mediaserver, google play services and battery drain topic

hey everyone. I noticed recently that my battery life on my m7 was really poor. The battery was draining at 6-8% per hour idling in my pocket, so I decided to see what was up. I noticed my cpu usage never went below 80%. I checked my app usage, but nothing specific was showing under battery usage in settings, so I did some googling. I downloaded a bunch of apps including Gsam and better battery life and saw mediaserver was thrashing the cpu nonstop, as well as logcat, and google play services was constantly waking the device.

I tried all sorts of things from the common reboot to adb commands. Finally, I found something that at least partially worked.

I downloaded an app from the play store called system tuner, which let me kill mediaserver, and instantly my cpu usage went from 80% to 7%. logcat also stopped when I stopped mediaserver. I have noticed no side effects from doing this. I hope this can help someone out there.

Now I just need to figure out 2 things:
1) prevent play services from wakelocking (up to 46 times per hour, wow!)
2) automate killing mediaserver on startup, as I noticed the issue returns everytime I reboot the device.

If someone out there can help me, it would be appreciated, and if I find out on my own, I will share this info here for all the people with the same problem.

[Q] mediaserver battery drain. topic

My AT&T Moto X was on standby for 1 day and 22 hr while I was using a different phone for other reasons. Anyways, it started off with 100% and after nearly 2 days of not using the phone, it was drained to 28%. I checked the battery stats and it listed Mediaserver at the top of the list for battery use. I clicked on the graph and it shows that the phone was awake for the entire time it was off the charger. Mediaserver says it kept the phone awake for 1 day and 20 hrs. My phone isn't rooted because it's the AT&T model which has a locked bootloader. It's on KK 4.4.4 and on Nova Launcher. Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks.