yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Don't get dragged in
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
...it's not the first time. The Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II had a similar issue.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Galaxy S III General] Kevincorella:
SDS Recovery Help

Well, Hi everyone, maybe someone post this before, but I can't read all 522 post, so if it is the case sorry for posting again the same

Like 2 weeks ago my phone died, it looped the S3 logo over and over, I thought it was a problem with the custom rom so I tried to flash it again and won't let me, then I read of SDS and tried Samsung Warranty and they declined it, so I'm stocked here jeje..

Well I read a lot of threads, I tried to flash a Kernel and a Recovey that have the fix, I've managed to boot to the new Recovery, buuuut, I cant flash or do anything because it says that can't mount anything Sd/Sd ext/System etc, neither I can't flash a full rom with Odin cuz when it gets to Sysyem.img if fail to write

Could someone plz help me? I'm desperate I've just bought the phone, and Samsung is charging me 200$ for the motherboard

Regards
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Motherboard is the only way
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Like what? Release a fix? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] sewer56lol:
Huh, Samsung as expected always think they're best.

That galaxy S+ undoubtedly could handle 4.1.2 without any lag (Same hardware as my other phone which runs Smooth on that). Yet Samsung struggles to get lag free S4. (Something is completely wrong there

A best dev phone would undoubtedly be a Sony Ericsson Nexus.
[Galaxy S III General] rayiskon:
man this is really sad, exactly proves my point from my previous posts. As rootSU already said, you're only hope is replacing the motherboard, your eMMC is (most probably) dead. Samsung should really take responsibility, charging you 200$ is just insane, threaten them with a lawsuit, or that you'll come one day with a baseball bat and beat the hell out of the workers there, do anything, just let them know you're serious.. it's really frustrating, Samsung makes billions in profits, but still treats their customers this way. they should be ashamed.
[Galaxy S III General] NexusCrazy:
This happened to me last week. I phoned Samsung and they arranged for the phone to be picked up, I've been checking the status online and its just changed from engineer assigned to repair complete. :good:

The phone was unlocked rooted and was running a custom ROM in fact this is the second phone I've had repaired by Samsung under warranty that had the bootloader unlocked and was rooted running custom ROM's. The first was my Samsung Nexus S which had defaulted back to the factory IMEI after flashing a dodgy sense based ROM where the developer had left some dodgy code in and my S3 which just died on charge overnight.

The Nexus S I managed to flash back to stock and re-lock the bootloader but when they returned it fixed the bootloader was left unlocked my thoughts on this is that they were letting me know they knew.

The S3 wouldn't boot at all not even into recovery but would go into download mode using a jig and it said custom. Even though it would go into download mode Odin failed to flash anything hence it going back to Samsung.

So I have only good things to say about Samsung support.

P.S. for those being refused warranty who live in the EU should read the following link: https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/legal/flashingdevices.en.html

For Samsung to refuse warranty they have to prove that the fault was actually caused by you rooting or flashing a custom ROM. Just saying you were rooted or you had a custom ROM is not good enough, check the link above.

A very happy Samsung S3 owner.

Going to stay stock when I get it back, well at least for a while.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Not unless Samsung were the seller. i.e, you bought the phone directly from samsung (unlikely). The warranty is really upheld by the seller (carrier / Shop). What Samsung offers beyond that is an extended warranty and isn't really subject to those EU restrictions. particularly if you live in the UK

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1677034/Two-year-warranty-EU-law.html
[Galaxy S III General] Dandarebr:
Guys,

I brought my S3 on June/2012 in US international GT9300 version), and Samsung Brazil doesn't want to repair under warrant. I will legally complain about Samsung position but I'm also looking for ways to repair it, if I need it so.

In July I will go to San Diego, for Comic Con, and I want to know if you guys know someone, in San Diego or Las Vegas that can fix the phone. Samsung USA claims that International phones sold in the USA are gray market and therefore are not eligible to Warrant. So the only two options that I have are to pay to repair it in the US or send it back to Samsung in a country that have the GT-9300 version available. So I want to contact repair shops in San Diego or Las Vegas area in order to check the cost to repair the phone and see which option is the best one.

