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[Galaxy S III General] echofloripa:
dead S3 also in Brazil

My s3 also went dead yesterday, with no aparent reason.

Bought it in July via Mercado Livre, sort of "ebay" in Brazil.

It was the quad, international version, 16 gig.

It had the stock ROM (updated to jellybean automatically), and wasn't charging at the time it went down.

Which assistance should I ask help for? I contact samsung in Brasil and they say they give technical assistence/guarrantee only to products sold by samsung brasil.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Oke so you believe when the exploit was discovered for the first time, it were good people and they made it public the same day?

I don't think so! this exploid may be known for months and hackers may be used this.

could be that it was implemented in roms on sammobile or on xda... i experienced more strange things that can confirm this.

so the only thing the hacker needs to do is mess with the cpu throttling, so the device gets hot and then bricks.

---------- Post added at 03:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:45 PM ----------

This might be an solution, i also think that the exploit has something to do with it. if it was the eMMc that bricks without reason there must be much more devices bricked at the moment and it must happen more without charger i think.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
There are phones with the Exynos Exploit APK (by chainfire) installed and activated and also died the "sudden death".

Dont think there is a relation between Exynos Exploit and SD.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
SO you are calling all of us with dead S3s iphone fanboys? I traded in my 4G to buy S3 back in may. You want the receipt copy ? I was one of the first guys here to have s3 in may around 24th..as it wasn't launch officially till june. Indie, the dev of Omega used to get info about S3 for his ROM development .
[Galaxy S III General] Gyrael:
just a question ... were you guys, by any chance, using a 3rd party usb cable?

I was using the usb cable that came with the phone and whenever I'm charging using the adapter (it was replaced because the one that came with the box just stopped working), it says charging via usb. I bought a 3rd party brandless usb cable and when I plug it in to the charger, it now says charging via the adapter...
[Galaxy S III General] tarabulus8689:
BRICK

Hi,

It happened to me, as well, about three weeks ago. I was on Omega 3x.x (31 or 32). I just found it off and I was unable to do anything - no download mode, nothing. Finally took it to Samsung Service and they changed motherboard. Nobody has said anything about custom rom or whatever.

I think they did not even checked it
[Galaxy S III General] bocke85:
And u got it back and run now again a custom Rom?!

jesendet weeste vom s3 weeste wa?!
[Galaxy S III General] JamesBond@ge:
Proper scared now, reading through some of these replies. Has this happened to anyone running stock ROMS?
[Galaxy S III General] :
Yes. Read them again :)
[Galaxy S III General] Archvilex:
Dead

[/COLOR]What happened: Handset was left idle for about 30 minutes in room. On returning i noticed the led was flashing blue but no buttons were responsive. I then proceeded to battery pull, and the phone has been non responsive since. Nothing works, not even developer mode. There is no response whatsoever from the device

What ROM/Firmware:	I9300UBDLJ1 Official Jellybean 4.1.1

What kernel: Unsure

OC or UV: No

Where phone was made: Made in China

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

Handset has been in protective casing since purchase and has never been dropped - Has always been handled with care.

Only issue encountered was the handset sometime slowed or froze within 2 weeks before this incident other than that the handset worked fine.

Purchased in Trinidad and Tobago from Digicel

Will be taking the handset into the dealer tomorrow, and from there it should take 14 days for my handset to be returned to me pending approval of warranty. The handset is in pristine condition and has not been exposed to moisture so i assume everything should be well with the warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] spoonymoon:
It seems to be a hardware issue as far we all can figure out, BUT if you live in EU they cant refuse a repair or swap because of these EU rules >

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1998801

So if you are living in EU just have a fresh backup of your stuff, and dont worry about rooting/flashing do as you use to ;)

They cant charge you for anything!!!

If you live outside EU buy a insurance /and make up a story if this happens

Not that complicated is it :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
Yeah, that's the ideal case. Over here in Slovenia they said to someone that he must have installed something from Play store that broke his phone :eek:. OK, it happened yesterday, so the story is not over yet, but that's not a rare thing to hear from them.
[Galaxy S III General] wshyang:
I can't help but notice that these seem to be happening mostly to the initial launch units.

