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[Galaxy S III General] NexusCrazy:
It just happened to me this morning. I put it on charge before getting in bed last night and this morning it was stuck on the first black Samsung Galaxy S3 logo screen, which is the very first boot screen I normally see. So I thought I'd just restore it through TWRP recovery, but then I cant get it into recovery, it even showed me the Google bootloader unlock screen a couple of times but when I pressed volume up to continue it did nothing (strange as the bootloader had already been unlocked). Anyway I tried Odin and everything else and then the battery died. I then find out it wont charge the battery shows on the screen with a spinning wheel and it just stay's there.

I phoned up Samsung support who acknowledged it was a common fault but I had no proof of purchase as it was bought for me as a present from a good friend who moved to Spain, unfortunately I've not spoke to him for about 3 months and couldn't get hold of him today.The chap in technical support said I'd have to talk to customer service and that he thought they would be fine about it but he didn't have permission to book it in without talking to customer service first. So I've got to wait till Tuesday now before I can get it sorted one way or another.

I'm going to try and get in touch with my mate but if I cant what do you lot think or know if you've had a similar experience. The phone is 100% legit I've got the box, head phones and charger, stickers still on the box.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] nm8:
I have read that samsung should be able to tell the age of the phone based on the imei or other numbers on the phone... at least they have admitted it is a common problem,,, could you please tell us which number you dialled?
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
An IMEI itself is made up of many codes strung together, one of which is the manufacturing date. I have a Note 2 now and QPST will read the IMEI from the phone and split it into the different values.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Galaxy S III General] Ozgurce:
I have the insane chip too, and I want a answer about that too :)

I'm using omega rom with siyah kernel on it, and phil'z recovery. And eMMC appp says its insane chip.

And can we update the firmware 0xf1 ? Or its not changable?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Just read post 1 of the link in the post you just quoted The answer is there.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewilley:
Not to mention the fact that the phone cannot be more than 10 months old anyway, given its release date.

Andre
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
About emmc version, its a hardware version so its unchangeable unless you change it itself:thumbup:

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[Galaxy S III General] OrangeRafi:
My phone is exactly 6 months old today (I have the insane chip). Let's see if this will die in the following days/weeks/months.
[Galaxy S III General] skivnit:
My s3 is almost a year old(bought June 2012) running fine still
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
You're both safe according to your signatures.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
so sharp mate ;)
[Galaxy S III General] skivnit:
Didn't get it. But the s3 went to the wife
[Galaxy S III General] Michael243:
After 6 months this happened after it crashed and I took the battery out put it back in and this is all that would happen download mode would work but nothing else, it wasnt rooted anyways I sent it back to Samsung

This is how far Samsung have got to fixing the problem

25-04-2013	Assigned to Service Center

25-04-2013	Acknowledge(ASC)

25-04-2013	Acknowledge(ASC)	Waiting for Product Receive

03-05-2013	Acknowledge(ASC)	Product received

03-05-2013	Engineer Assigned	Engineer assigned

04-05-2013	Pending	Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC

05-05-2013	Pending	Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC

06-05-2013	Pending	Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC
[Galaxy S III General] erikid:
Hi there guys i have a GSG3 I9300 on 3 (UK) i flashed CM9.1 and it kept on freezing and rebooting itself. after a while it just switched off and when i switched it back on i get a white screen with black line and thats all i can see i cant boot into recovery mode only into download mode i tried to flash stock through ODIN but i always get an error message (SetupConnection) or (No PIT Partition found) or (leave CS) and (Get pit mapping) someone please help me to fix my phone. By the way i'm a nooby so be easy with me please

someone help me please
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
There's no helping you. You have sds. Return it to 3 for repair
[Galaxy S III General] erikid:
Thank you for your help, but would they accept to repair it for me? I mean wouldn't the fact that i have a custom rom on it mean that it is no longer under warranty?
[Galaxy S III General] sewer56lol:
Yeah they should, it's a broken eMMC chip and the only way to fix it is to remove ths faulty chip. But keep your SD Card with you if you use one because you might not get it back.
[Galaxy S III General] erikid:
Thank you very much i have been stressing about this problem since last night about midnight till now and i haven't had any sleep

thanks for your help guys
[Galaxy S III General] irahul.gup:
GS3 Died Yesterday Night

Hi Team,

It seems that I'm also suffering from the Sudden death problem on GS3. Last night, my phone was hanged , only blue LED was blinking and when I tried to restart the phone, no keys were working & I pulled out the battery.And now it seems nothing is working. I can't even power it on & not even download mode.

