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[Galaxy S III General] Wazaa89:
And was your phone rooted? I'm getting a bit scared they might discover that my phone is rooted even though it does not boot in a single mode.

Is this the sane one?

Thanks for your answer
[Galaxy S III General] yours.genesys:
Yes it was... f7 is what someone calls "sane"... until a new problem emerges :(
[Galaxy S III General] Wazaa89:
Are your problems not solved then? I would be so glad if i got my phone back fixed. Although I'm seriously doubting if I'm ever getting another Samsung.

HTC has much better client support. My previous smartphone was a HTC desire and the speaker for calling broke.

After reverting back to stock, just to make sure, ( I was running custom ROM after a week i got him) they came to pick it up , and dropped it 2 weeks after, fixed without questions asked. Although they downgraded for some reason. And because I had to root it again I'm guessing they replaced the MB. => Service as it should be!
[Galaxy S III General] droidchoice:
It would have been easier to teach a cat to juggle than talk with the script jockey in her Frenglish mix today. The email said "Please note: If the information cannot be provided within 8 business days, the unit will be returned as is."

So I am wondering if they were able to boot the phone at all . Do I pay the examination fee and then let them return it to me or simply let the 8 business pass and expect the phone back as is?
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
It's not illegal to root a phone in the US now. The exemption from defying the carrier and unlocking a locked phone yourself through hacks/mods/buying a code off eBay has been revoked. So basically it's illegal to defy a carrier who refuses to unlock your device if you're under contract. It is not, however, illegal to:

1. Buy an already unlocked phone

2. Unlock the device yourself if the carrier refuses to do so in a timely manner

3. Unlock any device purchased before 1/24/13 yourself, as this doesn't apply to those "legacy" devices.

Is it stupid? Yes, absolutely. Is anyone going to come knocking on your doorstep if you do this? No, probably not. I'd say the odds are slim to none, because no one will know that you're doing it and there are more important matters to pursue.
[Galaxy S III General] vipermo:
Im thinking the same just got my n4 and loving it might put my s3 on gumtree now n4 so amazing
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
Guys if you want to discuss you new found love of the N4 maybe take it to another thread :)
[Galaxy S III General] htnprm:
Mine might be too, but mobile data is relatively expensive, and public wifi relatively uncommon in New Zealand.
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Makes sense. Don't want to get off on a rabbit trail. Back to the topic at hand: Today is when my S3 was to arrive at Anovo for repair. I'll track the FedEx when I get home to confirm. As soon as I get am update from them as to what they say the cause was and if they are going to fix it for free I'll update
[Galaxy S III General] tsitska:
hi all,

I have updated android version on 4.1.2 and now I have baseband version: I9300XXELLA (see attached pic)

but eMMC check is showing me FwRev: 0xf1 (see attached pic 2)

Is SDS already fixed or I should do other changes
[Galaxy S III General] camil:
you should be fine (anyway you can't do more - you can't change the chip version by software)
[Galaxy S III General] ZacharyUK:
My s3 recently sudden death'd on me. It was fine over night but come the morning it had gone. It was only rooted and was on 4.1.2 i think. ( i had not updated since i bought it from the shop a few months ago)

It was rooted anyway and i had not used triangle away, i sent it to my repair shop who get it into download mode and cant flash back any stock roms, they say samsung may reject warranty because of the root. My screen in download mode shows

"Custom binary download : No

Current Binary: Samsung Offical

System Status: Custom"

My attempts to put back stock roms keep failing because it will say there is no PIT partition.

If i send this back to Samsung, will they repair it? I live in the UK so i'd think so right?
[Galaxy S III General] syrisara:
I think you will get warranty because the sudden death is a hardware failure that will occur with our without root. Sudden death is caused by an emcc chip from a certain revision. Google it.

More people got new mainboards in their phones even with rooted phones.

Are you absolutely sure it is a sudden death?

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[Galaxy S III General] ZacharyUK:
It must be, it was working before bed. I checked Simpsons Tapped Out, set my alarm, locked it and left it on the desk, not on charge.

