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[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
I used to charge overnight as well without issues. And it didn't die on charge just laying on the desk doing nothing. Passed quietly in deep sleep. I came from 2 x 2 RROD xboxes initial launch batches, my latter 2, jasper and Slim still working touchwood.

I'd name my S3's death as DSOD...deep sleep of death:(

Mine was from the first launch batch bought it on May 25th before official launch worldwide. So you still have 2 extra months to pass.

BTW both both battery and phone made in Korea. I hope store gives me option to replace it with something else and i'll prob go with NOTE II.
[Galaxy S III General] Entropy512:
Which is exactly what some posters have indicated - devices that died would sometimes start working again later.

And really, have any of the people here put pressure on their BGAs? None. And I wouldn't advise they do it either - it could make things worse. See the RRoD mess. People would temporarily fix their devices, but they would eventually fail again, and the failure would be more difficult to repair. (Initial failure could be reflowed, failure after increasing clamp pressure often couldn't be.)

We don't need to. We know it supports multiple modes. The question is what modes are used by the bootloaders and such.

You obviously are completely unaware of Samsung's piss-poor track record of wear leveller bugs/defects. No underlying NAND corruption is needed if the wear leveller itself is busted. See the Superbrick fiasco - no NAND corruption there, just wear leveller data structures getting corrupted leading to the wear leveller crashing and hanging. That's in addition to MAG4FA fwrev 0x25's tendency to randomly write out 32kb of zeroes. (At least that one could be recovered from via a filesystem format.)

Um... No it doesn't. There are multiple documented incidents of failure from independent users, AND service centers reporting high failure rates.

That's NOTHING WHATSOEVER like a SINGLE DEVICE that explodes. It isn't ANYTHING like the battery explosion incident.
[Galaxy S III General] saudffs:
Update on the situation

UPDATE:

Sent the phone to Phones4U's repair center on November 22nd and got it back on the 10th of December and they claimed that the phone has water damage and it cannot be fixed, luckily when I bought the phone I also bought a 2 year warranty that covers accidents so I contacted them and sent the phone, 4 days later the warranty guys sent me an email saying the phone "is not repairable due to the high cost or unavailability of parts" but they did not mention the cause.

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S III General] :
This story needs a dignified name, let's call it

samsung suicide smartphone bug

btw, my phone is 4 days old

HW Rev. MP 1.500

Hopefully it won't die too soon :what:
[Galaxy S III General] nicknayemclone:
Using opera normaly, suddent restart and restart continous at boot screen i9300

MADE IN CHINA BY SAMSUNG

CELL MADE IN KOREA, ASSEMBLED IN VIETNAM

Warnamlite v5.2 nowipe

Yes, i can access to download mode, recovery mod, can flash by odin, by recovery but not thing change, still restart continous at boot screen i9300
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
hi,nitin plz tell me is this a case of water damage because as far as i remember i didn't go near water with my phone so that's all but they are citing water damage so plz tell me as i've no knowledge about these things.....

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how do i convince them regarding this........pplz guide it's utterly frustating to spend 38000/- indian rupees and then pay them another 7000 for no fault of mine.

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frankly speaking i didn't get it plz elaborate.........

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hi dhiru frankly i don't know a bit about that but tell me by looking at it do you think it's a water damage....plz guide me this is driving me crazy......My screen already had been damaged by a fall so they void the warranty but i sincerely think that the broken screen has got nothing to do with the motherboard failure
[Galaxy S III General] danielhtc:
frankly speaking i didn't get it plz elaborate.........

Think this means phone will turn on, can play games etc, but cannot make phone calls, can't send sms or internet.
[Galaxy S III General] nitinvaid:
They sad its water damage.so that they can charge u.

u wont get warranty if they convenience you that its water damaged

that is their always trick .

