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[Galaxy S III General] cugami:
Cant boot to recovery mode

Hello

I have been using my int Gs3 for sometime and decided to root and explore the mods and custom fw world. I have started with getting to root access and after that install CWM.

Then I try to install nightly cyanogenmod 10. It didnt work and boot back to normal GS3 Touchwiz interface. After that I tried the GooManager and when the phone is restarted it went to bootloop. I removed the battery and put it back. The problem started there.

The phone does not boot to any OS, I only can see the galaxy s3 9300 black splash screen and awatis there. I can go into download mode, but when I go into recovery mode, I can see the Android robot, and it dies The screen is too fast but what I can see it cannot mount EFS, System and any folder.

So I have tried several different methods

- Tried to flash with original rom, different roms, CWM and what I can find suitable for international model. But everytime I got stucked in Nand Write part. In some of them, the flash started and stucked in installing some parts(passes the cache and hidden and stuck after that)

- Tried with bricked phone roms, different PIT files and Bootloader Vralec methods.

- When I am trying these, I have tried with 3 different PC's with/without KIES and Samsung drivers installed. When I plug the phone in Download mode, the PC recognizes it as Generic device.

- I manage to flash the CWM but when it restarts it does not go any further than the first splash screen, but in Odin, some time later it turns to pass. Funny, when the phone is on Galasy S3 black splash screen, the pc recognizes the phone and starts to install the driver.

So, here is an interesting flashing story of mine. I really would appreciate your valuable comments and suggestions.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] tommy2601:
Yea I was having frequent freezes ie screen going blank not responding to any button or button combo with jb roms now I am back on stock ics from past few days it seem stable...for people who are having issues ics would be a better bet.

What I feel is few of our phones wìth malfunction mother board are not capable of handling jb as well as ics.
[Galaxy S III General] Gillion:
If you have a bad voltage regulator or other power control related ic then the battery can be drained.
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
Dead for the user doesn't mean the circuitry is completely dead. What the CPU is likely doing is trying to boot from the random data it managed to "fetch". In fact, the battery is likely to go flat very fast in this case. Much faster than 2 days. More likely in a mere hours. And, the OS isnt running, nothig is going to tell the device to shut itself down when the battery if near flat. Eventually the battery undervoltage protection will kick in, cutting the power. The battery will remain a little bit below its nornal "empty" charge, a live device will likely take quite a few minutes to charge such a battery before it is going to agree to boot with it.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Guys i really like to hear your opinions on this case...
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
I would really like to hear something about this too.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
OK; thanks.

That means CPU and Bootloader still alive but all chips where all the System and OS-data are stored are corrupt/damaged.

That sounds like eMMC-damage as supposed, right?

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Very interesting - but: obviously not the "sudden death syndrom".

Must be anything else, i cant see any relation.
[Galaxy S III General] Reb00tas:
2 x galaxy dead

Forgot to say my girlfriends also died. Never rooted or hacked. So has nothing to dó with root. So time to wait for repair and take my iPhone 5 in use again
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
No oke but the fact that there is going something serious wrong with flashing and no one knows,
[Galaxy S III General] Stregobor:
What happened - Yesterday, after ~6 mounths i charged tel during day and left it on my desk about 18:00. When i checked it at 23:00 it was dead. No downmode, no LED light, just dead.

Where phone was made - Bought in Germany, don`t know where was made

Where battery was made - Battery cell is made in Korea Assembled in China

What firmware you were running - Wanam Lite + Siyah

Can you access download mode? - No. SGS3 is dead no response for any kind of action

I must wait unstil end of Christmas and then give it to service. Wish me luck:) I really hope that it will hot happen every 6 mounths....
[Galaxy S III General] OrangeRafi:
anyone here who bought their phones from September onwards & experience this Sudden Death? I'm worried because I bought my phone last November. my RF cal is 2012.10.07 (I guess thi is Oct. 7, 2012) & HE Rev. is MP 1.100.

