yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] maranello69:
lol :) pwnd
[Galaxy S III General] maxq1:
This is how I charge my batt too. Anyone who does so too who's experienced sds? Got mine <200days, still working, so I still can't say though. Seems to me that people who usually charge their phones overnight using the standard charger through the wall socket eventually have their s3s die on them, either right after charging or after further use. Just drawing on straws here. It's become unnerving to wake up your phone from sleep from all these. Damn samsung!
[Galaxy S III General] pigglett:
A nokia cable a few years old
[Galaxy S III General] CSeb95:
Can someone with graphic skills make an avatar and/or a signature to represent S3 SDS death.

Like this, it may be most easily widely seen .
[Galaxy S III General] jarule08_2008:
is confirmed that 32gb no have this problem and CM10 (jellybam...) can cause SD ??????
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
No, some guys from a french forum said had SDS even on 32gb model. Don't remember where i have read this, but was here on XDA
[Galaxy S III General] aniobash:
Someone could create a FB group about sudden death. There the problem should be spread faster.
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
You can use this until someone makes a better one.
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
My phone is on delivery status. I bet ill have it by tomorrow or Thursday
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Haha, I fail at calculations it seems... I calculated a week with 14 days lol

August 12th, so that's 149 days... my bad!

Swyped from my Galaxy SIII using Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] KeesStolk:
Thanks for making this correction.

You know that there is a standard calculator and calendar in all most every rom / base?

No hard feelings, but with this kind off claims it can put people off :)
[Galaxy S III General] prakalejas:
Never fail again: http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html

ps. maximum usage days can be (for today): 225 and I've seen many over that number in this forum: it's either kids with no ability to calcutale, or apple fanboys, spreading the fear :)
[Galaxy S III General] Grimthorr:
I ended up taking the device to Phones4U in the end as I couldn't wait for the prepaid package from Samsung. They sent it off for repair straight away (on 27/12/2012) and and it's now on it's way back to the store. It seems to have been repaired under warranty even though I'm sure they knew it had been rooted/flashed. The repair outcome is noted as "BoardSwap (Rebuild)" on Phones4U's repair tracker. I had the 16GB version so fingers crossed I'll get a 32GB version to replace it (and that the issue doesn't reoccur after another 6 months).
[Galaxy S III General] KeesStolk:
Not entire correct, i bought mine at 27 may 2012 and that makes it 226 days.

And to enigma1981, i also need to use my calculator and calendar more often, i first claimt 228 days and that isn't correct :)

But enough, this is Off topic.
[Galaxy S III General] waisblut:
Just Died:(

Hey, mine just died yesterday night while charging on the wall with my SGS2 charger....(I always use this SGS2 charger)

Just to let people know.

:crying:
[Galaxy S III General] turt:
Mine is 225 days today (28/5/2012), I'm still concerned about my stock browser which clears itself as soon as I go back to the main screen or if another app pops up... Despite a clearing of anything related to the browser, a restore of a previous version using Titanium backup and so on. Could it be that this is a premise of NAND fail on my device? :/
[Galaxy S III General] 80000037:
OMG, from 296 days to 149 days???

You're way off man ... LOL
[Galaxy S III General] fedort:
Thanks for letting me know, it doesn't matter which charger to use then.
[Galaxy S III General] nmeuret:
Yes, but the question is : is 'wall charging' matters versus PC/USB charging ??
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Good link this calculated my s3's life at 218 days starting 24th may till 27dec.
[Galaxy S III General] alkanbw:
One question. Do you think that i could be problem with charger. I am using cherger from Nokia E-52 - cause it's longer. Is it safe ?
[Galaxy S III General] didicola:
for those who dont want the new bootloader as it has nothing to provide ( it doesnt repaire exynos bug or the suddent death) here is a flashable zip i found on an italian forum that restores the ics boot loader

i just flashed from odin stock ics xxblg8 i rooted the rom with CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 and then i flashed this zip all credit goes to the italian guys

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jm0ygs26gkcdyb9/Restore_Bootloader_XXALE8.zip
[Galaxy S III General] deadpixels:
Two things: my HW is 1.500, do I need to worry? As I understand it it's just 1.100 and under that sem to be affected...