Better to file a complaint

In which city u live
[Galaxy S III General] odm3xda:
hello folks ... reading all of this made me seriously consider selling my device today !!! as i am living in Kuwait and i believe if this issue happens to me i will spend at least a week without a phone and they might not fix it when the week is over with the poor samsung service in the middle east
[Galaxy S III General] saisrujan:
Here's the test for water damage:

Take the back cover and battery off. On the back-wall of battery compartment on the phone, just above the battery terminals, you will find a small square (2mm X 2mm approx) which has a silvery surface with a grid of pink 'X's. Now, if there is NO water logging, the pink 'X's will be clearly visible whereas the background is not pink. If any water reached this surface, the pink from the Xs will bleed into the background, so everything will appear almost pink.

Water-damage may occur for various reasons, not just if you dumped it into a pool of water. I once had water damage just because of heavy sweating on a sultry day. I lost my iPhone because of 'sweat damage'.

Now, if the water-damage label has turned pink, their policy states that the phone is no longer considered under warranty. Their assumption is that the components in the phone got damaged (short circuited etc) because of water and they will not honor any warranty.

If the label does not show any water damage and yet they refused to repair your phone under warranty, take a picture, go to this link - http://www.samsung.com/in/support/main/supportMain.do and click on 'Suggestions to CEO's office'. Enter a phone number using which Samsung can reach out to you, and describe your problem attaching the picture showing the label.

Samsung does seem to be responding to these messages, but I cannot guarantee a solution that will satisfy you. It all depends on how you end up taking to the person that calls you and convincing him that yours is a genuine case.
[Galaxy S III General] Energy2k8:
What happened: Took my phone off the charger yesterday morning, played some games, had lunch, and then the phone was dead.

What ROM/Firmware: Stock 4.1.2

What kernel: Stock

OV or UV: Nope

Where phone was made: No idea

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

I am from the Netherlands and am going to call the internet shop i bought it from to have it repaired under warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] roogerrisboredd:
What happened

I took my final for school and afterward I tried to check my text messages. The screen wouldn't respond to touch.

Where phone was made

After extensive research, the phone was made in Vietnam. The phone is from the UAE,

Where battery was made

Cells made in korea but assembled in vietnam

What firmware you were running

vikingrom 2.2

Can you access download mode?

Yes, hard key and capacatative button is fully function. I can odin but the digitizer won't respond to touch.

My problem is i bought the phone on a trip to the UAE and now im living in the states. Shipping to a samsung care center over there is 200 round trip. I hate life!!!! No other samsung would honor warranty............... I'm never buying a samsung phone again.......................
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Some people use other cable to speed up charging procedure.

May these sudden death be because of using 5 pin cable to charge Instead of original 4 pin ?
[Galaxy S III General] jshashwat93:
Have there been reports of the 32 GB version facing this issue or only 16 GB?
[Galaxy S III General] 80000037:
I also wondering the same.. anyone experience this issue with 32GB or 64GB model?

Because someone said in earlier page that the sudden death occurs because of corrupted IC Flash.

32GB and 64GB model surely use a different IC Flash...
[Galaxy S III General] alecsbv:
Hello i have a samsung s3 made in 04x2012 , VTU00M , 0xf1 , in total this phone has over 200 days of work , the question is : i have any risk of my phone to die ? Should i sell it ? On it says that is made by samsung . Thank you and sorry for my bad english .
[Galaxy S III General] nickpatong:
Death

What happened: when i hang up the call the device turned off alone and now i can't switch on again

Where phone was made: Korea, assembled in Taiwan (i live in thailand)

Where battery was made: Korea

What firmware you were running: 4.0.1

Can you access download mode? NO

very bad! i hope samsung will replace my device istant! cause i can't stay without for a week
[Galaxy S III General] jacobsaleh:
Compilation video of GS3 sudden death on youtube

Media is not moving and ignoring my attempts to get this problem published/answered

I thought about making a Compilation video of many dead GS3s, it is boring but might bounce some media networks.

any thoughts ?
[Galaxy S III General] ponepo:
Yes, my phone gets "sudden death" after 10 days working fine with 4.1.2 Slim Bean 3.0
[Galaxy S III General] opencube:
My S3 has died today.

UK Unbranded version.

