Mysterious Hidden Processes

This may well turn out to be unique to me, and anyone else who happens to be using iMovie 6 HD along with a bunch of Slick Effect plug-ins, and also the iStat Pro widget. And it will certainly reveal some gaps in my knowledge, but ! :
I was just now rendering a clip using Slick ( GeeThree ) Color Tuner for some contrast and saturation tweeks. Bringing up Dashboard to see what was goin' on, I was reminded of how often I've seen iMovie hard at work yet often being surpassed by something called "Canon_MP . . . ". ( I don't know how to get iStat to show a full name beyond the " . . . " either ! )
Googling "processes Canon_MP" yielded only 6 irrelevant results.
So my question is, what indeed is this hard-working "Canon_MP . . . " ?
Here's iStat caught in an industrious moment :
[IMG]http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l125/DmRofAtoZ/Picture4.png[/IMG]

David,
There's no reason to sweat the terminology.
Canon's drivers for OS X have sometimes been problematic, and the problem you describe with regard to MP Navigator sounds familiar.
Gutenprint is a set of open-source drivers that lets you use printers without Canon's (or Epson's or HP's) software.
In my experience, it's not a printer driver itself, but rather "Navigator"-style software bundles that cause problems. Scanners and OCR (optical character recognition) software bring their own set of headaches.
Many printer problems could be bypassed in OS X by *not using the manufacturer's disk* to install the driver, since [OS X usually has the appropriate driver built in|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1370].
Please keep us posted on your progress.
-Wayne

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Hello! I am new to programming for the Macintosh.
I would like to launch a hidden process in a similar way one might do on Windows with CreateProcess by passing SW_HIDE to the startup info, or using ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_HIDE).
I am not interested in "Hiding" the window in the typical Macintosh sense, because the Dock still indicates that the process is running. I don't want to edit the Info.plist file to include LSBackgroundOnly because modifying that file would require elevated access (which I am trying to avoid).
If there was a way to combine the typical Macintosh "Hiding" with the behavior provided by LSBackgroundOnly (preventing the Dock from showing the process) without modifying the Info.plist file, that might be good enough.
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I accomplished this by doing the following:
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Because I did not want to require administrator access but needed to modify an application's Info.plist file, I do the following:
1) Create a new <ApplicationName>.app directory in the current user's home directory
2) Copy the target application's Info.plist file to the new directory
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4) Create symbolic links to all the other files/folders in the target application's directory (MacOS, PkgInfo, Resources)
5) Launch from the new <ApplicationName>.app
With that, most applications will start invisibly (no windows, no dock icon, but obviously visible from the Activity Monitor, ps ux, etc).
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Hidden processes?

I've already posted on the Google Chrome forum's but nobody could help me there. Hopefully someone here can.
I've noticed that spontaneously, Chrome is updating in the background. Growl shows a notification that the chrome update image was mounted and a little bit later it unmounted. This happens when Chrome isn't even open. My questions are:
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2) If there are, how can I view and manage these hidden processes/services?
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themacfreak wrote:
Thank you so much for the help! Yes, you are right: there is a com.google.keystone.agent.plist file in my launchagents folder. I can't believe google didn't ask me/tell me that it was installing an autoupdater.
Are you sure you didn't agree to this when you signed up for and/or installed Google material?
Do you have any suggestions on a good program to view launchd .plist?
The "official" way to view .plist files is with the Property List Editor utility, part of the Developer package. You can view the text in a .plist file with TextEdit, although the result is somewhat messy.
Is Lingon a good program even though it is being developed anymore?
I'm not familiar with that program.

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http://www.lewismiller.info/upload/top.jpg
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Looks like it was an errant thread from Tomato. Restarting the machine fixed it, and the app now seems to be behaving better. Ta!

