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[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
actually that's true because the phone gets what it needs, but if it's not dedicated to charge galaxy it may cause problem...does it have same voltage as original charger?
[Galaxy S III General] flavioramos:
I think it's important to tell which kind of "death" is happening on the device.

It seems to be two very different type of problems, as I told on my previous post.
[Galaxy S III General] r2001uk:
Mine died in my pocket but I had it on overnight charge every night. I've done this with all my phones with no issue so if overnight charging is the cause here, it's completely unacceptable.
[Galaxy S III General] zeziv5150:
16GB, but i never left for a overnight charging.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
1. Which variant of SGS3 you owned that suffered from sudden death?

A, 16GB

2. Do you mostly have your phone turned on during overnight charging.

b. No

Just dropped of my 16gb S3 at Dubai Samsung service center, it had died earlier today, . They took it w/o questions and told me it will be fixed in 2~3 days as if its a regular thing. Asked them if i can get it replaced with something else she said to call the number on reciept after a day as it needs to be evaluated and try and see. I hope to get Note II instead of this faulty phone. Also told me i'll lose evrything stored on internal i said no problem. I anyway had my 32GB card with all the backup. I think they will replace the board. Will report back once i get an update.
[Galaxy S III General] Grimthorr:
It's a Nexus 7 charger and yeah voltage is the same (it's a USB power adapter like the S3 charger), only difference is the mA but that should be fine. Rest assured I won't be telling Samsung that bit though; I'll claim that I always used the original charger like a good boy haha!
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
yeah you better do that ;) otherwise they will put blame on charger :p
[Galaxy S III General] alecsbv:
Anyone?
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
unfortunately no one can give an answer
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
hi, nitn ,thnx for your reply i live in panchkula,haryana near chandigarh.....my only problem is am on a back foot because of the broken screen but again it's an entirely different problem......
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I just called Samsung technical support to ask about this problem, and they never heard of it :rolleyes:

They say that its not true and i should not believe the forums or the websites :D

And then i asked oke but what would samsung do if this was true.. They said then they will post a message on their official website :laugh:

i say would you recall all the phones then ... yes she said...

Then she said that she has a s3 herself for 3 months and nothing happend.. i said then you have another few months to go :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III General] Amos91:
Just taken mine to a Repair Centre. He noticed that in download mode it said unofficial and that it might be a problem. I hope not :silly:

Otherwise they will have to send it higher up the repair chain to get the mobo replaced. Around 2 weeks :(. Going to be a long few weeks without it.
[Galaxy S III General] tel911:
I have the same version as you in use since 15th June no problems so far :)
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
hi saisrujan,as guided by you i have checked the said square indeed is slightly pinkish ,but tell me one thing as a customer prior to buying and even after buying did you or for that matter i kenw that this is the way to check for any water damage and the more logical question that what was water doing lying dogo there i mean why only that magical day did the water or for that matter moisture decided to ruin my motherboard.I mean u lost ur iphone the day of heavy sweat but nothing of this sort happened with me.Anyhow plz tell me from looking at the condition of the motherboard not from that square because from what i was shown at the service centre,the motherboard develops white spots due to waterlogging but there r none in my motherboard.....any comments..........
[Galaxy S III General] demirisdemir:
So the best thing to do will be turning of your phone,plug it in the charger,and let it charge 1oo %,then unplug it and power it on :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
That will be the safest to do atm. :good:
[Galaxy S III General] goon:
What are the prospects of recovering data from internal storage?

My GS3 went on Xmas eve—not going into download mode/recovery mode, not responding to charger.