Can anybody please tell me what's the solution. I bought the phone last year in june from Amazon (Seller Name: Amazon EU S.a.r.L.)

If I need to send it Service Centre which Service Centre I've to send, is it the UK service Centre ?

regards,

rahul
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Contact the seller first to ask about warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] sewer56lol:
Also check your packaging of the phone (if you had any) you should be eligible for manufacturer's warranty (if Samsung gives one that it)
[Galaxy S III General] p1xo:
guys i have "inasne" chip and its freezin. i got XXELLA one, is there a fix for me?

btw i passed the emmc check.
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
read the first post all your information is in there
[Galaxy S III General] p1xo:
thank you

so, if XXELKC is from 07.12.2012

and i got XXELLA and kernel from 22.12.2012

and last is XXELLA added: 2013-0-7 (@sammobile.com)

i guess im safe but its still freezin and some say samsung's fix is not working.
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
no real evidence to say it isn't working. Would suggest you update as your current version is working but later ones seem to fix it.
[Galaxy S III General] KayKrate:
I need a fast reply , i recieved the XXEMC2 today and updated it ... One thing that frustrates me that the version is not listed ... am i safe ? was on XXELLA before..
[Galaxy S III General] igor7:
Hi, I Have unrooted Galaxy 3 device. I checked it using eMMC Brickbug Check and it says "Yes" so, I have "insane" chip on my phone.

Followed instruction from the first post, I've upgraded from http://www.sammobile.com, I've installed I9300XXEMC2 (April 2013) using Odin,

but still, I didn't passed the emmc check... What I'm doing wrong?
[Galaxy S III General] johan81:
You are not reading the information right, that is what you are doing wrong. Read it all once again and then you know what is going on.
[Galaxy S III General] igor7:
Thank you for replay! You're right, I've asked question before reading all provided information... The answer is:
[Galaxy S III General] NexusCrazy:
Update

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[Galaxy S III General] 7Trex:
I did check with eMMC Brickbug Check, but didn't receive fw version, instead of it - "CID".

If it's something new in last version of the program, please update first post :

Anyway I think that my phone is affected, even it's work more than 10 month. Am I wrong ?
[Galaxy S III General] johan81:
If you have the so called "Insane Chip" you do not have to worry after XELLA or later and if you have EMC2 or later the freezes will be gone as well (which were introduced my XELLA). This app has been made by an individual that just called it that, in the new stock ROMs the problem with this chip has been resolved, even if you have the (according to an unofficial app) insane chip.
[Galaxy S III General] 7Trex:
I have still the first firmware from June or even May 2012, deffinetlly not XELLA...

But, why I cannot see FW ver in emmc program ?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
It doesn't matter. The date is May 2012. 0xf1 was the only version until December 2012. We don't need the app to show this to be sure
[Galaxy S III General] johan81:
Do you even know what XELLA stands for? Are you even trying to research this? It is a ROM version that has the fix for SDS and EMC2 has the fix for the freezing, has nothing to do with the chip itself....
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
I think he is saying:

"I have the original ics rom from may / june. Im definitely not using xxella.

Also, does anyone know why the brick bug app wont show the emmc firmware?"
[Galaxy S III General] johan81:
Ahhh, yeah, I guess you are right, then I do not know why we are still talking about it, he should go and update! Problem solved.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Indeed ;)
[Galaxy S III General] 7Trex:
Of course I know, I even downloaded it from sammobile:

I9300XXELLA_I9300OXAELLA_BTU.zip

and even found one latest:

I9300XXEMC2_I9300OXAEMC2_BTU.zip
[Galaxy S III General] ereziel:
I just say: Why 518 pages to speak about a very simple problem with a very simple solution?

I think in last two months I have read the same problem/question and solution pair more than 30 times...

