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[Galaxy S III General] GavinZac:
S3 died last night (yay! Happy ****ing Christmas!), plugged in and charging.

I can get into Download mode but it will not boot and I cannot flash - I get a NAND write failure like so:

<ID:0/010> NAND Write Start!! <ID:0/010> <ID:0/010> Complete(Write) operation failed.

The most annoying thing is that I am in Ireland, but I bought the phone in Thailand... and I'm moving to Malaysia in about 8 hours. I'm not sure if I should leave the phone here and have a friend try to get it fixed under warranty as the phone has been flashed with a custom ROM and it shows on the Download screen.

Is this likely the same issue?
[Galaxy S III General] ML7:
My SGS3 died this week

My galaxy s3 died this week in exactly the same way: I connect the charger to the device and slept. when I woke up it was dead! :crying:

Shame on Samsung not to announce this and take responsibility.

Replacing the motherboard costs $300 & if you don't have active warranty you better sell your broken device as parts (display, battery , ..) & get yourself a new device (other than galaxy s3) same as what I did. I got an iPhone5 as I'm still cautious about having this issue in Galaxy Note II.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Yours can be fixed with JTAG
[Galaxy S III General] bnepete:
let me add to this ..

Ok let me add to the pile of complaints ..

My phone was purchased in Brisbane Australia ( where I live ) .. I am currently visiting family in Canada .. 2 hours ago my phone was at 60% battery so there is no way its the battery .. but for some reason my phone is dead .. tried everything .. plugged it into charger .. nothing .. pulled the battery put it back in .. NOTHING!

Just the WORST time to have my phone die .. so not impressed! I have 14 days to go on holiday with no phone and I can't take in for warranty here in Canada because I bought it on Australia.

I'm running stock Jelly Bean and its been running fine.

This just sucks.
[Galaxy S III General] dr.ketan:
My friend had same

Was working fine till he slept, In morning it was dead. Later on i have check it and No recovery/download mode. Still in service center and said need to change Mobo.

Rooted (CF Auto)

Purchased from -India

Stock ROM and Kernel (latest Indian)

Battery and charger : stock

Just one odd sign, friend was complaining of quite lagging since couple of days, even it was recently clean installed just a week ago and very few application installed. May be it could be coincidence.
[Galaxy S III General] tsjoe2:
K mine died the other night its made in Korea battery made in Vietnam i was running cm 10.1 on it its blue bote in the USA on T-Mobile i was in recovery flashing an update an hocked up to a charger an it never came back up if you need more info please let me know oh an its not even a month of use on it three weeks that's it. Grrr

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[Galaxy S III General] dajumper:
How to check witch hardware I have?

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It is also bad luck a lot of people have a good phone! Look it is a mass production! And like by cars there are some faults and this also like the cracked bezel
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
It is a know symptom of SDS.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check&hl=en download this app and take a screenshot. Please don't post if your phone is not showing any symptoms. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
I've just posted on Samsung Mobile's FB page. It probably won't stay up for long but worth a shot!
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Yes, its common, but noch allways. There are many phones which had none of this symptoms before they died.

When your phone is dead this app is useless ...

When its still alive its also useless because it is not predictive and tells you nothing about probalility of "sudden death".
[Galaxy S III General] giammo:
My s3 has no warranty. Is it true that Samsung will fix it anyway or I have to pay? Do you know how much it costs? Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
Dr - what did the service center do finally? Free replacement? Or did they resort to the familiar excuse of water logging.
[Galaxy S III General] OrangeRafi:
Checked my brothers S3, his phone has an HW Rev of MP 1.500. He bought his S3 2 weeks ago. Any ideas why samsung changed the HW Rev.?

My S3 has an HW Rev MP 1.100, bought it last month & still running
[Galaxy S III General] jacobsaleh:
I'm trying to move some media

I'm trying to contact some media sources to try and pull an answer from Samsung.