Regards
[Galaxy S III General] cile1975:
help me please

i have s3 and my problem is:2 days ago my s3 just dead,when i try start just appears logo samsung galaxy gt i9300.when i go in boot meni on screen show message:a custom OS can cause critical problems in phone and installed applications

if you want to download a custom os press volume up key.when i do this on the screen show this: Downloading Do not off target!! and just standing with this message

is somebody have idea what is going wrong and help me how to fix this phone.i would be wery greatfull if you help me.i am from Croatia.Thanks.

you can wrote me on mail igor.cickaji@os.t-com.hr:crying:
[Galaxy S III General] nm8:
send it to samsung for warranty repair
[Galaxy S III General] cile1975:
problem

problem is in that i dont have warranty,i bought it from a friend:crying:
[Galaxy S III General] rayiskon:
napisi u inbox sto se tocno desilo i sto si napravio, da vidimo da li je SDS u pitanju

eng: pm me with details in Croatian
[Galaxy S III General] cile1975:
question

i tried fix with odin3 but when start make connection send me message there is no PIT particion and cannot open usb port:crying:.if somebody have an idea please help

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normalno je sve radilo i prije 2 dana samo je nestala slika kada ga upalim pojavi se logo samsung galaxy GT I9300,ali dalje ništakada probam ući u boot napiše mi poruku da jednostavno nema OS u njemu i da napravim download novog.kada to napravim pojavi se slika na ekrani downloading i da ne prekidam tu operaciju,ali samo tako stoji,jedino ako mu treba više vremena.probao sam ubaciti preko Odin3 novi firmware ali kada se treba povezati izbaci poruku da nema PIT particije,što nemam pojma što je to molio bih da mi netko objasni i da se nemože povezati sa com portom u koji je uštekan i napiše Fail i gotovo.nisam ništa dirao po njemu samo je pukao.ako imate ikakvu ideju kako da ga popravim bio bih jako zahvalan.hvala:crying:
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
He said PM him (Send private message). Forum rules say you must write English and translate it....
[Galaxy S III General] slaydown:
Guys , good thread btw , i bought an used s3 with still 7 months of warranty and 0xf1 insane chip , i read this op and i did everything to be in safe position , but i have a question , if we use lin2sd apps and install almost everythin on micro sd and only installing necessary apps on internal memory may the problem takes more longer to appear?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
DON'T go to an unsafe config. If you are on a safe config, your question is irrelevant.
[Galaxy S III General] Dandarebr:
No One?
[Galaxy S III General] andrewilley:
Have you checked the Samsung website for service locations in that area?

Andre
[Galaxy S III General] coolacrille:
Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the late reply :)

I have checked and this should not be an issue for me. What I can say though is that this device is the most awesome thing I ever owned.
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
I've been trying to get mine fixed for more than 3 months now
[Galaxy S III General] colours_:
Sudden death

Hey guys,

I kept my phone for charging last night, it was working fine until this morning when I woke up to see that the phone became unresponsive even after pressing the home button a couple of times. I rebooted it with the hope that it would switch on and work properly, but to my horror, the phone didn't switch on at all! :crying:

I purchased the S3 in December 2012, and I never seemed to have any issue with it until now. Sadly, I hadn't taken a backup of my phone since the last 3 months. Could someone please tell me if its possible to recover my data in any way right now? I have quite a lot of data stored on that phone and I can't afford to lose it. :(

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] hspyros:
insane chip

Hey guys..emmc chck showed that i have INSANE CHIP.

so what do i do now??? Downgrar or update??

Info:

VTU00M

07/2012

0xf1

A simple answer please....dont use..sophisticated and technical terms..im not so good with technology..

Shall i take it for service?change the chip or something??
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
What rom are you on?
[Galaxy S III General] mitky82:
People with stock rom and problems may try kernel with zram support.

GT-I9300 XXEMC3
[Galaxy S III General] hspyros:
GT-I9300

SAMSUNG GALAXY S3.

