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[Galaxy S III General] sad_janus:
Hi guys.

sorry for my bad english for advance.

i new in the forum, I read alllll the topic, in all this days, and i have to say i fuc>>>ed scared now.

Im from mexico with the international version i9300.

My info is

AP i9300XXELKC

CP i9300XXELKC

CSC i9300OXXELK4

RF CAL 2012.9.30

HW REV MP 1.100 like the most

READ FTA HW VERSION

FTA HW VERSION REV 1.30

cell phone MADE IN CHINA

battery CELLS MADE IN JAPAN ENSAMMBLES IN CHINA

official charger 1 amp

I had the official rom, then via OTA the 4.1.1 version and then i flash the rom using the poland rom without wipe (i conserve my data, and apps, etc), one time used triangle away. and seem works fine, never reboot of nothing, no frezzes, only some apps stucks.

I bought the phone 3 NOV.

one month i charged the phone overnight and the cellphone turn on, always with the official charger 1 AMP, and other days i charged for a half on hour during the day.

I see the most part of the phones died are from UK, India, spain, and europe countries, ,, one guy from brazil but buy the phone on indiw i think.

And a lots of phones are made in vietnam, or korea, or simple says MADE BY SAMSUNG,

sorry, but are any Latin American or US case who have failed?

THX GUYS !
[Galaxy S III General] AlexandraH:
Another dead S3

I also have a Samsung S3 that died spontaneously. :(

Bought: Sweden, June 26

Died: December 21

Jellybean, non-rooted. Died half charged (50-60%) while lying on a desk. Was not connected to charger.

Samsung has been singularily unhelpful all the way.
[Galaxy S III General] b0gd4n:
Anyone?
[Galaxy S III General] Fallen04:
Yes, I took the phone to place of purchase and they then sent it away for repair.
[Galaxy S III General] b0gd4n:
Why am I the only one with rev 0.1 after repair???
[Galaxy S III General] sad_janus:
Probably was only a tipping mistake, you are not the only one,

The most probable is a 1.100 in your phone.
[Galaxy S III General] b0gd4n:
So after repair I still have the 1.1 version...damn it...
[Galaxy S III General] goon:
Is AdamOutler's SD trick testable just yet? I thought it was just hypothetical at the moment? Would love to give this a try...
[Galaxy S III General] hAHa!!!:
My GS3 Shuts off/Restarts Randomly

Hi all,

Nowadays my phone is keep restarting, even shutting down without any notice. Usually after an overnight charge. After I woke up, the phone is off.

So is that a phenomena of my phone that it will die any time? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] whitebait:
So I've been keeping an eye on the Samsung repair tracker and after my phone being assigned to an engineer on 24th, it was then rescheduled (Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC) three times 'til today the estimated repair date was showing as 29th. Checked it at around 21.00 and it was showing 29th, checked it at about 23.30 and it said 'repair completed and 'goods delivered', so I'm guessing it's getting posted out tomorrow for delivery on Monday and some poor Samsung engineers have been working through the night to get these phones back to us the day after boxing day!
[Galaxy S III General] zeziv5150:
Hey,

I'm from Brazil but i bought my phone in China and had almost the exact same specs than you: made in china, battery made in japan, assembled in china ....but i read some post from a guy from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who had a national bought S3 dead.

I don't know where it was made, but since it was sold here i guess it qualifies for "from Latin america"
[Galaxy S III General] sad_janus:
thx for reply.

I speak in general, i read all the cases from europe or phones who buy from europe.

I dont read about people of america.. i dont know if is because dont many users of XDA from US or latinoamerica or in the thread

of curse, my phone is made in china like a tons around the world..

i dont know if are only my ideas, but from what I read it seems strange only see cases in Europe.

Another thing would be that not so many S3 in Latin American because the high price in this lands XD XD ..

Ok, in any case, it if is true, one to the count of SDS in Latam. =(
[Galaxy S III General] bligui:
As far as I know none are assembled in Latin America, mine was also a LA bought one from the carrier Claro that was the flagship carrier for launch in LatAm
[Galaxy S III General] SleepinDevil:
This is probably not very relevant here but here we go.

