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[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
Hi All,

My I9100 just died.

How did it die? had an app running. got the screen to sleep (pressed the power button), got back and couldn't turn it on.

Now another friend had the same thing happen to him a month ago.

This isn't a classic brick that happens while wiping/flashing/etc...

I really wonder if there are more cases of SGS2 bricking without any "proper" reason after a ~1year usage...

My friend also sent it to be fixed by JTAG/JIG without any success...

It's unreasonable for a "premium" device to die after a year of usage. (eg. My HTC/Google N1 is still being used by my brother just fine...)

ANYONE HAVING A SIMILAR SITUATION I'D BE GLAD OF YOU PM ME.

Update as of 24/11/12 - Device been repaired by Samsung

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34568200&postcount=41
[Galaxy S II General] nitinvaid:
Mine is hardly 3 months old

Its dead few weeks ago while charging

Glad that Its in warranty
[Galaxy S II General] loop4444:
eh? if its still under warranty no biggie...but is it bought from "proper" source? :D

donno, heard all kind of little things bout s2 but not that it just dies all of the sudden so often

any hard drops maybe or somethin? :/
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
Not that I know of.

Mine just died and that's it. just pressed the power/sleep button went back tried to wake it and no more.

Had CM10 pretty updated build..

No battery no nothing.
[Galaxy S II General] dave_uk:
Yup, had a completely unexplained case of "sudden death" back in May, just before I got my S3. Fried main board apparently - repaired under warranty. Now the same thing's happened to my S3. Not impressed!
[Galaxy S II General] pilgrim011:
Same thing, also in may. I clicked on an app to open it, screen went white, waited few minutes then restarted it, and that was it. Recovery was dead, it was stuck at Samsung logo, only thing working was download mode, but NAND was corrupted - unflashable. Samsung replaced motherboard.
[Galaxy S II General] ManOMrE:
Mine died yesterday while I was using the swype to login :confused:

I have tried another battery and every key combination and battery in and out that I've seen.

Quite unhappy but luckly I have a month of waranty left.

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] Sepharite:
Were you all overclocking and all tha?
[Galaxy S II General] ManOMrE:
No over clocking, no custon firmware... everything was standard.

Had a maybe 40 apps with a heap of photos and video on a 8GB card.

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
No overclocking, on demand profile under CM10 as always.

Phone wasn't hot or anything. just decided to sleep and never wake up :(...

I'm trying to see a pattern because this was my ONLY phone and paying ~450-600$ for a phone just to have it for a year is unacceptable.

Had some phones in my life but none just got "motherboard" dead...

If this is a faulty issue with Samsung I'd like to know it rather than saying... Arghh, my luck, lost few hundred bucks...
[Galaxy S II General] aknsoft:
Im in the same situation, but Samsung ignored me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31615152#post31615152
[Galaxy S II General] Scarface1991:
A friend of mine had a similar case. Without any particular reason it just wouldn`t turn on anymore. He was on stock firmware and without root. Luckily he still had warranty.
[Galaxy S II General] Subbie171:
I have a friends phone right here with the same symptom. Plugged charger in at night, in the morning it was dead.
[Galaxy S II General] yarmun:
Just happened to me last night too, same thing. (Installed JuiceDefender before the sleep)

Sadly I am 1 month out of warranty.

Anyone know if it is easy to change the motherboard ourselves? Samsung quoted me SGD$285 to replace by them.
[Galaxy S II General] Prashanthme:
WTH!!! Everyone S2 s dying? U ppl serious? Can anyone confirm whether everyone S2 died for the same issue? ,Same ROM?? Or any APP????
[Galaxy S II General] CHEVYbarracuda1:
Dafuq is going on here??? Phone dying with no particular reason?!
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
You guys should try to give more info other than "ahhh my phone is dead"

Rom and kernel info, also what you were doing before it died. Did you reset, flash a Rom, wipe anything, delete anything, things like that.
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
What info you want?

Device didn't get any eMMC "unsafe" usage or kernel?

Device worked flawless until the point it died without any difference of usage?

During verifying its death device has been:

- Tried all button combinations

- Tried different batteries

- Tried different chargers / charging for a while.

- Tried leaving device with/without battery for hours/days.

- Tried jig

- Disassembled

Trust me people who's phone will die won't immediately say their phone died without trying ALL options.