Had latest official OTA FW on it, never been rooted, or installed with custom ROMS. had noticed over last few weeks performance being very sluggish, also RAM usage was around 600MB - 850MB when running which I thought may of been quite high.

Anyone give me advice on who i contact to get the thing repaired or replaced? Carphone Warehouse or Samsung UK direct?

Anyone got contact details for who i do need to contact?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] bicapa:
I'm not sure and, actually, my opinion would be wrong but, is there any posibility that these deads would be relationed with the wired charge of the GS3?

I repeat, is a question that would be silly.
[Galaxy S III General] Amos91:
My UK Unbranded S3 has died today. (Release day phone, 30th May, 211 days ago). Was randomly freezing over the last couple of days in apps of just on touchwiz, and wouldn't awake from sleep, holding the power button used to fix it. Tried different roms and kernels thinking it was that before it completely packed in.

What happened: Put on charge (Samsung charger) at 11.30pm. In a bootloop by 3am.

Where phone was made: MADE BY SAMSUNG

Where battery was made: KOREA/CHINA

What firmware you were running: Omega V35

Can you access download mode? Yes. PIT Partition error in Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] r2001uk:
Call Samsung direct on 0330 SAMSUNG. They're pretty friendly and helpful. They'll suggest you take it to an approved walk-in repairer before they deal with it, but they'll more than likely be unable to fix it, in which case Samsung will send you out a prepaid pack to post the phone off to Regenersis, their approved repairer.

Whatever you do though, make sure you remove your SD and sim cards. I was in a rush and forgot to take them out and now it's become a major problem to try and get them back as the supplied phone number is based in Scotland (my phone went to Normanton) and it's 'not showing on their system' even though Samsung have had an acknowledgement from them. Oh and because of data protection, apparently they throw sd cards in the bin. Wouldn't normally be a big deal but it's a 32Gb card with hundreds of irreplaceable photos on that I didn't get round to taking off.

The Normanton office is about 20 minutes away but I'm not even sure they'd entertain my request - or if I'm too late anyway.

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Charging seems to be a common theme with a lot of these deaths, but mine was in my pocket when it died so I personally wouldn't want to blame that.
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
I would love to help. Anything to make the Press come on our side. I am really sick of companies which pretent like everything is just normal and completely ignore what customers are saying. We deserve an explanation and an apology too.
[Galaxy S III General] dajumper:
When I read this treath I notice that a lot of people does have this problem this week? I read today, today my phone is dead, people don't be afraid!
[Galaxy S III General] Angelus1984:
I agree, at least they could say what is causing this problem, and can we all expect this to happen to our phones or is it who has less luck.

It would be fair from them to replace all this models with 32 GB, as someone stated that this models are not prone to this malfunction.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I just send some mails to samsung netherlands, and the two repair services over here. dynafix and proassist.

In this mail i asked then very kind to give more information about the problem

Please do this for your country too, If all the replyers here on xda do this, there is gonna be alot of pressure on the service centers and on samsung

I will post the answers if they arrive
[Galaxy S III General] x3sed:
Man i guess since I bought my phone without warranty (I have no paper at all), the only solution will be: Trash :D

I just bought it yesterday, do I have to give it back, I see that the number of affected users is abnormal. :S

The question here is if either Samsung will absolutely ask for the warranty papers or not :(. I already know the answer... but... :(
[Galaxy S III General] MATTHEWLONG:
I rang Samsung today. No argument's , just agreed to send a jiffy bag for return.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
seems to be issue with media scanner.

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Point thos ***** to this thread. If I was in your place, I could have file a case in consumer courts.
[Galaxy S III General] Grimthorr:
Mine died on Christmas Eve.

Phone model: GT-I9300

Phone SSN: I9300GSMH

What happened: Phone was charging on a 2000mA charger for about 30 minutes when it attempted to restart itself - then got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III GT-I9300" logo.

Phone made: Only info I can find about this is "made by Samsung" under the battery which is unhelpful.

Battery made: Battery has "cell made in Korea, assembled in Vietnam" on it.

