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[Galaxy S III General] lostboy1952:
Phone died just last night 12/29/12. The battery was running down, then beeped once like a warning to charge it. Plugged into the charger and no light whatsoever! The battery icon would come on for a second and then nothing. Left it on the charger over night. Nothing. No red charging light, no boot. Pulled the battery and re-plugged into charger. Same charging icon on screen but nothing else. Tried every combination of removing battery, sim card, memory card, and plugging it in to the charger and still won't boot. Tried a different charger and also my laptop. Nothing. The S3 is a USA Verizon variant. 16gb. Black. I guess it's off to Verizon this morning to get a new phone.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I hope samsung will give me my money back i need a reliable phone :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] mihqke:
You wish.
[Galaxy S III General] offgrey:
^ There you go, a Qualcomm S3 SDS case.

Oops, misread. Might not be true SDS.
[Galaxy S III General] pRo_lama:
Re-posting the original post from czaja995
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
If it is the nand chip, samsung should at the least replace phones for those who have had to pay for a replacement mobo - eg many users in India - instead of letting the service centers rip off the customers. Else they will face severe adverse media attention which is not good in a country of 1.3 bn people.

Update after mobo got replaced - hsevere battery drain with 100% to zero in less than 8 hours with battery temperature at almost a constant 40 plus. This is definitely not a satisfactory mobo replacement despite shelling out Rs7200
[Galaxy S III General] offgrey:
Return it and demand for a reflash of firmware or a new mobo then.
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
What's the guarantee that the new new mobo will truly be so. Instead I've taken this issue up directly with Samsung India who's rep has directly contacted me and promised to sort it out shortly.

This is not about the mobo as it is about pathetic service centres attitudes. In India to get anything replaced for free is next to impossible barring apple devices. Seriously now thinking of that alternative.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I dream
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
yes nitin that is what i've been able to make out ...but the question is neither you nor me nor anyone alse knew about that square before purchase and v all were unware about it the moment we gave it to the SERVICE CENTRE so who knows what caused the sensor to turn pink, so we definitely have a case........
[Galaxy S III General] theobabis:
Entropy512,

yes, with Siyah kernel i learned about it also, but by searching a little bit i found that it was causing problems much earlier, even if it wasn't discovered yet, as you stated correctly.

The question is should we again wait for definitive evidence and a complete understanding, or we should inform gs3 users and potential buyers about the effect, even if the cause is unknown?

Without an answer i'm forced to expect the worse, which means to avoid any last gen samsung device right now, until i see that devices at least six months old (e.g n7100) are not affected.

This is just a discussion thread and no matter how many pages it reaches it will never accomplish the validity of an article in the portal.

If xda openly acknowledges the issue i hope that we can reasonably expect that more sites will follow, increasing the pressure on Samsung.

Right now everything goes fairly without too many thrills, but when the devices start to get out of warranty i just hope it won't be pop corn time.
[Galaxy S III General] JohnM1973:
A little off topic but this might be useful for those without warranty that wish to replace the motherboard themselves. Full video guide to stripping down the S3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo93EF7rVIw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Galaxy S III General] kaiur:
Yes, but what about IMEI?
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
then what do i do.just sit back n relax and again wait for my motherboard to get damaged and start a process of paying a royalty to SAMSUNG for buying their product...
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
I will be actually doing that very soon on a secondhand s3 so that I have a phone once my warrantied one gets sent off again.

Phone is a work tool for me so cannot afford being on an HTC touch diamond again
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
they r doing nothing i also had sent an email and a call back was arranged after which the caller said they will let the technicals speak to me and in the evening they sent me a mail citing that the SERVICE CENTRE employees proved you that it's a case of water damage so no warranty........and matter close.........I'v written to few more let's c what happens otherwise after a while i'll go to consumer court(but that also sucks considering what's happening in INDIA nothing is expected)
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
Sorry i am reading it again and again but i still did not understand the last 2 sentences.

When you say; "this is not some isolated incident" i understand it as it means: "this is not only about one phone or one type of phone, it is bigger".