And as mentioned by many here it just happend to them even with pure stock non-rooted. no wipe no nothing...
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
I'm afraid components are designed to wear out after a few years ... sometimes they just do it prematurely without warning! :eek:

Nobody want to make a unbreakable phone with a expected live span of 10-15 years even it's perfectly possible. The companies need us to buy new hardware every second or third year, and I think they design quality to meet that requirement.

When Norway introduced 5 year warranty for mobiles ... all producers of mobiles **** in there pants! :good:

The consumer protection laws are all in accordance with various EU directives regarding consumer

rights. These consumer rights should therefore not differ significantly from the consumer protection

laws and regulations in other EU/EEA countries. One notable difference, however, is the 5-year

warranty period under the Norwegian Consumer Purchase Act which applies to all goods made for a

lifetime significantly longer than 2 years. The lifetime of products must be assessed individually.

However, most consumer electronics, including mobile phones, are covered by the 5-year warranty

period. For products with a shorter expected lifetime, a warranty period of 2 years applies, similar

to other European jurisdictions.
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
All is true. as there were in back in the 70-80s 10years lifespan blobs for east germany...

Still,

My original iPhone 2G had a battery wear-out and died during my failed operation of replacing its battery (after 3years of use!) - except of that it was fine.

My Nexus One is still working for my brother. except the bad Power button design that got broken (again about 7monthers after I sent it to fix before giving it to my brother).

My GF's iPhone 4 is STILL a great device. (no Apple vs Oranges pls :) as this software isn't the point of this entire thread!).

There is wear out of electronics but unlike mechanical parts (buttons) or liquid parts (batteries), electronics DOES survive years.

If you'd like me to send you Pentium 4 CPUs or even Pentium-Ms still fully functional I'll be glad to show you they're fully functional.

Progress isn't about dying hardware it's more of the human urge to replace (eg. Samsung won't give the SGS2 any version past 4.1 or I want OpenGL 4.0 which will be supported only on futrue chip XXX... or LTE or whatever).

I don't ask Samsung to provide open-source (even though they imho provide easier ways for devs but that's NOT THE SUBJECT)

I ask a single simple thing - RELIABILITY. as a person with a normal payroll spending ~500$ for a device to be working for me for a year isn't acceptable. sorry. I'm might be unlucky but for my 2006 MacBook (that's still running) Apple acknowledged ALL problems and provide additional warranty. for other 15" MBPs with nVidia's issue they also replaced boards...

Summary -

No one expecting my phone to be working for 15 years. but yes I expect my devices not to commit suicide after a year and a month...

(Mainboard IS the phone!)
[Galaxy S II General] vislavskid:
Wel i must say some words. I have byed galaxy s2 before 4-5months and i was so hapy with phone. But then leaked 4.0.4 lq5 rom and i flashed rom and full wipe ,after that my phone has emmc bricked i tried pits jtag everithing but my phone always get freazes ,tried to find bricked blocks .... And i have no solution but to sell it in the half of price ,now i have byed new sgs2 but now only use stock 4.0.3 rom and wait to se what hapening with those s2. I dont know but if my second phone die i will never by samsung phone any more.
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Sorry mate :(

Have you ever heard about non rooted Stock SGS2 devices broke due to eMMC brick bug? I haven't ...

I think we have to admit that flashing leaked rom's are indeed our own choice and only one selves are to be blamed!
[Galaxy S II General] joker97:
Happened last night flashed Neak 1.2 over neak 1.4 on fluxmod ROM 2.3.6 ...
[Galaxy S II General] vislavskid:
True
[Galaxy S II General] protomanez:
This happened to me, I was on CM10. The phone went through the bootanimation but never turned on again regardless of me taking out the battery and pressing multiple button combinations.

I was able to revive the phone however, by putting my spare battery in it. If you have had this problem, make sure you try an extra battery if you have one lying around anywhere. This may not work for you but it did for me. NO GUARANTEES.
[Galaxy S II General] aholtk1:
rs

my sgs2 also full death while charging,now in samsung service and will take one month to repair..hope less all sgs2 i loss all my data on the phone average @ 30000 rupees... remember dont depend the internal sd card make a backup on external sd card...
[Galaxy S II General] atulalvenkar:
You flash a leaked ROM and then blame Samsung after your phone bricks? Only if you get a brick on a stock unrooted phone do you have the right to complain against Samsung.