XXELLA

android versiom 4.1.2

Kernel 3.0.31-742798

Whats a rom...?

Thanks for trying to help but...im not so good with this...

Where do i look to see what rom i am on..?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
You're on XELLA rom. Rom is your android operating system.

Its safe. It may freeze from time to time so if there is an update available, take it but you're not in any real danger
[Galaxy S III General] hspyros:
thanks a lot my friend!!

So is there any newer android ??im on 4.1.2

sorry if i bother you.

Shall i root my phone??

If yes, how..?
[Galaxy S III General] ashdotech:
sudden death - no display

hi,

it looks like my S3 has sudden death

the device won't start at all, no display, nothing.

i connected the device to a power supply, and when i turn it on, i get 0.2 amper current consumption from the device uppon pressing the on/off button, and that's it.

i read through the guides, and flashing the device using odin requires putting the device into download mode. since my device won't start at all, i can't flash it.

any idea?

thanks.

Amir
[Galaxy S III General] andrewilley:
Unfortunately, I think it is unlikely you will be able to recover anything from the phone's internal memory. Anything that you have stored on a physical SD card (extSdCard) would be safe though.

Andre
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Yes, there are many newer versions of 4.1.2 than the older version you are on.

No
[Galaxy S III General] hspyros:
thanks but... last night i root it with SUPERSU via odin...Btw,before i root it it lagged(restarted 2 times and 1 time it turned off). today is the first day after i root ,it looks faster

SO WHAT NOW??

shall i remove the root..if yes, how do i do it..??

Before i root, i checked for updates but there wasnt any..any guidance to install newer version than 4.1.2??
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
You dont NEED a newer version. There are guides and threads to root and un-root. Please read them
[Galaxy S III General] fozzy2000:
the lucky side of getting SDS

Hi All,

i purchased my SGSIII 16GB las August and it went limb on me 2 weeks ago. The full SDS experience, dead Display no charging no boot no recovery you get the picture.

Phone was rooted but i figured since nand is corrupt it wouldn't be seen anyway since you cant even get it into download mode, so anyway i went to my mobile provider and claimed warranty, i was hoping to get a new device ....

no new device but repairs the chip was changed and i got now the following

eMMC: VWU00M

FW Rev: 0xF0

SO joy joy ... :) instead of the new device that i hoped to receive i got a free Memory upgrade to 32GB

just wanted to share my experience with the SDS (btw repairs took 6 days till i got it back)
[Galaxy S III General] hspyros:
Ok.

Shall i unroot it??
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
If you are confident to do so. Or use Kies to get an update when one is available. I cant really help make a decision.
[Galaxy S III General] vnky12:
my phone get restarts and doesnt go after the galaxy s3 screen.!is it a SDS?
[Galaxy S III General] iancarvalho:
:good:
[Galaxy S III General] rmvieira:
Sudden death symptoms, insane chip - help!

Hi there, I've been searching this thread but since I don't understand about firmware versions and kernell, I think I should ask for advice before I do something stupid.

My Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 started to present symptoms that led me to believe it is suffering from sudden death. Sometimes when it's in my pocket it turns off by itself, but I am able to restart it by pressing and holding the power button for about 10 seconds. Some other times, I know the phone is on, due to blue led flashing, but pressing the home or power button doesn't bring up the lock screen... And the only way to get it back is usually long pressing the power button (hard reset?).

Phone is 1 year old, bought in May/2012 in Ireland, I now live in Brazil. I've updated it only when the mobile prompted me about new software available. If I check for new software now it says nothing is available. I've never rooted it.

I am attaching two screenshots here, one from the "about" screen under settings and another one from eMMc check app, which says "Yes, insane chip". What does that mean? Is my motherboard defective?

Samsung in Brazil won't accept to take my phone and repair it under warranty as it was bought abroad. The only way to get things done would be filing a legal claim (and that could take very long). So I'd like to find an alternative solution.

Is my phone destined to stop working for good at some point? Should I update it? To which version?

