{"id":1307,"date":"2017-07-13T13:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2017-07-13T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:56:18","slug":"fix-android-battery-draining-overheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/fix-android-battery-draining-overheating\/","title":{"rendered":"FIX: Android Battery Draining &#038; Overheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1308\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_2017-07-13-14-33-13-169x300.png\" alt=\"Media Server\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_2017-07-13-14-33-13-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_2017-07-13-14-33-13-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_2017-07-13-14-33-13-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_2017-07-13-14-33-13.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Media Server seems to get confused with too many files<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In case anyone else with an Android phone is having problems with overheating and battery drain, I found the solution. It&#8217;s a bug in Media Server that afflicts some ROMs. When too many files build up on your phone, it goes bonkers. Here&#8217;s the fix:<\/p>\n<p><p> 1. <b><font color=\"#DD0000\">Remove all unneeded files from your phone<\/font><\/b> (photos, music, videos, and any other files you have in volume &#8211; e.g. I had several hundred crossword files). I moved what I wanted to save but didn&#8217;t need on my phone to my computer, and deleted the rest.<\/p>\n<p>2. Go to Settings->Apps->All, scroll down to <b><font color=\"#DD0000\">find &#8220;Media Storage&#8221;, click Force Stop, and then Clear Data<\/font><\/b>. In the screenshot, Media Server has only 7.31MB of data. Before I cleared it and rebooted, it was over 52MB. How big is yours?<\/p>\n<p>3. <b><font color=\"#DD0000\">Restart your phone<\/font><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>This will force Media Server to start again clean and reindex everything, restoring your phone to its original cool-running, long-battery-life state.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone else with an Android phone is having problems with overheating and battery drain, I found the solution. It&#8217;s a bug in Media Server that afflicts some ROMs. When too many files build up on your phone, it goes bonkers. Here&#8217;s the fix: 1. Remove all unneeded files from your phone (photos, music, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/fix-android-battery-draining-overheating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FIX: Android Battery Draining &#038; Overheating<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[43,44,45,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}