And then you say "(this) is the fault of this particular model" which means it is limited to a portion of SGS3 phones. Your last sentence also backs it up. I guess my English is not enough.

Should i understand that only 16Gb international phones are suffering from death so far and the 32Gb, 64Gb ones and Note 2s are OK so far?
[Galaxy S III General] feloou:
My SGSIII GT-I9300 also apparently died last night. Since last week appeared first symptoms of it: some almost daily random reboots or freezes after charging sometimes with a red led and performance ups and downs. Yesterday after a while carrying it outdoors and coming back at home I noticed user and system processes and subprocesses massively shutting down and later it began with a loop boot. I managed to wipe data and do a factory reset succesfully after a dalvik cache and cache partition wipe through recovery boot and it seemed everything solved. After a while reconfiguring the phone it just rebooted and got stuck on the boot logo. Now it just can access on download mode. I did several attempts to reflash stock rom with ODIN without success.

The phone was bought on the first week of August 2012.

The firmware was stock Jelly Bean 4.1.1 (I9300XXDLIH) rooted and flashed with Mobile ODIN.
[Galaxy S III General] nexy33:
My s3 Died last night put it on to charge got up this morning completely dead no response at all not even recognised by pc. Was freezing yesterday for long periods of time

was back on stock H3G uk Jellybean

no idea where phone or battery were made
[Galaxy S III General] vadonka:
i have the performance instability symptoms with unknown source. sometimes my phone slow as hell, sometimes no problem even if i dont install anything just use the clean rom it seems its related to IO process (read/write nand).

im on the omega v35 JB ROM with Siyah kernel.

im used the triangle away app for reset the counters, now from the bootloader mode it seems my firmware is original.

lets hope my handset will survive the holidays, because in my country nobody will do a real work until second half of januar.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Sorry but we all know abt it and it's existing in all phones range..take n95 as example.. at customer service first wot they check is water effect indicator
[Galaxy S III General] czaja995:
it means that galaxy s2 and s1 had same problem and probably models 32Gb and 64Gb are free of fault
[Galaxy S III General] MD1500:
I'm yet another Samsung Galaxy SIII owner (Blue Pebble 16GB) with a phone that suddenly doesn't work. It died on me just before Christmas.

I got it back in August. It was working fine, then one morning - I tried to turn it on and it just wouldn't work.

I've only just realised it's such a common problem. Shame, because I love the phone otherwise.
[Galaxy S III General] leroytorner:
My S3 died yesterday. I plug to charge, and after two minutes I realized that the phone was in the boot logo. Remove the battery, inserted it back and the same. I could get into download mode, and there I see that the model does not appear; flashing counter to 0 (should be 10) and with factory firmware (had: wanam 5.2 and siyah). I tried to flash and pulled me pit error. Since then did not boot (battery is over). I took it for service, and say me "samsung maybe give you a new unit". I hope it's the 32GB model! A shame.
[Galaxy S III General] awechris:
One more down

Reporting the sudden death of my SIII, bought around 2nd week of June - 16GB version.

Took the battery out - will wait several hours - and will try again. I tried a custom made JIG , but didn't help either.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
And:

Please vote here!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2071985
[Galaxy S III General] daydreamernz:
Same issue with my s3 - was charging over night and went to use it this morning and power was off. Pushed power button, nothing. Took battery out and put back in and tried to power on, nothing.

Went to my brother's house who also has a s3 - tried his battery and still didn't work, tried my battery on his and it worked. So took it off to the shop who then send it off to the repair agents. He had never seen this problem before but after reading this thread I don't feel as bad, will just miss my phone while it goes off for repair. I asked for a replacement and was told they can't.

I live in New Zealand and after some reading online it appears this is happening globally... sort it out Samsung.. gezz..:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
By advertising it here you are offsetting the stats, making it worthless. I did a similar vote about a week ago, but it got buried way too fast, and i have no way of advertising it, yet keeping the stats unaffected, so i've left it buried.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Yes, ok, dont want to "advertise" it.

