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[Galaxy S III General] seannity:
My 16GB dead too, took out from pocket and no response at all, cant go in download/recovery mode, last rom i was using is Archidroid 2.0.2. Sad
[Galaxy S III General] jeromeerome:
I took my phone to the Verizon store and they shipped me a free replacement phone overnight. (I had insurance coverage). The new phone appears to have a Sane chip after checking the EMCC. Rooted/unlocked and reloaded my ROM backup and Im good to go!
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
did you use any custom kernel, and latest version of your recovery? How much time did you use your phone before it's died?
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Is that really sane chip? Or I should do the fix?

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Coming from someone whose phone is still in the UK since January and still arguing wether or not they will fix it I have plenty of experience with SdS.

Please take note, if your phone does absolutely anything than you don't have sds
[Galaxy S III General] tangosierra_:
Of course it's sane chip, why will the app lie? -.-

But if I were you I'd still upgrade to latest fw, in case there's just still other undiscovered issues (touch wood).
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Your experience of sds as a symptomatic fault ended when you sent it off.

You can have half sds and still boot into download mode, so we would need a clearer definition of "anything"
[Galaxy S III General] xXNCHAMPXx:
Hi guys I did the test with the eMMC Brick App and it says, YES. Insane chip.

Am I safe with the stock Rom XXEMC2. I'm from Germany and my phone is all stock. Didn't want to root it because it's fast enough ^^

Looking forward for an answer and thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Read the links posted in post 1. All 4.1.2 roms have the fix and everyone knows this.

Its also linked in general > sticky roll-up thread which everyone should read before posting questions that have been asked 853764557766 times
[Galaxy S III General] svavartr:
?

hmmm
[Galaxy S III General] shinjipsx:
i update my S3 with XXELLA but the emm check still say my chip is "insane" , i should worry about or something?
[Galaxy S III General] Yasounet:
No, your chip is and will remain insane despite using safe kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
You changed the firmware for the phone. The problem chip is hardware with some firmware in it that doesn't get changed by the new firmware you installed. The new firmware you installed just changes how the problem chip is utilized therefore hopefully not tripping the problem on the chip.
[Galaxy S III General] shinjipsx:
my s3 freezes all the time without any respond.. i cant even unlock and i have to turn off pulling out the battery.. this can be related to sudden death?
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
It can be. Make sure you are running the latest version of software (4.1.2) and it should help.
[Galaxy S III General] shinjipsx:
im running 4.1.2 XXELLA build number JZ054K.I9300XXELLA

so my best choice is go to XXELKC? because is newer than XXELLA?
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
In my opinion you should always go with the latest software. I'm not sure it will help you in your situation if your already having problems on 4.1.2 but there are bug fixes in each new version that comes out. If you are still under warranty you might want to take it just like it is and make them exchange it for a new one and then you might get one with a safe chip.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
You have freezes not 'cause of SDS but you have freezes 'cause of XXELLA firmware, 'cause I've had the same freezing problem with XXELLA till I changed it to XXEMB1 firmware,so I would suggest you to change to another firmware which doesn't have issues with freezes.;)
[Galaxy S III General] shinjipsx:
actually before the update (UBELL1) i have freezes too... i hope in XXELLA will better.. but is the same thing :/ so..you suggets XXEMB1? or there ir a firmware more newer?
[Galaxy S III General] pulsation:
Here is a nice thread about S3 freezes: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2133401 - they may be related to the sudden death fix. A way to handle them is to wait for your phone to unfreeze itself after about 10-20 minutes. Then the situation can get better, for some people at least. I've tried this for a few days now, my phone can work correctly for about 1-2 days then freeze 2-3 times consequently again. Good luck...

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 en utilisant Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
You can try XXEMG4 firmware which was built on 16 July (this is only one month old firmware) And I I've read this firmware doesn't have freezes issue

And don't forget to backup your EFS folder before this firmware,because this firmware changes EFS folder and then can 'cause some problems with your IMEI

And also you can try to use an app called "Dummy file generator" which helped to some people to fix freeze issue too :)
[Galaxy S III General] shinjipsx:
i just run that app and the phone get freeze at 89%, forcing me to reboot.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
It will freeze and you're supposed to leave it frozen and definitely NOT reboot :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] shinjipsx:
ok :P actually i wait like an hour, ok try again this time no reboot xD

but if someone can explain to me what actually do this app? i mean .. repair the wrong sectors like defrag on windows?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Defrag on Windows does not repair sectors.