Or perhaps it is merely reflective of the fact that the flaw takes about 5 months to surface? Hoping that my 2 month old phone won't be affected :(
[Galaxy S III General] dark_Templar:
Have been using a Galaxy Tab 8.9 charger(output of 2A) to charge my S3 till now no problems.... Keeping my fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
Maybe there is a way to figure out which version of phone you have. Unfortunately it does not work with dead phones.

*#12580*369# to check software and hardware information

On the 4th line you have RF cal, that's supposed to be date of the first call made by your phone (in the factory I guess). And on the 5th line you have HW revision.

Maybe there is a way to connect this info with serial number on the phone. Is it even safe to publish SN?
[Galaxy S III General] KeesStolk:
Not sure about sn, i wouldn't do it.

But this is very interesting, maybe the ones who had a replaced mainboard can post there MP.

Mine is MP 1.100, running the latest Omega, first call was 27 may and so far all is well, knock wood.
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
Heh, yeah, I could have published mine.

RF cal: 2012.6.5

HW Rev.: MP 1.100
[Galaxy S III General] Mopral:
HW Rev: MP1.100

RF cal: 2012.5.22

Bought it as soon as it was available to my carrier and still no issue for me

Did not use the provided cable to charge it

Still use the good old charger from my SGS1 (0.7A only)
[Galaxy S III General] iArmghan:
HW Rev: MP1.100

RF cal: 2012.5.29

No issus at All... :)
[Galaxy S III General] semantsen:
very informative

Thanks,

Very informative thread here:good:

I think at a first glance most of the cases have JB versions (custom or stock) on their phones!

any body with ICS?

@ Obagleyfreer

Are you planning to analyze the data? or need some more?

fewer is best:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] samydroid:
RF cal: 2012.7.12

MP 1.100

Everything's fine so far.

People with replaced motherboard should post this data too. Would be beneficial for comparison.
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
Mine's a recent replacement.

rf cal 2012.9.8

hw rev. mp 1.100
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
It would be great to know the date of broken phones. But that is next to impossible. And there was one case with ICS.
[Galaxy S III General] andyam:
Sg3 blue dead

So this is a story all about how my SG3 died just hanging about.

I was driving home with my phone connected to my blutooth, made a call. Got home took the phone out disconnected the bluetooth put it in my pocket. Walked into the house and took my phone out to put on the side as i do everyday......and bam thats when it happened, I had a blue LED like a notification....but no response at all.....Battery pulled, left for a couple of minutes,,replaced no response.. tried every mode avaibale nothing, tried charging it, nothing. Left it over night to charge nothing, put a new battery in nothing.

Sent it back to T-Mobile. waiting for a reply.

This happened on Saturday 24h November at about 5pm UK Time.

Its a pebble blue, Locked to T-Mobile, Rooted running Omega's V33.2 JB V4.1.2.

I took the phone out in July/August time.
[Galaxy S III General] thedigger:
Sorry to self-quote, but I just found an article (which cites this thread as evidence) on gadgetinsiders DOT com /samsung-galaxy-s3-sudden-death-could-be-significant-issue/1204310/[/url]

My phone is 3 days short of it's 6 month birthday, there really is something in this..... :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] TJ!:
RIP SGS3

Today my S3 died peacefully. The phone was charging and I have not had any issues whatsoever with the phone since I bought it in May. It started charging as normal and sometime during the next 2 hours it was completely dead.

While this issue seems to affect only a small percentage of users so far, I'm fearful that there might be a ticking bomb waiting to explode as more and more phones "grow older". Hopefully this is just a small percentage of phones and not a widespread issue though.
[Galaxy S III General] echofloripa:
My phone wasn't rooted and had the samsung stock ROM.
[Galaxy S III General] nani67:
new developments in my S3...

for the last 2 days, phone started hanging all of a sudden..

even now, just 5 min back, i was having my phone in jeans pocket,

when i took out the phone, it was frozen, power key and home key doesn't work, screen doesn't light up

i have to keep pressing power button for atleast 20sec

and then phone rebooted,, after booting up,, it tok around 15sec for the screen to show my flipboard widget and homescreen icons..

can i consider them as symptoms of the upcoming failure....

some gurus here plz reply me..

am really worried..
[Galaxy S III General] whitebait:
Well I got mine back today, no mention of what they changed but I'm assuming the mainboard's been swapped out as it was a 3UK branded device when I sent it off (three splashscreen on boot) and it's now BTU, which is nice. The HWRev is now 1.500 which is also nice, but it's still a 16gb, no upgrade to 32gb for me...