Maybe better to close?
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
You can install it as it came later

---------- Post added at 08:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:30 PM ----------

If you are bothered you can just leave it
[Galaxy S III General] rotman253:
My sgs3 just died ,

I don't understand , I had stock XXEMC2 installed on it and was sure that should have fix the sds problem...

I can't read all the posts here , can someone please just point me to a solution? (if there is such a thing?) I'm really desperate right now

I can't even go to download mode as the phone keeps rebooting every 2-3 seconds

please help
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Might not be sds. I've only seen 2 states...

1) brick

2) no android, no recovery but download works.

Either way, solution is send it for repair
[Galaxy S III General] rotman253:
I had my phone turned off without battery for about 1 hour , turn it on , went to recovery -> wiped cache .

now it's working for about 20 minutes , I'm 36% of full titanium backup and crossing fingers...

hopefully I'll have a backup at least...

next thing will be to install a new I9300XXEMC2 ROM (I9300OJKEMD2) officially released by samsung Israel...

Really hope my phone won't die.... I need just 2-3 months until I'll buy the SGS4
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Its not sds then.
[Galaxy S III General] rotman253:
any ideas what can it be?
[Galaxy S III General] rayiskon:
Seriously, you're considering an S4 after all the crap with samsung ??

All samsung devices i owned suffered from some type of issue, hell even my galaxy nexus (made by samsung) was hit by screen burn in even though i've taken good care of it. I got rid of my s3 a couple of weeks ago, it also had the "insane" chip, i didn't want to risk it. My old galaxy S plus (1.4GHz snapdragon + 512MB RAM) never got updated past gingerbread.

What i'm trying to say is , samsung is a sh**ty lil company, they make crappy and low quality products, but have the strongest marketing out there. I can't believe how they managed to get lag on a hardware such as the S4 , they must be doing something wrong coz stock android is buttery smooth.

Sorry for the mini rant guys. No samsungs for me anymore. Now i rest my case.
[Galaxy S III General] Vrykyl:
Well my pre-paid envelope arrived from Samsung today - so my handset is going off in tomorrow's post to be repaired (hopefully for free / under warranty).

For those stressing about being rooted etc - relax, Samsung have told multiple people this issue is a hardware fault and they'll fix it regardless of root.

Also fyi - as soon as your product name goes blank, the system status changes to 'custom' automatically - or at least thats what the dude on the phone said! So it doesn't instantly tell them your rooted ;)
[Galaxy S III General] estpoc:
My s3 died overnight while charging. The day before it was acting up, slow, freezing, I even flashed an older nightly to try to solve.

It wouldn't turn on, tried jig, another battery from a friend, completely dead.

They replaced the motherboard in 7 days for free, good service.

Was running cm10, no custom kernel or oc.

The day it died I charged on a friends house in a galaxy s2 charger, if not mistaken.

It died 6 months after purchase. Made in Brazil, 6/2012, battery cell made in Korea, assembled in China.
[Galaxy S III General] cyberdroxxx:
I would not be worried about this as long as my device is still under warranty.

My Galaxy Note 2 N7100 screen had dead pixel lines showing up lately. Samsung changed

the front assembly + screen without any question asked. They even fixed a new screen protector on it.

I was aware that my previous screen protector had already had scratches and my front bezel had a few dents.

I will be very worried if the phone died exactly on the last day of warranty.

That can happen to any device regardless of manufacturer.
[Galaxy S III General] fjfcb:
Mother of god, my phone has 5 months of use, is it the case for me to restore Stock firmware and reset flash counter with Triangle away??

What u guys suggest me? i'm affraid my phone dies too and i paid like $1100 for it (i live in brazil, so everything is as expensive as hell here)
[Galaxy S III General] Nees3:
could those early adopters(shortly after launch) check the hardware version with dmidfield something whatode *#2222#

and the ones who had it repaired also, to see if it is newer?

bought mine end of August, got version 1.3.

also add your month of purchase.

I'm not 100% sure that info is correct with that dialercode... if someone knows, correct me.

anyway, still curious what others have.
[Galaxy S III General] fjfcb:
purchased mine in july, have FW 1.3

five months of use, perfectly working, but i'm afraid and thinking about restoring it to stock and triangle away it...
[Galaxy S III General] schinden:
Hi,

Well, at 2:15 19.12.2012 I picked up the phone from my desk, did not move it from about 22.00 since that time has been connected into the charger. It does not respond to the buttons, but it was flashing blue LED, removed the battery and I was trying to turn it on... nothing no reaction, so I pulled the battery again, here we go again ... I have two spare batteries charged up before, so I think maybe the battery... the same thing, nothing, Download mode also does not work, I have no Jig to see if it will help.

