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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
I have to concur with his post. I have about the same schedule and use including playing A graphic heavy game every two hours through out the day. My battery life is unchanged since I rooted with Kingo last month.

If you people don't want to or don't like to use Kingo that is fine. Then don't use it. But stop faulting it for every issue you have with your phone.

I seriously doubt adding one file that gives you root permission will increase battery drain when the file it's self only runs once when the root is done. Just check your battery usage log and it should be very plain what your battery killer is and it will most likely be an APP that you have installed at some point or some other mod you have applied.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Rippley05:
Yea. We never possibly thought of checking battery usage logs. I used better battery stats, carat, wake lock detector, battery monitor..among others. Nothing could pin point it.

I unroot..everything is fine. Root again and battery drain. I finally got it to stop by using safe strap and flashing the xnote port. There is more than one person who has reported battery drain, and a lot who have no issues. What I can't understand is why the people who have no issues think that they have the "special" phone that gets to decide if there is or isn't a problem for every other note 3 out there. Just because YOU don't get the problem, doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist. Your phone isn't the almighty end all be all of phone issues. There's endless factors that can go into this. No 2 phones are gonna be exactly the same.

It's like if I eat a dozen doughnuts everyday for a week and not gain a pound..someone else does it and gains 5 pounds. Could I say that it's absolutely nothing to do with the doughnuts just because "I" didn't gain a pound? Nope. That's ignorant.

I appreciate your reply, but the fact is, you don't know. You just "doubt" which means nothing. I also don't know for sure but, what I do know is it's happened twice. Each root I got drain, without root, no drain. Simple facts. Could be coincidence, but I "doubt" it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] djdig:
Between the 2 notes I bought (one for me and fiancé) and the bluetooth on all the time for the radios in the car, and all the S-Beam, etc.... in my opinion the stock battery is pretty bad ass. I am actually amazed with the battery life on the gear and the note 3, I know on my S3 it sucked.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] hartfordclub2:
My Note 3 has generally lasted over a day on full charge
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wuilly:
I got 1 day and sill 14 %
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
DO anyone has any idea how can i fix this MEDIA thing !!!

I changed my battery today from a brand new note 3 too , disabled every stupid app .. This MEDIA thing is killing me !! I need help with this what is this ? why is this not stopping what is it related to ????????? how to stop this thing.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] scarbutt11:
Rooted with kingo and then froze a crap ton of Samsung and at&t apps and my battery life is about 2 days with heavy use.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Pandawg:
Before my Pebble. Hope battery life doesn't get too bad now that I have bluetooth on.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
ANyONE there ????

salman1444;49014055]I changed my battery today from a brand new note 3 too , disabled every stupid app .. This MEDIA thing is killing me !! I need help with this what is this ? why is this not stopping what is it related to ????????? how to stop this thing.

Anyone there ??? my battery is showing this MEDIA thing like crazy and battery is draining because of it. When i go to system pannel lite i see my gallery eating CPU , i kill it and this thing stops . but after a while its again there eating battery and using CPU ,, ANYONE knows how to solve this issue whats wrong why is gallery using so much CPU and using battery all the time ???
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] slimslim:
I've read somewhere it might have to do with indexing the media files (music or so) and that might be, especially if you have an sd card. Try to take out the sd csrd and if that's the culprit reformat it. If not, I would wipe it clean, hard reset.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
Yes i have an sd card i took it out from previous phone and placed in my note 3 , you think there are some files on that sd card which are doing this ? My gallery keeps on using CPU like crazy i have to force stop gallery to stop it for a while. So what should i do to fix this ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mrkhigh:
I second the guess for it constantly scanning the media. I "think" there is somewhere an option for disabling scan media on boot.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] XiphoneUzer:
best battery in a phone I ever had. I have screen shots that would make a make a hooker blush. :D
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] slimslim:
I would copy everything from it in the computer and format the sd. Give it a try (about a charge or a day) without sd see how's working. Then put back the media files back on sd and test again. Try step by step until you pinpoint the culprit.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
there is no such option to turn of media scan , whatever this is i can only stop it by force stop my gallery , but after sometime it starts again and use all cpu constantly , i need help in fixing this , i have cleared cache and everything of gallery even media storage cache but didn't help at all ,, but it is only with ext sd card but i have searched everywhere there is no such file just images and music basically

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i took out the sd card it stopped i took it out for 3 hours even kept opening gallery but the thing stoped , then i tried clearing stupid files from sd card and when i inserted it started again...