I think that we need to concentrate are effort now on pressuring media to force Samsung to respond.
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
PLEASE can anyone tell me what are the Galaxy S3 Sudden Death Symptoms so i can share my case with you????
[Galaxy S III General] Jikul:
The symptom is death, usually after an overnight charge.
[Galaxy S III General] semantsen:
how to check hardware version?

Thanks,
[Galaxy S III General] wrexed03:
Mine died yesterday Christmas day. My battery was running low till it eventually ran out.

When i got home i put it on charge. Nothing happened. Left it overnight no change.

Pulled the battery and re inserted it and attempted again. Still dead no lights nothing.

Bought another battery today still no change.

Charger is ok because i have an SII which happily charges with the same unit.

I was running omega rom v35 and the latest SiyahKernel S3-v1.8.6

I dont like my chances of Samsung sorting it because i have a small crack in the glass near the ear piece..

Phone is made in Korea by Samsung.

Battery is also made in Korea.

This is an unbranded phone and unlocked. Purchased in Melbourne Australia.

Not happy but what can you do.

Regards
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Very strange.... though i think it could have something to do with bad software frying the cpu or mmc.

Yesterday i got an update of samsung push service and today i got an update of samsung chaton? :( are they trying to fix something on the background ??
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
just type *#12580*369#

hit thanks will be helpful ;)
[Galaxy S III General] g0t-cheeri0s:
Another man down! My friend's s3 died three or four days ago. Completely stock and only two months old. Turned itself off and wouldn't turn back on. No charging LED, no USB connection. Dead.

He took it to 02 and they're sending it to Samsung for repair.

Just patiently waiting for it to happen to mine so I can claim on insurance and get a Nexus 4 :)
[Galaxy S III General] gurg1e:
Mine died last week, i purchased it online so i sent it back in to be warrantied on Monday. International model, died charging overnight, it had just cracked 101 days use...

Bummer of an Xmas present. After the whole Exynos bullsh!t and now this, i'm seriously considering selling the replacement and picking up a Nexus 4 too.
[Galaxy S III General] tsitska:
My S3 died also, after charging on night, after using 4 month.

Stock kernel and Rom,

Phone and Battery are made in Vietnam.

no reaction on power button,

finally what is reason of this sudden death?

NAND flash? or the only way is replacement main board?
[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??
[Galaxy S III General] Parvinder25:
This is Bull****. A flagship product from Samsung performing this way in just couple of months of purchase. And no one coming out to claim responsibility. Bs. I am going to spread the word to others not to go for s3 until something concrete is done by samsuck. :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
My cousin is an real power user and has his s3 over 7 months and still running

HW rev 1.100

My nephew has also an s3 dont know revision gues 1.100 and also still runing over 7 months so its possible

Could it be that only the older revision devices have this problem??

is there anyone who can confirm that has 1.100 and his phone died?
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
Even though I've got mine back now, every time i go to it and the screen is off i always wonder if its going to come back on, not a great feeling to have about such an expensive flag ship product.

Real shame......:o
[Galaxy S III General] edgarf28:
I have also an 1.10 hw revision for 6 months, still without any problem.

And i'm also an power-user, I flash new roms multitiple times a week.
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
Yes that's normal and that's how should be for everyone.

Samsung refuses to talk and they pretend its nothing serious? Fine! Very soon will be the biggest catastrophe for Samsung. I will get in contact with someone in Ireland from newspaper and ask to make an article based on this thread. I see someone allready doing in Denmark. That's perfect lets spread everywhere and $am$ung will be forced to come out and solve the problems for everyone without any excuses.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I think no one checked his revision date before his phone died..... some report that their phones died when they where 2 months old, maybe they bought an phone from an older stock...

But are there details about FW revision dates and what changed or what is the oldest revision date?
[Galaxy S III General] OrangeRafi:
Anyone has an MP 1.500 HW Rev?
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
how i can check HW rev?
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
It was posted one page behind...