Mysterious "Installer" Process Appears Out of Nowhere, Causes Freeze

Every now and then, my computer will start running slower and slower, to the point where it simply freezes. Every time this occurs, and I manage to get into Activity Monitor before the works get totally gummed up, I find a process named "Installer" occupying gigabytes of RAM, with the total constantly increasing. If I manage to force quit this process before the freeze the computer goes back to normal. I have no idea what is causing this process to launch, or how to prevent it in the future, and would love to simply eliminate the process once and for all. You can see the fatal process in the screenshot below.

You can use Activity Monitor to stop that process. You need to change the "My Processes" pull-down to "All Processes." Otherwise some nasty culprits stay hidden.
The file called "Processing" that tops you list concerns me more--I've not seen that one. I think you have some form of malware. The easiest way to diagnose is for you to show us a safe snapshot of your system config.
Please download and install this free utility:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
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The Memory info at the bottom of the screen shows you are starved for RAM, but we need to get of of these odd processes first before deciding to add RAM.

The case of the mysterious hidden content - second hand iMac

Dear people with more knowledge than me... (i.e. dear everyone...)
I have recently purchased a second hand intel iMac (late 2006 model) to replace my trusty (but noisy) Powermac G4 Mirror Door Drive. It was purchased 'wiped' with a fresh install of Lion.
I used Carbon Copy Cloner to create a backup of my old hard drive (or at least the 60GB partition of it that I was using - I had Tiger installed on it) and then used the Migration Assistant to re-create an image of Zion in the wide expanses of the new promised land (250GB capacity).
All seemed to go well (but time consuming - it took several days to port everything to/from my USB external hard-drive). A few days later, when I checked About this mac I was shocked to discover that I only had 5GB of storage remaining.
I did a little poking about and realised I had left a couple of user profiles hanging around during my pre-Migration Assistant faffing. These duplicated much of what I had later migrated over more comprehensively, so I deleted these additional user profiles and this freed up a further 58GB or so.
My system information now tells me that I have
249.2 GB Capacity
63.69 GB Available
185.5 GB Used
The used component consists of:
Audio 137.47 GB
Movies 7.03 GB
Photos 9.74 GB
Apps 3.34 GB
Backups 0
Other 27.94 GB
However, when I go through all my available files and folders using the Finder, the grand total of space that I have used comes to around 88GB:
My home folder (the only user profile I didn't delete) 42.98 GB
Desktop 4.09 GB (I know, I know, clean your room...)
Applications 2.31 GB
Documents 2.8 MB (yes MB)
Movies 0
Music 38.59 GB
Photos 385 KB (yes KB)
Total ± 80GB
Leaving aside for a moment the fact that the disk partition I Migrated over was only 60GB in total (?!), where on earth are the other 97.5 GB of files, and how can I see/delete them to free up drive space I thought I had...?
...I imagine that the audio, movies etc., that are unaccounted for actually belong(ed) to the previous owner of the iMac. What I don't know how to do is see/access/delete them to free up disk space. There are no additional users other than my own account that I can see. That's not to say they are not there.
What can I do?
Thank you in anticipation of any help or advice.
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verdelay wrote:
the (hidden) folder _CCC Archives takes up a whopping 107 GB, much of which consists of multiple copies of the same audio files (due to poor file management and copies of copies, I think..). I'm now looking for a utility that will be able to locate and list duplicate files so I can verify that the _CCC Archives folder files are replicated elsewhere.
I use CCC, but not the "archive" feature (since my main backups are made with Time Machine).
According to it's Help, that folder contains the backup copies of files that had been changed on the "source" drive.
But this large folder is on your internal HD, right? Here's what I think happened:
When you made the original CCC clone from your old Mac, you selected the option to "archive" the copies of things that had been changed. For some period of time, it did that.
Later, when you used Migration Assistant, it copied all those old files from the clone (via the Other files and folders on <HD name> option) back on to your new internal HD.
So yes, the files there should be prior versions of things on your system.
There are various options to have CCC manage those files. You can assign a certain size to it, and it will delete the oldest files when necessary to make room for new ones; or "prune" files after a specified number of days, etc.
Click Help in the CCC menubar, then CCC help, then review the Backup and archiving settings section:

Outgoing Mail fishy, possible spambot or hidden process?