In the phone I had Darky Rom III v8 with touch recovery and siyah kernel for a 4 maybe 5 days, it was working normally nothing was wrong.

What can I do? Will Jig help?

If I'll give it to guarantees purposes, they will find root and Darky Rom and everything is gone? Right?

No idea what else to try...it's an expensive brick I assume

Any suggestions???
[Galaxy S III General] fjfcb:
some here managed to get their phone repaired even with custom rom and root for free, some others had to pay... my suggestion is to RMA it and cross fingers
[Galaxy S III General] karimayubar:
What happened: Used my phone in the morning of 12/10/2012. Put it on my desk after 30 mins of using. When I picked it up and pressed the power button, phone did not respond, no LED lights whatsoever. Tried to connect to a charger but didn't charge. Tried removing the battery and replacing it but didn't work still. Had to send to the service center and was told to wait for 7 days as it might be due to a faulty mother board. Just used it for 6 months. 7 days after, my wife's S3 suddenly died, phone won't boot and stucked on the start up screen. Did all the tricks of restarting but didn't work. She's been using it for 5 months only.

What ROM/Firmware: Both are Stock (Updated to Official Jelly Bean by Samsung OTA)

What kernel: Stock

OC or UV: No

Where phone was made: No Idea, I am in Singapore

Where battery was made: No Idea

2 S3 phones died in the span of 7 days on the same household. Looks like S3 has a life span of only 6 months. Hopefully not.
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
same probelm here (hilited a few pages back).

Finally got my phone back in 4 days from the service centre and I had to pay the equivalent of US$ 140 for the motherboard replacement. This is India after all - zero customer protection laws. Svc center guys claimed it is waterlogging, which I vehemently denied but if I wanted my phone back there was no choice but to pay up.

Wrote to Samsung India CEO whose pathetic response (from some guy on his team probably) was to ask me for the nth time what my problem was and to say sorry, this is not covered under warranty. So I guess even the CEO's powers are the same as that of the service center - and the consumer be damned.

Anyways, phone's up and running now, but wonder for how long. Svc center guy suggested not to overcharge the phone and to remove the plug once fully charged - what a truly high tech solution for the world's highest selling phone.
[Galaxy S III General] JohnM1973:
Bought mine 3rd November 2012, have revision 1.3.
[Galaxy S III General] kabooz:
My phone died while charging during the night and i noticed it this morning. The same thing happened to my wife's S3 a few months ago.

What happened: Charging over night, wondered why the alarm didn't ring so i checked the phone, notification LED blinking but not responding so I pulled the battery and nothing happens, tried the battery of my wife's S3 and still nothing,

What ROM/Firmware: Android Revolution 17

What kernel: Perseus kernel from the ROM

OC or UV: No

Where phone was made: Unknown

Where battery was made: Korea/Vietnam

I've had the phone since may 31st and up until this it has been working fine. I didn't notice anything strange when I used it before going to bed and plugging in the charger.
[Galaxy S III General] Runeha:
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I did nothing before sending it inn. But mine were stone dead, no Odin, no download mode. So dont know how much they checked before replacing.
[Galaxy S III General] Glebun:
It wasn't the original charger that came with the phone. It was, however, a Samsung charger
[Galaxy S III General] marcosbob:
After applying the Exynos Abuse exploit, it stops charging while was on I had to turn it off to charge it and it took me more than 5 hours to do so, and it couldn't bypass the Samsung logo. So I decided to return it to 4.0.4 that was originally installed by the time I purchased, wiped data and cache now it's working, still have to upgrade though.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Not related to what happens to ppl in this thread though, anyway, which exploit patch did you install? supercurio, chainfire, a fixed kernel like Andrei's...? on what ROM? You should report the dev of that app with the more information posible as it might be an issue relating that fix, so you could helping devs and users in some way
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
My repaired in mid-October phone is on version 1.3. No idea what it was when I sent it in, purchased in June.
[Galaxy S III General] marvi0:
Mine is back sent took it to the repair centre last tuesday so it took one week, impressed as i was anticipating it back after xmas, they just changed motherboard.
[Galaxy S III General] schinden:
@up

