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by **cabbie** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:15 am

I was thrilled to get SubSonic up and working but since I have an EVO, I've been keeping a close eye on my battery life. I opened up the Spare Parts app and checked network usage and there was a process called 'Media' that was eating up my battery life. I tried setting the server offline, didn't work. I used ATK to kill SubSonic, didn't work. I uninstalled SubSonic, didn't work. Finally what I had to do was delete the 'subsonic' folder from my SD card and that stopped the insanity.

Is there a tweak or a fix for this? My battery went from 100 to 65 in an hour and a half because of this. I suppose I can keep it uninstalled and only install it when I need to use it but...thats not something I want to donate for

Any ideas?

Everything else about it works great, but I can't get a half day of my phone without this 'Media' process doing this.

by **BrickAlley** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:23 am

I feel your pain. I've been wondering all day why my battery was draining so quickly and I only got the program running this morning, so I'm sure that's probably what's causing my issue too. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread.

by **WildWalker** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:47 pm

This might sound daft, but I got an X10 as a company phone, we were all told to format our SD cards, as this would improve battery life.

What this does I have no idea, as I didnt use my phone before I formatted the card I can't comment on it's benefit.

Alan.

by **cabbie** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:46 pm

One of the hocus pocus 'fixes' for the EVO battery life was to format the SD card, so I did it a month ago, so that is almost certainly not the issue.

When I clicked on 'Media' in spare parts, it gave a description of 'DRM protected files'. Like it had to keep running in order to protect the DRM of my mp3 files even after the program was uninstalled? Also, the mp3s don't have a DRM on them natively. As stated, the issue didn't fix itself until I deleted the SubSonic folder that contained the few songs I had streamed for testing off of my sd card.

I sent a message to the developer to bring his attention to this. I sure hope theres a tweak.

by **cabbie** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:48 pm

BrickAlley wrote:I feel your pain. I've been wondering all day why my battery was draining so quickly and I only got the program running this morning, so I'm sure that's probably what's causing my issue too. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread.

download 'spare parts' from the market, go to 'battery history' then select the drop down box for 'network usage'. Let us know what it says so there can be a secondary confirmation.

by **BrickAlley** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:53 pm

I downloaded Spare Parts and took a look... then I remembered I had done a reboot yesterday, so I really don't have much to tell since I didn't use the program after the reboot. I had a porting problem that I resolved this morning so I'll make sure to use the program today as much as I can and will report back on my findings tonight.

I did notice one thing, I had a meter labeled "0" that was completely full. This may be nothing to worry about at all, but I wanted to make sure I mentioned it.

by **cabbie** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:37 am

any ideas?

by **BrickAlley** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:21 am

I do have a listing for 'Media," but it doesn't look out of line for the amount of streaming I've done. I will use the program a lot today, so I should have a better idea by this evening.

by **cabbie** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:05 am

definitely post your results

btw...ive received three emails now about the one new response to this thread. strange.

by **dan1son** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:27 pm

By default the android app continues to download all of the music in your playlist, even after you hit stop or pause.

You can set the pre-load amount to "one" in the settings which will make the phone only download the next song in your list, instead of the entire thing.

I'd be willing to bet that is what's causing it.

by **cabbie** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:06 am

dan1son wrote:By default the android app continues to download all of the music in your playlist, even after you hit stop or pause.

You can set the pre-load amount to "one" in the settings which will make the phone only download the next song in your list, instead of the entire thing.

I'd be willing to bet that is what's causing it.

finally...excellent suggestion. will try it out!!!

by **cabbie** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:56 am

I think this did the trick!

I set it to download 2 at a time so the next one is ready up on queue.

Loaded about 5 songs to test and it only loaded up with 2 accordingly

Checked spare parts an hour later and neither 'media' or 'subsonic' were present from 'time since unplugged' on network usage.

THANK YOU! Please add this to the FAQ for this app, it makes ALL the difference.

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