Came to in the morning, phone on the samsung logo and will go no further.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
On full sds, they cannot detect root (can't get into download mode) which is why so many weren't rejected.

They do reject it if download mode says custom, even though according to eu legislation, they have to prove root caused the fault to reject.

Unfortunately, half sds as described here, also sets download mode to custom even if NEVER rooted. These have been rejected too
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
Not true, it depends of the country. Europe has best chances. You can Google and won't find any place that Samsung admited there is a problem with it. What they say is: there is a vulnerability on rooted phones (very convenient) so resuming they will fix if in your country rooted phones are not a reason to cancel warranty (maybe a service center that doesn't report it was "custom" because knows is not a reason)

If you had no acccess to download mode it would be fixed (but you can't change that)

Unfortunately I read some UK problems but is not possible to know there was something else to cancel warranty because at first it would use European policy

Good luck. I hope someone here can even tell you a safe place to send it.
[Galaxy S III General] ZacharyUK:
That's worrying. Like i said only one part says Custom. I have tried to reset back to Stock. But usually what happens is Odin wont as it says that it cant find the PIT file. I have read and people advise to then use one for the model of phone, but this doesnt work as when i specify one in Odin it sits and times out at

<ID:0/003> Can't open the serial(COM) port.

Have rebooted, tried other usb ports. XP sp3 compatability mode. Run as Admin etc. Im running win7 64bit at the moment.

Is this worth making a new thread about to try and recover anything?
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
And my battle with Samsung still continues after a judicial deposit I got the phone. Did someone got the same replace or have any information about it ?
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
That's a REALLY weird chip ID. They must have changed manufacturers completely?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
All you can do is try and send ity back to them and link to this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37960638&postcount=4327
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
Yes really weird , and it was fixed by a service center from Samsung (doesn't fix any other brand). Weird date too :/ Hopefully is something better than VUT00M
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
so they're now using the same eMMC as the Nexus 4 :cyclops:

edit : not sure but its seems made by toshiba O.o

edit 2 : can u post last_kmsg :)
[Galaxy S III General] mat7bit:
I'll buy an used s3 soon, how I can see if It could have in near future a sudden death?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Use the eMMC brick bug app to check if it is VTU00M 0xf1
[Galaxy S III General] ZacharyUK:
I'm going to try that and see what happens. Fingers crossed....
[Galaxy S III General] SpudULike:
Who is the 'they' of which you speak???

I fell foul of this back in early January. I felt it was a lost cause for a while, then I contacted the authors of the EU Law piece. They reminded me that my sales contact, which this EU Law covers, is not with Samsung the manufacturer, but with whoever I bought the device from. The issue was slightly more complicated, by me, because I had bought the phone from a Samsung branded shop and had melded the two entities into one. Armed with this news, and once I'd found my receipt, I marched off to the shop to hand it in. They didn't ask for the receipt, though the shop 'Tech support' staff did try to get it into download mode. 10 days later it was back with me working, 10.042 days later it was rooted again ;)

Are those people who are having their phones turned away under warranty approaching the seller directly???

I did promise to write this up much much earlier, sorry for not doing so.

--

Colin.
[Galaxy S III General] stothy862:
My phone appears to have reached full sds. The phone wont even turn on. When I contacted samsung they refused to honour my warranty as I bought the phone through ebay (new I might point out) and the warranty doesn't pass on to new owners (despite me being the only person to USE the phone.

Has anyone encountered a situation similar to this? No phone shop will even set foot near the phone as I have no proof of purchase with the IMEI number attached, the ebay seller wont reply to emails and ebay wont refund me as its after their cool down period.

What do I do guys? It is obviously not something I've done this is a very common problem!