Strangely, there's a note attached saying that it's been upgraded to the latest software etc but as soon as I plugged it into Kies it updated it to 4.1.2... The repair was carried out on 27/12/12, has there been an upgrade released since then?
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
Ah ok, 1.500 is cool. I just realised yesterday that I actually got a 32gb upgrade. Probably depends on motherboard stock levels at the time at the ASC. Mine did come with 4.1.2 and there was no upgrade available. Seems like everyone is getting mixed results from their repairs.
[Galaxy S III General] robogo1982:
Because when compared to the total number of sold phones, it's a handful of users. When you add the "no fuss" motherboard replacement into the equation (ok, excluding the Indian users (sorry lads))...

Then why aren't Note IIs dying as well? Galaxy Tab 2? And other devices on Exynos 4xxx chipsets?

Ontopic: day 183 of my phone, still working as if it had just come out of the factory. :)
[Galaxy S III General] reycharlesconrad:
Unfortunately my S3 died on me as well on the eve of new year!

I'm waiting for the holidays to be over so I can send it to the Samsung service center.

Hopefully, they will cover the repairs with the warranty and they will not notice that my phone is rooted and running on custom software.. I can get to the download mode but not in the recovery mode.. Does anyone know or comment if the service center can detect I'm using custom rom just via the download mode?
[Galaxy S III General] fmtrx:
This is strange. Are you using a stock rom? Or maybe a parent app/service that starts the video player is stopped, did you try a reboot and check this again?

I am using 4.1.2

Build: JZO54K.I9300XXELL4

Kernel version: 3.0.31-566833

In my device when i plug the charger video player starts and is showed in running application list , and when i unplug it, the app is removed from the list.

Happy new year to all people here.
[Galaxy S III General] strip419:
U. S. A variants use qualcom s4 dual core chips the i9300 uses exynos whuch us affected by the exploit
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
Does the sudden death also affect to 32go international model of the galaxy S3??
[Galaxy S III General] JKM2247:
Yeah, Stock XXELKC but rooted. I have checked severally. No application running before I plug in the charger and after plugging no application runs. I don't know if it's related but but I removed Samsung Chat using Titanium Backup
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
WHAT :eek::eek:

i think he probably know nothing ( i think he read about Root exploit on Exynos :p ) cuz some guys got dead phones even with fixed kernel , its mostly buggy NAND on S3 rev:1.0 :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] :
When your phones died, did your 16GB was loaded with files? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] digger1958:
sudden death

My S3 has died also,won't turn on won't charge can't boot into download mode with a usb jig or manual 3 button combo. noticed yesterday that avast anti virus was showing problems ( think problems were something like validations at blah de blah ) can't remember but pressed resolve now button and stated that it was done but minutes later avast was displaying problems again, also phone went off the other day for a sort while then rebooted, Iv'e taken out the battery sim and memory card,trying putting it in the fridge for a while to see if a cool down helps.

4.1.1 JB rooted
[Galaxy S III General] wickerman_3:
Today my white GT-I9300 16gb died as I was fearing as it was bought first week of June.I was @ work and I started charging it.When I noticed that it was fully charged I unplugged it,I used it to make some calls and I put it aside.When I tried later to use it, I realized that it was completely dead,a beautiful 4+ inch brick.

A few days ago in fear of this sudden death I reverted from Omega Rom v34 to Stock Rom but I rooted it .Furthermore my S3 did not have any sign of its upcoming death,it was fully and perfectly working.Samsung you rock.When I get it back I am definitely gonna sell it.Dont know what I am gonna buy but I am sure that it s not gonna be samsung again.Happy new year to all

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[Galaxy S III General] turt:
Hi guys,

Got mine from the first Netherlands batch, last week the phone rebooted itself... Also my stock Internet browser can't keep a web page open in background... I have cleared all the stuff of the browser but to no effect.