Did you had root?
[Galaxy S III General] whitebait:
So after calling Samsung on Saturday morning and them saying they'd be sending out a jiffy bag and it would arrive on Monday (Tuesday at the latest) and I'd almost certainly have my phone back by christmas, it's arrived today. So the phone's now in the post to them (prepaid special delivery). Definitely can't imagine I'll get it back before xmas though. And I'll need to change the delivery address to my parents' address by calling up the service centre. Fingers crossed it all gets sorted quickly, going nuts using my little brother's old iPhone 3GS...
[Galaxy S III General] rotman253:
I've had a great experience with my SGS1 , what are you using right now?
[Galaxy S III General] bendy86:
I've also had no problems un less its something done by me. I've just done the test and found out that mine is sane, which is cool.
[Galaxy S III General] offgrey:
To be honest, I completely understand why they didn't update the S plus past gingerbread. It was a mid tier phone. Most mid tier phones get a bunch of updates and then stop getting supported. Before this phone, I also had a mid tier phone and frankly, considering how much I paid for it (it was the galaxy scl), I wasn't really expecting an update to ics. Furthermore, Samsung did explain why they didn't update the s1 line of phones to ics. They didn't believe that the phones could take it. I'm inclined to believe them.

Like the user who posted before me, I've personally never had any problems unless I caused them.

The lag on the S4 is probably because the firmware they released isn't completely optimized just yet. So, yes, they rushed the release of the phone but that doesn't necessarily mean that they make crappy and low quality products.
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
Like other posters i have had no issues with any of my 4 samsung phones so maybe you were unlucky or not very good at flashing.

Samsung isn't a "lil company" and doesn't have the strongest marketing out there but generally their product is ok.

yes it is a rant and just your opinion, not even sure why you posted maybe to make yourself feel better for selling your S3
[Galaxy S III General] rayiskon:
I'm glad you guys are happy and never had issues with your phones. My 'rant' started with a question for a previous poster who is praying for his "insane" chip s3 to last 2-3 more months so he can get the s4. Emmc dying is a widespread problem, this thread proves it. A hardware failure that can only be solved by replacing the motherboard tells me more about the quality of samsung products than any subjective user opinion.

But anyways, writing such posts in a samsung forum is the same as dissing the nexus 4 camera in their forum, you'll always get a response by blinded sensitive hardcore fans who are not willing to admit some facts. Again, i'm really glad some of you guys are happy , but try to be more objective with your opinions.

P.s. this is my last response on this. this is the SDS thread. (If quality to samsung matters, this thread wouldn't have existed) :)

Edit:

Developers proved that samsung's argument was invalid, not just the source-compiled AOSP ICS/JB roms run smoothly (the main problem was the camera driver- which again, samsung refused to release to help the community) , the ported official ICS from the S2 with all it's bloatware runs normally on the S1. But, of course, it's your free will to incline towards anyone, doesn't necessarily mean you are right. :)
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
That's cool next time put some facts yourself instead of being so emotive and accusing of others, hypocrisy springs to mind.
[Galaxy S III General] pgregg:
Thanks :) Surprise in the post today. Returned repaired phone via the carrier, but they had Samsung do the work. I didn't quote any EU directive - I just noted to them that I thought it was the sudden death syndrome. I also know it is my phone (and not a refurb) because I'm particularly OCD about my screen protector so I recognise my own protector :)

So, heres one happy UK user that has had a half-SDS repaired under warranty. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Turb0Droid:
thanks for the informationg i'll check whats the version of my s3
[Galaxy S III General] goranbm:
I think that thing you are saying are a litle bit stupid. This is the first time Samsung made this kind of error. Few months ago Toyota, Mazda and Hyundai had problem with some braking component and they needed to pull back more than 500k cars because of it. Is that mean that they are making ****y products as well ? So what Samsung made a mistake, they fixed phone for everybody whos phone died and this error is gone from second line of s3. So it can happen to anyone.