I've started getting some "Undeliverable mail" messages in my in-box, notably from addresses I have not sent mail to. I'm hoping this is just externally created spam, but I'm wondering if in fact my system has been infected by some sort of auto-mailing spambot. I've looked at the Activity Monitor to see if there are any processes going on that might point to this, but frankly there are a lot of processes I don't recognize (what the heck is "pmTool", anyway?).
Any advice? Following is an example of one of the "undeliverable" messages just received in my Inbox:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at clickon.me.uk.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[email protected]>:
This address no longer accepts mail.
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: (qmail 20998 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2007 05:41:24 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mac.com) (88.234.158.214)
by clickon.me.uk with SMTP; 3 Aug 2007 05:41:23 -0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected]
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE:
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:25:11 +0300
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="Windows-1251";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

Jack,
You can obviously see this message was not sent with Mail, but with Outlook Express.
This message is itself likely to be a fraud, and the sender is not a legitimate postmaster, and they hope you will further click on their links.
The somewhat less ominous explanation is that somewhere a PC with your address in its addressbook is infected with a virus that spoofs addresses. The normal routine is for the virus to send from every address in the AB, and to every address in the AB. Those addresses no longer valid are typically generating these messages
In either case it is not you or your Mac doing the sending.
Ernie

Mystery - Hidden Blog Files

I have been asked to update a new client's website, which includes his blog. I logged in via ftp and downloaded the entire site. I find that once I get into the blog folder, there are hidden files that cannot be accessed, neither on my side or the server side. This happens with both Dreamweaver and GoLive. I then downloaded Transmit to see if it would work. At first it worked to where I could see the files. Then after I paid for and registered Transmit, these files became hidden as well, and the preferences seem to be missing the option to view hidden files.
I've researched hidden files, and checked all my settings, but so far no progress.
Does anyone know about this, and if so, is there something I can do to access them? Preferably using Dreamweaver CS3, DW CS4, or even GoLive CS2.
Thank you!
Linda
Mac OS 10.4.11

Mark A. Boyd wrote:
Do these filenames begin with a dot? ie: .htaccess
I know that *nix operating systems typically hide filenames beginning that way. I'm not familiar with recent Macs, but is there a way in Finder to show hidden? If so, does DW then show the files?
Hi Mark,
Thank you for responding. I am familiar with the dot hidden files, but this is different. These are folders that contain wp-content from a blog within my client's website. One thing that is different about this situation is that my client has been adding a lot of photos and PDF files over the years. He is a photographer who manages his own blog. The guy who is hosting his website is having the same problem when downloading the site to Dreamweaver and suspects it's related to the enormous amount of JPGs in that folder. You can view the JPGs but none of the nested folders, other than a cache folder.
When I first used Transmit to download the files, I had access to these extra folders and files on both the server side and my side. But for some reason now they have become hidden even in Transmit.

When I close firefox it doesn't really close it seems to be hidden. Then when I try to start it again I have to Alt, Ctrl, Del, go to process , turn it off then hit it to start again. I can not get it to open in the hidden process that it is in

Apparently when I close Firefox it doesn't really close. I get told when I try to open Firefox later "Firefox is still open, you must close Firefox, Then reopen it. Then I hit Alt, Ctrl & Del, go to process's then I have to close it then reopen it. It does not open until it is closed in process's.

The process can take a few seconds to close. Sometimes you need to use Task Manager.