I have extremely important data on there (internal storage; not external SD unfortunately.) Samsung's only advice was to "ask a third party data recovery company". Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Really appreciate any advice.
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
i would definitely say yes, dunno whether i had a sudden death issue but the phone was dead meat for an hour or so,charging it offline revived my phone after around half hour.
[Galaxy S III General] saisrujan:
gauravinvouge, unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to help you. I've just passed on the information I've learnt from other forums etc. I am no expert in customer-service, and I'm a victim of Samsung's buggy hardware just like you are.
[Galaxy S III General] arnabasu:
ray of hope ??

just saw this

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...gn=Feed:+xda-developers/ShsH+(xda-developers)

not sure what/how it will impact the sudden death victims
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Any one has any idea about this ?

didpeople with dead phone use a alternative cable to charge Instead of original one ?
[Galaxy S III General] droidgirl74:
I think this can be really helpful for people with no warranty because of water logging etc. I think it's good to know that there could be an option even for the hopeless cases. If my SGS3 ever dies of SDS (what I don't hope) and if Sammy denies the warranty repair for whatever reason, then I'll happily donate it to Adam Outler as requested :)

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[Galaxy S III General] zeziv5150:
Yeah, sorry but it won't help...

Mine died and i always did that. I NEVER left it for a overnight charge. :-/
[Galaxy S III General] Entropy512:
Yup. The water damage indicators are such a scam - they're notorious for triggering even on a humid day... Which, as I understand it, is typical weather in India.

That would be interesting. If it's only 16GB units, that points back towards an internal eMMC defect again.

That's what is making this the hardest. If it's an eMMC defect, why is it only sometimes affecting the bootloader? (Might be related to what region of storage "triggered" the event - for example, with GS2 Superbrick, if the problem was triggered when wiping /data, the bootloader would usually survive. If it was triggered when wiping /system - say goodbye to SBL2.)

There's a SLIGHT chance you might be able to boot using AdamOutler's SD card trick - but most likely you'd be unable to access the internal SD card data. I think that data is only accessible within a Samsung lab (they have special vendor commands that can collect data about the internal wear leveller state that isn't available to the public.) It's sounding very similar to Superbrick - chip hangs if you try to touch an affected part of flash.
[Galaxy S III General] arnabasu:
my thoughts (and i may be wrong)

how about we use those special chargers ? the ones which use only the battery to charge (had one of those during my BB days)

you need to unplug the battery and insert it into the charger to charge it. that way the s3 is never connected directly to the charger.

i mean, buy an additional battery and the special charger, once the battery seems to be low, use the charged battery and put the current one on the special charger. will that anyway mitigate the problem ?
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
But WHY should i do something like this with a 600 euro phone which is not supposed to be like this!

I don't think i bought the ,,smartphone of the year'' to take battery out and charge it. For Christ sake even the oldest mobile phone in the world didn't have problems like this. So reading many of these comments, i should turn off my phone night time, charge it only off , and try not to do anything with the phone because might get fcked up right? This is unacceptable !! Some of us works day/night shifts and they need phone.

Not to mention that many of us using cases like otterbox commuter and is a pain in the ass to take it out and put it back.
[Galaxy S III General] Grimthorr:
I tried flashing the stock ROM through Odin but got the error "no PIT partition" and a red fail box. I took it to Phones4U earlier so they could send it off to the manufacturer (figured it should be quicker than waiting for the jiffy bag from Samsung). Anyone know if these are being repaired/replaced with no questions asked or has rooting/flashing voided my warranty?
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I contacted vodafone tech staff and asked about this.

He said that he knows the problem but atm there are not so many devices send back that he would start a real investigation.

He promises me that when there are many devices bricked the same way he really start some investigation with their repair company
[Galaxy S III General] zeziv5150:
Hey,

Anyone here knows is it's possible to swap the motherboard from another I9300?

Like, i live in Brazil, mey S3 was bought on China. Can i buy a motherboard for USA, and replace it?
[Galaxy S III General] fedort:
For whose phone died at overnight charging: did you have flight mode turned on or off? I always put my phone in flight modus and I'm wondering if this makes any difference.
[Galaxy S III General] anup123456:
HW rev MP 1.100

Date of manufacture 18th June

Purchased in July.

M a hardcore flasher + used Nand and cache for Swap also external sd card for swap earlier.