This is how you check: *#12580*369#
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
i got MP 1.100.. bought in june ( first pieces come in italy)
[Galaxy S III General] Mister B:
just type *#12580*369#

As for people referencing 1.100 MW revision: this version has failures, unfortunately not many users with dead S3 checked prior to device death or could recall HW number so we are lacking good data on this.
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
who know that the 1.100 got failures,, we can see that they sold milions of devices at startup but there aren't sooo many deaths..
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
yes i ask the same,, can someone confirm that 1.100 got failures? i think this is totally undefined
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
Yeah mine came back from repair with HW Rev 1.5!
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
i think this thread is alarming too much, obvious every phone is not perfect, but it happens in all technology sectors.

they sold about 40m of devices and, laso if they got 4000 failures, it will be like 0,1 %..

and we reach barely 120 confirmed deaths..

and you are wrong in some places.. why rev 1.100? because is one of the first sorted, the one who can easily reach the 150-200 days range ( the maximum possible as it realease date..)

who can say that rev 1.500 will have the same problem in march-april's next month?

So please don't shoot these fake news..
[Galaxy S III General] DJ Palmis:
I'm curious about one thing: Many of the people who report the problem writes here for the first time..

I remember very well when people reported S3 Battery fire.. And then it was an hoax..
[Galaxy S III General] b_henry:
Sorry if I´m wrong, but it seems to me that all cases of sudden death occurred after updating to JB roms.. Is there any occurrence of sudden death on ics rom?
[Galaxy S III General] ksj_goblin:
S3 still running

I bought S3 by Jun and it is still running. really scared to charge or switch off the screen :( Samsung has to do something
[Galaxy S III General] soban29:
Same thing happened to me on the international one...one day, fully charged it..n after unplugging it, noticed it becoming pretty hot n battery draining....plugged it in but noticed battery was draining even thgh it said charging....took it to sammy n they changed the board...no issue yet n it has been arnd 4 mnths
[Galaxy S III General] Mister B:
Largest majority of handsets with 100 days+ use are 1.100 HW models.

My local telewiz dealer had several dead S3's back & batch was all 1.100 as demo units can clarify & his remaining early stock.

Certainly too early to state only one or a few early HW revision has issues and we can not even truly conclude what is causing the failure so board & chips may be good on all the HW revisions.

Only time & build up of good data will help or Samsung pushing some valid info into the media.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
But don't forget lots of people have their phone dead and just go to repair and think they are an exception and accept the repair and don't search on the forums or the internet. So we really don't know how much phones are effected

i personally know 2 cases of phones over 7 months intensive users and nothing happens. rev 1.100

Say i think there must be an older hw rev.

anyone can confirm their 1.100 died?? NO
[Galaxy S III General] saisrujan:
Mine got back from repair just a few minutes ago and to my dismay I find the hardware version to be MP 1.100 :(Anyways, it seems to be working fine for now and I'll make do with it.

In the mean time, I had sent a message through "Suggestions to CEO's office" on Samsung's Support website and received a call-back today from Some customer-service manager in Samsung today. I tried to explain to him that many others are facing the same issue. He would not acknowledge that and would insist that each person's problem is unique and that I cannot make assumptions and generalize. I told him that I don't believe the problem is actually being solved because the service-enter intends to replace a "defective by design" part with the same part number, but he would act as if he wouldn't understand. He assured me that if the same problem occurs again, I should contact him again through the same link. Bah!
[Galaxy S III General] brenty108:
branded or just international?

Has anyone lost and branded US version like at&t and so on?
[Galaxy S III General] barton71:
I called the service centre today to check on the status of my repair. The engineer i spoke to told me that they had three Galaxy S3's come in for repair, displaying the same symptoms on Saturday afternoon alone.
[Galaxy S III General] rookiegenius:
Nah the US version has immunity from this :) (so far)
[Galaxy S III General] shorty083:
One things for sure, this thread is making me paranoid like hell.

Am almost afraid to use my still working phone (but for how long), which I bought on june the 4th.