Do you think I should be concerned?
[Galaxy S III General] manks:
Hi guys

Really intrigued by this thread. My s3 died before Christmas. Service centre said it was water damage but I know there was no way I could have damaged it by water. Since sent it to someone for a lookover who said there is traces of water but given that it was working before the phone died and I know I didn't get it near water, makes me think I also have suffered from SDS.

At the moment it hasn't gone to a level 3 service centre which is where mainboards get repaired I believe. What do you guys think, if I were to send it the repair centre would they spout the same water damage issue and refuse main board repair. I've been without my phone for over two weeks now and its killing me...! Its going to be 150 for mainboard....

Advice gratefully received....

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Jst for yr info they don't repair they replace mainboard

Happy new year comes with happy news for our galaxies :)
[Galaxy S III General] manks:
Sorry yes meant replace. Hopefully good news but I'm not hopeful, damn service centres!
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Happy newyear for you all guys. Hope the damn phones may live long
[Galaxy S III General] arys64:
Is there a possibility of water condensation somewhere? Just a thought since they (repair centers) are saying "OH IS WATER DAMAGE"
[Galaxy S III General] GavinZac:
In this many phones, in this manner? Probably not. Certainly in my case, I have checked the water damage sticker, and it indicates no water damage.
[Galaxy S III General] offgrey:
People should look up where those water damage indicator stickers are and then take pictures of them before sending them to the service centers. You never know what kind of sh*t*ss people would deliberately set off the indicators so they don't have to replace mainboards.
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
That won't help in India. The Svc center guys work behind a wooden partition and after examining your phone hand it back to you mentioning the problem. So anything can happen in that duration. It's your word vs theirs.

I've seen a customer hand over a phone to them and get it back dented after half an hour and he can't do a dawned thing about it. Disgusting.
[Galaxy S III General] offgrey:
One of the water damage indicators are on the back panel I think, underneath the battery. I can't imagine how the one in the motherboard can get wet before the one in the back, unless they're saying that you drip water directly on the speaker grills. -__-
[Galaxy S III General] FinnAndJake:
Noticed that my s3 heated up in very high i think about >50°c while charging... so i decided to discharge before its fully charged... sometimes it reboot itself when im trying to answer calls...and of course its not the rom or kernel related bugs..

BUGs!!!! Bugs!!!! its EVERYWHERE!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] JKM2247:
A positive in this tragedy, that is, Samsung's top device falling like dominoes, is the way most Customer service points around the globe are handling it. No fuss, you got warranty, your phone gets fixed. However, what is coming through is that Samsung India, on top of offering crappy service, seems like they are intent to get any excuse not to honour their obligation. Why such treatment can be tolerated in this day and age is not comprehensible to me
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Samsung India has only excuse for SDS suffering galaxy S3,each was damaged by water :(
[Galaxy S III General] cybernoor:
Thanks for the info
[Galaxy S III General] naathaanb96:
sometimes it takes abit for my touchscreen to work when waking up. is this normal or a sign its dying :(
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
Not really, although it is concerning if it takes a few seconds before it responds. There is also a thread for touchscreen bricking - might be worth looking at that to see if it has any similar symptoms.
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
Damn i just checked my sis GS3 its MP 1.100 i hope it will not die soon :(:(
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
I am now using a secondhand s3 which I changed the screen and digitizer combo. this one is not having the same issues as mine and keyboard is keeping the default. However I rooted this one to have more access.

My own is all packed up ready to ship to Norwich service center.
[Galaxy S III General] JohnM1973:
Good point and date/time stamp the picture also.
[Galaxy S III General] fmtrx:
Man if you are sure that water/humidity damage has nothing to do with the sudden death you have to deny their assumption and fight for a free replacement. Show them that you do not believe them and even if it is pink tell them that "something else" must have happened...with all what this statement implies. Explain fully under which circumstances the phone died and if they insist on water damage threaten them with a letter of complaints to Samsung that will include their names.
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
Been there, done that, doesn't make a damn of a difference to them if you're talking about Samsung India. Svc center are the Gods and we're mere after sales consumers.