A friend of mine bought a couple of those cheap high capacity batteries from eBay. He then tried them all out till he settled on one with the best apparently capacity. Now a few weeks after that, after a routine charge, the phone simply would not start up or respond at all.

He used to deplete his battery to about 5-10% before recharging, not sure if that was a culprit. He took it to a repair centre and got them to take a look at it. Apparently a bunch of the circuits were burnt out because the battery was actually overcharged to a higher voltage/current rating than usual?

I have no idea at all how all that is possible. But it cost him a pretty penny to get it all fixed.

Moral of the story, stick to genuine if you care about keeping your device in optimum health/condition. As for myself, I am happy using dodgy high capacity batteries :D
[Galaxy S III General] emuashui:
1.

"I see the most part of the phones died are from UK, India, spain, and europe countries, ,, one guy from brazil but buy the phone on indiw i think."

--> It was reported that Taiwan had >30 cases of "SSS" in NOV2012, a possible cause might be the OTA release in NOV for Taiwan? (cf. www.5i01.cn/topicdetail.php?f=568&t=3121763&r=5&p=1 )

2. Could it be overnight charging might increase the chance of overloading the hardware chips?

3. BTW, reported in SEP2011 1 year ago, *** for the first time placed order of eMMC controllers with a Taiwan chip manufacturer. (cf. news.techeye.net/chips/samsung-outsources-for-emmc-nand-orders).
[Galaxy S III General] epstar7:
Sudden Death problem

Just got my phone back from repair.. its take 7 days to complete. now the phone working excellently with blistering speed like when i first time using it. For now im very satisfied but cant help but to think its possible for the sudden death to recurring and this time its out of warranty period. currently its on 4.0.4 version and i will avoid to upgrade to version 4.1 since abundance report of sudden death problem after a while they update to 4.1.
[Galaxy S III General] browy:
Is there another way to check HW revision? This method only works if you're on stock Rom (so I heard). I get this error message every time I try: "Connection problem or invalid MMI code".

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] KeesStolk:
Did you do same freezing?

Can't remember which one, but after freezing some stuff, those code didn't worked till un freezing.
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
Hey can you check eMMC chip: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check
[Galaxy S III General] Charlie_69:
G SIII - Bought in China - Dead

Probably nothing new, but thought I would add to the list...

What happened: Bought my Galaxy S3 approx 5 months ago, and had absolutely no issues with it until 25th Dec. The battery was about 70% charged, but when I tried to turn on the screen, the green LED flashed once and the phone went completely dead. I tried a replacement battery, different chargers, but nothing worked.

I took the phone to a repair center (independent - not Samsung) and the guy at the counter advised me that he has repaired 5 or 6 GS3s with exactly the same issue in the last couple of weeks - every time the problem has been with the motherboard and aparently this issue is unique to the type of motherboard being used in the S3 (translated from Chinese so I think that's what he said!).

Where phone was made: China

Where battery was made: Made in Japan, assembled in China

What firmware you were running: Standard, although the phone did have pre-installed Chinese apps which I didn't remove, only disabled - didn't update from 4.0.4

Can you access download mode? No
[Galaxy S III General] bunnybash:
My dad and his work mate's phones have died now - randomly in the middle of the day, they pulled it out to make a call and found that it wouldn't work. They brought them to me to check out and lo and behold - it's dead. Claimed on insurance, purchased new GS3s.
[Galaxy S III General] kevinmcsp:
s3 crash

My s3 died yesterday. Going to the Samsung shop this afternoon.

What happened - Battery was at approx 70%. Made a 2 minute call about 10 minutes before crash. Phone wasn't hot and had no indicators lighted on screen. Tried to wake it up, no response. removed battery for an hour, re-installed, connected to samsung home charger for several hours, no response. Still black screen.

Where was phone made - Viet Nam

Where was battery made - Cell made in Korea, Assembled in Viet nam

What firmware/ROM - CM10

What update - OTA Jelly Bean

Where was phone purchased - UAE

Rooted - No, stock

Battery health at time of crash - ~70%

How old is phone - 2 months, 3 weeks
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Post the H/W details
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I really start to think that this is some software problem.heating up the mb Is there anyone who had this problem and did not flash his phone ever.... also stock rom flash count.