No issues so far !!

Seems like its the April build thats at fault or maybe the one having 1.500 HW rev.

And the Faulty builds are Replaced with HW REV 1.100 in most of the cases which seems to be a stable one.

could be few devices though.

We must not be too much worried as it happens with most of the devices which are manufactured on such large scale.

And gladly its being detected within the warranty period !!
[Galaxy S III General] arnabasu:
i totali udnerstand where you are coming from, and my thoughts are the same about the phone, but just like you, i alwes have to have my phone ON and in a working condition, and my suggestion was based upon the various posts on this thread already.

i was just trying to suggest a simple way to have the phone almost all the time without the"risk" of suddenly killing it. and as i said, "i may be wrong".

no doubt this technique may sound premature but atleast going my all the posts till date, seems like a practical option.

i quote as before - i may be wrong
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
How do you know that 1.100 is a stable one?
[Galaxy S III General] Blue_Nexus:
Alas my S3 I Knew it Well

Hi Folks,

Samsung SIII 16GB White

Never rooted or tampered with

Charged with original cable all night every night for 5 months

Death occurred a few days day ago, not on charger but in pocket after several hours of use.

No power, no access to boot/flash screen

After encountering the worst service from " affordablemobiles .co .uk " :cowboy: the online supplier of my SIII (they told me that they were only responsible for a faulty phone for 28 days, this goes against the sales of goods act (UK) and I'll pursue that separately) Samsung was contacted and have sent out a jiffy bag, phone went back today.

One small note after reading the comments on this forum. I checked the warranty and Samsung give 2 years. So even if the problem reoccurs (after repair) in another 6 months it should still be covered.

Like many in this forum I am annoyed that a "flagship" product gives this issue, however I am more than happy with the customer service I have received from Samsung thus far. (an official statement from Samsung as to the cause, impact and recourse for this issue would be appreciated)

C
[Galaxy S III General] xpmode:
Any confirmation on 32 and 64 GB models are unaffected from this?
[Galaxy S III General] tel911:
I am intrigued, I have just been on another Forum where there was a debate about official Samsung Chargers.

it appears that S3's have been supplied with a mix of 1A & 2A chargers and it is a lottery which one you get

Mine is a 1A and charges in 3-4 hours and apparently the 2A charges in 2 hours,

I wonder how many of the sudden deaths during charging were using 2A chargers?

Just a thought.:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] OrangeRafi:
How do we know that the MP 1.100 is the stable one & the 1.500 is the faulty one? As of now I only saw 2 phones w/ the MP 1.500, my brothers S3 (w/c he bought 1 month later after I bought mine) and one member who says that his MP is 1.500 when he received his phone after repairs.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Nill in case of MB replacement. The lady at Samusung service told me i'll lose all data, i told her no issues as i have all teh back up on my 32gb. Which i just fortunately got replaced by Sandisk, no thanks to S3 corrupting it beyond recover few weeks back.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
very interesting please add the link of the forum
[Galaxy S III General] JohnM1973:
And are these chargers clearly marked as being either 1amp or 2amp? Would be interesting those whose phones have died, if they could list also what the amperage of their charger is.
[Galaxy S III General] tel911:
Sorry it seems that I can't add a link (too few posts) but mine is marked on the side although dark writing on black plug.
[Galaxy S III General] arnabasu:
would you kindly post a link to that thread ?

i rechecked mine and it shows 1A, amd pretty sure the few others that i came across with are also 1A. did they indeed ship 2A chargers with the s3 ?
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
oke say the name of the forum and name of the thread i search it out then...

I sure go make this a question .... please guys help me to make more questions and i will make a new form today and send it to all who have filled in the current form.

so the new question gonna be

1. what charger

2. 16 or 32 gb.