Thanks a million!
[Galaxy S III General] aknkrds:
Ya böyle bir risk var ama hiç görmedim ben

GT-I9300 cihazımdan Tapatalk 2 ile gönderildi
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Fix was in XXELKC and all newer versions.

Look at your build. Then apply your knowledge of the alphabet
[Galaxy S III General] rmvieira:
My knowledge of the alphabet says that my version is indeed newer. So why am I having such problems, any ideas? Am I completely out of risk of the device getting bricked forever?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
There's a bit more detail in my thread about the fix. Its stuck at the top of the s3 general forum. Basically there are 2 versions of the fix. The older one you have which causes freezes, reboots etc or a newer version which is much less
[Galaxy S III General] NexusCrazy:
Not true your statutory warranty is with Samsung any warranty offered by the point of sale/the shop you bought it from is a voluntary warranty and usually after 30 days they would point you to the manufacturer.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
My warranty is with my carrier

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Search this thread. Your "good news" has been refuted 100 times. Bad luck to everyone
[Galaxy S III General] rmvieira:
Thanks, I found your thread and feel "safer" now. Cheers!
[Galaxy S III General] key_arthur:
Hi!

Is there any fix for the sudden death S3?

I mean, when it's already in the state of sudden death?

My phone suddenly turned off this afternoon, and i tried to turned it on again but no luck.

I tried to charged it too, pulled out the battery and so on, and still no luck.

so, when i google it and found out that my phone might be struck by sudden death.

and i don't even check the kernel and so on..

so, the conclusion is?

thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Once dead, eMMC needs replacing, which in reality means motherboard needs replacing.
[Galaxy S III General] ereziel:
It needs a repair to change the motherboard...
[Galaxy S III General] andrewilley:
Depends on the law in your country, and what terms Samsung place on their own warranty.

In the UK for example, your legal rights come from whoever you bought the device from (i.e. the shop) as that is who your legal contract is with, and our law basically states that any goods you buy should be of merchantable quality and fit for the purpose intended for a reasonable period of time. You personally have no contract with Samsung though, so you have no direct claim against them. The shop, in turn, can claim back from Samsung as that is who their purchase contract was with.

Manufacturer's warranty is a different thing (over and above your legal rights) and they can specify whatever extra terms they like. Sadly, Samsung is one of those companies who tends to shy away from their 'moral' duty to their customers by saying that even in this massively connected world with centralised manufacturing bases, they will only provide a warranty in the country of purchase. Even for devices with no regional variations (although I can see their point with devices like phones, where each market has different options and features, so stocking all the spare parts needed for the whole world might be a problem).

Andre
[Galaxy S III General] raresvintea:
Any people with the motherboard replaced has problems after replacing?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Mine was replaced in November. They put another 0xf1 in. I got freezes after 4.1.2, yeah. If I hadn't been on the SDS fix, I likely would have had another failure.
[Galaxy S III General] raresvintea:
sad :(
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
I'm not bothered. I have warranty for the life of the phone (24 months) anyway. Plus the fix is doing a good job.
[Galaxy S III General] raresvintea:
I've found a method to test the internal memory by generating dummy file, and every sems to be ok, i've phone from november and till now it's ok with everything custom :)
[Galaxy S III General] stevendeb25:
Share?
[Galaxy S III General] sewer56lol:
Mine is also a 0xf1 but I was lucky enough not to be affected by sds.

I bought mine back in December before the patch.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewilley:
I had my S3 motherboard replaced recently after the phone died. The new one is fine as far as the eMMC chip bug is concerned, but it now has a very annoying low-level background hiss on the audio output (both speaker and headphone, the latter being the most annoying) which was not present on the old one. :(

Andre
[Galaxy S III General] GreborB:
How does the warranty work with root+custom rom?

Will they still help me for free if I send my phone in?

I don't know if it really matters but I live in Sweden!
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
If it is completely dead, they cannot tell. If it boots into download, you may have problems
[Galaxy S III General] GreborB:
I can start my phone but it freezes from time to time. So yes they can boot into download mode!
[Galaxy S III General] sullivan2002:
It's just happend to me day i want to sell it !

