[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] expert87:
Hi;

I apologies in advance for the long thread, but I want other users to notice the symptoms I faced maybe someone else will benefit from it.important parts are marked in blue

MY galaxy s3 is only 4 months old....I got tempted by rooting and getting all -other- features such as fast recharging, sound hack, trying new roms before they are officially released...etc

anyhow, my phone's troubles showed strange symptoms quite shortly after the second rom being installed....

at first I was not fully aware of the required rooting steps, until I use the galaxy toolbox that rooted my phone easily for me...

then I started noticing the phone would start and everything but noticed (root user notices) take time to show up after boot, it would take approx. 1min then they will show very fast...after that everything is normal so i figured the processor is a little bit loaded...

few weeks later I started using CWM's backup &restore feature , noticed that when I go back to the official Rom, it lags, a lot! , I have to restart the phone at some points because it will stop responding...I started checking processor load and was surprised to see normal non harmful rates...so I forced apps to be closed once I exit them.

few roms and flashings later, the phone started restarting it self randomly,like an old car heating up, it would restart few times then get back to normal state....this would happen whenever i try to change anything in the rom (CM10+nightlies build)

few days ago, whenever the phone received or made a notification sound, I would pick it up and find it turned off! I turned on again and use it normally , no issues....after this happening for 2 times, the phone just died ...PIT partition is non-readable/writable anymore :crying:

I noticed the night this thing happened that, when I restored the rom, it took a longer time, and something was not found but the rom booted normally....

now my phone is in service and they are overloaded with service-warranty requests, so they haven't checked it yet (it has been there for 3-4 days)..I used traingle away on the current rom, no flash counter appears and the binary is official, but the rom appears as custom:(

notes:

*from the beginning, every step I made was a trial and error to me, I tried rooting once (manually) and I didn't figure it out,until i saw the toolbox that made it easy,,,the first root was amazing, but I rooted again after rom crashed and seems I used a different root that started all that trouble.

*All the mentioned above I believe were symptoms, that I didn't care about since the phone was acting normally after those occurring..I think I should've spotted them earlier.

*There have been 2 overheating incidents, one happened when I forgot the phone in my pants and by mistake i ticked "load new videos from subscriptions in youtube and the phone sucked up around 3gbs that day...it was really really hot when I got back to it.....the other one was when I went to sleep few days ago, I put it under my pillow, woke up with the phone overheated and restarting continuously "might've been doing this all overnight!"

*I insisted -although it was clearly troublesome to my phone- on installing Siyah kernal on every rom "always the latest one", sometimes the phone would keep restarting and I would have to restore a previous rom, sometimes it would go without issues, this happened more oftentimes during the last few weeks and CM10 nightlies offers dialy updates and I had to flash siyah back after every update...now I'm writing it and feeling stupid!

*Official JB roms caused the phone to hang a lot, so I kept using CM10+siyah kernel till the last moment.

now, what I would like to know is:

1- why does that chip get affected?? I never flashed a 3/4 part rom, just using CWM....

2- I decided (if) the phone gets fixed on warranty, to not to root again, I'm having a million guesses as the reason why this happened, including the fast recharging, the continuous flashings and testing (although all are stable roms, only official and CM10 roms), the overheating incidents....etc....I would like to know what you guys think.