**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S7/Edge Thread ****

FishLicker said:
Well mine has started doing it AGAIN this morning, no SD card has been installed since I removed it. :rolleyes:
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I removed my SD card yesterday and still same thing happening.

I've been trying to pinpoint what is causing it but I'm struggling. Sometimes it starts up again when I use Chrome, other times as soon as I start watching a downloaded video.

Just now it was running and I 'closed all' my recent apps and it stopped using the CPU.

Played a video for 2 seconds and the cpu total for Mediaserver increased by 2 secs so that definitely set it off. Paused the video and it's stopped but normally it will just start using the cpu again, I will monitor it.

I watch tv shows nearly every day on my phone during my lunch break and this just NEVER happened before, so annoying.
 
I read something earlier on reddit people just saying it's any type of media music or video which causes it but don't think I've noticed drain like this before.

That said I put in recovery mode and cleared cache and it's not shown all day
 
Quinnaay said:
I read something earlier on reddit people just saying it's any type of media music or video which causes it but don't think I've noticed drain like this before.

That said I put in recovery mode and cleared cache and it's not shown all day
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To confirm you selected 'wipe cache partition' in recovery mode?

I will try it later.
 
Currently in Turkey on holiday

Took my s7 edge for some pool side and water shots of the the family, got some great shots but soon started seeing ghost touches from it being in the water

Then power button and home button issues started, they would not work at all

Phone been in water around 5 mins max

The power button started working after half a day of it being dry and the home button took 1.5 days to dry out!

The fingerprint worked fine all the time though

Will not be taking the phone into water from now on lol
 
Just thought I'd add my experience to the SD card woes.

Prior to getting the S7E I had a HTC 10 and was using a U1 class 128gb Kingston Micro SD card. I inserted the card into the S7E and within a day it had failed.

I didn't think anything of it and contacted the seller and managed to get a replacement but in the meantime I started to use a spare Sandisk card I had.

A few days a go I thought I'd use Smart Manager and it crashed. Again I thought nothing of it and did a factory reset. The problem with smart manager still continued.

I took some pics with the camera and when I tried to view the shots the camera app crashed and so did the gallery when I tried to view the pics in there.

I took the SD card out and the phone started running as it should. I ran a chkdsk on the card and there were no corrupted files. Just to be on the safe side I reformatted the card and transferred everything across which took best part of a day.

What really annoys me is that I didn't have any such issues with any other phone yet the S7E doesn't seem to like memory cards. I could see myself going back to the HTC 10 or even the new Nexus devices if this problem rears its head again.
 
A2Z said:
I removed my SD card yesterday and still same thing happening.

I've been trying to pinpoint what is causing it but I'm struggling. Sometimes it starts up again when I use Chrome, other times as soon as I start watching a downloaded video.

Just now it was running and I 'closed all' my recent apps and it stopped using the CPU.

Played a video for 2 seconds and the cpu total for Mediaserver increased by 2 secs so that definitely set it off. Paused the video and it's stopped but normally it will just start using the cpu again, I will monitor it.

I watch tv shows nearly every day on my phone during my lunch break and this just NEVER happened before, so annoying.
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This is becoming infuriating. I uninstalled a few apps yesterday and it seemed to be OK. I've been using it all day today and its been fine, but in the last hour, its started draining again (still no SD card inserted).

The only theory I've got is that it seems to occur at around the same time as I've played music; I was out on my lunch before and listened to an hour of music on Google Play Music, and now its drained from 48% to 40% in 40 minutes :mad:
 
If you go to Developer Options (go to About Device > Software Info > tap repeatedly on Build number to enable to options in the main settings menu) and enable Show CPU usage you can clearly see mediaserver hogging the processor.

Trying the wipe cache partition now...

I've never had any luck with Samsung phones, and its the same old story today - great hardware, absolutely terrible software.
 
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Streamed from Spotify and watched a youtube vid and a few Facebook videos today and not had any battery used by the media server again since wiping cache. Interesting.
 
I had an issue with the stock Samsung music player causing mediaserver problem on my S4 or 5, can't remember which one at the time.

Removing the sd card solved it but that was because my music "library" was on it.

I suggest maybe disabling the stock music player and going with a 3rd party, I use Google play Music myself.
 
Ok so another test. Did the cache wipe as suggested above, and left it. No drain. Then used Google play music to listen to some tunes going back to the car. Drain is back. So it's definitely something to do with media. I'll connect to PC tonight and clean up the internal storage and then see how it goes
 
Might be too early to say, but I think that clearing out the internal storage has perhaps solved the problem.

Connected to PC and went through deleting stuff that was obviously redundant and cleared out the download folder. Then I scanned and cleaned with CCleaner. Tried some music, and it was OK.

I've then copied the download folder back and tested again. Still OK.

Finally, I've re-inserted the SD-Card (not formatted), and tested again. Still OK.

So it COULD have been something present on the internal memory, but not the download folder or the SD card. I will keep an eye on this but hopefully that is the solution. If not, it'll be factory reset time (which I don't really want to do as I've got everything set up how I want it!).
 
Got myself an S7 Edge in black a few days ago. Rooted it and installed the camera mod from a page or 2 back (thanks for the link sityeuropa). Also got a Spigen Neo Hybrid Crystal bumper case for it.

The phone is gorgeous and the camera with the mod is awesome! I just need to read this thread for more info/help.
 
FishLicker said:
Might be too early to say, but I think that clearing out the internal storage has perhaps solved the problem.

Connected to PC and went through deleting stuff that was obviously redundant and cleared out the download folder. Then I scanned and cleaned with CCleaner. Tried some music, and it was OK.

I've then copied the download folder back and tested again. Still OK.

Finally, I've re-inserted the SD-Card (not formatted), and tested again. Still OK.

So it COULD have been something present on the internal memory, but not the download folder or the SD card. I will keep an eye on this but hopefully that is the solution. If not, it'll be factory reset time (which I don't really want to do as I've got everything set up how I want it!).
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Thanks for the updates.

I think I have found the cause of my problem...Google Chrome!!

When I watch a video Mediaserver is running...but using a normal amount of cpu (thanks for the tip to show cpu usage) and when I stop watching Mediaserver stops. No problems there.

When I use Chrome initially there is no mediaserver running..but if I use it for a while mediaserver comes up...and still keeps running after I stop using Chrome. The problem is the CPU usage bar is about 3-4 times as big as it is when I am watching a video! Even going settings > battery > usage and selecting mediaserver... The cpu total timer increases by about 3-5 seconds...for every 1 second that actually passes in real time! Amazing.

If I open my recent apps..and close Chrome...voila...mediaserver is gone.

I'm going to keep playing with Chrome and see what the trigger is... Will probably just go back to using Opera.
 
^ Wow, that is annoying since its the built in browser. I would give my theory a try anyway mate in case it is just something like that. I would also clear the data and remove the updates in Chrome and re-update from the Play Store.
 
Cyclone said:
Got myself an S7 Edge in black a few days ago. Rooted it and installed the camera mod from a page or 2 back (thanks for the link sityeuropa). Also got a Spigen Neo Hybrid Crystal bumper case for it.

The phone is gorgeous and the camera with the mod is awesome! I just need to read this thread for more info/help.
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What camera mod?
 
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