I only flash stock firmwares but I root them.

mine is a Titanium Gray model (if the color is relevant).
[Galaxy S III General] AaronMichael:
If it is bad soldering, then it can't possibly affect all phones right? Unless it is THAT terrible that every GS3 has a bad solder...

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] MATTHEWLONG:
So mine joins the list today.

UK

Running cm 10.1 and kernel

Left on the side updating email sync. Not charging. Came back 15 mins later and dead. No charge light, swapped battery, no difference.

;( happy Xmas Samsung.

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I should add' purchased in about June 12
[Galaxy S III General] ragnan86:
This is sickening and sad :,-( How many already and how many more!!! :(
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
I can't stop laughing, your girlfriends died too:D:D:D:D

Grammatical error ;)

On a serious note, post the details
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
that sounds a bit valid, may be there is some problem with soldering in chip die.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Can you name those three files.

I have always used 3 files to flash galaxy y( gt-5360) via ODIN

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
hi plz tell me how do u get to this screen...
[Galaxy S III General] NEMESIS_9000:
It's eMMC Brickbug Check app for the brick bug on sgs2. You can get it from the Play Store.
[Galaxy S III General] bligui:
Same thing happened to me so I decided to sell the phone, not worth to have an 800 dls paper weight.
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
Look at my eMMC screenshot

It says chip dated 2006 :silly:
[Galaxy S III General] mihqke:
Nice christmas present from Samsung

What happened: I used my phone like 2 minutes and then left it on the table at work. 1 hour after that i took my phone and it was dead. Power button doesn't do anything, when I plug charger in the LED is not working. It's just dead.

Where phone was made: Cell made in Korea. Assembled in Vietnam. Bought from Estonia 13.06.2012.

Where battery was made: Came with phone.

What firmware you were running: Rooted stock

Can you access download mode? No

S/N R31C517PADL

Edit: Everything happened today.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Wow, over 3800 days running and still unbroken!

Congratulations!

Trust a company that has even typing errors in there HW-data ?

Never ...
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
I don't get why is like this .. anyone else has similar result?

My phone works flawlessly, and i hope will be like this till i will upgrade next time, but why shows wrong details?

Phone is un-rooted and running on ICS 4.0.4 everything stock.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Its a typing error.

Your phone is 2012, belive me.

Error is on the eMMC or in the app itself.

No relevance.
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
Haha :D I know is 2012 i bought it in September this s3.

I know it doesn't cause any problems, i was just thinking is someone else with similar error or mine is unique :)).
[Galaxy S III General] fedelosa:
Mine died today, 173 days of life :)

Rooted, 4.1.1 Samsung rom

It was disconnected from charger when this happened
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Can you access download mode ?
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Well its clear that is an app
[Galaxy S III General] kinnyfaifai:
Could a try to get a poll going to see how many have died of those people that frequent XDA and own a S3?
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
It is an ongoing bug
[Galaxy S III General] fedelosa:
No, totally dead, no response from buttons, no battery charge...
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
Ive tried, it gets burried way too fast to be of any use.
[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
Plus we may know how many phones did die, but we don't know how many phones WILL die, so somebody could vote "No, my phone is fine" only to find it dead next morning (knock on wood).
[Galaxy S III General] Peppersquad:
Phone swap

Hi guys, newbie here. Been lurking for the past 2 days, finally got to register due to this issue.

I have a GS3 (International) which I bought here in Saudi Arabia last July. So far so good; nothing bad happens...yet. Even though I'm satisfied so far with my phone, I was contemplating on swapping/trading it up for a Note 2, as I love the bigger screen and the S Pen capabilities.

Well, I was actually waiting for January to do the swap (hoping that the new year brings it's price further down), and was going for that route, until I came to this thread. I love my phone but reading post after post of phones bricking, I can't help but think to move my phone while it's still good. :confused:

I can proceed with the swap earlier than scheduled, but I am now thinking twice about the Note 2. Are there any reports that such phone suicides happen also with the Note 2? I can also sell my phone while value is high (one store will buy my phone for 380 USD), then just observe for the meantime. Please note that I am no IOS fan.