Also, just read this: http://www.samsungupdate.com/androi...y-s3-sudden-death-and-exynos-security-exploit

Is it legit? And how would it work with custom roms/kernels?
[Galaxy S III General] zoot1:
Signature PIC

Okay guys..for all the unfortunate victims..with my condolences..

use this link if you want to add this pic to your signature.

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/6594/sdsb.png
[Galaxy S III General] kaiur:
nobody really knows...
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
Hi all.

I'd analyze all datas about death and saw that the problems hit devices that was bought between may - Agosto..

The nand memories and the mainboard have X numbers of writing and X life time. I think that the problem is an Hardaware problem.

All device die after 150 - 220 days... i think that samsung had a mistake about life time.
[Galaxy S III General] TeeJayEss:
204 days (though I am getting random lockups and reboots), used my old GS2 charger almost all the time.
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
Timmy when u bought devices?
[Galaxy S III General] Ottoman52:
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[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
I know.

I says on italian forums this.

We must wait 1-2 mounths to confirm mine teory . But i think that will be confirmed
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
bull****!! what you mean by all devices die between 150 and 200 days? is it a matter of destiny or what?? now you say all S3 phones die? have heard about millions of SDS or whatever???just to make you feel comfortable, mine was bought on 29/05 so make a sample calculation and tell me why mine still alive then!! maybe it's Robinson Crusoe !!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] "D":
Update:

226 Days and no Probs.:good:

16GB White Variant
[Galaxy S III General] bruno12345:
I bought my SGS3 6.8.2012. in Croatia. Am I safe?
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
as if he knows!! you are asking a hex
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
Wait. I'm not Nostradamus.

I had analyze all datas and saw that the dies was manifestate on device that was bought between may and agoust.

The life time is 150 - 230 days and i says mine teoryies.

I think that the problem was an hw problem . The mainboard is corrupted . If the problem was a Sw problems i think that the samsung release a fix. But some people that use Xella and bought devices between may and agoust have a die.

If on next months the people that bought devices after agoust / september will have sudden death i wrong... but i'm so secure...
[Galaxy S III General] tvzoeren:
Galaxy S III 0 - 1 Sudden Death

My experience:

2 nights ago I wasn't woken up by my alarm because the phone was turned off. After booting up, it didn't show a depleted battery (around 20% remaining). I didn't think too much about it back then.

Today, the battery was around 20% so I decided to charge. 10 minutes into charging, suddenly it started vibrating heavily and continuously. It was totally unresponsive too, so I removed the battery and put it back to see if it would boot up. It would not. It still freezes at the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen. No recovery mode too,

It has been since July and I have a 16gig version, so I think it all pans out.
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
Can u enter in download mode ?
[Galaxy S III General] Ottoman52:
I can . but i gave errors in odin (re-partition errors) I tried several pit files. The same error occurs. So even if you enter download mode it doesn't work.
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
The problem is Nand memory .

Had u try to flash ONLY PIT with repartition ? ( without PDA )
[Galaxy S III General] alformiga:
samsung is doing us all real clowns .. this is a joke
[Galaxy S III General] thedigger:
Ottoman52

You have exactly the same symptoms I had. Mine got delivered to Samsung today, fingers crossed it will be back and working soon!
[Galaxy S III General] blackspeedy:
You did have orginal software right?
[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
What theory?
[Galaxy S III General] Ottoman52:
Yes but the same error again and again.

When i choose cancel in download mode screen, phone restarts and stops at opening text Samsung galaxy sIII and locks at there. after a few minutes without charger it closes down.
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
The problem is NAND memory.

