[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] sasukay:
Hello fellow xda members,:cool:

Some people are complaining that they are having heating problems on their a6000.

I personally, do not have that problem. I had it occasionally when I play some x265 mkv video files on my device. Thats due to the "mediaserver" eating up all the battery and causing much heat. (Well, I asked a question earlier about how to solve that, but I don't think anybody has a permanent solution to that problem, cause nobody answered).

So, you guyz can participate in the poll and discuss the heating problem here.

:silly: :D

And those, who are not sure if they are having this problem. Go to settings>>battery. If you see the "mediaserver" on top using 40-50% of the battery (like in the screenshot attached), congrats!! You just got diagnosed with cancer :D

Edit: I thought maybe you guyz need some pro-tips to handle the mediaserver situation :D :silly:

Possible solutions for the "Mediaserver" problem​

Brothers, I'm sorry to say, but "mediaserver" is a son-of-a-b*t*h and there's no permanent solution for it (afaik). No matter how hard you hit it, it keeps on coming back, like a winter soldier :D. What I have learnt with fight against him is that, 'You can't kill him, you can just put him in a cage and wish that it holds'.

These tips could save your life--

PRO-Tips :D​

1) Don't keep the media, you don't need, on your phone. That includes images and .mkv video files. .mp3 and .mp4 videos are not a problem.

2) You can't escape mediaserver forever, but if you faced it once, and you know its behind you and wouldn't stop before getting to you. Do a complete backup (simple copy-paste) of you data from internal and external card. Format the sd. Then put back only the ones you need and do it intelligently folder-by-folder, such that you don't copy back the logs, cache files and other misc. files. This, will give you enough time, which could be few days to months, to think of a new strategy.

3) Install xposed. (Do it yourself, I'm not gonna tell you how. I can only tell you what to do. Its your war, and you have to fight it.) And install this module. Its Xposed Media Server Optimizer. Open it and in 'Scan Behavior', uncheck the 'Repetitive Scans' and 'Run automatically' options. In 'Tools', you might wanna use the 'Delete media sever contents', once you have deleted things you don't need. And since you have unchecked the 'Run automatically' thing, so the things you add later, like some video or music, won't get scanned and listed in your media apps. So you'll have to use 'Trigger mediascanner' in 'Tools' to scan those medias manually.

And btw, this was the cage I was telling about :D

4) If you have some video file, which you know is creating it, but still want to keep it for some time. Then, rename that file with any other extension like .pdf or anything. But, when you'll play it, the devil will return. All you can do then is watch that video and then rename it or delete it later, and then do a reboot.

Reason behind all this​

Actually, I don't know what is the root problem. Its due to the large no. of files, or some file which mediaserver couldn't read properly. Well, I bet on latter, because once I had all the media removed (and I mean it) from my device. And then placed a single .mkv file (a suits episode), and boom the phone fired up after playing the 10mins. I tried with some other .mkv x265 files, they didn't create any problem. So, either my phone doesn't like 'Suits' :D or its due to the inability of mediaserver to read some .mkv x265 encoding. And yeah, I thought, its the problem with stock Lenovo ROMs, due to some incorrect algo to scan media. But, I figured out its the problem with other ROMs too. I personally, faced this on CM11, CM12.1, MOKEE, MIUI ROMs. So, I don't know where is the real problem. But, its not in the ROMs, definitely.

But, the thing is, eventually its gonna come for you. So its better to be suited for that day. And, when that day comes, you just have to wipe all your data. :D :silly:

:silly::D