Please advise. Thank you very much in advanced! :)
[Galaxy S III General] kinnyfaifai:
That's very true!
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
Where did you get this info? Has Samsung recommended this philosophy?
[Galaxy S III General] Pard0ned:
I've been doing that since the day the phone came out. My phones been fine. Rooted and flashed multiple roms and kernels, triangled away flash counter numerous times.

I'd say that statement was a load of rubbish.

This seems to be pretty much unrelated. Different people have it happening at different times for different reasons.

The only thing that links them is it's an S3 that it happens to.
[Galaxy S III General] 1slow4G:
Wow.. did not know that. Is there another way around this? other than precharging before bedtime. Thats how i usally charge mine. Thats the only time i have to charge lets just say. What a disapointment if thats the case
[Galaxy S III General] cmajetic:
buying date is the most interesting thing here imo, anyone bought the phone after July / August and has a dead phone now?

Since day one I charge with my old HTC desire charger, never used the Samsung one (only for usb transfers) and it never became hot, not even warm. no issues at all, not even when oc'ed to 1600 MHz.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] 1slow4G:
I agree with you. I charge mine overnight and doesnt get hot at all. It does get warm when charging and in heavy use tho, but nothing too exagerated to worry about imo. I just recently got mine mid this month so hopefully that issue was taken care off lol
[Galaxy S III General] saudffs:
Just Died

Just found out mine was dead

What happened: Left it on desk, notification light was blinking, would not turn on

What ROM/Firmware: JB official I9300XXDLJ4_I9300OXADLJ4_BTU from sammobile.com

What kernel:don't know

OC or UV:don't think so

Where phone was made:

Where battery was made: Cell made in Korea, assembled in Vietnam

Bought it 26/06/2012

The phone was rooted using Odin and CFROOT

The phone was just lying on the desk with the notification light blinking, and when I tried to wake the phone it just wouldn't, there was nothing going on.

I tried going in download or recovery mode but there was no response at all, and I tried taking the battery out but still there was nothing. The problem is I bought the phone from the Samsung booth in Westfield shopping center in London and it was a temporary shop so I don't know where to take the phone, and I don't know if they'll be able to tell if it was rooted or not.

And to top it off I just got an invite to Ingress while I'm typing this.This is just the best timing ever :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] hitek86:
OK So I Just took my dead S3 to the shop I bought it from, they told me it could be up to 8 weeks before I get it back.... 8 WEEKS... Does that sound right? 2 months to look at a phone is ridiculous!!
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
I agree with you. I started this read hoping to find something in common with all these cases, however it seems that the more people that have sudden death the more random it becomes!

It does seem that most of the phones that have suddenly died were bought fairly close to release date, within a couple of months at least.

If people with dead phones could let us now when the phone was purchased that would be great :)
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Just charged my phone overnight nothing wrong touch wood. Have done it 10s of time. Bought it on 25th May 2012. Lots of custom roms and oc/uv. Only thing is when i go to basement parking and drive out and phones connected to BT of my car 1 out of 10 times it just goes dead after sometime. Have to switch it on manually. It mostly happens when my a/c is not on and the temp outside is usually 30C.
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
Bought June 21st.

Interesting: out of idle curiosity I was looking through my old Google Latitude data. I noticed my phone stopped updating position that night right after Titanium was finishing an auto-backup. Again, whether there's a link or not is anyone's guess, but when I get my phone back from repair (probably today: yaaaay!), it's unlikely I'll use Titanium again. There are other backup options.
[Galaxy S III General] cmajetic:
yes, everyone that mentioned the buying date said june/july till now. I bought my phone in the end of September, maybe that's good, maybe it doesn't matter :P

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[Galaxy S III General] ph512:
Both my dead s3's were bought in June
[Galaxy S III General] memz180:
I've bought 2 in July/august still working fine
[Galaxy S III General] |Night|:
I'm getting my S3 back tomorrow from the shop, took them 2 weeks.
[Galaxy S III General] FlyHustla:
Bought mine in June pebble blue version. Not rooted (Thankfully yet) Tried to wake the device at work and it was dead, have tried leaving the battery out and plugging it into the charger with and without sim and sd cards nothing...

