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[Galaxy S III General] malamen123:
someone how to accelerate the process of sds? I want my galaxy s3 go for samsung
[Galaxy S III General] owl74:
get a hammer and hammer it ! I'm sure your phone will be dead in 1 minute. :D

seriously though, since you want to accelerate SDS, can you please try to boot in download mode, then reboot, followed by recovery mode, then reboot again. Do this for maybe 20 to 30 times... and let us know what happens...
[Galaxy S III General] galaxys3lover:
i checked with the app and i am having a phone with the affected chip .. how can i be safe?? i am rooted with omega v38 (zsema1) but i dont know what kernel i am running??.. i ve installed some other roms before this..
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
My best bet?

while true
do
cat /dev/unrandom>/data/local/tmp/crap.crap
rm /data/local/tmp/crap.crap
done
[Galaxy S III General] mhoysmerize:
Hi guys....after running emmc brick this is what i get... even after the below.... am i still vulnerable to sds? Does the below has its patch?

V39 omega

Boeffla kernel

Phils touchwiz
[Galaxy S III General] anubius:
You should be safe. This app just tells that you have the type of chip that can have SDS.

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Did you guys notice that very often blue indicator light is flashing when SDS happens. I am changing my light notifications to other colors for sure :D
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
It depends on your phone status , have you read this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2091045
[Galaxy S III General] malamen123:
I not understand this. What i need do to have sds?
[Galaxy S III General] paulrh:
Whilst the phone is on a call (make sure it is a friend so you can explain what is happening) briefly immerse the phone (say 3 seconds) in salted water at 35 degC (not so hot it will burn you and a salt content of 100g per litre of mineral water).

That should do the job nicely :good:
[Galaxy S III General] zadusimple:
I am running Neat Lite 1.5.1, Siyah 1.8.9 with latest bootloader and also PhiLz recovery.

My phone has affected chip bought from UK. It was running all smooth and fine until this morning. Was sitting idle. All of a sudden when i picked it up only blue led was there (it ws not charging) and i could see proximity sensor also on. Screen was blank and black. . Power button not working. I pulled the battery. Phone restarted. Now everything is working fine a d smooth.

Is this sign of Sudden death or merely a crash? Never experienced this before. My phone is exactly 180 days old.

Sent from a better Galaxy designed for humans!

Sent from a better Galaxy designed for humans!
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
If it works it's not 'dead' - by definition.
[Galaxy S III General] zadusimple:
Thanks but I wanted to learn if these are the symptoms of SDS so that i can take steps to prepare myself for a warranty claim.

Sent from a better Galaxy designed for humans!
[Galaxy S III General] fulcrum1971:
Same thing happened with my wife's phone. Samsung service center here in chandigarh repaired it within two days and now we have a 32 gb version:)

sent from my Note 2.
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Take them anyway :)
[Galaxy S III General] lininjim:
Mine did exactly this other than come back.

I think you've had Sudden Undead Syndrome, a Zombie Phone!!

But if it starts rebooting etc be prepared for SDS mate :(

Mine has been away for repair since last Monday, no word back yet.
[Galaxy S III General] zadusimple:
Thanks for your views. This means the so CALLED SDS fix is good for nothing. I have even running the kernel with Fix sin e day 1.

Sent from a better Galaxy designed for humans!
[Galaxy S III General] guerouig:
@anubius : please can you tell me what makes you say he should be safe????? ihave exactly the same satus.
[Galaxy S III General] neoandresk:
Just wonderring. Is XELLC safe from sds?
[Galaxy S III General] _Variable:
Can some1 explain to me what is sds?

__________________

Sweet Devil >_<

GT-P3100 | Android 4.0.4 ICS | Sun Cellular

PM me if you need help
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Are you serious? Read the thread.
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
the fix solve the problem, but your emmc was broken previouly to apply the patch. (remember this is a slow process till sds)

ricnar

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one simple question

if all the f1 emmc has the same date, why the patch check the date 13/04/2012?, if all f1 had all the same date is not necesary check the date, apply to al f1 without checking.

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] zadusimple:
This means that my phoone is gonna die? This also means that all phones , people who bought the phone before the patch was released will also suffer SLOW death (phones) one day ?

Also, I have this UPDATE :

My camera stopped working after the crash, and it said, CAMERA failed. However , Camera started to work fine after reboot. But all of a sudden my settings for e.g. keyboard settings have changed. Alao, some call logs are missing. I dont know if this is Rom issue or this is related to the SDS OR

Is it possible that my first issue "when my phone went into SOD" it was due to a bug in a ROM or Kernel and i thought this is happening due to SDS.