EDIT: I have sent an angry email back to samsung and I'm now awaiting a reply. although I don't expect any action, morally they should fix my phone as they have made one big **** up here.
[Galaxy S III General] SpudULike:
Was it on Contract, PAYG, or sim free??? Each type of phone comes with different states of paperwork? Ebay's words on warrany
[Galaxy S III General] stothy862:
Ah it may have been an Unwanted upgrade, it was either that or just sim free but the former is more likely. That's not good for me then!
[Galaxy S III General] daveba:
Just buy a cheap jig (search ebay for "galaxy jig"). Allegedly you can get back into download mode even on a s3 (although no counter reset possible) and then just flash MB1. Your best bet for your new paperweight.
[Galaxy S III General] Cjen1987:
I used the wrong kernel on mine. it was a hard brick. But i sent it out to http://brickedmyphone.com/store/ and got it back within a week.

If it a soft brick then a jig will work.

But if it doesnt turn on but you can take the battery out and plug it into a pc and it reads the light will turn on. you can find the drivers using drivermax.

Odin will connect to your phone after but you wont be able to use it do to the fact your hard brick.

Thats the closest to getting out of a hard brick.

I always wonder if I had a micro to two usb's.

the hooking up a jig and the other to a pc would work.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
I don't think you understand what SDS is. SDS is a full, hardware brick due to a dead/corrupt eMMC chip.
[Galaxy S III General] syrisara:
Yep,

Sd is dead really dead. Only new mainboard can help you!

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[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
I bought mine off EBay and Samsung had me ship it to one of their repair centers in the UK. Unfortunately, FedEx just called me the other night because Customs is holding the package until $120.00 is paid. Now I need to fill our more paperwork and send to FedEx that Rollins that this is not an import into their country but a warranty repair coming right back to the U.S.. what a pain
[Galaxy S III General] marvi0:
Am in UK, I just went on line and searched for my nearest Samsung repair centre, took in they never asked any questions and a week later, it was back repaired.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
When I shipped from the US to Germany via FedEx, I wrote the value of the phone (price I paid) on the packing slip and also included a printed receipt/invoice from Amazon. There was no holdup or required payment because they understood the phone was paid for already. They think you're importing it for sale because you didn't include a proof of purchase.
[Galaxy S III General] stothy862:
Cheers that's great news! Can you confirm that the walk in centre you went to wasn't actually Samsung branded because the one it's sending me to is called "Fonebooth"
[Galaxy S III General] thedadio:
Hi i have the bugged emmc chip. Im running siyah 1.8.9 kernel which supposedly includes the sds fix. I am also running omega v44. Am i protected? Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
yep :)
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
nope.

You also need to make sure you are running a recovery with the fix such as Philz.
[Galaxy S III General] thedadio:
Im running latest version of twrp
[Galaxy S III General] marketta:
s3 dead

To me it is dead really the other day left the night reigning as it is normally used and the morning dead and hot and it doesn't now turn on more even putting a new battery and if I put him/it reigning it heats to die.

I have quickly recorded the cell on the site Samsung I have made online an application of assistance and I am now waiting for answer and that they come to withdraw him/it or if I owe him him to send.

I inform purchased first two weeks of June 2012 and now died first days of March 2013

Lasted around 9 months, I premise I have never adjourned or made modding of any kind:crying::mad::mad::mad:
[Galaxy S III General] tha_devil:
shall deadeir

Ok finally have again answer from Samsung repair center. They say my motherboard has abnormal power consumption, and that it could have been caused by dropping the phone.

Now my question is, how the hell can they measure that if the phone does absolutely nothing?

Did you guys every hear about this, and would it be typical for sudden death or not?

thanks!!
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
Ha. What a cruel joke
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Well FedEx called me today to let me know the phone has been released from customs and should be at repair center by tomorrow
[Galaxy S III General] crumec:
type : VTUOOM

FwRev : 0xf7

HW Rev 1.500

12/2012

Safe? :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III General] :
May be, please see at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1993044

and check with eMMC Brickbug Check

Hope to help you ;)
[Galaxy S III General] ph0bic:
hello guys..bought my phone in july last year in malaysia but right now currently studying in russian federation, so my question is is it possible to claim the warranty here in russia? although i know the obvious answer is..but just want to make sure.. and if i want to get it repaired here..how much it would possibly cost? anyone have the similar issues like me?
[Galaxy S III General] crumec:
sorry, correct is :

type : VTUOOM

FwRev : 0xf7

HW Rev 1.100 *

12/2012

I'm save? :S
[Galaxy S III General] x3sed:
@crumec Man why can't you just use the app posted below :s
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
0xf7 is safe.
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
I have the phone locked and upgrade to 4.1.2 and root with CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 and apply ariza patch and have network again.

