem, it took me 3-4 nights of trial and error. But it was worth it, now my phone has no heat issue n the bat life is great.

Is it media or mediaserver?

I did a little search on the net and the majority says the cause of it is sd card dying. Bcoz the sd card is faulty the media did a loop in searching media files in ur sd. Try changing another sd card, just formatting it does not solve the issue

If u are a pro in flashing firmware u can try this. But plz dont ask me how, im really a noob

http://tutznet.com/1958-fix-battery-draini...ly-bean-update/

I agree. Just tried s4 yesterday coz was thinking of changing my s3 to s4. I dont know if its the touchwiz prob or its a test unit coz the animation still got lag. N i dont find any apps that require that much juice to run. Another thing the free space is only 8g, s3 is 11g. Wonder how much bloatware is in it. So i guess will stick to s3 at the moment

I always get email from that site. It sells gadgets n stuff at dirt low price, then have to bid. Some in kopitiam say its a scam, some managed to buy cables n not so interesting stuff at very low price. But never heard any1 managed to get those very2 cheap gadgets.

This thread is turning into kopitiam, haha.

Back to thread topic, if want to change charger under warranty, will they check our phone rooted or not?

U use papago? If yes then many users did experience fast battery drain n heating issue using it. I stopped using papago bcoz of it. I now use waze, it does get hot but around 44-45c only.

These 2 days my phone is acting really weird. The temp will go up till 50c for no apperent reason. I already install watchdog and cpu monitor to see if there is any rogue apps thats causing this. Didnt find any. Use BBS and cpu spy to see if i have any wakelock problem, nothing seems out of the ordinary. Just went pj sc 2day to change my usb cable, asked them and they say have to leave the phone 2-3 days. And they say usually they solve the prob by wiping the phone and do clean install. Im trying to avoid that (+ i didnt unroot my phone).
Any of u have this prob? And i saw at shops 2day got this phone holder we can clip at the aircon vent. Is it safe to put our phone there for long period? Coz thinking of using it while i try to find whats causing this heat issue

Yes, i was thinking of doing it also. But it will be my last resort if i fail to find the culprit. 2nite will try ur suggestion of my data network. Thanx