Digger when u bought device?
[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
Well, if gs3's that are bought after august will not die after some months, I THINK that is a hw problem and later samsung has fixed the problem on mobo
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
Exactly
[Galaxy S III General] striving-to-survive:
here's what happened to me :

i used the phone before i went to sleep browsing and stuff then plugged in charger

next day, i woke up slightly late as the alarm didn't go off which i found weird

i pressed home button but no response and i saw the red led on which meant it was charging but no response

removed battery several times but nothing

tried all boot methods but no response, it is now an expensive paperweight

here's my question, since i was on omega rom and rooted, will samsung find out ? it seems that they will have to change the board so is that enough to hide the whole rooted thing? or will they find out
[Galaxy S III General] Ottoman52:
I kindly invite you to protest samsung in social media. Just make a TT and at least we can grab info.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36445347#post36445347
[Galaxy S III General] CSeb95:
What's a TT ??
[Galaxy S III General] Ottoman52:
Trend Topic in Twitter . and we can aim samsungMobile twitter page.
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
Twitter :D

Thing is we are not alone, now Note 2 has SDS around....
[Galaxy S III General] wrbex:
Nope, you'r not safe...I bought mine about 01.09.2012 in Croatia (VIP), and it died about 25.12.2012.

Today I have received it from service center. And as it's stated in service papers they replaced mainboard, and speaker, and that's first time that I have read that someone was replaced speaker?!

here is ss of my news hardware...i got hw 1.100 again :(

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hvotimk8sjm7sbl/Screenshot_2013-01-08-16-26-11.png

But on another hand, they did not replaced my silver (alu?) rounding case that was cracked, about which I told them...When I sent phone, there was only one crack below power button

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6qtmr8nt2v257e/20121214_153949.jpg

And when I got it back, there was another crak below volume down rocker :( no picture of that....

Just sent them mail, about it, and waiting to see what happends...

wish me luck :)
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
Really? Note 2 now! Could you lead me to the link?
[Galaxy S III General] fmtrx:
no! it is the Highlander! :D At the end there will be only one!

loool well said :) this thread has become very entertaining!

Do not take into account when you BOUGHT the phone. But when it was tested. (date of RF cal)

I bought it in October 15. But before starting jumping with happiness and start drinking beers,

i 'd better see the damn RF cal date... Which shows June 20.

I enjoy thinking that the fault is at a certain robotic mechanism in the factory chain for a limited time before they noticed,

and that there were multiple of them that were functioning ok , so only a small percentage was affected.

The late date of purchase just ensures less NAND wear.

- well this is a very loose assumption it is meant for an average use; not everyone reads/writes his memory the same.
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
We must wait.

We will be saw on future
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
i don't have a link but here is one recent story:

a friend of mine bought his note 2 on 21 december. on 24 december the phone refused to start. dead as a brick. SDS at it's best. QED
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
Note 2 sudden death too?

I said that the problem is on nand's life time

U had bought on 25 /05

U have now about 225 days ... if u override 250 days u will be lucky :P :P
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
Was somewhere in this thread.. some pages back, somebody quoted some note 2 SDS cases.
[Galaxy S III General] TeeJayEss:
18th June
[Galaxy S III General] thedigger:
Early July 2012
[Galaxy S III General] azrieqb:
Just want to share. Built in august. Mobo fw 1.100. Still working like a charm. Sorry if I'm offended anyone, just don't want anyone to think there is no living s3 out there. :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
I know

June e july...

The device that was bought on first week in september had more probability that was bought before and was sell after..

I think that we can wait 2-3 months for device bought Between september and december

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If device was built in agoust.. when e bought ?
[Galaxy S III General] b_henry:
So not only S3´s.. Maybe the exynos exploit is really the cause??!
[Galaxy S III General] azrieqb:
Bought in September. Rarely left it charged overnight. Never used other charger than the stock one. I really think the sds happened only on a small amount of s3. 30 millions sold, don't think all of it will be problem free. Even the airbus a380 reach a customer with a defect. :p
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
That was a quotation from Dr. Ketan but then he explained he has wrote that thread about S3.
[Galaxy S III General] erlos:
I saw that who have problem had a mother board built in 04/12
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
am a heavy user... and to be honest am enjoying my S3 so much but if it dies it dies.. i cant help it!!can i? :p supposing this happens simply i will move to another brand.. after all it's a phone which may die or get broken by anytime

ps: my ref cal is on may :D
[Galaxy S III General] mclaudio:
hi there

i am facing suddent death...