Even if you complain directly to Samsung India on their site all you'll likely receive is pathetic call center guys who are only interested in closing out your complaint without resolving it to your satisfaction in any way. It'll be a rare day when you get a call from someone really responsible at samsung india.
[Galaxy S III General] fmtrx:
I remember back in ~2002 i had bought a creative labs camera. This cam had a design flaw at the battery cover. All time the batteries pushed it with a very hard spring and the hinges were totally plastic and tiny. One day my fears came true: it just breaks rendering the camera unusable as there was not a way to keep the batteries in. In my country there was no intention of changing this thing. They insisted that it was my mistake. Finally i wrote a letter to creative labs in europe. After a week i received a new creative labs camera sent from their department in Ireland directly to my doorstep. They did not requested to send them the mulfunctioning unit back. I was impressed by their professionalism. Then i thought that they knew about this design flaw of their product and acted as every serious company. If the problem is in India contact with a different department. Perhaps you will be as lucky as me in the camera case.

Oh and the new camera i received? I sold it asap. No risk to have the battery cover broken again by itself while standing on the desk!
[Galaxy S III General] MalboX:
Back from repair with a new motherboard

My S3 is back from repair service.

It died on 12/11/2012 (I explained it here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35385908&postcount=368) and I got it back yesterday.

Repair service (from France, a company called Acean) changed motherboard. I have the feeling that they changed screen too (I had a few scratches that are not longer present).

It was included with the warranty so not cost for me.

Here is the action log, in french:

1~C~SET - Ajustement/Réglage Electrique
4~Y~FMW - Mise à niveau logiciel
N~A~SET - Remplacement carte logique/carte mère
N~A~SET - Remplacement vis

It is still a 16GB version and firmware wasn't updated (still 4.1.1).

Here is, attached, the eMMC check screenshot, I don't know which version it was before.

HW Rev displays REV0.1 (see screenshot). I don't know which version it was before.

The french person I met at the repair center told me that they don't face any particular and massive cases but it's only one "little" shop in Paris, France.

In France, word is spreading through blog and media. Still no word from Samsung FR.

Let me know if I can help you with other details.
[Galaxy S III General] Guardianofevil:
hey guys i've just recived My SGS 3 from polish T-mobile. i've checked hardware rev and it says:

RF cal: 2012.10.16

HW Rev:1.100

I want to ask you about warranty in case of SDS. If i will root my SGS and use a custom room is there even a slight chance of that i will have problems with free mobo replacement in the future? SGS 3 is a powerful device and i really want to use it and unleash that potential. But i'm a little worried about that warranty and that i will have to pay for repairs.
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
shethsa,i'm in touch with two persons named ABHINAV PANDEY and VARUN BAJAJ from SAMSUNG anf i've sent them the pics of the damaged MOTHERBOARD let's c what come next.At the moment they r trying very hard but i'm also adamant....

but tell me one thing did u check the square was ur square also pinkish when they showed u that????
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Made 1 video yesterday and viewed one also. Now after reboot got the services using cpu
[Galaxy S III General] PRExpressions:
Nope and a USB jig does nothing :(

Paul

PS How many working days for the Samsung Pre-paid envelope to arrive typically?
[Galaxy S III General] LaughingJohn:
Me too

Just wanted to add my S3 to the list of deaths. UK T-Mobile. Was in my coat pocket last night, new year's eve. Was working fine earlier, took it out to check/send happy new year greetings and it was completely dead.

Initially I assumed a rogue app had killed the battery, but it won't charge boot or do anything.

Took it to the store today, they tried a new battery but no joy so it's off for repair'

I've had it since about July. Only symptom I noticed was that it seemed a bit slow and stuttery for a couple of days.
[Galaxy S III General] thedigger:
Just a random thought... I had a superuser request from "Radio" a few days before SDS. I declined it (I wasn't trying to run anything, it was just on the screen when I woke the device up). Probably not related, but has anyone else seen this?