Hidden process eats half my CPU (after 10.4.7 install)

I'm running a MBP with the latest firmware previously installed. After updating to 10.4.7, about half of my CPU is consumed, but I can see what's doing it. Neither Activity Monitor nor the shell command "top" shows the culprit, even when viewing all processes.
The problem does disappear when I boot up into safe mode and continues to stay away after I've manually started all of my startup items. I have a strange suspicion that Spotlight is responsible, but, again, it's not showing any CPU-hogging processes.
I've had some other minor annoyances with the update like various preferences appear to have been forgotten and especially Spotlight lost its settings/index, but otherwise, the update functions well, even if I've effectively lost one of my CPUs.
If someone has any advice on tracking this down and killing it, I'd much appreciate it. My MacBookPro was already hot too the touch, now with the CPU running at a minimum of 100/200%, it's down-right scorching! (not to mention the loss of CPU available for MY tasks). I've had to put a USB-powered fan on it just to use it.
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OK. I've tried a more methodical approach to this. I've noticed that my login seems to load just fine, then after some period of time, the CPU goes up and stays up. Usually from 1-5 minutes after login. I also noticed that once this high-cpu-usage occurs, any new process IDs are several thousand higher than the previous process I've run. Clearly this indicates that something is trying to be run, probably failing, then something is trying to run it again.
Rebooting again, I've monitored this whole process by watching top run with a short refresh interval. Sure enough, after a minute or two of logging-in, the action started, and a high frequency of launches of "nmbd" were spotted in top.
Did a "> man nmbd" and found that this is part of the samba package. Next step was to go to the Sharing preference panel, then stop the Windows Sharing. Processor immediately dropped to normal usage. Whew!
Unfortunately, I can't start window sharing again without triggering the heat and loss of cycles, so this isn't quite solved... only narrowed down.
SURELY someone else that has a MBP that has upgraded to 10.4.7 is also running Windows Sharing... why am I the only one with this problem? Can anyone confirm that Windows Sharing works for them in 10.4.7 and a MBP?
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Mysterious root process slows my system to a standstill - what's happening?

There's a root process that periodically causes havoc with my system.
In Activity Monitor, the PID is 0, the process name is "kernel_task," and the user is root. It always has 61 threads as far as I can tell. It appears to be always running.
When it's not acting up, it only uses around 4% of the CPU, but several times a day it will kick into high gear and begin using anywhere from 80%-110%. When this happens, the system slows to a crawl and pretty much nothing can be done on the computer. Typing will show up with after several seconds delay, and nearly every application simultaneously beachballs. The computer gets really hot and the fans start going like crazy. It doesn't appear to matter what I'm doing. It happens if I have twenty applications running, and also when only the finder is active.
The only thing to do is wait till it stops whatever it's doing (and it always eventually does); either that, or simply force shutdown and restart via the power button.
Googling this, I've seen it asked before, here and on various message boards and the usual response to such questions is "it's just something the system is doing." So yes, I know that. My question is: what, exactly is it that the system is doing when this happens? I've only noticed it during the past year (and believe me, this is something you notice) so, if it's something the system does, it wasn't always.
Anyone have any ideas on what's going on? I'd like to be able to kill it if possible by some other means than force-restarting, but even more than that, I'm just curious as to what it is.
I have a Macbook Pro, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 GB memory, 1067 MHz DDR3, running OSX 10.6.8.

About that see:
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.
Adding RAM only makes it possible to run more programs concurrently. It doesn't speed up the computer nor make games run faster. What it can do is prevent the system from having to use disk-based VM when it runs out of RAM because you are trying to run too many applications concurrently or using applications that are extremely RAM dependent. It will improve the performance of applications that run mostly in RAM or when loading programs.
You have a problem process or processes based on what you've said. See my prior post for a starting point. If safe mode doesn't help then try creating a new user account. Log into the new account and then check to see if you still have a problem with the kernel_task.

JVM spawning mysterious child process of itself using Runtime.exec()