I advice everyone to flash your phone at a samsung service point. They flash in odin with 4 files thats totally different then sammobile stock roms or custom roms
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
I'm sorry but had to ask, how can yu be running CM10, OTA Jelly Bean and not being Rooted? O.o
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
CM10 and no root ?? please be more accurate when writing..
[Galaxy S III General] Charlie_69:
Flashing

I never flashed my phone and mine died. I'm no expert, but flashing the phone will restore to factory settings wont it? Can you advise why you think this will solve the issue? About to get my S3 back with a new mainboard / motherboard, but worried it will happen again... Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
No, flashing a Rom will not work
[Galaxy S III General] Droidphilev:
Hi,

Just FYI:

I bought my GT-I9300 in august. I charge several times a day since day 1 including the whole night with the phone online. Phone is also overclocked and undervolted BUT: i nearly instantly flashed AOKP (using build by Pjotr now) when i bought it and i never used the original charger (still in the box). I use a GT-I9100 charger and original Nokia chargers.

I don't know where to check HW revision or where this phone is made but it has never let me down. Hope it stays this way
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
my s3 RF cal: 2012.6.12 HW Rev : MP 1.100 , still working fine no sudden death ,is that normal??

PS: Undervolted as balagamer@XDA Recognized Contributer put in his signature.

Overnight Charging : NO

issues so far : NONE

Kernel : Siyah 1.7+

Rom : Clean Install with wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik cache,wiped preload and system partition /Omega 4.1.2 JB V34
[Galaxy S III General] kevinmcsp:
Oops... CM10 was my other galaxy.....s3 was stock except for ota jelly bean
[Galaxy S III General] prakalejas:
1. So what's the exact problem?- flash memory fail or motherboard overheat or cold soldering or failed charging protection problem we might have? I see discussion goes round and round, but no one states the real reason for death.

2. We need some simple instructions to be prepared for the death, I mean nandroid backup step by step or something like that.

3. I believe I have the very first hw version (ussd codes does not work, used eMMC brickbug check). It states: date 05/2012, FwRev 0xf1, type VTU00M. Battery: made in Korea, ass. in China, 2012.06.17. I've been using this phone since 2012.07.01 XEO region. I charge it over night with whatever I find - original, iphone 4s, car, htc usb charger, sometimes with usb cord from pc. Had no problems and I hope not get one, but will make every step necessary to prepare for migration to a replacement in the worst case scenario. Phone 16gb, blue.
[Galaxy S III General] timtipple:
What happened: on 2012-12-22 I saw that the battery level was just below 20% and made a mental note to connect the charger a bit later. Less than 30 minutes later I noticed that the phone was off/dead.

What ROM/Firmware: Jellybean OTA

What kernel: no idea

OC or UV: no

Where phone was made: no idea

Where battery was made: no idea

Purchase date: 2012-06-15 in Norway

Could not get into recovery mode.

Didn't try download mode.

No response when plugging in charger or connecting to computer USB.

Sent in to service this morning, just before I found this thread.
[Galaxy S III General] :
I'm using CM 10.1 with no problems. Hope mine won't die... :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] zoot1:
I don't think the brick bug everyone here has been testing is related to our device.. That brick bug was there for earlier sgs2 variants and was related to emmc chips.. Some commands when used caused the brick. However sgs3 doesn't suffer from that bug..

The issue most likely here is with solder joints in the motherboard rather than the nand chip.. My guess..

So that app will always say that you have a sane chip..

That bugvwas software related.. However the issue here seems to be with hardware..

sent from here, there, somewhere!!
[Galaxy S III General] x3sed:
I'm really going mad and freaking out like hell since the discovering of this problem :S.

I really love my S3 (1.100 Rev - 06/12 / 16GB / Blue ), the problem is that I bought it without any warranty! I guess that If I was in your situation, I'll be Ok... Like in the extreme situation, I'll just send it to be fixed... But It's not my case at all :(.

I just hope that Samsung will communicate about this issue soon... Or maybe should I just sell it since it's still working?