Just checked the hw rev and it's MP 1.100.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Nope!! as far as i know it has nothin to do with JB or any other ROM ver. indeed, it happened with some S3s running ICS

Hit thanks if it helped you :)

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in your case its clear that you had a kind of short circuit

hit thanks if it helps :)
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
don't be paranoid.. is just an ordinary thing for me! i got lot of friends that bought s3 when me, and all are 1.100 and all still alive

is obv that the deaths regarding most of 1.100 as is the rev that respect the 150-200 days range of deaths.. The best thing is to left this thread to who have problems and live well:D

not everything turns out as it should...
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Has anyone contacted GSMArena, androidpolice, androidauthority, theverge, engadget, phonearena, and Cnet ?

Samsung wouldn't listen without this issue being reported by some major blogs
[Galaxy S III General] mekoor:
Used my phone absolutely fine all day yesterday. Forgot to put it on charge last night, I remember turning off the alarm this morning, so it still had charge left in it. But now its dead!

Does not show led when connecting charger, does not power on to recovery, completely dead!

Had it for just over 6 months, Will be take it back to carphone warehouse.
[Galaxy S III General] arnabasu:
+1

after reading the sudden death posts, every time i goto my device to unplug it from the charger i have a fear in my head, feels like something might go wrong, arghh hate it. :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] jacobsaleh:
I did,contacted Phonearena few hours ago, no response yet.

And I'm contacting GSMarena , androidauthority and phonebuff now
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Pfff. I got the same feeling these days .... can't live with this insecurity i need my phone for many things all the day this is ****ed up!

Maybe i buy an iphone :(
[Galaxy S III General] mihqke:
Androidauthority post is here: http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s3-sudden-death-mainboard-issue-141783/

Nothing else from others. I sended e-mail about this issue to Androidpolice today.
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
Yeah I've named it the "SDS Fear" :silly:
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
These guys who call back are based in some call center and have a standard spiel they give to everyone. But despite that keep on replying to them on the same ceo site and sooner than later someone responsible will call you and try to do something about it. Obviously I'm talking about Samsung India because we do not get free replacements and so have to fight our way through for basic customer service. Pathetic
[Galaxy S III General] Peppersquad:
Let me just repost this since it got buried with no answers.

So any reports of occurrences in the Note / Note 2? Really planning to buy one this weekend :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
mine has 211 days and still alive :)

RF cal : 2012/31/05
[Galaxy S III General] jboyd1978:
Another dead i9300 to add to the list

My phone was dispatched on 15 June 2012, died 25 December 2012 during an overnight charge. Phone was running Android Revolution 17.1.
[Galaxy S III General] qnguyen88:
Can anyone tell me what's the meaning of RF cal ?
[Galaxy S III General] jacobsaleh:
Note II still new, nothing occurred/published yet.

I didn't hear about any similar issues with good old Note.
[Galaxy S III General] MalboX:
French websites and blogs started to talk about it, finally. And some more deaths are listed in articles' comments and french forums.

Still no work from @samsungsavfr, the official twitter post-sale customer service for France (I tried to hear from them the past two weeks...).

Hashtag #gs3suddendeath grows with french posts :)
[Galaxy S III General] washpota:
I shudder to think what would happen once the warranty period is over. I expect sammy to start washing their hands off. Now, every S3 in this planet is within the warranty period, but that would not be so, a few months down the line. So, pray that your S3 would die during warranty than after that.
[Galaxy S III General] droidgirl74:
Would really love to know, how many Apple staff we have writing here ;) I do of course believe, that there are people with the SDS bug, but I cannot believe that 100% of all these postings here are authentic...

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[Galaxy S III General] nitinvaid:
so its manufacturing defect

and what about those devices that are get replaced by SAMSUNG Service Center

are the running fine after their motherboard replaced
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
i advise you not to buy any samsung product

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lol, do you really think this is happening, i don't but i find it strange that new users keep reporting :confused:

Can you explain the battery hoax then? who made that?
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
Nah, I'm still getting a NoteII, as long as its covered by warranty I'm not bothered.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
i think you got a good repair service, in the netherlands it takes about 3 weeks to repair and then you must hope they fix it right.
[Galaxy S III General] ML7:
This is expected & normal. I personally though my phone has a battery or charger problem but after going to repair it the company said it's a board problem!