As of now my phone is working perfectly smooth.

Please suggest.
[Galaxy S III General] anubius:
Yes I should correct myself. He says that he has latest Omega which I think has the latest official kernel which should be safe. The only thing I am not sure if you guys have safe recovery. Safe recoveries are listed in this forum.
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
I say slow thinking in the fact the emmcs corrupts and start showing failures previously to the complete death and if the process start the fix cannot save The emmc.

Ricnar

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] alexsmith2709:
It seems i have just suffered Sudden Death.

I was using my phone, then put it in my pocket, check it half an hour later and now it is dead.

I was using UltimaROM 8.1.2 with Siyah kernel.

I had noticed battery life getting worse over the last week or so, but thought nothing of it.

When i noticed my phone was dead i took the battery out and it was fairly warm, have others noticed this?

How are people getting their phones replaced/fixed? Phoning samsung and asking for a repair? What is their average turn around time?
[Galaxy S III General] hermeson:
Had my phone back from repair center. Just swapped the board, but the system still the same, 4.1.1 and the internal chip.... Asked them about SD and they said that they don't know anything about it, but realised that many units are being returned with mobo faulty. Took 6 working days.

Any automatically backup system, coz now I am scared of losing everything...
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
Would depend on what country you are in, use the search function I'm sure you will find the question been asked before
[Galaxy S III General] hermeson:
When I use some software, it just gets really warm, so I restart it.... Specially when I use waze app. Every night before go to bed I restart the device, just in case. It gets really warm from nothing.
[Galaxy S III General] cyberdroxxx:
Use Titanium Backup and activate the schedule backup. It will backup automatically. Backup on the MicroSD extStorage

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What kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S III General] varun3gr8:
My phone is GT-i9300 & it is running on rom Android revolution HD 17.1 and kernel yank555.lu v3.0a-aroma

It is claimed in this kernel that it has patch for sds

So, Am i save from sds ?
[Galaxy S III General] blyx21:
No one is totally safe with sds if ur affected. Your totally only safe if your covered with hardware warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] alexsmith2709:
For anyone else in the UK it seems Samsung's turnaround time is 10 days. Im getting mine picked up tomorrow. No idea what they will do, im guessing just replace the board.

No questions have been asked so far about custom ROMs but as others have said, it shouldnt be an issue.
[Galaxy S III General] hermeson:
Where can I see this info?
[Galaxy S III General] desynch-:
Trying to get a poll here...for those who sent their S3s to the Samsung Service Center not under warranty...how much did it cost to replace the motherboard?

I'm on the fence about fixing my GS3 and wondered what the average costs were. I'd have to send mine back to HK. Shipping costs are probably going to be expensive, insured.

Also curious if I could get my phone fixed elsewhere that's not in HK, like the UK perhaps, since it's simply a motherboard anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
The S3 is meant to draw more than the S2... S3 charger is 1A output, S2 charger is 0.7A output. IIRC my HD2 had a 1A output charger too and that phone didn't die despite being charged overnight all the time.

Maybe there's simply something wrong with some of the motherboards in the S3 and we're just chasing ghosts.

And I'm a bit annoyed that mine didn't get upgraded to 32GB when it got fixed... maybe it will die again in 4 months time and I'll get 64GB :p
[Galaxy S III General] alankstiyo:
no offese but could you consider taking my thread´s info???

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1970422
[Galaxy S III General] wshyang:
Eh, just curious, if yours randomly stops working like this, there is no way for you to Triangle Away and reflash back to stock!

Will Samsung take the opportunity to deny you your warranty claim?
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
If the phone is totally dead Samsung have no way of knowing what's on your mobo :)

They seem to be good at honouring warranty anyway. I think it's obviously a known issue to them
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
I just had a mini freak out.

I haven't experienced any issues with my phone at all until 5 minutes ago.

I pulled my phone from my pocket and the blue led was flashing for a notification. I couldn't turn on my screen, I couldn't reset my phone, even a battery pull and replace did nothing!

I had to put it on charge and it worked, but I still had 70% battery.

I think as Isadora said, seems like motherboard faults in certain batches.

Hope this isn't the beginning of the end for me.
[Galaxy S III General] putkte:
What happened: Took from charger, was on that over night, drove to work. took phone from pocket, was on Samsung logo on boot, Does go to download mode, not on recovery, Odin flash says NAND write failed.