In this process I had lost the sudden death fix?

How can I have ariza patch and sds fix both togheter?

thanks

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Yes it is. They gust replaced the 0xf1 with 0xf7 in my phone.

The weird thing is that my phone consumes with 30% less power than before now :what: . Amazing
[Galaxy S III General] Anik8:
My SGS3 joined the SDS club last saturday. I made a phone call on it with no issues. 5 minutes later I see the blue notification LED flash, and try to switch on the phone. Doesn't seem to respond, thought the LED is still blinking. So I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot and no luck. That's about when I realised it had to have been SDS.

My phone met most of the patterns. 16GB International - about 8 months old - 30% battery.

The next morning I went to the local service center. The technician checked the phone, and said that my IC had blown because of physical damage. After laying some knowledge on him, he agreed to fix under warranty. Initially said to come in a day for the phone, but the next day he called saying the entire board will need to be replaced. Under warranty, ofcourse. (I was intially scared because I had rooted my phone and flashed ELK4 and CWM. With a blown IC, post-repairs, the fact that I had rooted would have been found. Thankfully it was fully dead :p)

3 days later - and I have my phone back. The best part is, it was replaced with a 32GB board. So I now have a 32GB Samsung Galaxy S3 hah.

More of an upgrade, than a fix :)
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
@Anik8 I'm jealous now :screwy:

Mine was freezing and they replaced the main board, but replaced with a 16 gb like the previous one.
[Galaxy S III General] sgsboyo:
All these cases of rooted phones being fixed free of charge seriously pisses me off. I probably should stop reading this forum!
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Mine was $125.00 dollars just to ship it to repair center. I'm sure they will call me tomorrow to inform me of some reason it isn't covered under warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
As I recall did yours die yet of Sudden death or were you just experiencing freezing issues?
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Mine bit the big one completely. Was on the phone, hung up, 5 minutes later had blue led sip went to check for message and nothing. Battery pull, still nothing. No charge. Even my jig would not put it into download mode or anything.
[Galaxy S III General] Wazaa89:
Had exactly the same thing and after I returned it to the local shop. They send it to a samsung service center and I followed it online. I noticed the status did not changed anymore for a week. So I called the shop and they said that the electronic circuit (I hope this means the Motherboard) has been replaced and he is on he's way back to the shop. Should arrive by the end of this week.

Fingers crossed for a sane chip
[Galaxy S III General] ollza:
Sudden death of my galaxy s3 LTE (4g)

im kinda pissed off and idk should i be proud or what because i might have done a new world record of "sudden death" with my new s3 lte witch i got 5.3.13 21:30 (gmt+2), after recharging from 2% to 100% i checked my new s3 out and downloaded some games and so from play store because of performance stats of s3 lte version. At 20:30 6.3.12 my screen turned off and didnt turned on... so i removed the battery and tried to turn on but nothing more than some stupid samsung logo and that blue led light and it shutted down again... did that about 20 times or more but with no results. i made an letter to my mobile provider and lets see then how well they will fix this **** because i insist an replacement of s3 lte version. its not worth it to spend that warranty in 23 hours... But still i will give an 4/5 score of that s3 lte version, i hope that someday they will work more on that s3 phone then s4. so i should be proud of holding the world record :D atleast i havent seen no post that it has been died quicker then 23 hours :D
[Galaxy S III General] Frostik:
Hi, just a check that it's worthy to send to repair :)

I have SGS3, affected chip (VTU00M, FwRev 0xf1), firmware XXELLA and the phone freezes. Sometimes it restarts itself, sometimes I have to do it myself. What do you suggest?