Of course not only users with the problemn should vote but everybody here!
[Galaxy S III General] strip419:
My dad owns one.... He left if to charge overnight only to find it dead the next morning.... He asked me to take it for repairs...... They actually had to repalce it with a new one

ROM:stick jb.

KERNEL:stock.

MADE IN KOREA(international version) , Battery made in korea assembled in Vietnam

I ask the samsung guy what he thinks the problem is.... He said "we suspect some kind of malicious attack":eek::what: i was kinda surprised how this was possible since i strongly suspect a hadware problem..... He went on to say that there was a serious security flaw in the "kernel implementation":what::eek: which makes it possible for malicious apps to gain root control and damage system components..... I can't really say how true this is cos the guy himself had a hard time explaining it to me..... He said they had noted that the phones coming in dead, were normally left overnight to charge with data connection on(wi-fi, 4g) and this is the time they suspect the malicious app is downloaded (How the f**k does it happen) and cause harm to the device..... He said new kernel will arrive through an OTA which will address the issue....I still don't know how true this is but its possible though..... I wonder why samsung is saying nothing... The guy i spoke to was Asian, so I really had a hard time understanding what he was saying but the above came out clear to me.... Lets hope our info is not hanging somewhere (if this is truly a malicious attack) cos ma Dad uses Google wallet :mad::eek::what::(
[Galaxy S III General] joser0123:
My S3 died 2 weeks ago. I bought it on second week of June. It was charged using Samsung charger, standard battery. No cooked ROMs. Updated via OTA to Jelly Bean two months ago.

No remarkable issues before "sudden dead". Waiting for the repaired mobile from Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] strip419:
EDIT:they phone is just about two months old.... Which raises questions about the idea that this happens due to HW aging.
[Galaxy S III General] vadonka:
2 weeks? and samsung still not return your phone to you?

my phone is the 16gb blue model, it is still working however i already have some strange symptoms, so...

i bought in June as you, i was noticed a huge black ink spots in the screen, appeared only in dark enviroment. after a big fight with the service center, samsung replaced the screen in the warrantly, but this process takes only a few days. (the new screen also have some ink spots...but not so noticeable)

so 2 weeks is too long.

big shame for the samsung because of this. im already reverted to the stock firmware without rooting, and reset the flash counter too because my handset probably will die in any minute...
[Galaxy S III General] joser0123:
Unfortunately no. They told me that it would take 8 days as maximum, but i'm still waiting. I hope I will have it next week, otherwise I will push them. Maybe these days, at Christmas is more complicated.

But this kind of support is not serious from Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
If your phone dies it doesn't matter if you were rooted or had some custom rom on it. I was using Omega V35 with perseus kernel @ 1600mhz, and they just gave me back the unit after 2 days with new mainboard, rev 1.15.
[Galaxy S III General] Elettro_shock:
Another death.. From Italy.

Greetings from Italy!

My GS3 dead on 25 November, bought on 9 Agoust; never rooted of flashed. Originally JB 4.1.1 discharge via Kies via USB. It dies after a normally day of use, I came home late, it had very low battery, I placed it on the table and after fiew minutes it was discharged, so as usually i put it under charge but it didn't turn on. I tried after 1 our but nothing. I tried recovery mode but always nothing, screen always black.

After 4 day I tried to turn on it with a new battery... Nothing.

I want to specify that I almost never stressed the battery: never usually full discharge!

After Death I've noted some crash in some app, like instragram and camera and sometimes slowdowns.

-Brought to one service center on 29 November (official samsung gold service assistence, they tell me they've to sent my phone to Milano assistence, about 90km from there)

-gs3 was repaired on 12 December but Milano center has not yet shipped back my phone! it's a shame! :eek:

I know only that logic board was replaced by samsung exclusive call center.

(Sorry for my probable bad english) :silly:
[Galaxy S III General] jshashwat93:
Did you get the 32GB motherboard after replacement or 16 only?
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
My replaced mobo died....almost. Left it for charging overnight, just to check if the problem had been taken care of. And sure enough in the morning the orange light of death shone brightly. Phone had switched off on its own and wouldn't turn on. Then after a brief prayer, did a long press of the power button and it worked.