its just gallery which is doing this
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
Well then here is a thought. Don't keep your gallery/images on your SD card. Put all your images on the internal storage. I mean you have 32Gb internal as well. Just don't put images on the SD card and tell the camera to use the internal storage as well. It does have that option.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
i took out the sd card for whole night but no use , without sd card its still happening :confused: .. my battery is used by MEDIA and this only stops by force stopping gallery... its not because of sd card :(

i have tried clearing drm protected content , media server , gallery cache and date , download manager cache and date .. i have cleared cache and data for all these applications which come under MEDIA process. But by looking from systems pannel lite i found that my gallery has some issue .. right now i have turned off my gallery :(
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
Again move your gallery to the internal storage, not the sd card. Also do you have any apps installed other than stock that might or could use the gallery/media?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
i have turned off my gallery and using quick pic right now but i want to fix this.

yes i have a picture frame widget but i removed it for whole day to see if that causes the gallery to use CPU but no use , i just placed every image i had on internal storage and turned on gallery , its the same i had to force stop gallery it started eating Cpu i left it for 1 hour to see if its working on something and will eventually stop but it didn't .. then i finally turned it off ... i have tried checking all the folders with images if there is someother file in it else images but none has any not even hidden in them.

The gallery works fine if you open it no crashes everything works perfect all thumbnails are fine and smooth but it starts using CPU and in my battery status i see MEDIA using Cpu constantly which when i figured out is the main gallery application.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
As soon as i open Gallery this MEDIA process goes nuts , it is just with built in gallery application , nothing happens if i use quickpic application for viewing images.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] hipporun:
Unless I'm playing games put on powrsave mode, dosnt effect anything but games. For real improvements root, install ss, and flash rom
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] RLW930:
Media Storage process

I suspect there is some kind of bug in the Media Storage app, that is aggravated when you are rooted. The app runs for a very long time with high CPU usage eating the battery after each reboot. I have searched this problem and found it for other phones and other versions of Android with and without external SD cards. I had the same problem on my Galaxy S2 on 4.1. I deal with the problem by freezing the Media Storage app with Titanium Backup. Freezing does have some adverse effects such as Gallery not working. But I just unfreeze it when I run into a problem.

It would be interesting for a developer to take a look at the source code for Media Storage and try to see what is going on. This is giving a bad battery-life reputation to a great phone. I get less than a day when the Media Storage app is running constantly. I get nearly two days when it is frozen. Huge difference!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
after trying everything i have turned off stock gallery and using quick pic ! booom no media issue CPU is fine battery is amazing..

but i need to fix this i like the original gallery :( as some apps only get data from it ... is there a proper fix where i don't need to turn off gallery ? but now i am 10000% sure its because of gallery as i open it media goes crazy and wont stop
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
How much data is in your gallery? How many images. I would try a test by copying everything on the card to a PC to keep it safe. then deleting all but maybe 20 images and see if it still has the same issue.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
nothing will happen by deleting 20 images i have tried removing images but as soon as i open my gallery app the process starts. I have like 10,000 images in my phone LOL but the stock gallery app runs fine when i open it no issue of loading its just the media process starts and it does not stop, SO i have turned off gallery app cleared my ram and using quickpic application as gallery
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
Have you ever heard of indexing? What is happening is that your gallery/media service is trying to index and thumbnail all those 10,000 images. So they will be available for preview instantly.

You need to read better as well. I told you to REMOVE ALL of the images from your phone EXCEPT for 20 and see if you still have the issue.

Just give it try, you are looking for answers but unless you are willing to test then you are not going to get many since we don't know the results. I am asking this because I am trying to get a handle on what the process is doing and I suspect it is trying to index your abnormally large amount of images. I have never heard of anyone who has more than maybe a few hundred on their phone at most.

Just hook your phone to the PC move all the images on your phone both internal RAM and card to the PC. Then put 20 back on the card and see if you still have the same issue.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
I didnt mean that sorry for that :) yes sir i am on it will give the results tomorrow.

i have one more question these are always there from the first day why doesnt it process them ? or you think everytime the phone reboots or i add new image it starts again ?