Firmware: WanamLite 5.2 with Jkay Deluxe 14.5.4 mod.

Kernel: Siyah Kernel 1.8.5 with standard settings.

Recovery mode: I did have CWM Touch 6.0.1.2 installed but now cannot access it - when trying to boot to recovery the "GT-I9300" logo is shown, then the screen goes black and then it goes back to the same logo.

Download mode: I can access download mode and the info displayed at the top is: "ODIN Mode", no custom binary download, current binary is "Samsung Official" and system status is "Custom". The product name is blank though. I haven't tried flashing back to stock but probably will do when I get home tonight.

I called Samsung and they asked me to boot into download mode so I could read out the info above, which I did. He asked if I'd ever installed custom firmware or rooted the device, I confirmed that I had (I couldn't lie after reading out the info) and then he said that he can tell it's been rooted which voids the warranty. He advised I should call the local repair centre to see if they can still repair/replace it under warranty, which I did but they redirected me back to customer services at Samsung (told me to dial 03307267864 and press hidden option 6). Customer services at Samsung logged the fault & organised for a repair of my phone straight away - no download mode check or technical assistance this time. I was given a job reference number and told that a repair package was on it's way to me.

So fingers crossed! And I'll let you know as soon as I get an update.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
can you send this board to ADAM outler http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3682533.
[Galaxy S III General] nicknayemclone:
same problem with u
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I notice something strange.

When you go to encrypt device, there is showing some information, and also something about the battery must be at least 80% to encrypt.

Now i wanted to encrypt date before my s3 would die but now the information has changed there stands that the battery must be full and not 80%,

Am i mistaking or is this changed.

I had a samsung push service update in these days maybe samsung is doint someting we dont know??
[Galaxy S III General] flavioramos:
Types of death

It seems that there's basically two types of deaths.

1) Complete power failure. Impossible to turn the device on again. No more power indicating lights (even with the power cable plugged in).

2) Still some kind of power, giving the possibility of turning on in download mode.

I think we should start counting these issues. Can we post a poll on this thread?
[Galaxy S III General] mrm43:
Just wanted to confirm if those that suffered sudden death, did you or did you not engaged in overnight charging even for just once during the lifespan of your dead s3? I just want to know those that said theirs didn't die while on charge, but have at least done it (overnight charging) in the past. Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
dimi22 is collecting such data.

Please add the link to your signature.
[Galaxy S III General] 80000037:
I agree, the poll should be just like this:

Which variant of SGS3 you owned that suffered from sudden death?

A, 16GB

B. 32GB

C. 64GB

So we can see whether the 32GB and 64GB variant also suffer the same fate...
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
No-one asked if I'd modified my phone when I submitted if for repair, so there was no dishonesty; my conscience is clear. Rooting played no part in its death regardless, so your point is moot. And I've never used Triangle Away.

You on the other hand, have declared to the world your willingness to defraud your insurance company. Nice. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Calpol:
Well folks - mine is back. Fixed by Samsung and no questions asked about root etc. Now the job of restoring all my apps and settings as damn Kies back up is not working. Kies really is a terrible piece of software.
[Galaxy S III General] ibchh:
I don't know if anyone mentioned this before in this thread. Maybe interessting for XDA Members from the EU http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1998801

BTW, i've bought my phone on release day
[Galaxy S III General] pwhooftman:
Mine dies slowly :)

What happened: took phone of charger yesterday. Noticed phone heated up & battery died in < 5 hours. Charging via USB computerport no longer works, charging via wall outlet works but warms up phone (even when off). Also charging overnight didn't charge the battery past 6%. Putting a charged battery in a cold phone while off heats up the phone near the power button until the battery is dead. Turning the phone on while battery is not dead yet works, phone feels responsive and no abnormal processes are hogging the CPU. Factory Reset & taking out SDCard & Sim does not help.