Hi to all

Yesterday I wanted to sell it on ebay but the same day I put my announce, IT'S GONE !

Now I have to ask you 2 questions:

1. My device was rooted but Now it doesn't go to download mode so Warranty is ok for me?

2. If they will take on warranty my device, after It will come again on my hands, they put a stick or tag on it in order to say that my S3 went to Samsung to repair it?

I don't like to find any stick or tag cause I wanted to sell it and....

Thanks for any answer to me

Marco
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
You should be ok, and when I sent my phone to them for repair of a different hardware issue, they didn't put anything on the phone. It looked normal.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Galaxy S III General] NexusCrazy:
I take on board what your saying but Iv'e had 2 Samsung phones that needed repair under warranty. The first was a Samsung Nexus S where the IMEI number reverted back to factory default after flashing a dodgy ROM, (OK I should of backed up my EFS folder and always do now), This was bought from a Three shop, I did return it to the Three shop but it was sent of to a Samsung repair center and repaired by Samsung. The second was my SGS3 (SDS) which was also bought from Three, on this occasion I by-passed Three and phoned Samsung direct who arranged to collect it by courier and repaired it (I presume under there warranty) then returned it by courier, There was no contact with Three at all with the SGS3 repair/warranty.

So on both occasions it was Samsung who honoured the warranty.

Please correct me if Iv'e misunderstood something.
[Galaxy S III General] timworld:
Hi I've got the same issue this morning. :o

Nothing seems work for me.

Can't flash *.pit files, can't flash roms.

Doesnt go into recovery only download mode.

Odin log:

<ID:0/006> Added!!

<ID:0/006> Odin v.3 engine (ID:6)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/006> Initialzation..

<ID:0/006> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/006> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/006>

<ID:0/006> Re-Partition operation failed.

<ID:0/006> Added!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1

Tryed this also: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6

The result:

<ID:0/006> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> BOOTLOADER_I9300_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> CODE_I9300XXDLJ4_368423_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> MODEM_I9300XXDLID_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> CSC_BTU_I9300OXADLJ4_368423_MULTI_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/006> Odin v.3 engine (ID:6)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/006> Initialzation..

<ID:0/006> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/006> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/006>

<ID:0/006> Re-Partition operation failed.

<ID:0/006> Added!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I was using Android Revolution HD ROM v 17.1 I think (can't remember exactly but it was pretty old but I liked it) :D

I guess my sgs3 is dead and I should just go to buy a new phone& :confused:

PS: Phone was working really wierd yesterday was continuously going to car mode and trying to launch s-voice (it was like non-stop on and off and beeping non-stop)

Charged over night. I used phone in the morning, died in pocket (bootloop) and only download mode
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
It needs to be repaired
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
It's not that you've misunderstood. It's that you've been lucky. Many people in the XDA S3 forum have had warranty rejected for half SDS due to the custom status. This is in the EU and UK

Perhaps Samsung have got wise to the amount coming in and internally "acknowledge" that this "Custom" status is a result of their fault....
[Galaxy S III General] .NetRolller 3D:
Does half-SDS also occur on unmodified/unrooted phones? If so, does it still say Custom then?
[Galaxy S III General] ereziel:
1- If it is unrooted and unmodified and it have *never* been, then it will not say custom.

2- if you are running latest stock then you are not affected either, despite you may have the buggy eMMC, but at least in that case, system prevents SDS from happen.
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
If half sds then it will show custom regardless if never rooted and reason why some warranties are rejected . Post above yours part explains this.
[Galaxy S III General] macuis:
After 18 weeks and 3 days, I've finally received my repaired S3 in the mail from expansys. Received the same phone, and it works just fine.
[Galaxy S III General] Yi Kwang-Sun:
So are you guys saying that if I root my S3 I could get half-SDS but if I keep the latest stock firmware I am safe?

[MENTION=4688694]macuis[/MENTION] eek, so much time. It's a very slow customer service :crying:
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
No.

Read the sticky at the top of "general"