Searching google for galaxy s3 main board problems lead me to here.

I'm relieved when I knew that this is not only my problem.

To clarify, Samsung Galaxy s3 is the best mobile device I've ever used (I've iPhone 4 & 4s and now I bought iPhone 5).

I want galaxy s3 so bad & I wanted to buy Galaxy Note II instead of iPhone 5 but the main board issue make me very cautious and that's why I got iPhone 5.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
ATM have 110 filled in form,

90% was on 4.1.1

5% was on 4.1.2

5% was on 4.0.4

90% of the 5% that was on 4.0.4 had other problems then SDS
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
I did, mine was turned around inside 4 days.
[Galaxy S III General] swedish_sam:
Hi everybody, I had to register and reply to this thread because this happened to me 3 times now. I bought 2 samsung s3 (blue&white) when they got released here in Sweden through "Halebop". I got my Pebble Blue mid-June, and it died on me 3 months later (September). It took almost 3 weeks to get it repaired and they changed the motherboard. Now it died on me again... and it's only been 3 months since I got it back... :(

In the meantime my white S3 died as well.. I got that phone in October and it died within a month (!!) it took 2 weeks to get repaired but the service tag only said "updated software and exchanged USB contact". I'm pretty sure it was the same sudden death issue with that phone, and it sounds weird that th problem would be the USB contact.

Both phones have been through "halebop" here in Sweden. I got mates on other carriers without an issue so maybe it has to do with the first batches sent out to Sweden.
[Galaxy S III General] washpota:
It is perfectly possible that, at the moment, 90% of all S3 users in XDA are on 4.1.1, which is the current latest firmware from Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Yes thats true

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Another thing is that 85% of the 110 respondents said it happens overnight during charging..... How can this be the eMMC?
[Galaxy S III General] maf1otul:
Hello to all,

I have a s3,Amber brown, for 1 weak and reading this thread i'm really scarred. I updated to 4.1.1 for 4 day and yesterday I notice somnething very very strange. I open the samsung app and after that i just played a little more on my phone , and after I plug the charger becouse I had only 2% battery. After 3 hours I umpluged the phone and went to bed. In this morning when I open my phone I saw that my battery is on 60% and it was really strange becouse normaly I lose only +-10% on night. I used cpu spy and saw that from the 7 hours, 4 were deep slep and 3 with the usage of the cpu of 100%(1.4 ghz). After that i saw in the battery stats that the media was consuming most of the energy(+- 90%). And also the phone was warm in the region of the procesor.

Someone else experience this problem?

I think that this sudden death is o software problem(bad management of the energy) that make the motherboard to brick.

Cheers and sorry for my language .
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I think you are right, this must be the reason why every phone bricks in the middle of the night, it must be using its cpu for hours... in combination with charging it heats up to much of course...
[Galaxy S III General] toroid:
This reminds me of what happened with my galaxy S2, 6 months ago, which was 13 months after buying it.

One full night of charging, and then during the day my gs2 suddenly hanged. Removed battery to reset it but the screen wouldn't switch on.

When you let it in charge, you could feel it heating. Tested the battery at a mobile phone shop, was told that battery voltage was so low that it was dead.

Send it to Samsung for repair. They repaired it by changing the motherboard. Thanks for that.

I have always wondered if this was ever a tin whisker issue.

which led to a shortcircuit somewhere on the motherboard.
[Galaxy S III General] DJ Palmis:
The author of the hoax put S3 in the microwave.

Do not ask me why.

But I remember that there were a lot of people reporting battery fires and so on .. He asked pardon after a couple of weeks admitting the scam.

I have no doubts that there are some device with problems. But I saw too many strange things in this topic..

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