What ROM/Firmware: Jellybean 4.1.2. (latest official update)

What kernel: CF-Root

OC or UV: no

Where phone was made: dont know, its a first batch (bought near release day in The Netherlands, June)

Where battery was made: Korea, date of manufacture 2012.05.30
[Galaxy S III General] tawheed12:
My first S3 died as well.

Put it on charger, woke up, screen was black, battery pull, nothing worked.
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
It does seem like the majority of phones suddenly dying were bought near release date.

Is there any way of checking what batch the phone was made in?

Maybe checking serial number or something?
[Galaxy S III General] NatTheCat:
What the hell.. I'm so scared of going to sleep now, this is like a tech nightmare.. Holy cow my s3 is a ticking time bomb :(
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
I think the best thing to do is not leave your phone charging over night.

It's probably over kill but I am only charging my phone through USB just in case!! I can't afford to replace it right now.
[Galaxy S III General] boulala:
What happened: woke up. saw LED notification. press home button. didnt turn on but still notification. try to reboot by hold the power button. after it shutdown. it doesn't reboot, charge or can connect to PC. Havent try to use USB JIG yet...

What ROM/Firmware: Omega V33.2

What kernel: Stock

OC or UV: No

Where phone was made: Korea by Samsung

Where battery was made: Korea by Samsung
[Galaxy S III General] narcosis34:
Did any of you used a volume hack guys?
[Galaxy S III General] modmymobile:
What Color phones is this happening most to because to me looking through all the threads it seems its the Blue version SG3 purchased June/August.

Anyone with a white version experienced this Sudden Death?
[Galaxy S III General] bol.gia:
blue for me. Purchased 28 August in Italy.
[Galaxy S III General] Shug69:
White. Bought late May. Crashed a month ago.
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
Not a flashed hack, but I used SpeakerBoost, an apk. Mine was blue by the way (seriously doubt the case color has anything to do with it...)
[Galaxy S III General] jcspecs:
Mine succumbed today. Bought around july. Blue. Had it on my desk about 60% battery. Just would turn on. Thought it may have ben the screen but usb didn't register it. Phone wouldn't boot into download mode using a jig. Charged battery on external charger incase charging mechanism failed. Nothing has brought it back.

On the old faithful i9000 now til monday.
[Galaxy S III General] bunnybash:
Happened to my dads white 32gb bought in June/July

It was on 60% battery, pulled it out of his pocket and not working anymore... USB jig didn't work, it was stock ROM - unrooted.

VERY strange...
[Galaxy S III General] Codekrypt:
Hi guys,

Adam is trying to help the community out and is doing R&D so he needs help to do so and is also willing to offer to unbrick your device in exchange. He hasn't mentioned but because he lives in the U. S I'm sure he needs the bricked device from a person who lives in the U. S. For more information please visit this thread and contact him:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2009490

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] spamtrash:
Aha.... OK... hmmm.. could you please provide me personal contact? You just have told that knowingly and willingly you have violated T&Cs of the warranty, and obtained free of charge service by the fraud.

I'm just wondering if you'll get married, with how many ladies would you sleep if your wife would not ask, having same time good feeling that you're not cheating on her :D:D:D
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
You seek "personal contact"? Thanks, but no. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] tawheed12:
Mine was white and pretty sure it was made in Korea as well..
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
don't know what you mean exactly.. i am coding the device atm and i can feel it heats up very much:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] Energy2k8:
Yes, mine was charged during the night every night.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Yes i think we can ask some more questions indeed. Most of the users have left their mail adres so i can start a new form for users who's phone died and ask them to fill that form. For the new deaths i can add the new question to the existing form.

This is the existing form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdtbV9FMEc2b2gxdTAwME1rNy1taVE6MQ#gid=0

So the new question will be

1. Which variant of SGS3 you owned that suffered from sudden death?

A, 16GB

B. 32GB

C. 64GB

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

a. Yes

b. No

Please help me what other question could be relevant for our criminal investigation department to find the murder or murders or our beloved phones.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
isn't too much 2000 mA??
[Galaxy S III General] Grimthorr:
Yeah but the device should only draw what it needs. I've fully charged my phone on this same charger before without problems.