Comments on: Fix: Media Storage Is Draining Battery on Android https://www.technipages.com/fix-media-storage-is-draining-battery-on-android/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fix-media-storage-is-draining-battery-on-android Tutorials and fixes for smartphone, gadget, and computer problems Sun, 16 Apr 2023 05:28:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Mobile Guy https://www.technipages.com/fix-media-storage-is-draining-battery-on-android/#comment-1104643 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 05:28:12 +0000 https://www.technipages.com/?p=62416#comment-1104643 I just had this exact same issue with BitDefender Mobile. Huge spike in heat generated. Battery dying quickly. Unable to charge without switching the phone off. Media Storage taking up over 50% battery usage. BitDefender was a close second at ~15%. After trying to unsuccessfully disable/reset/kill Media Storage I decided to uninstall BitDefender. And all is well with the world again.

I have a S10+ with 1Tb storage with over 60% space consumed. BitDefender I guess is very very poorly optimized for Android or something just broke. I will keep it BitDefender off my phone for a few days and see what it does for battery life….

]]> By: Eli https://www.technipages.com/fix-media-storage-is-draining-battery-on-android/#comment-1096197 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:42:57 +0000 https://www.technipages.com/?p=62416#comment-1096197 The trick is figuring out what app is using Media Storage and restricting it, because Media Storage is not an app that you can directly use or manage. In my case, my battery was being drained so fast it wouldn’t take a charge even in low power mode, it needed to be turned off to charge at all, though it did drain more slowly when plugged in. A new battery did not help, though the old one was certainly also failing from the constant stress.

The culprit was Bitdefender Armor, which was endlessly reading or scanning my microsd expansion card after I moved most of my photos there. Armor didn’t show up among the top apps draining my battery, only Media Storage, but as one of few that is always in the background, it was high on my list to disable and see if it made a difference. Now I have a working ohone again.

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