leaved the phone with 78% of charge at night...durint the night ...pufff...

no more phone.

absolutly nothing to do...right? only service reparir?
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
Well, this can be seen from the other side as well. Meaning even Samsung have no clue what is really happening. To support my new theory, let's just think a bit:

1. if it was the NAND, samsung should have replaced the "supposed" lot of NANDs long time ago. But many many many old S3 (read 1st generation of them) are working perfect no matter how many times they were flashed and with a lot of apps installed. and many died with a total different nand lot than the supposed one. Even if the nand is the effect of the SDS, i don't believe is the cause

2. someone belives that Samsung choose to ignore this but i think is not so. is their flagship, a scenario like this will ruin their market for S4 (not to mention thier name as a brand)

3. if it was a software failure (seriously doubt it) samsung have corrected it by now. The new exynos fix is a vulnerability but no one from Samsung dare to say that the Exynos fix is also the SDS fix. Imagine why...

4. Since many of the totally bricked phones died when tried to wake (and a lot of them being charged overnight) my bet is that the SDS is actually a cumulus of several factors that can include a vulnerability in the exynos processor, a weakness in some of the nands and a hardware vulnerability in design. When all these (or some) conditions are met, SDS strike. And because some of the phone are semi-bricked means that not all factors were met to result in a total brick, meaning SDS.

5. If a specific lot of motherboards had some production defect (soldering, whatever) we should not encounter any SDS after let's say september produced motherboards. But i have serious doubts...see Note 2 issues.

I know i am not one of the Samsung engineers (although i am an electronic engineer by profession), i've just tried to use common sense after a lot of reading on this matter. Take it with a bit of salt...
[Galaxy S III General] fmtrx:
I had the Omnia II. A laggy phone. Good HW but the WM + Touchwiz kneeled it. It is irritating that after 3 years this laggy son of a leech is still going strong without the SLIGHTEST glitch. And then i buy the best phone i had ever, and there is a possibility of being in the batch that die too soon. It is funny.

Anyway ..we will think positive...warranty, a good replacement etc etc :)
[Galaxy S III General] DEEBS808:
My s3 is on 1.100 and a about a month or two I cant hear anything while calling out or receiving a call. And niw just the other day it killed my sd card. I think im worried it might SDS soon.

Any one info on the calling problems?
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
Well if it is the case, it's going to start getting expensive for Samsung to replace the mobos in every failed unit, so they really need to find a fix (plus mine having been repaired over 2 months ago, I'm kinda expecting it to die again at some point!) What's the overall sales figure for the Note 2? The S3 is at something like 30 million units worldwide so even if we believe Samsung and it's only "a small percentage" that are failing, that's probably much more than whatever "normal" amount of warranty repair work is planned for by manufacturers...
[Galaxy S III General] kmysore:
Hello - My S3 (16 GB, white, completely stock, not rooted) died on 15-Dec. It was bought on 6th June in Bangalore and was running 4.1.1 at the time of dying. In fact, after upgrading to JB in November, I started experiencing performance issues and random reboots. Hoping to get rid of these issues, I did a factory reset (via settings) at 1:30 PM on 15-Dec. I re-installed the apps from Play Store and sparingly used my phone till 10 PM. The battery was at 39% at the time of going to bed. When I woke up next morning, it was switched off and refused to come back to life when I plugged it to the charger. I did everything that other users have tried (removing the battery, connecting to PC etc). Nothing worked.

Took it to the Samsung service center and was told that the motherboard needs to be replaced. Unlike what other users from India have reported, Samsung service center in Bangalore replaced my motherboard free of cost, no questions asked. As I didn't have a spare phone and couldn't survive without a phone for a week, I ACTUALLY BOUGHT ANOTHER S3 after dropping my dead S3 at the service center on 15-Dec!! Didn't know about SDS at that time and just thought I was one of the unlucky ones to have bought a defective phone...:rolleyes:

Got my repaired phone back on 21-Dec and sold it the same day.