i will perfom this will remove everything and will get back with the results
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] kishanthj:
I don't quite understand how people post screenshots of battery life being over a day and stuff but never post screen time. Screen time is key... Last time I checked, my battery lasted 18 hrs, with 6+hrs of screen time. Had 25% left in battery.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
Sir i removed everything but kept 50 images in the internal memory with no memory card the process started but eventually stopped but as soon as i open the gallery again everytime the process starts and keep using CPU everytime i open the gallery it starts using CPU until atleast 15 minutes with just 50 images , why does not the process end why it starts everytime and eat battery when i open gallery , the process should stop once everything is done.The gallery is fine and working quickly with all thumbnails but even if i open it for 5 seconds then close it , it keeps on using CPU and the media process starts and keep working for 10 15 minutes
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
What app are you using to monitor this activity. I wanted to try it on my phone and see what it reports as I have a little over 300 images on my card. I open my gallery and everything appears to function fine but I don't have a way to see what you are seeing. This might be normal and it is just bothering you to see it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
Sir i am using system pannel lite , in its options turn on system monitoring also, then open your phone gallery , yes everything works fine no lags , but when you open your gallery then close it and go to system pannel lite ,you will see the process media eating alot of CPU and gallery also for sometime , it happens everytime you open your gallery the thing never completes , see if this happens to you too
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
Ok, I got the app and tried it out.. When I opened my gallery with about 300 images on the SD card for about 5 minutes System Panel Lite shows android.process.media at 34.0M, CPU:42s. Looking at my App manager the gallery does not show up once closed. Are you closing it correctly by hitting back arrow twice? or just using your home button. if you use your home button then all the apps you do that from stay open and run in the background. You have to use the back arrow twice to truly close an App in Android.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
Yes sir i close the gallery by clicking back button , the thing is why the process keep running everytime i open gallery why the media process runs every single time , it wont be running if you don't open gallery , this should not run everytime and it runs based on how many images you have if you have a lot this does not stop , but even if its doing indexing it never stops
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
You said that with just 50 images it takes 15 minutes to index and then stops. It will do this every single time you open as it is looking for new images that may have been added. It is just the way this stock image app works.

Your issue is that you have 5000 images if you do the math based on ho long 50 images took then you can figure out how long it would actually run. As I said before I have never heard of anyone keeping this many images on the phone. They have a USB connection for a reason and that is to offload to the PC what you don't need daily. especially since this phone is notorious for corrupting memory cards. You stand a large chance of loosing it all if you don't move it to a PC. I mean I have 300 and I really never look at them. My point is you have an abnormal amount and your phone is going to deal with that for an abnormal amount of time.

Now what you need to ask yourself is "does it really have any effect on you?" So what if it is using the CPU and battery. As long as the battery can get you through most of the day and the CPU is not actually lagging then it is not causing any harm.

Your only choice you have is to claim it is defective and return it. But I think you will find this to be normal and you just happen to notice it and it bothers you.

You could take your loaded card with all 5000 images to your local AT&T store that has a live demo model. Ask and they will tell you what store in the area has one. Once there ask the rep if he or you can put the card in the phone to confirm if it does the same or not. He should have no problem if it will prevent a return. Those cost them money and they want to avoid them.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
Yes sir you are right i think i never noticed that before that's why its bothering me now.I will check other note 3 to confirm if there is some issue with mine , i was just wondring i didn't add any new file but still why everytime gallery is opened the media server start indexing. It should complete the process once and then should not perform it again as i was experiencing very low battery timing but it was because of this. I will reduce the data and also check some other note 3 also.

Really gald that you helped alot , usually i try to fix everything myself , but this time i took help using XDA and i am happy with responses , love the phone the best phone ever no lags nothing , just this media server annoy me because it always keeps on indexing ,

is there any why to stop this process or even limit it ? because if i need the data on the phone turning off stock gallery helps , but i will remove the excess data because stock gallery is connect to many other operations

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Sir i have one little question too , do you think long file names can also be an issue
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Solarenemy68:
I am sure they don't help, it even gives a PC a hard time sometimes. The service will re-index every time you open the gallery because it is looking to see if there are any new images and to thumbnail them. Unlike a PC it does not have a master boot record that it can scan quickly to see if there have been any changes and then update the index service only if changes have been made. This is somewhat of a simple dumb system and has to check each time the gallery is open and it checks the full gallery.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] RLW930:
Realizing that the Media Storage (media scanner) app scans files building thumbnails, there really is some kind of bug in it, that seems to have gotten worse after I rooted. Media Storage has run for over 24 hours on my phone. This is way longer than it takes to scan every file on the phone. I can copy every file on the phone to a PC and back a number of times in less than 24 hours. I don't know what it is doing but it does needlessly waste the battery.