Hello, I'm not sure if this is how this is supposed to work but I have a java application that monitors legacy c programs and after a period of time (its intermittent), I'll see a duplicate jvm process running the same classpath, classname as a child of the java application monitor. This behaviour can be reproduced with the following simple class running on either solaris 9 or 10 using 1.6.0_03-b05:
public class Monitor {
Process procss;
public Monitor() {
try {
Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
System.out.println("execing command ls -l.");
procss = runtime.exec("ls -l");
procss.waitFor();
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Monitor();
Using java -classpath ./ Monitor to run it. While this is running, at intermittent times doing a ps -ef you will see a duplicate jvm running whose parent process is the one that was started on the command line. Ie:
UID PID PPID etc
user 17434 10706 .... java -classpath ./ Monitor (the one I put running)
user 27771 17434 .....java -classpath ./ Monitor (intermittently started)
in another window I'll run the following shell script that will output the processes when a duplicate java process gets started as they don't seem to run very long (on my production system they will occasionally get hung up until I manually kill them):
#!/usr/bin/ksh
while ((1 == 1))
do
ps -ef | grep "Monitor" | grep -v grep > /tmp/test.out
VAL=`cat /tmp/test.out | wc -l`
if (($VAL != 1))
then
echo "Duplicate java process started"
cat /tmp/test.out
fi
done
It takes roughly 30 seconds before I start to see duplicate jvms starting to run. The concern is that is the new jvm instance running the Monitor class? Eventually on my production system the real application will have a child or 2 linger indefinetly, and threads will be deadlocked. Once I kill these child java processes, everything is back to normal. This doesn't seem to occur with the above java class but will show the duplicate child jvm's start to run after a bit.

This is true for Solaris and Linux. Sun's implementation does a fork. A lot of people who have very large memory java applications wish there was a way to create a process from Java that doesn't involve copying the parent process. As far as I know your stuck.
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CPU process over 100% usage

On my mountain Lion 10.8.4 version the CPU utilization as reported by "activity monitor" showed a result greater than 100%. The TOR Browser went up to 100.9 % CPU with still further applications running. I have enclosed a screen shot of the exceeding utilization below
This is a serious concern because this may mean a hidden process not being properly reported..
Can anyone give a reason for this error?

It's not hidden. The problem is the Tor browser. Select it then click on the Quit icon and then on the Force Quit button.
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.

IPhone Battery Drain, 7.1.2, I Have A FIX!