What ROM/Firmware: CM10 nightly 20121117 I think, not sure on that date

What kernel: CM10

OC or UV: NO and NO

Where phone was made: dunno, got it on 29.5 so first batch

Where battery was made: dunno.

Took phone on repair, repair was denied cause Root + Custom firmware. Would cost 377e to repair.
[Galaxy S III General] hakkun:
This sounds very dangerous, Im on CM10. Now I'm afraid my S3 will die..

Can someone help me out get the stock Firmware and unrooted? I dont want to pay 400 Euros for repair due no warranty. Damn..
[Galaxy S III General] putkte:
yeah, sound dangerous. If you are lucky you device will broke that kind it wound not go to Download mode any more so then they can not verify that custom binany and flashcounter then warranty is on. But in my case device can go to download and they spotted flashcounter.

And this sucks big time.
[Galaxy S III General] ImS0Raw:
It's not only this phone, happened twice with my cousins XPERIA Arc overnight while charging and also when it wasn't charging. Guess it has to do something with the motherboard.
[Galaxy S III General] modmymobile:
Follow this mate there is a video at the bottom from totallydubbed: http://www.modmymobile.co.uk/category-blog/81-samsung-galaxy-s-3-sudden-death-brick-warning.html

I will be doing the same till someone finds out what the hell is killing them.
[Galaxy S III General] |Night|:
Mine died aswell, it at the shop now, been since the 6th, they say they have found the error and waiting for spare part, but no word on what was wrong, they first clamied it was because i had a small scatch on my screen, i told them to do their job, waiting for result..

i ran SGS GT9300, csc NEE, with lateste Nordic JB.

I had not in charger at the time of it demise.
[Galaxy S III General] Shizbazki:
Oh my this looks scary :crying: hoping my Wanamlite SGS3 doesn't sucuumb to this
[Galaxy S III General] spirol:
Has anyone tried jamming a usb-jig into their S3 to see if that could force it to boot??
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
Yep of course, tried after getting no response from key combo - it did absolutely *nothing* phone was still dead as a dodo.
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
I've got an interesting one. It's not a what's happening here but still interesting. I received my son's phone via UPS, rooted it, flashed Omega 31.1 and sent it to my son via UPS.

He got it with the screen broken in 3 places, but the box was not damaged in any way. How does the screen get cracked in 3 places with no damage to the box? It would boot but nothing on the screen. Just indicator lights. Made UPS replace it but still don't understand how that could have happened.
[Galaxy S III General] drknezz:
Oh man, this sounds horrible! Im backing up everything on my phone right now and changing the AC charge down to 800mAh just in case.

I really hope Samsung are aware of this problem and try to find a way to fix it. Perhaps there are certain batches it only applies to? Is there a build date or something along those lines written anywhere on the inside of the phone?

I'd check but I'm using my phone to write this post at the moment, maybe others could suss it out in case it's a design issue. Might mean a huge recall of handsets, I'm sure Apple fans are cackling their heads off right now though...

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Shizbazki:
Hi again all

After having a lil sleep I woke up and thought about this a bit.

Everyone here is blaming the charger or motherboard and it could be that the case, some people are rooted others not, some have different Roms from stock etc. So far the only thing we all have in common is that everyone seems to be using the stock battery mostly, in this thread I have only read about one person using possibly a different one but even then he cannot remember if it was stock or 3rd party battery that was in the phone at time of death.

I'm thinking, we all know that such electronics are sensitive beings to sudden power surges and whilst I know that the battery is only a 3.8v rated a small change outside those parameters could fry the motherboard we know this happens even in more robust devices such as pc cpus where a slightly elevated score can kill it.

It is only a thought and I could be talking complete rubbish but it's the only thing we all have in common, my guess is that after charging over and extended period e.g. overnight the battery releases a slight over surge some times enough to fry the phone, it may not be one big one either but a series of small ones that overtime stresses the components causing our galaxy s3 to become glassy paperweight.

Until a number of people step and say that the same thing happened to them whilst using third party I can only assume it to be the battery, we all know that li-ion batterys can bust energy in one successive go often as heat aka when they blow up in balls of flame under normal usage YouTube it and you'll see. So at the moment I am pointing at the battery as well as a possible murder suspect.
[Galaxy S III General] saadxe:
Btw my SIII died while it was not on charging, and neither the battery was warm at the time. Anyway 80% was left in it at the time of death. It was spontaneous. I was smsing in that period.
[Galaxy S III General] patmacca:
Well no death of my gs3 but I have had 3 episodes in the past week where my phone has frozen requiring battery removal. Phone is total stock running jb :confused:

Did anyone have these symptoms before their phone went down?
[Galaxy S III General] ph512:
My experience I documented on the first page of this thread - 2 gs3's dead in less than 12 hours. Both were bought at the same time, unlocked international versions with no network branding - "completely stock" phones and died within 9 hours of each other and 60 miles apart - one on charge, the other not.