Sent from Jellybeaned I9100 using XDA Premium
[Galaxy S II General] vislavskid:
I dont complayne at all i just saing my situstion :) i love my s2
[Galaxy S II General] stevendeb25:
I get the feeling this issue is a charging issue? Few users reported charged over night and won't wake up.

Charging too long burning boards?
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
on my case it just died surprisingly with no reason. wasn't even connected to any socket.

but my colleagues death was after night charging not waking him up for work .
[Galaxy S II General] Mikeshashimi:
Anyone tried to plug their USB to their laptop/pc and flashing back to stock via odin?
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
once device dead it's not recognized by USB.

also trying to use JIG on my case didn't do nothing.
[Galaxy S II General] DanDroidian:
I bought mine new and it died out of the blue. Using Facebook, it froze and tried to reboot, but died.
[Galaxy S II General] Peninsula_:
Mine is dead right now - I did it yesterday by flashing JellyBam 20121022 Daily over stock. I probably shouldn't have done it this way, but I entered stock recovery and flashed CWN. Didn't reboot, then used CWM to flash JellyBam.

I got the beginnings of the ROM installing scrolling text then it stopped for ages and then turned off.

I cannot get into Recovery or Odin modes. No buttons work, no life on the screen BUT when I put the battery in and leave the phone down, after about 5 minutes I can feel the phone getting hot around camera area, like the cpu is working overtime.

Weird. And its not nice to have a brick.

Wish I had USB debugging turned on, adb reboot recovery could have helped me, but I didn't turn on debugging.

I have just ordered a jig on ebay so I will update here if it does anything for me.

EDIT: Any ideas I could try while waiting for jig to arrive?
[Galaxy S II General] DanDroidian:
The jig will not work. Your phone is officially hard bricked. FACT.

That heat near the top of the phone is proof your board is fried.
[Galaxy S II General] Peninsula_:
Thanks for your optimism! I'll have a go with the jig anyway as it's on it's way now.

So you say no way back for this phone anyway?

Can you tell me why you think it got so f**ked?
[Galaxy S II General] DanDroidian:
That heating up where you describe is a sure sign.

Still under warranty?
[Galaxy S II General] Peninsula_:
Warranty long gone. I will try the local repair place after the useless jig is no use!

Do you have a theory as to why this flash went so wrong?
[Galaxy S II General] tylerdurden83:
My phone: Wanam's stock deodexed XWLPG (flashed around june).

When it happened: I left it on my drawer, went back to pick it up, screen was all black. I plugged it in, thinking it was the battery, nothing showed up (no battery recharging logo, no leds turning on etc).

I sent it to Samsung, they said that the logic controller was oxidized (i wont bring it with me under the shower or anything tho....), and it'd have costed me 200 euro to replace it, because the warranty doesn't cover an oxidized logic controller for some reason...
[Galaxy S II General] DanDroidian:
Well, I ended up getting my S2 back from warranty and then did a trade in for the Note 2.

I'm a happy camper now!
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
UPDATE AS OF 24/11/12:

A few months ago I was depressed from my device becoming dead all of a sudden.

So I sent it to Samsung Offices in Korea with a letter saying that a device dying without logic reason after 13months seems unreasonable.

After a few weeks the device and letter apparently arrived Korea and I've received a phone call and email from Samsung in my country questioning me regarding the subject.

I told them everything I can and after they've discovered the device is in Korea (weird Samsung Korea HQ didn't update them) they told me they see how they can get the device back here.

A week later I received a call of them telling me that I need to send them email confirming that I agree for them to burn my device again loosing my data.

On last Thursday I got the device... working!

Samsung on my case actually showed me they do care for customers.

Still I wonder for the cause.

They haven't provided any information about their work.

- This is the same device (all my dents are there :) )

- This is the same motherboard (and weird enough all my sdcard partition data including pictures was still there!)

- This is the same EPROM controller (0x19) as detection apps says and can cause harmful EPROM bricking.

So I wonder what was the issue in my case and when they said this can be solved by burning mainboard -

Did they mean EPROM flash using JTAG? (I don't think this is the case because they device died in the middle of the day without any reason not during any update/wipe etc)

Did they mean baking the mainboard to improve connectors?