3. do you charge overnight phone on or off

and what else can we ask and is relevant??
[Galaxy S III General] tel911:
//community.o2.co.uk/t5/Android-Devices-Samsung-HTC-Sony/Galaxy-S3-post-JB-update-chaging-issues/td-p/356064

you will need to add the http:
[Galaxy S III General] kroata:
where is HW rev MP number? how to get this number?

ty
[Galaxy S III General] tel911:
type *#12580*369# into phone
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Yes.

Dont Flash and root.

Always do backups.

Try do put or leave it in original-conditions

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No, its the other way: most GS3 which died were 1.100.

Never heard, that an 1.500 died, they are form 9/12 to 11/12, too new.
[Galaxy S III General] b0gd4n:
I got my phone back yesterday.

After inputting this code, it says HR Rev.: REV0.1

Is that ok?
[Galaxy S III General] doctorvicente:
just dial *#12580*369#
[Galaxy S III General] corb06:
I got mine back 2 weeks ago after the sudden death. Happened during phone call, no charger.
[Galaxy S III General] exynoss:
My friends galaxy S3 16gb also went in sudden death.... Then he gave it to Samsung svc ....after 1 week Samsung svc guys gave him 32gb galaxy S3 instead of 16gb.... Lol

Incredible Samsung :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Ethernauta:
Would that be generosity or real solution???

I don't know how many units of 16G, 32G and 64G have been sold, probably 80%, 15%, and 5% is the share of the models, but anyway if there is not any one report of 32G or 64G problem, the 16G memory chip start to be suspicious, don't you think that?

Time will say, I believe that sooner or later Samsung will have to say something about this.
[Galaxy S III General] exynoss:
Buddy its not depend on storage. It's all about which emmc chip galaxy S3 using ;)
[Galaxy S III General] JohnM1973:
Agreed, the reason the 16gig model is failing most is probably down to the fact that the majority sold are 16gig capacity handsets.
[Galaxy S III General] vishwamohan:
My phone started operating normally again. Atleast it has not died on me for the past 24 hours. I charged my phone using usb cable thru my laptop. CPU usage seem ok. Just to try, I played fifa12 on it but it did not hang. I am keeping my fingers crossed for the next few days.
[Galaxy S III General] kroata:
Ty
[Galaxy S III General] Vrykyl:
Ok, well my pre-christmas SGS3 death was:

Charger was a 1a genuine original HTC charger (from my original Nexus One)

16gb launch day handset

Charged overnight with phone switched on - died when i unplugged it.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Fellows if your phone died please check your charger.

and report it here

Does there stand 1.0A or 2.0A??

As you can see mine is 1.0A
[Galaxy S III General] maf1otul:
all the stock chargers are 1.0A, and I think most of us have the stock one
[Galaxy S III General] fedort:
I've got my media scanner disabled. I wonder if there are people whose phone died had media scanner disabled.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Is that so? someone mentioned that samsung stock chargers are 1.0 or 2.0 so i would love to hear that everyone has 1.0 so that we can excluse this also... just troubleshooting
[Galaxy S III General] Arteni:
Omg, it is very strange this problem in GS3.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
1A 0r 2A doesn't cause any problem as it only makes phone charges in shorter time. Problem happens when voltage is higher

Hit thanks if it helps :)
[Galaxy S III General] droidgirl74:
So, is your phone still alive then?

I've disabled media scanner, mounted my 32 GB Lexar sdcard as internal storage, installed link2sd and have tuned some ext4 settings now to reduce writebacks (at the cost of data integrity, but until now it runs great), as I'm finally convinced, that my loved toy could be the next to die... Now I've only left around 240MB on my internal storage which I can't delete, cause it's the system itself ;)

Still not sure, whether it will be helpful, though...

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[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
if it charges faster why could it not be heating up more? in combination with high cpu usage ??
[Galaxy S III General] long_rainy_day:
sudden death, really disappointed

What happened:

I bought the phone last June worked until Dec 27,

I never do overnight charging, but I do charge the phone while it is ON. I unplug it immediately when the light becomes green.