Also I noticed considerble lag on the days before the phone bit the dust, anyone else found that?

Registered the device on the samsung site and I am awaiting a prepaid envelope to be sent out for repair.
[Galaxy S III General] |Night|:
I got my S3 back today, report from service center,

Parts replaced

MEA FRONT-OCTA LCD (SVC)_GT-I9300.BTU.CO - Metallic Blue

MODULE-GT_I9300 ANT SUB PCB

A/S ASSY-PBA MAIN(COMM)GT_I9300

Samsung Quick Repair <-- No idea what that is.
[Galaxy S III General] LemonPlusTea:
Wow. there might actually be something with the date which we bought the phones.

I bought mine on June 1st and the phone died a couple weeks back. :/
[Galaxy S III General] 1slow4G:
I agree. And hope thats the case, bought mine this month lol

Sent from my Galaxy S3 using neighbors wifi :P
[Galaxy S III General] bol.gia:
What happened: Went to bed, left phone on charge, woke to the blue blinking light, but no response to buttons. Pulled the battery to make it reboot, and now nothing. Neither download nor recovery modes, no charging light, nothing. It's off for repairs.

What ROM/Firmware: I9300XXELK4 (4.1.2) - ODIN Firmware

What kernel: Siyah Kernel

OV or UV:

Where phone was made: No idea

Where battery was made: stock; no idea

bought in August in Italy

now sent to assistance for repair....
[Galaxy S III General] spamtrash:
Exactly as me, but I use HTC HD2 charger (1000mA):D

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Hmmm... is "deliberate self inflicted damage" something else than "carelessness"? Secondary, please believe me, I'd not bother to hammer my phone - I'd just claim that it was lost.

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Yes, and I'm deeply and personally interested how you can root your phone, voiding the warranty, and then use a (according to your ethics) fraudulent Triangle Away to submit it for warranty repair...:)
[Galaxy S III General] DeHAWK:
OK it's done, enough is enough. I have now contacted a newspaper here in Denmark. Gave them the link to this forum and the info from samsungupdate.com. I'll keep you guys updated as soon as I hear anything.
[Galaxy S III General] Netskyliner:
DeHawk. I see that you have a GT i9305. Is it involved???

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9305 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] corb06:
What we know so far, is that sudden death has nothing to do with:

-Rooted or non rooted phone

-Stock or non stock kernel

-Custom roms

-Branded phones or unlocked phones

-Heavy duty user or light user with 10 apps installed.

-Original charger or USB charger or any charger for that matter

-Temperature, phones have gone dead in ice cold Sweden and hot Brazil.

-Only quad core phones are affected. The International version. So far US phones are not affected like the Euro phones.

Most phones have died before 200 days of use

Samsung has not admitted there is a mainboard fault, however Samsung repairs all phones on warranty, except those who are accused of waterclogging.

Most dead phones are from the first batch of hardware 1.1 and down.
[Galaxy S III General] DeHAWK:
I know in about 160 days:mad:

And it doesn't matter, Samsung MUST emit that some of thiers phones suffers a deadly hardware failure. I did this because I don't like the way of thier silence and I would have done the same to Apple or any other. We are the cumstomers, we are those who buy thier products, because of us they make money... big money. So if they screw us, they loose money. If they had gone public with this and told us that there might be problem with the S3 and had done something about it instead of saying NADA, then all of this would not be happening and we would all know what was going on inside the phone.

My best regards to all of you!

Edit:

I'm happy with my Samsung products. Have phones, tablets and laptops from Samsung.:)
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
True, i also would really like to know whats wrong and i will do some further steps. hope to collect so much evidence then sue them to court, if i might win the case or not i think the press will eat this story out of my hand.... just something else then apple vs samsung ...

But think of it the way Samsung does.....

They made a phone that is very cheap, you can see that in every way,

1. Dust in the corners, fcking annoying ugly cheap looking

2. Screen that cracks when a kid drops it from 20 cm onto the grass.

3. backcover that doesnt fit right

4. dust around the menu button

5. camera glass that collects dust.