Now it's God and Samsung who are in control of my phone and related life.
[Galaxy S III General] danielhtc:
I've been swapping out batteries since I first read about this issue. Haven't charged the phone through the mains at all since. I charge the batteries with a dock now. I hope there is some official fix that can come of this and it doesn't turn out to be an unfix-able hardware defect. I suppose at least if mine dies now we could rule out charging as a contributing factor.

Quite disappointing really. I got rid of my One X because of various recurring hardware problems but at least the phone(s) still worked with the problems they had. There's no coming back from a sudden death unfortunately.
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
(Assuming for a moment that charging's the culprit ...) Swapping batteries might be a solution if they hadn't made the flimsy plastic back cover such a drag to take off. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] :
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/no-odin-root-exploit-found-for-exynos-4412-and-4210/

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/16/security-exploit-opens-samsung-exynos-devices-to-attack/
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
I doubt that is the real reason for these deaths. As it was said before, this kernel vulnerability was found after the devices started failing. It is possible that someone else found this before and released a virus to break the phones, but it's unlikely. I bet Samsung is just planning to save the image of good hardware builder, software side they don't have good reputation anyway, if they are going to blame kernel for these deaths.
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
I have been doing that from day one. Nothing wrong with the cover. Just take it easy to remove.
[Galaxy S III General] Watti1974:
My turn now ;-(

Danish GS3 died overnight :eek:

16 GB model

ssn number :I9300GSMH

What happened Randomly rebooting over the past days , wondering as i didnt change anything lately

Where phone was made Made in Korea by Samsung

Where battery was made Made in Korea , Assembled in China

What firmware you were running Omega Rom V35

Can you access download mode? Not at all

Sad as i use the phone every day both home and work

Bought June 6 2012

Died December 31 2012

Happy New Year from Denmark :good:
[Galaxy S III General] :
Who said that?
[Galaxy S III General] marcindpol:
Do not get me wrong guy's. First of all i love my phone and I really like Android os, but if my phone will eventually turn death I will seriously consider move to using Apple hardware. My girlfriend just got her ipad4 and I must say that I like it a lot, it's just great premium experience and I get why people like ios so much.

Sorry for my English and happy new year:)
[Galaxy S III General] krazy_about_technology:
Has these issues been occurring with 16 GB version of the phone, or anyone with 32 GB has also faced them??
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
Some tech guy to the guy you replied. It looks like they are starting to blame the exploit for these deaths.
[Galaxy S III General] -A-P-M-:
Luckily my SGS3 still works (bought in June) and I always charge battery overnight. I lot of users reports 100% CPU activity when battery is charging or is charged. Before I put my phone on charger yesterday I reseted CPU spy, so in morning I could read CPU activity when battery was charging and after battery was charged:

I think this is normal CPU activity? I always put phone into airplane mode (everything including Wlan is tuned off). Since a few pages back is photo of "burnt" Wlan chip, can be something related to this if phone is in airplane mode when is on charger?
[Galaxy S III General] Angelus1984:
marcindpol look, I have iphone 3g for 3 or 4 years, from when it came out, and it's still working perfectly, I also had HTC HD2, in my opinion one of the best phones ever made. On this one I had android ginger, jellybean, MIUI, WP7, WinMo6... flashed it many many times and still fine...

But S3, it is a nice device, and it's fun to have it, but I'm afraid to root it, and I'm used to to have rooted phone... And why afraid? because I know that in next 4 months I can expect my phone to die... sadly Samsung did poor job.

And now to the rest, if these is true for kernel, is it possible to protect it with AVAST or similar anti-virus app? And if this is true for kernel, I didn't see anyone here that has phone much less than 6 months and with this problem... It is more like the NAND is having expiry date, like milk...