Please orient me, I'm so ***ing confused!
[Galaxy S III General] oleg_xp:
another one

Hey all. my s3 16gb UK, BTU started rebooting on 11th of Dec, on 19th of Dec started freezing every 2mins only force restart would fix it. full wipe didn't fix the problem, it was still frizzing. On 21st last restart was its last... randomly booting in with message that encryption failed and need full wipe. couldn't mount internal storage. that was it for Christmas. going to call samsung next week.... thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] arnabasu:
if i was u, i will try to sell it off asap, cox there dsnt seem to be any sense in holding on to a device that can conk off anytime and moreover no warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] Ultim8:
Same issue here.

Mine died early hours of xmas day and just wont turn on now.

Has anyone got an accurate count on how many people in this thread have a dead S3?

Im arguing with my carrier at the moment as I do NOT want to replace my S3 with another that is likely to die in X amount of time.
[Galaxy S III General] bbathome:
What happened: Used the phone the day over - started to charge it in the evening (phone was on) and wanted to check something one hour later. Could not turn it on anymore. Also replacing battery, etc did not help.

Where phone was made: ? European unbranded version

Where battery was made: Stock

What firmware you were running: latest stock 4.1.1

Can you access download mode? No - phone is dead

Phone was in operation from June 14 until it died on December 20.

Sent it to amazon.de - now in repair. Status reads "Works Conducted: soldering work, exchange of defective parts" Hope to get it back in a week or so.
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
Even though mine works at the moment I will be sending it back for different reasons for which samsung service already told me that needs a motherboard replacement. My phone has a problem keeping the alternative keyboard as default and touchwiz crashes when animations are set to off.

Mine too us the same as most 1.100
[Galaxy S III General] Bigben38:
In fact I don't understand why 200 days it's totally incredible?

I'm little affraid because my phone is only 90 days and it's rooted.

I think the galaxy note 2 will have the same problem and if it's the case samsung will have some big issues in the future.

Sorry for my poor English I'm French.
[Galaxy S III General] Angelus1984:
hm.. something weird happened today, i put my phone on charger, and Watchdog app sent alarm that Video is eating cpu...

so I guess it really is software thing that is destroying our phones. Is it possible to install some kind of ROM that is built from ground without samsung ****ty apps and bugs?
[Galaxy S III General] atcasanova:
is there any info about sdcards? I bought mine 2 weeks before the problem, never used it a lot though
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Can the OP add poll in this thread ? We need to know how many have had their S3 conked off. Mine died yesterday as mentioned earlier. SO most of the phones have died in Dec irrespective of month they bought in. I guess mine was the oldest, bought on 24th or 25th may of this year.
[Galaxy S III General] Raugote:
I've tried a few ROMs without bloatware, and still videoplayer starts when plugging the phone to charge, so i guess it's something else that's triggering transcode service for videoplayer

can someone else verify if videoplayer starts (in application manager -> Running apps) when phone gets connected to charge? if so, use some app to see if videoplayer process is eating the CPU
[Galaxy S III General] modmymobile:
Mine does the same.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Guy, you are funny ...

1. if we would know that, you would already know it too ...

2. Yes, make backups, go back to stock-rom, set back flash-counter, unroot. Be ready for warranty-repair.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
i dont have that, go to the samsung service center, ask for an software update :good:
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
eMMC brickbug check is only for information about HW Rev. and Build-Nr. of your eMMC.

Meanwhile we know, that these are irrelevant.

"sudden death" has nothing to do with software, charging, flashing, rooting, manufactering date or location, etc.

Its all about hardware (eMMC, NAND , ...), bad soldering or something else.

Motherboard has to be replaced.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
It has much to do with charging and with software.

I think its software that heats up the cpu in combination with charging ****s up the device once a time
[Galaxy S III General] 123shree:
OK thankfully my phone isn't dead yet.

But I've been doing all the things people say kills your phone. Like charging it overnight. But the main difference is that I turn the phone off and use a different charger ( Samsung charger for my galaxy 5, 0.7A). Bought the phone on June 2nd. And everything's made in Korea from phone to the battery.

Just a tip - if you want to charge the phone for a prolonged period, turn it off and if possible use a different charger. :)
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Listen to my story that hold me busy for 3 days long......