The dev of the app found that when his device froze (under normal use) that if he let it unfreeze itself, the freezes were less frequent, or nearly non-existent. The app simply writes to all teh free memory (sectors) on your NAND chip to try and trigger a freeze, so it can rectify itself.

Doesnt work for everyone
[Galaxy S III General] technoicon:
My Phone just died. it is a Virgin Mobile (australia) S3. wont turn on. froze and lagged the day it was happening. wont charge, wont turn on.

Model: GT-I9300

Version: 4.1.2

RAM: 32gb

I brought this phone around June/july 2012.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
If you can't go into recovery or download mode it's means that it's died.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
But not of SDS...
[Galaxy S III General] DanteEXT:
NM
[Galaxy S III General] shinjipsx:
ok guys 2 days ago update to XXEMB1 and until now i dont have any problem :) so thanks a lot for all your help.
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
That's what we are here for. Be sure and push the thanks button for anybody who helped.
[Galaxy S III General] nebsif:
"Search is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience."

My friend's GS3 started boot looping today, it gets to the Galaxy S3 splash screen and reboots again, even in CWM/Odin (after a bit). We both have the same Paranoid version and im fine (I have sane chip, and he has insane).

Is that a form of SDS and is there anything we can despite the device rebooting on odin? :(

EDIT: His power button is screwed up and stuck. Not a SDS, sry :P
[Galaxy S III General] Niksha88:
Hi guys! Can somebody tell me am I safe, I've got a I9300 and I upgraded from XXEMC2 to XXEMG4 today, and flashed cf auto root with Odin. It installs non-stock recovery am I right? And does cf auto root recovery have fix for Sudden Death Syndrome? Thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] tatperson:
My brother's S3 started bootlooping as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZ07V8GWeE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

His phone is stock, unrooted, bootloader is not unlocked. In fact, this isn't the first time it happened (Happened twice around half a year ago) and SamsungSC has over and over agin said that it was a software problem, reflashed the latest software and refused to take it in or exchange it.

Now that warranty is over, the same thing is happening again, except that now he can't even get past the bootscreen. Any help guys?
[Galaxy S III General] Fygaroo:
Well you are on 4.2.2 beta firmware so bugs are expected its not an official stock rom from samsung , go to recovery and wipe data cache and dalvik if that dosnt help flash 4.2.2 again or 4.1.2 mb1 or newer it should work much better then 4.2.2, if the youtube video isnt yours and you are on stock 4.1.2 going into recovery and wiping data helps on every rom its like factory reset .
[Galaxy S III General] rayset:
my s3 died for the second time :(

first time it was on december,mainboard replaced.

now it had the last firmware avaible for italian's operator TIM,branded of course.

this time I had 10-20 pictures I'd really really want back :( that bastard died before upload them on dropbox.

is there any way to get them back? I've read a lot,someone was thinking about a boot from sd...but I don't know if it's possibile.

is there any hope the guys at maintenence will rescue my data? even part of them? if they give me the broken mainboard is there anything I can do? ty a lot for the help...I feel really bad for those pic :( I care way more about them than I care about the galaxy.
[Galaxy S III General] xpmode:
A professional data recovery center could, but they are expensive. Really expensive.
[Galaxy S III General] qqhorus:
Just had my S3 die yesterday.
[Galaxy S III General] Fygaroo:
Tell us what rom were you using ?
[Galaxy S III General] slmjimy311:
Mine just died

I was using slim bean 4.2 build 2 (It was stable, I had no problems). Earlier today it froze and nothing would happen, screen went blank but then it popped back up after a few seconds.

Just a bit ago, it did the same thing so I figured it would turn on after a bit, but nothing this time. I pulled the battery, waited, put it back in, and got nothing. It's sitting on my dresser right now and I'm freaking out.