My new phone has a RF cal date of 7-Nov-2012 and comes with a HW Rev of MP 1.100. Hope this one doesn't die. Love this phone and can't find an alternative that's as good as this!

Wow..that was a long story. Thanks for your patience :)
[Galaxy S III General] ali4796:
I have bought my phone on September

But its eMMc chip Date is 5/2012

so, am i vulnerable?

and my phone doesnt have warranty. so if it dies, i can not do anything? :| right?
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35977007#post35977007

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36057135#post36057135

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36170678#post36170678

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36385708#post36385708

Indeed, Note 2 could get the same problems.

Let's see how it develops.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
If it dies, probably not :)!! just smash samsung with it !!!hhh
[Galaxy S III General] alformiga:
Samsung has a site called Samsung SDS, not about the S3...

Cool isn't?
[Galaxy S III General] stonhans:
My phone died while charging, december 21st (funny), and I handed it in for repair the same day. It was rooted with CyanogenMod! So no warranty.. Do you think Samsung will notice? Are they just sending me a new phone for free?

Sent from a classified phone using xda premium
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Wow my S3 from May destroyed my 32gb Sandisk class 10 card in november. Luckily i still had store receipt and got free replacement. Month later it died (Dec 27)

I believe your's was also external SD right?

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NO, mine was also rooted / cwm / omega v35 / overlcocked 1600mhz perseus kernel, if the phone doesn't even boot or go into download mode then you're safe. Dropped off mine on 27th and it was ready with new MB and got sms on 29th. Picked it up on 30th morning. Most likely they will replace the MB and give it back. Worse is you lose everything in your internal SD but that's it.
[Galaxy S III General] stonhans:
I tried using a different battery, charger, everything. No respons, I belive I'm on the safe side :)

Sent from a classified phone using xda premium
[Galaxy S III General] DEEBS808:
I was thinking about getting a note 2 but looks like it is also having problems. Maybe its time to fet back to an iphone ;) lol.
[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
Lol my phone's RF Cal date is 2 December
[Galaxy S III General] mihqke:
So, 2 weeks has passed and it's still in repairs waiting new parts. Looks like it will take at least 3 or 4 weeks for me to get my phone back. That's a shame.
[Galaxy S III General] XeonB:
Hi,

this is my first post and I hope that you will unterstand my german english. So i've heard that some people had problems with repair their s3 because the flashcounter is "1" and/or the system is "custom". But they never rooted or flashed something. Is this normal and if it's normal, are there arguments for this? Is there a thread who explains this or somebody could me explain this thing?

:)
[Galaxy S III General] skivnit:
Who said that? I have tye note 2 since it was available in France and its as smooth as it was on day one.

Swyped from another galaxy
[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
Unfortunately nothing ........as far as we know now
[Galaxy S III General] liamR:
I would not consider an iphone even if I had to replace my android every 6 month :p
[Galaxy S III General] freakerload:
Now it is the question to let the new bootloader on it to be safe?

Or flash old to use triangle away with custom roms.

What do the most people here?
[Galaxy S III General] dr.ketan:
Thank for efforts for collecting data.

Out of 4, two cases still there is download mode available, that may be due to mess up pit.

Two cases sound like sds, but no one have confirmed what was outcome and review from service center.

Still looking to sgs3 here pages and pages of this thread filled with sds, while only 2-3 cases may not stamp same issue on note2.

But yes time will tell how it goes.
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
For me personally, this is the "half" sudden death.

Half - cause it still boots in download mode, but not into recovery or anything other

Sudden - cause in most cases users didn't change anything before

Death - because these cases are nor flashable/repairable by odin, don't care if you use a pit-file or not and the service centers changed the mainboard then.

I think this is a NAND-problem, too, cause of the showed data in download mode (model name goes empty, custom rom download goes from x to No without using traingle away).

Cause of that I think that the main flash is not accessable for the bootloader anymore in these cases.

I assume these cases are related to the SD. At least in a german board it started with more and more "half" SD cases and then later it changed to more SD cases.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] dr.ketan:
Indeed,

This definitely make sense 'they didn't do anything' before half death and should be considered serious.

Let's see some review from user after repair.