I flashed some rom because i love to.... i try Darky, didnt like the lock screen rotation and some other things so i switched to omega rom, then try some other roms and then i had the problem that my phone didn't wake up from deep sleep, had to reboot every time, sometimes the phone rebooted itself. flashed stock rom from sammobile wiped everything that you possibly can wipe in cwm recovery.... for couple of 10 times!! realy!

But the problem remained, I searched and found that init.d could be conflicting..... but when you wipe everything it must be clean..... did that again for 10 times, flashed some init clean script zip files, and flashed different stock roms, sometimes with pit sometimes without...... nothing helped and the problem remains.......

Asked some very experienced developers on this forum and on the CM Teamhacksung support. they all said when you wipe everything and flash a stock rom you phone must be clean there is nothing that can remain... again did that. nothing works.... so i thought it might be an hardware problem but i didn't believe that because everything else was fine except the USB mount didn't work (odin does work!) and the phone doesn't respond when it the screen was of for 10 seconds or more... sometimes reboot itself.....

I was complete hopeless and went to the Samsung service center (a Vodafone store) the guy did not look at the phone and said liquid damage.... then he looked and then he said o no its only dust in your USB ..... oke he said i need to send it for repair this and that...

Then i asked if he would try to flash the software first, he said oke no problem i use factory software he said ... i said odin yes yes he said.... oke nice ( i did resetted my flash counter) then he flashed my phone with not a single file we download on sammobile but with 3 different files and a PIT file.

after the flash everything works fine!!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE???

and trust me i did everything possible to do.. Have 3 years experience in flashing Samsung devices.

also try to flash 4.0.4 and update trough ota tot 4.1.1 that also didnt help ....

Now do you have an answer on this story??? say what i did wrong???

and do you have any clue why phones die overnight???

please answer this question or stop saying its bad hardware
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
No need for this trouble
[Galaxy S III General] hAHa!!!:
HW Rev: MP 1.100
[Galaxy S III General] Paulb_:
Netherlands, july 2012 dead phone.

Mine just came back with a new board after spending two weeks in repair and mail. Switched on to check the HW version.

AP: I9300XXDLIH

CP: I9300CEDLI1

CSC: I9300PHNDLI1

RF cal: 2012.12.21

HW REV. : REV0.1

Going to root it now and return to Omega ftw.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Your story has nothing to do with "sudden death".

Its an other kind of problem, your GS3 was never "dead".

Sasmung uses other files for flashing the original ROMs, always 4 files which are not available at samfirmware or elsewhere.
[Galaxy S III General] sniry:
Exactly What I thought

I had an incredible idea for a video which will make the media notice us.

I thought to myself how useful would be a parody of "Introducing Samsung Bricked GALAXY S III - A Day in the Life".

It could show a some guy in the street using his s3 to save his papers from flying.

It could show some woman using it to protect her expensive table from the hot glass.

And so on..
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Sorry, no.

Nothing to do with software.

Even if there was overheating because of charging (what never should happen) oder software (what never should happen) - only faulty hardware can lead to a "sudden death".

And its not the cpu ...
[Galaxy S III General] TheWizardbc:
Indeed, my S3 is also dead, it was just laying on the desk. No charging, no flashing LED, I used it a couple of minutes before it dies.

The phone is now at the service center. It was from the first batch in The Netherlands.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
The point i want to make is that al the devs here had it wrong when thinking that if you wipe everything and flash stock its done...
[Galaxy S III General] browy:
A question. How do I know where my phone was made?

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
so guys any news on the form that was filled to lodge a complaint....or any breakthroughs in making SAMSUNG understand and accept the fault.well in INDIA SAMSUNG vehemently denies and attributes the damage to water logging citing the color change on the square which is beneath the battery that's it the world's best smartphone somehow gets drenched(may be in my own sweat) and dies.......plz guide all others who have got free of cost replacement of the motherboards.

attached r pics of my damaged motherboards.I request mods to go through the pic and guide me as to is it really a case of water damage as i'm planning to go to courts for the same.
[Galaxy S III General] Ethernauta:
In the pic is clear the component that is burnt. As far as I know is under the Sim-card tray, right?

Would be great to have the schematics and check what's the function of this component.