(I hope this is the right thread, I tried to do a search under the Sprint thread but found nothing. My apologies if this is misplaced. If it is, could someone please direct me to the proper thread?)
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
What did the emmc chip told about your device was your device new with safe kernel from samsung?

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] slmjimy311:
I honestly do not know. I had no idea that that was something I even needed to be concerned about in the first place.
[Galaxy S III General] effepas:
I'm sorry for your problem.

Usually the fix for the SDS is contained in the Kernel, but for being "safe" you need also a safe recovery and a safe bootloader.

So, do you know which recovery, bootloader and baseband/modem you were using?

I recently switched to SlimBean and I would to understand if the Kernel that comes with the ROM is a safe one or if I have to use a different, "safe", one.

Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] tatperson:
The phone is stock, unrooted, no modifications at all. Software:XXEMF6, 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Slim is "safe".

There are other issues that occur that look like sds (completely dead) but aren't. Safe kernels cannot prevent other killers. Only sds.
[Galaxy S III General] slmjimy311:
For recovery, I used Team Win. I used the stock Kernal for Slim Bean. I'm a total noob in regards to everything else. Sorry I can't be of much more help.
[Galaxy S III General] effepas:
As usual you are kind and helpful, so thank you very much for your work and your answer. For the first time I found someone that says clearly that SlimBean is "safe", thank you for this also. could you add that rom into the OP of your thread? :)

I'll try to pay attention to other "GT-I9300 killers", but I know really few about those issues.

No problem! I'm a true noob also, and I'm trying to evolve... :) About the bootloader, do you remember which was the last original Samsung firmware you were using?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Everything is safe now. My thread is closed... its an old issue. Just don't use anything below 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] slmjimy311:
Yeah, it was 4.1.2 I believe. It was the absolute latest put out by Sprint (It came with the ability to have two apps side by side).
[Galaxy S III General] Blackseed22:
My Galaxy S3 Sudden Death issue

Hello everybody,

Unfortunately, two days ago my Galaxy S3 (16GB International version GT-i9300) died in my pocket.

Well, it's not all dead.. I can see the "Galaxy S3" logo and it reboots right again.

Can't access recovery mode (only exclamation mark on the top left corner of the screen).

Can't access download mode (it enters for a second but when I need to press "volume up" to continue it just reboots).

Here's a video showing the issue: http://youtu.be/TRaLdOc5fNc Skip to 1:05 just to see the issue (without my little story).

I have a couple of questions to you fellows:

I've seen many forms of what seems to be the "Sudden Death Syndrome" (not functioning at all, can enter download mode etc..).

1. Is this SDS for sure?

If I send it over to Samsung (I asked a friend to buy it for me in Europe so there's no Samsung Service Center in my country).

2. Can Samsung know the device was rooted? and will they accept the warranty? I have the device for 13 months now :(

3. Is all my personal data on the internal storage completely gone? :(

Thanks in advance everybody! I hope it doesn't happen to you, really!

P.S. I ran android 4.1.2 Omega Rom.
[Galaxy S III General] fedort:
Is this a sudden death sympthon? I got my SIII on release day....

I always put my phone on charging overnight. Since the last two weeks it happened 3 times that I woke up and the green light was on, but the phone was not responding to anything. The only thing I could do was pull out the battery. It then worked perfect though...

I'm using Boeffla 3.0 beta 10, with Omega. Medium undervolting, been using this profile for months..
[Galaxy S III General] cocous:
Hi guys. I want to ask some question. The unofficial Android 4.3 versions have the fix for the sudden death?

Στάλθηκε από το GT-I9300 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] darryl3736428:
I think your phone has a water damage on the power button. Try to open it and check the power flex cable in there.

If you don't know how, ask a friend or just bring it to Samsung to take a look for you.
[Galaxy S III General] pirate888:
I think I toasted mine while taking off the inside cover to get dust off the camera sensor. It's rooted with a custom ROM, and my carrier is Verizon. The display won't turn on and it won't boot. I'm on my first year with this device, and I think I am done with Samsung products. Getting a fleck of dust in the camera sensor is one thing, but while trying to get it out, It shouldn't be this fragile. I did my research on the internet to fix it myself, since I voided the warranty rooting and customizing it.