To get around this problem, I freeze Media Storage in Titanium Backup. I unfreeze it if I want to use gallery and then freeze it again. If I add files or photos, I unfreeze it at night and let it run while I am charging the phone. This is a bit of a pain but it is worth having my battery last twice as long.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Paulita1:
Zerolemon battery life has been good on mine thus far I heard.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TechGoon954:
After rooting with Kingo and using Greenify this is what I got. And I'm a heavy user, even went to sleep overnight listening to my play list through Jet Audio.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wudien:
So I had even getting great battery life, 30+ hours with 4hrs screen time. BUT just recently google services has gotten a wild hair and has been eating up my battery.

I just got bbs and it shows thousands of location wake locks. Any suggestions?

I've removed location services and disabled permissions via app ops, buut maybe there's a better solution.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
This is how I have my location services set. If I let it use wireless services, it cuts battery life considerably with wakelocks. This setting does not affect my Google Now so I am happy. I get 2 days and 5 hours screen time consistently.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wudien:
Interesting. I must have absentmindedly toggled that when I wanted a really precise location. Thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] badler6545:
I'm now a ZeroLemon 10,000 mAH user, just because the stock battery wasn't cutting it. For some reason I was getting max 2.5 hours of screentime on auto brightness with ~14 hours. Whatever, I'm getting like 14 hours of screentime now on XNote 7 with my brick of a phone!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
i am enjoying now !!!

Everyone i was getting same 2 3 hours now i changed few things and wow i love it ! All this is because of reading this thread !

Amazing battery have the phone from the day it arrived in stores same battery !
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
Man if you want to get more , install quickpic and disable stock gallery , this media server eating you battery will go away as you disable stock gallery that's what i did
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] 4shin:
thank you all
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] salman1444:
That's what i was talking about Yahoo !!! Finally amazing battery and its been more than 3 months i have this , people say it gets bad with time but it doesn't :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] cortez52:
Stock battery jelly beans port
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wudien:
how is your phone not awake when your screen is on?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jordant2:
It's only been two days for me but so far so good. I haven't been able to kill it today but I'm getting great battery life on stock rooted, debloated no custom recovery.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] cortez52:
I don't know how that's possible either, but I watched a few movies in mx player surfed the Web quit a bit, even played Alittle hay day (don't laugh I'm hooked ok) I think its have something to do with the way itmaster put the rom together. Either way, that's the best ported rom I ever used as far as battery life goes.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] davidw8818:
huge improvements after flashing xnote7.0. I did charge a little so it's not accurate but I have been getting no less then 8 hrs of screen on a full charge.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Lawlaw77:
Used to be having good battery life but after install 4.4.2, it seem drained fast specially after 60% onward..listen to music make it drain fast too.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] cortez52:
That's the main reason I'm not gonna upgrade to kitkat Battery life means everything to me.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] benji667:
do you do this by turning wifi off?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jaythaovadose:
I love this phone. ..
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] amir0cool:
Love KITKAT

i use my phone about 2 days in single charge with KNOXRAID rom he knew what he doing
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ggreenw:
Knoxraid

Yeah this rom is amazing, not sure why everyone has such wildly different experiences but this is with just a few stock apps disabled and turning wifi and data toggles off when not in use...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] KonstantinosR92:
My phone battery is always full at 96%...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zintung2911:
Is this normal seems sort of low I turned off all the samsung features disabled all of att bloat I did not use power save feature
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] amir0cool:
Flowers

This phone battery is great However if you have KitKat on it is a beast
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Skolar72:
Hell yeah. I've been getting similar results
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ggreenw:
Knoxraid KitKat even better with v3, I love being able to leave the house without remembering to carry my charger everywhere.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] pklovecraft:
No kidding...AMAZING!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] pklovecraft:
I've only had this phone a few days, upgraded from Note 1. I'm very impressed with battery life and I'm stock JB
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] dabl198327:
i just dont see how some people get such great battery life from some of these roms out here. so far the best ive had as far as battery life goes is from knoxraid 2.6. i converted to kitkat rom and here it is 454 pm. and im at 33%. on knoxraid i would be somewhere in the ballpark of 70% or so at this time. i just dont understand at all.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Vlade12:
Thank you my man!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
anyone here have issues w/ the diagnostic wake lock when on kitkat roms?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] pham818:
its good when i'm at home for some reason. maybe because my signal is like 5 bars maxed. but when im at school or something, the phone drains a lot of battery. becasue of android OS.

when i'm at home. i can hit 4-6 hours of screen time easily. cant really do that at school.