The phone died with the battery around 29%, the charger wasn't plugged at the time, The screen just went dead. It did not show any signs of trouble before.

I bought the phone while I was in Dubai, UAE

Where phone was made: made in Vietnam by samsung

Where battery was made: cell made in korea assembled in Vietnam, it says made 2012.05.17

What firmware you were running: Android version 4.1.1 updated just few days ago (around Dec 20 2012)

Can you access download mode: no nothing, dead, no sign of any sort

charger type: original samsung 1.0A, made in china,

charging while ON: yes

charging overnight: NO,
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
You know much about phones are you really a girl:laugh::good:

i don't really think it has something to do with the usage of the eMMc itself. i think we need the search somewhere in the charging of the phone, 85% died while charging
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Cause phone takes what it needs then it stop charging in 2 words amperage is like a river flow...you have a battery which needs 2100 mA to be charged. If you use 1A It takes longer than 2A to fill

Hit thanks if it helps ;)
[Galaxy S III General] droidgirl74:
LOL, yes, of course I am a girl. Computers have been a very important part of my life for more than half of my life, so I had time enough :) My poor bf is pissed at times, cause I tend to spend too much time with my gadgets ;)

Don't know, if it has too do with the eMMC, but at least it's possible and I don't want to risk it dieing to soon because of that... So, I do what I can, even though I know, that it's not my job, cause I paid pretty much for a maybe soon to be paperweight....

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[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
oke thanks but why does samsung gives us 1ampere charger, whats the advantage for that?

and why is usb only 0.5 ??

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Nice i like :laugh:

come at my place we can spend some time together with gadgets :laugh:

You have any suggestion for new question on the new form i am going to send to all dead phone owners?
[Galaxy S III General] Raugote:
Very alarming thread

anyway, my s3 is a MP 1.100 bough one month after international launch, so far so good, never let it charge overnight

but weird things happens when charging the phone, regarding to videoplayer and the transcode service

from time to time, i've noticed that when i plug my phone to charge (no matter if it's the wall charger or USB) it inmmediatly starts videoplayer with transcodeservice (doing some research on that service and got nothing useful), watchdog throws an alarm about this process, eating 99.9% of the processor, and heating up a lot, so my guess is that this process is eating all the processor and thus, heating up the phone

when i kill this process manually before or a few moments after watchdog alert is thrown, heat goes back to normal and so is processor ussage

this happens with stock samsung or any custom rom, so my advice is to keep an app monitoring process usage, especially while charging, to prevent overheating

hope mine doesn't bricks because of some "nice" manufacturer decided to invert less in soldier mounts, just like the RROD on xbox 360 did
[Galaxy S III General] attila95:
Now I'm afraid of changing my I9300. :( I bought it 2 weeks ago. It's a 1.100 version. I unlocked sim with a play store app. If my phone dies would my provider change my phone? (T-Mobile Hungary is the provider)
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Well it's the suitable amperage for s3 of course they know what to do as it's their job..about usb, pc or any usb output is 0.5 as it's a standard value
[Galaxy S III General] droidgirl74:
LOL :)

No, I don't have any suggestion yet, cause I think, the most important questions were already asked. If I should come to a further suggestion, I'll post it.

I'd only like to see some more people donate their fried motherboards/phones to AdamOutler, cause I think that could be a valuable solution to our problem.

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[Galaxy S III General] Marilize-Legajuana:
Raugote, what is that app "watchdog"? can you give a link please.

in 2-3 days my galaxy s3 is arriving, i decided not to cancel my order :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III General] b0gd4n:
Is this okay? I got my phone from repair yesterday.
[Galaxy S III General] Raugote:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS56b211dC53YXRjaGRvZ2xpdGUiXQ..

It's monitors cpu usagge
[Galaxy S III General] Fallen04:
Got my phone back today and attached is the hardware version. Didn't check the version before the phone died.
[Galaxy S III General] dli7319:
Did they ask for receipt or invoice when repairing?