I feel the haptic feedback while trying to turn on the device, but nothing happens past it. If it's toast, I dunno what to do. I hate carrier contracts for this very reason, waiting for they to push updates, then my device loses it's value within less than a year and still behind the latest updates opposed to the S4, and ROM's make the device better than what is shipped. I hate Touchwiz. Taking apart the device to get a speck of dust out that devalues my device even more just showed me how cheap these devices are.

I'm never, ever buying another Samsung device, ever after this. I spend a ton of money to get a speck of dirt on the camera, and I am hosed trying to make this device better.
[Galaxy S III General] glockadam:
Pardon my question if the answer is obvious. So, if I have FwRev:0xf7 then I don't have to worry about this, right?
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Not to worry about absolutely

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Paranoid Android | i9300

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] josepr2012:
So, once the phone is dead there is no other choice than send it to samsung..?

Mine does not have insurance or warranty so I am f£€k :(:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Nope. Once dead, it needs new mobo

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[Galaxy S III General] mrm43:
I have been experiencing sleep of death almost everyday for the past week. I am on xxemd2 firmware since June. My freezing have stop since then. Now suddenly this problem of SOD. Is this a sign also of sudden death syndrome? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Bapak:
Dammit! I only found out about "Sudden Death" after I ordered the S3. :mad:

I live in Germany, and yesterday I ordered the Samsung Galaxy S3 (16 GB)... and today I surfed around and started reading about SD. So as you probably suspect, I am very pissed off about it, as most people would be. My questions are these:

1.) If I get the S3 with the newer 0xf7 firmware, am I absolutely safe from SD?

2.) How likely is it that I will get the old 0xf1 firmware? I ordered the phone yesterday, so what are the chances?

3.) Is there any "sure fix" against SD if I do get the old 0xf1 firmware?

Thank you all very much! :cool:

Bapak
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
1. Yes.

2. Around 80% you'll get the one with the 0xf7 firmware revision.

3. No. Unless you get the one with the firmware revision 0xf7

we only have a workaround for the SDS so no sure fix.
[Galaxy S III General] Bapak:
Hello SignetSphere,

So after applying this workaround, how much does it lower the chances of getting SD?

And does this workaround make the warranty void? Because it seems that Samsung loves to say to their customers that "bad software" killed their phone. I really want to avoid that.
[Galaxy S III General] rafieric@gmail.com:
Can somebody answer question from [MENTION=3268061]Blackseed22[/MENTION].

My phone same problem like blackseed22. It happened when i changed my battery(today)

Im running android 4.2.2

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] tangosierra_:
The workaround is in the firmware.
[Galaxy S III General] Bapak:
I'm still very confused, seeing how many people say that Android 4.1.2 has all the "fixes" which are necessary to completely protect the phone from SD. On a german forum I've read the same thing... but there seem to be conflicting opinions on here. :confused:

This is what I "learned" so far:

a) Android 4.1.2 completely protects the phone from SDS.

b) Android 4.1.2 does not protect it, but simply lowers the risk, so SDS is still a possibility.

c) Android 4.1.2 neither helps nor does it lower the risk, and the only 100% to be safe is the firmware 0xF7.

Now I don't know what to believe. Please help, I'm getting frustrated.

I thank you all.

Bapak
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Android 4.1.2 just lowers the risk to SDS,because there are people who are getting SDS with Android 4.1.2 version, but as far as I know your possibility to get SDS depends on how much memory blocks were damaged by known EMMC bug. But there is another option to lower SDS possibility even much more is to use SDS safe kernel and recovery.
[Galaxy S III General] Bapak:
Hello Simonna,

Where has this been documented, and when was the last known case of SDS on Android 4.1.2?

I thought Android 4.1.2 includes all the fixes, including safe kernel and recovery? :confused: How else do you interpret these posts:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44119168&postcount=2934

http://www.android-hilfe.de/6397288-post777.html (german)

Thanks,

Bapak
[Galaxy S III General] BaronInkjet:
I have latest 4.1.2 and freezes most definitely still happen. My understanding of what it does is that it prevents the bricking (requiring new board)... instead giving freezes and spontaneous reboots.
[Galaxy S III General] Bapak:
How bad are the freezes? How long do they last and how often do they happen?