6. power button that gets loose after 1 week of normal use.

so think of the inside that we can't see except on ifixit.... do you really think they made that better??

I think back to the S2, the half of the screen was yellow because of the ****ed up amoled technology never ever heard an excuse from samsung.

so who can we blame now? maybe ourselves for being stupid to buy this device.
[Galaxy S III General] vitormc:
me too

My s3 died today.

While charging overnight.

No root, bought in singapore, unlocked, flashed with uk Jb firmware.

No response, even download mode.

Question: I believe i cannot have it fixed outside singapore, does anyone has experience fixing samsung devices outside original country?

Thank you
[Galaxy S III General] vkrd:
I just bought S3 from Greek Expansys. On th 11th o Dec. Only a few days after I read this.

The phone is imported from Germany.

The charger is with Russian letters on.

The battery made in Japan assembled in China.

Its got 4.1.2 already since the 18 th .

I feel cheated. Is awful news that Samsung galaxy s 3 is going to be working for only 200hundred days the most! ! Disappointed already thinking of giving it away.

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It has XXELL4

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So I think I call this " the AIDS of S3". No one can give an explanation of this bloody disease.
[Galaxy S III General] Hel10s:
Dude

Maybe it's a NOOB question, but if it's a fail of soldering, and the phones died during battery charguer... Why die now all at 6 or 5 months of use? Why not died the first time we used the charger?, or a month later?

Why U.S. phones are not affected like the europe phones?

The app "EMMC brickbug check" works? There are some cases in which it says: "Your chip are not sane?

Are all S3 phones destined to die?

Thanks and sorry for my bad english :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Dont be so worried..mine also came with a Russian language charger.just hope it will stand more than 1000 day :D
[Galaxy S III General] vkrd:
I believe sooner or later we'll face the same problem. Samsung has to make the step forward and come out with a statement that puts things straight. What's happening now with this product is the beginning of a catastrophe for the company.

Is also a disappointment for us all. I wouldn't like to be in the bad position to have a dead phone on my hands.
[Galaxy S III General] Fressh:
hey, mine is unfortunately dead too

my question now: i bought it in germany from a internet shop...should i contact them oder should i contact samsung?

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] offgrey:
Contact the internet shop as they may have arrangements with Samsung or a completely different warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
add another issue, Most of the reported this, after leaving it on charger overnight. :)

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Contact Samsung service centre directly.
[Galaxy S III General] epstar7:
GS3 sudden death

Me also facing this sudden death problem. had this problem 2 weeks ago when my SGS3 was 6 months old. My notification led was blinking. I tried to turn on the screen (via home & power button), but no response. Removed the battery, turned the battery back and still no response, even not a battery charging icon / notification light when connected to usb charger. Try to change the battery with working S3 but no response as well. Sent to Samsung service center in Kuala Lumpur (Low yat plaza) last week and had to long que to send my phone for warranty (so many people having problem with their phone/tablet as well). They promised me the phone will be repair within 4 working days. After a week i called them and the phone still under repair and the guy from Samsung said that its a power board problem. They are awaiting spare part from Korea. Its nightmare though.

Details:

Location: Malaysia

Purchase date: 22 June 2012

Color: White

Model Name: GT-I9300

ROM/Kernel: Rooted stock ROM

Software: Updated from 4.0.4 to 4.1

Info at the battery: cell made in Korea, assembled in Vietnam

Sent for repair: 18 December 2012

Repair status: Still under repair. expect power board problem as per samsung customer service info. Awaiting spare parts from Korea.
[Galaxy S III General] trabel:
my customer came few days ago , brand new sgs3 , he said he was sms to someone , put phone in he pocket , after few min's was about to send another sms , phone was dead.

i dont have detail's of anything you asked as phone sent to gerrenty , thought i can say , no download mode , no respond in psu nothing .... phone is dead !! i looked for any water damaged , or anything , nothing , phone was brand new.

hope it something fixable on the long run , when ppl will run out of warrenty ...... :(