Oh and about this CPU activity, on my phone, it's only short time when I plug it in, so I'm guessing that phone thinks that I have put HDMI in and starts to scan for media, Coz when it's charging whole night, in the morning phone is cold, it's not hot, but then again I'm using HTC charger, I gave Samsung one to brothers girlfriend :D
[Galaxy S III General] hatless:
Had two White 16GB GT-I9300 suffer from sudden death now (Mine and Wifes). Not surprising as both were bought at the same time (June 2012, 2nd week) from the same 3 Store (Bedford, UK).

One died 3rd week of November, the other yesterday (December 30th). It wouldn't upset me so much if Kies wasn't such a p.o.s. - 6 computers (+4 virtual) and not one of them ever managed a complete Kies backup with either phone :(

- In both cases, phone in airplane mode overnight, batt. @ ~60-80%, dead/non-responsive by the morning.

- Unsure where phones (or batteries) were made (not with me).

- Both running Three UK Stock JB (OTA)

- Download Mode/Soft Reset/Hard Reset/Shouting really loudly: All totally futile.

Noted that battery can still be charged when plugged into mains (tested with multimeter), pointless test sure but makes me think my charging/power circuitry is likely ok and that nand flash corruption (or other mainboard component failure) theory is more likely. Would like official word though.
[Galaxy S III General] liamR:
I can't believe that Samsung still ignoring this issue. I don't understand why the media doesn't cover this fiasco.

I sent emails to the leading tech websites, maybe we all should send emails to them directing them to this thread.

We need to get Samsung to acknowledge this issue and give the customers a solution.
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
Same thing here bro, my S3 is : RF cal: 2012.6.12 HW Rev : MP 1.100 , still working fine no sudden death, CPU activity is hyper normal when i charge my S3, ibegin to think that some iphone fanboys are just posting here about sudden death to scare us off our smartphones:laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] theobabis:
xda is ignoring it, why Samsung shouldn't?
[Galaxy S III General] freaked:
Hi there,

Same happen to me last night.

Charging during the night, when I woke up, my phone was on Samsung Logo.

Tried everything i could, flashing official ROM 3rd party files, 4party files.

Tried re-partition files (PIT files) and nothing, same PIT error message or Can't re-partition message.

I sent it to warranty, but I must confess, I'm a bit worried about that, I just don't know if they're gonna fixe the device under warranty or not.

I didn't reset my counter whatsoever

Best of luck for u guys ..
[Galaxy S III General] thedigger:
I think I'm in the same boat as you. Mine froze, was rebooted then hung on the Samsung logo.

Can't repartition, can't boot recovery (but I can boot download), and I've potentially invalidated my warranty by installing 3rd party software.

Will try returning the phone to carphone warehouse if I can't recover it today.
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
Is the Exynos Exploit is a part of the sudden death of the Galaxy S3? i read in a topic here in xda that the exploit touches the Memory dump of the kernel directly and it's a huge hole in the device security and can be exploited by any third party applications. should we the survivors install Chainfire APK to disable this exploit or what?
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I think this is a possible
[Galaxy S III General] sodeknetters:
I don't.

Fact 1: Exploit also possible on a host of other devices

Fact 2: Sudden death only happening to gt-i9300

1+1=2: exploit is not the cause of sudden death

Add one more fact: sudden death started to happen more than a month before the exploit was discovered.

Fairly compelling evidence ;)
[Galaxy S III General] nitinvaid:
just mailed samsung india

support.india@samsung.com

you should also mail them indian members

Hello again Samsung.
Remember me I am same person who has problem on his sgs2 model.well that was solved now.I have bought Samsung galaxy s3 GT-I9300 and I am pretty happy with it till I am following this thread
[url]http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1993044[/url]

I am quit worried about my device now.I am not worried about my device I am worried about my device bcoz of Samsung service center poor warranty they always want to claim money even if there is one single dot of dust on board that's what I am worried .this same case happened with me in case of s3 they charged me 5000rs.
And I am following that thread that from what I know is...
Its case of overcharging (I don't do that )
And its happening with 16gb models hwversion 1.00 and mine is the same...