Thanks

Frostik
[Galaxy S III General] paralion:
eMMC says "insane chip", phone hangs, despite of Firmware XXELLA

Same here. I have XXELLA on my S3, despite that eMMC brickbug check says I have an "Insane Chip"

Phone is unrooted and with no modifications.

Started 2 weeks ago, first one per day, but it got worse and worse. Now I can barely run it for more than a couple of minutes untill it freezes.

INTERESTING though: While I was preparing to send the phone to service, I was running some streaming Radio (TuneUp Radio) on it, and since then the phone did NOT Hang for hours...

Dont wanna steal anyones time, and I will edit this post as soon as it hangs... but this is really eye-catching so far...

:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] Frostik:
Hi Paralion,

In other thread user leinad suggested me this post. Unfortunately it did not help for me, but it might for you or someone else..
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
This thread is about a firmware bug preventing the phone from starting. This is off topic. I will report the post to a mod so they can split it to a new thread of its own where it may get better attention
[Galaxy S III General] graffixnyc:
A Sr. Mod has to split it. What I can suggest is just have the poster create a new thread. I will delete his post. This will be quicker than waiting for a Sr. mod to do it.

Edit: My bad. A Sr mod can merge posts. I do have the rights to move it to a new thread which I have done
[Galaxy S III General] core720:
Cm10.1 fix death s????

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] camil:
yes
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Since 9th January on nightlies
[Galaxy S III General] lumogox:
Same issue here, could you do something?
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
<ID:0/005> Re-Partition operation failed.

This is typical for the "half" sudden death. The eMMC is bricked. Get the mainboard replaced by warranty.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] juanmanuelsanchez:
Sadly mine died this night after charging. So I need to know if there is a way to install or make it work under recover to flash the fix.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
Nope, no chance. The eMMC is bricked. Get the mainboard replaced by warranty.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] veteran_troller:
Is omega rom v43.1 enough for fixing all issues of galaxy s3 like sudden death and exynoss ?

Do I need philz recovery in that case or CWM is fine

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36499838
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
The parts of the SDS-Fix are:

- A ROM with the fix built in

- A kernel with the fix built in

- A recovery with the fix built in

- The most recent bootloader, but really only if you go into the bootloader a lot. I'm staying on the old one because I don't like how the new one auto-increments the flash counter just for having a custom ROM on my device.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
The fix is not in the rom.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
I say ROM because some ROMs come with unpatched kernels (e.g. pre-Omega ROM 39 I believe).
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Its Just semantics

The SDS fix is in the kernel code. You need a kernel with the fix in, a recovery using a kernel with the fix in and a bootloader update.

Saying a rom has the fix is a little confusing when people read the sticky thread
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Update

Well today I called ANOVO to get a status update and they inform me that they can't fix my phone because the IMEI says it was made in USA. I explain to them that (1.) I gave my IMEI # to Samsung US originally and they directed me to Samsung UK because it was not a US phone, (2.) I spoke to Samsung UK and after giving them my IMEI number they instructed me to send it to ANOVO for repair, and (3.) that the GT-I9300 International version is not made in the US period. If it were it would not be quad core nor would it be branded as an I9300 International.

I now have to call them back in 2-3 days to get an update after they email Samsung UK about the issue. This is so screwed up and depressing. Basically as it stands now I can't get my phone fixed anywhere here in the US or anywhere overseas. Am I just supposed to throw it in the trash?
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
They should know the GT-i9300 is not made or sold in the US... That's why Samsung US can't fix it in their Texas facility. The US models have completely different parts.
[Galaxy S III General] zozon83:
Hello everyone.

If my S3 dies from SDS and i send it to Samsung for repair, how do they check if software was official or custom, phone rooted ot not or with unbrended firmware? Is it possible in case of SDS to get into odin download mode?

Since I´m using my phone for about 5 months, no problems so far, would you advise to update to 4.1.2 or to stay on 4.1.1 and simply wait for sudden death and claim the warranty?

Type:	VTU00M

Date:	04/2012

FwRev:	0xf1
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
Go to first post, read up and follow the links as all your questions are answered there but, yes you need to upgrade