Would you advise against buying the S3 because of this? I don't like what I'm reading at all, and I'm seriously considering not accepting the package when it comes on Monday. Or I might accept it, and if it doesn't have the new firmware 0xF7 I would send it back.

Really don't know what I should do... this is messed up. Dammit.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Can I ask you why do you want to buy Samsung Galaxy S3 if there are better and newer devices (for example Nexus 4)? Nexus 4 is even cheaper than Galaxy S3 I think and has better specs. But if you're decided to buy Galaxy S3 as far as I know Galaxy S3 devices made later in 2013 has 0xF7 with sane chips, so if you won't buy used one,you will have about 80 or 90% to get one with 0xF7 and sane chip. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] BaronInkjet:
I would not recommend anything Samsung after this. They should have handled it like a car recall -- replace the damm broken things for free.

The latest stock firmware I got (last month or so) made the freezes better. Before that, it was 10x a day. Afterwards, it was only once every day or so. Then yesterday, I had a 5-6. Have been experimenting with various fixes described here, but nothing has helped so far.

If you have one that was manufactured recently, it may not have the issue. And it did not show up for 6-9 months on a new one for some reason.
[Galaxy S III General] Bapak:
Well, it's my first smartphone. I have two Samsung Laptops, a Samsung TV, a Samsung Camcorder, and two Samsung Cellphones. My friend has the Galaxy S4, and I love it, so I just thought I'd buy the older S3. Unfortunately I ordered the S3 before finding out about SD.

I ordered a new one, and I will see on Monday if it is 0xF7 or 0xF1. Would you recommend sending it back if it turns out to be 0xF1?

Wow, that really sucks! I don't want something like that.

I don't understand the last part. What "new one" are you referring to, and what 6-9 months?
[Galaxy S III General] danierakes:
0xF7 firmware? I thought it's a chip...what exactly 0xF7/0xF1?
[Galaxy S III General] t-shock:
Hi

I have galaxy s3 sds (sudden death symptom/syndrom) and I have android 4.2.2 Samsung unofficial release. Am I safe?

Can I use either cm10.2 (4.3) android?
[Galaxy S III General] tom0:
I doesn't thought, after so much time for resets and worrys about the short stucks, that I buy a other Sam. device ;)

Now, with the last soft, after many resets with interests effects, it look like that it work as phone without bigger problems.

It's a question in which country you stay.

Here you doesn't have the octa processor and I doesn't see really a point to upgrade to S4, maybe only the bigger working memory.

Additional in S4 the radio is missing ;)

At this point a clearly yes to hold if you have the newer mem rev..

I doesn't know if you can return the wrong rev. in you country without additional costs.

It look like it give a lot people which have no problems with the old rev..

But here, on my side, the problems starts after nearly half a year ;)

---------- Post added at 01:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:10 PM ----------

The additional question is on which place it happens.

Sometimes are less as a second up to maybe 2-4 seconds here.

Somedays not in nearly a week or 2 weeks somedays often up to problems to start up the phone again.

The only point where it is really annoying is if you get or want to make a call.

I have several times that the call establish and then the phone thought about to make further things like the sound transceiving ;)

The problem with all Google devices is that they have no SD slot.

If they would have one I have trashed my old and buy a G-Phone (but not such one withoud LED). ;)
[Galaxy S III General] BaronInkjet:
I sold my Nexus 4 after a couple of days and got I9300 because the Nexus headphone audio sounded so bad. GS3 w/Wolfson is very, very good. It's a shame about the freezing crap.
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
It's a firmware revision on the emmc chip. The 0xF1 was bad firmware and was replaces by 0xF7.

Please remember that there are many thousands of people that have the S3 with 0xF1 firmware and very few, probably less than 1% have had any problems I've had an S3 for a year with 0xF1 firmware and have NEVER had a freeze or any problems with SD. This is most people's experience. YMMV
[Galaxy S III General] BaronInkjet:
Source please!