Hello everyone! My name is Gabriel Chen and my iPhone has been having trouble with battery draining, and overheating. I'm here to tell you how to fix it. This is completely different from the rest of the posts because I've discovered something interesting and new.
Background (I'm a little long-winded, sorry. Just skip down to "What-to-Do" if you are pretty sure you've had the same problems as me):
I got my iPhone 5s when it first came out. It's battery life was amazing, then the fire nation attacked. Jokes aside, the battery became worthless about a month ago after I updated to 7.1.2. I thought the issue was 7.1.2, but now that I fixed it, I don't think it is. I took my phone into the apple store about a week ago because I was off to college and needed to fix this problem before I left. They ran diagnostics and found kbd and backboard errors. They immediately replaced it. I was happy because I had a brand new phone, but the battery issues came back, and this time even worse. My phone was burning up, even hotter and it even froze sometimes. I then took it to a store near my college–which was difficult because I have no car here–where they did a reset because that's what they always do. I sat there and played with the phone to make sure the problem wasn't there. Turns out it was still there. I love apple genius bar employees, but not all of them are very knowledgeable about the products and how they work. I don't blame them because: updates can always cause new problems, it's probably above their pay-grade to memorize what every single error code means, and they don't necessarily have knowledge that lets them troubleshoot any problems that involve hidden processes that their apple-issued easy-button diagnostic test doesn't tell them about.
I then approached another employee who helped me immensely. He knew something was wrong, which was awesome because most employees do tend to blow you off, so he decided he'd try to help me fix it. He had a lot more knowledge about the phone. This time he found kbd errors again so he replaced it. After that process, he disappeared into the back of the employee's only part of the store. I tried playing around with the phone, and it was clear that the problem persisted. I then went and got help again. This time, the new person who was helping me went to the back, and I waited around for about an hour and a half not knowing what was going on. The whole time, I was wondering where the first guy who helped me disappeared to. For the sake of convenience, the first person who helped me in this paragraph will be Ian, and the second will be Will. Will eventually came back out, this time bringing Ian along with him. Turns out Ian had been doing research for me in the back for the last 1.5 hours and found that the problem probably had to do with iCloud. My phone was draining and overheating due to its attempt to download some sort of data with no success. So each time it failed, it would retry over and over again. This explains the overheating and battery drainage. We deleted some stuff from iCloud and it got a lot better.
The next day though, the problem came back. I was so frustrated so I've been trouble shooting for the past 5 hours. Eventually, after 4 hours, I tried using different iTunes accounts. There was no battery drain when I used these. When I used my original account, there were still problems. So I tried turning off iCloud on my account. Still, I had no luck with it. I eventually tried something else which finally fixed it! My phone now no longer has problems with battery drain and overheating.
What-to-Do
1. Go to Settings —> iCloud —> Delete Account
Don’t worry, as long as you click “keep the stuff” or whatever it says, you won’t lose stuff
2. See if your batter still drains by leaving it on and watching the battery. Touch it and see if it’s heating up. If your battery is draining 1% every 2 minutes, it definitely is still having problems. It’s your own choice, but even if it does drain, I would follow the next step anyways. If it doesn’t drain, the issue definitely had to do with iCloud. Now, log in once again.
3. Make sure all of the iCloud data that you care about is stored some where other than iCloud. For example, make sure your Pages files are on your computer.
4. Go to Settings —> iCloud —> Storage & Backup —> Manage Storage. Then delete the stuff under Documents and Data. I REPEAT, DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT FIRST MAKING SURE THE DATA IS ON YOUR COMPUTER IN SOME SHAPE OR FORM
Why? What is probably happening is that there is probably data that is trying to get onto your phone. This data is failing to do so which is causing an infinite loop of effort and failure which drains your battery and makes your phone work really hard. Apple should code a fail-safe into this to stop the loop, but they haven’t yet.
5. You’re done with this part! For some of you, like me, your phone will stop draining. If so, you’re done! For some of you, it will start draining again! Here’s the part that took me 5 hours to figure out, mostly because I was just frustrated and venting.
6. If you’re still draining, go to Settings —> iTunes and App Store, and turn off SHOW ALL Music and Videos. What this feature does is it will display the purchased items that have not been downloaded, but are on your iTunes account, specifically Music and Videos, within the the corresponding apps. I understand that you probably like this feature and that you’re probably unhappy that I’m telling you to turn it off. This is a glitch or bug that Apple will probably come to fix if it comes to their attention eventually, so don’t worry. When they do fix it, you can turn these back on.
Why? For some reason, the battery drain was being caused either: by the phone failing to fetch data from your iTunes account, pertaining to purchased items such as songs and videos; or by the phone repeatedly fetching the data, instead of just holding it in place.
So, this fixed my phone completely. Please rate me up if that’s even possible. If you’re an Apple dude, I’d love to receive rewards if this was actually useful to you guys (haha, sorry I’m just a little proud of my accomplishment.) If it doesn’t work, try to trouble shoot and figure it out. If you would like clarification, feel free to comment or whatever it’s called. If this doesn't fix it, maybe try getting it replaced in an apple store because that might be the issue.

Thought it had worked but soon found out it had not.
after further days of trying finally, solved it for me Yesterday.
turned off notifications when locked, and bingo, wow.
i have not turned off iCloud but location services are also off.
best thing to do I found was keep checking your usage, settings, general, usage, and flip down to bottom, if the standby and usage are similar there is a problem, if there is a big difference then all is ok. Just keep turning things off and on until the difference is very apparent.
something on my phone was keeping the phone alive even when turned off, and I think this was the phone repeatedly trying to update continually.
to me this is definitely down to the iOS, my wife has exactly same phone and iOS but hers doesn't have any problem and the battery lasts for days.
the guy at the Genius Bar told me to restore the phone via iTunes, not iCloud. This is because iCloud remembers the exact info from your phone and simply reinstates it when you restore, and this includes the iOS too.
when I get home from holidays that's what I'll do, or wait for iOS 8 in few weeks. But I'm so pleased I finally made it work, I was beginning to think ditch the phone and buy Samsung.
anyway anyone out there please try my final solution and let me know if it works for you?

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