Still they've did their best to help me with the issue.

After being with a temporary SGS1 that my GF got from work the SGS2 feels like a new device. also Stock 4.0.4 XXLPW is very stable in comparison to CM10 (I know it's not fair, yet latest samsung builds are stable.
[Galaxy S II General] julianjm:
Glad you got your mobile back... I have a similar case...

My phone died after 11 months while doing some Play Store updates. I could enter in download mode, but unable to flash completely with ODIN.

The only thing I could do was flash a different bootloader (using heimdall) and clear the flash counter to send it to Technical service.

After a month, i got my phone back, supposedly with the motherboard replaced.

Regarding the eMMC, I got a different chip:

Type: V3U00M

Date: 09/2012

FwRev: 0x0e

Supposedly safe.

Julian.
[Galaxy S II General] NOMIOMI:
Please guys tell the full information like the full model number , and tell us that is your phone on custom rom or on stock rom and which kernelyou use on your device

Here I provide my device information so please every one give information like if you domt min

Samsung galaxsy s2

Gt-I9100

Custom rom

Kernel siyah kernel
[Galaxy S II General] JokerAce:
Now everytime my SGS2 gets SOD, I will sh*t in my pants a little.
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
This is really interesting story.

I really hope it'll work. my colleague got his phone still dead so I hope we'll give i a go.
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
update as of 16/12/12

we've removed the C565 on my colleagues phone

it is very petit so soldering is hard.

the usb OTG is broken afterward from my simple test

I've tried a USB-OTG with a mouse and afterward tested the same cable and mouse with I9300 and it was detected on the i9300 but not the i9100

so... this is very interesting discovery and I wish other people and Samsung will be informed regarding the issue
[Galaxy S II General] anfearg:
Unfortunately this happened to me on Wednesday evening. Was running Paranoid Android Beta 4.2.1 at the time. Phone just died after opening an app. Couldn't boot into recovery and after multiple flash attempts is completely unresponsive.

Its about 18 months old so still under warranty. Dropped it in for repair so hopefuly it will be covered.

Glad to see that others have had similar issues resolved.
[Galaxy S II General] WarriorZ:
Hi all, after googling for SGS2 sudden death, I redirected to here.

My S2 has a life of 1 year 7 months , and now my battery has been dropped. I bought a new one and the new one is suck, so I ask for a replacement from the supplier and then my S2 working properly.

But after 1 day use, the problem arise. My S2 suddenly death without any reason, cant power on , cant jump to recovery mode or download mode.

This is really strange, death without any reason!!

I try take away the new battery and replace using the old one but same result!

I hopeless and took the battery out of S2 and sleep, but the day after my S2 can turn on again !! WTF?

but after a few hours , my S2 death again!! Im really confuse about this one.. Somehow the phone just died suddenly on standbye , or somehow when Im trying watch movie or transferring bluetooth or play a game.

Is this really the main common sick from Samsung? I heard S3 also had the same problem.

This is really sick. I think I can use S2 for more than 2-3 years then sell it, but now if my phone like this, I think I must bring to Samsung Service Center and hurrying sell it coz I dont want got any problem with this.. Very annoying coz I really used this phone a lot.

My ROM detail:

4.1.2 Jellybean

DXLPA

Kernel 3.0.15-CM

RootBox-JB-i9100-V3.2

Build Number JZ054K

anyway my phone is already outdated from warranty protection

:(
[Galaxy S II General] mrcreativity:
I feel the pain my friends.

MY S2 refused to boot. Got stuck at the Samsung Logo. It would go into recovery and the power button would not work.

Was running stock XWLP7 with Root was was barely a month out of warranty. Had to replace the motherboard.
[Galaxy S II General] gastonw:
My GT I9100 is never gonna die folks.

I'll be back here when it does.
[Galaxy S II General] anfearg:
Good news everybody!!!

After a month away to the day, initially to a local repair centre and then being shipped back to Samsung, my phone has been returned to me repaired and under warranty.

Brand new mother board inside complete with new IMEI. I could not be happier.

So if your phone gets bricked, you have nothing to lose by dropping it into an authorised repair centre!!!!
[Galaxy S II General] therighttime:
Joining the bandwagon... My phone is 17 months old.

It was running CM 9.1 stable.

I had a few issues a few weeks ago when flashing to CM10 (loss of IMEI no network etc) so I though I'd revert back to CM9.1

I had a save of my EFS and tried to restore it but couldn't find an app that would use a backup made by another app so I was stuck. And eventually IMEI etc went back for no reason.

I didn't give it much thought and restored my image of CM9.1 to get all my settings etc back.

Last night I put the phone to charge. This morning I woke up but the phone didn't.

I unplugged and replugged the charger, the battery was displaying but the phone wouldn't turn on.

Then I unplugged it, swapped the battery and managed to get into download mode (but not recovery). I didn't have time to flash it back to stock so I turned it off, went ahead with my day. Now I am back and it won't turn on at all, even in download mode. When I leave it charging or leave the battery inside for a while it turns very hot as if the CPU was running.

Yet it still won't turn on, won't charge, won't enumerate when connected to USB.

I am in Canada now but bought it in Europe so I guess I will have to send it all the way back as Samsung doesn't have an international warranty.

I hope they will replace the whole phone as the screen had images burnt in as if it was kept turned on and on the same image for weeks on end.

[rant]Not looking forward to it, knowing how careless the national Samsung service center is (sent back two phones and one MP3 already, got all of them back with new scratches, more worn out housings that weren't mine and cracked panel for the MP3).

My next phone (or my next anything for that matter) will not be from Samsung for sure [/rant]

For those of you who sent it back with a custom ROM flashed on, did Samsung void your warranty or they just went ahead and fixed your phone as if it was stock?
[Galaxy S II General] darkviktory:
Had this too. Installed Space and Time ROM, never happend again :D
[Galaxy S II General] DutchDisturbed:
This is ridiculus. I've got one here from a friend. Stock and it simply died while charging. Apart from warranty, nobody any luck fixing it?
[Galaxy S II General] bubuelo:
Mine also died almost a week ago. It was working fine on cm10.1, I read an sms then put the phone in my pocket half an our later I wanted to check the time but it wouldn't turn on. I plugged the charger thinking the battery might've died but nothing showed up on the screen, also tried a different battery but it didn't work. No download mode, no recovery, no charging, nothing but the phone hard bricked.

Customer service sucks **** in my country so it was never an option. Thankfully I had an insurance, so I smashed it to pieces and claimed a total wreck. They gave me another s2 but I'm rather scared, I fear it would die like the old one did. I'm so afraid that I am using the stock rom with all the carier's bull****. I don't know if I can take it anymore lol.
[Galaxy S II General] gastonw:
If it was bricked, why smashing the poor guy?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II General] bubuelo:
It was the only way I could get a new device without paying for it. It was three months old but I had flashed a custom rom so no warranty. I broke it because my insurance covers 100% of the price if it is totaled.

I know it wasn't the most ethic way but it was the only way.
[Galaxy S II General] gastonw:
No I meant they wouldn't know you flashed it, it was bricked.

How did it feel? Smashing that poor little guy?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II General] mrbish:
Mine died over Christmas, stock firmware, had been charging up to about 75% with wall charger, used the phone a couple of times before putting in my pocket, got to my friends house and it was off, wouldn't turn on, wouldn't charge, tried different chargers/battery. It was about 1 year and 6 months old. I did notice the phone gets hot sometimes when certain apps peg the CPU usage at 50% (facebook usually, don't install it any more), so i'm sure the phone has been stressed quite a bit, never had any kind of overheating warning though.

Luckily Samsung have a 2 year warranty in the UK so after filling out the warranty form online, and a quick customer support call to confirm id tried everything, i got a prepaid envelope sent out and my phone was returned with brand new motherboard within about 10 days. Still worrying though, could happen at any time, makes me think about how many things i rely on smartphones for.
[Galaxy S II General] Pzykonaut:
Same here. It just got a freeze while browsing. Turned it off, turned back on, stuck at bootscreen. Turned it off again and after that it never turned on again. No charging, no download mode, nothing. Luckily Samsung repaired it under warranty. 10 days and I got it back now with a new mainboard :)

Mine was about one year and four months old when it happened.
[Galaxy S II General] penyapu79:
happen to me before.

my SGS2 won't boot.

Send to nearest Samsung SC and wait for one week.

Mainboard cause the problem :(