Mine was behaving ok, but looking back my wife had kept complaining that things were hanging and I'm pretty sure she had to do a handfull of reboots in the week prior to complete destruction (she didn't have the need to do any battery pulls though)! They've been repaired by the CPW repair centre and are getting picked up by my wife this afternoon - hopefully I'll find out what they've done to repair them (she's been told to ask!).

I'd be interested to know if anyone has experienced a subsequent failure following a repair ie are they putting in a more recent version of motherboard. I have no idea how you could find this out though
[Galaxy S III General] Dubhghaill:
I don't know exactly when I got mine, but I received the order confirmation email 194 days ago, so it's probably around the same time.
[Galaxy S III General] iExitus:
My phone died exactly at the day, my 90 day give-back period on Amazon was ending :D
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
Mine died 124 days after I received it.
[Galaxy S III General] JohnM1973:
So the window at the moment is between 90 and 190 days. That's really not good. Such a shame for a flagship device.
[Galaxy S III General] Paulb_:
160 days in my case. The theory seems to fit.

However:

How old is the oldest S3 at this moment? I'm guessing the average age of all S3's is also around 150 days.
[Galaxy S III General] bol.gia:
80 days for me :(
[Galaxy S III General] MalboX:
Around 160 days for me.
[Galaxy S III General] Andrewtst:
Around 160 days for me as well!!!

I bought on 14/June/2012 and it dead at 16/Nov/2012 !!!
[Galaxy S III General] Motogp1:
165 days here
[Galaxy S III General] pedropac72:
Around 160 days here.

Enviado desde mi SGS3 reparado tras la Muerte Súbita usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] :
Wtf this is unbelieveable..
[Galaxy S III General] Knapster77:
Mine died today! :eek:

191 days used since 6. June

Built in China the blue version with Jelly Bean and Siya running.

It died during the day, not while charging. Got it out of my pocket and wondered that it's off. Tried to switch it on without success. No recovery nothing!
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
Another one bites the dust today :crying:

Screen would not turn on so, held power to reboot and nothing at all just dead.

Rom: Omega 4.1.2 V33

Kernal: Siyah 1.8

OC 1.6ghz
[Galaxy S III General] Northern-Loop:
Got mine back from Samsung all repaired.

IMEI is still the same and it still has the latest baseband that I installed.

Already upgraded to Nexus 4 so bye bye Samsung
[Galaxy S III General] whitebait:
So my S3 died today...

It's a white model, bought at launch from 3UK and made in Korea.

It's never been rooted and has always had stock android on there. Not had any updates or anything like that recently, the only possible warning I had of this was the last few days it's been telling me my MicroSD had been unexpectedly removed, then immediately saying it had discovered an SD card. Switched cards last night and thought that had solved it, was sitting at work today, plugged my headphones into it and nothing happened, blank screen. I held down power button and it eventually rebooted and got stuck in the boot loop.

I've taken it to a samsung authorised repair place locally and they can't flash it or do anything with it, I can only get in to download mode, no recovery available and in download mode the Product name is blank. Bad sign, right?

So I'm gonna send it off to Samsung. It lasted 199 days. Just hope I can get it back before christmas... Doubt it though.
[Galaxy S III General] kibox:
sign me in

same here, blank product name. same other stuff

buy hey, phone is not mine and i'm getting nexus4 :p
[Galaxy S III General] Vrykyl:
So chalk yet another GS3 up to sudden death - mine died this morning...

What happened:

Woke up as normal when alarm went off on the phone (phone plugged in on charger), read a few tweets, updated apps on google play - then unplugged phone from charger and the handset froze - completely unresponsive. Pulled battery, phone powers on but sits on boot screen. Cannot enter recovery at all, only download mode.

Trying ODIN gives a no PIT partition table error. Tried a multi-part stock firmware with PIT file, just gives an error that the repartition failed.

Download mode currently displays:

Product Name is blank

Custom Binary Download: No

Current Binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Custom

What ROM/Firmware: Android Revolution HD v16

What kernel: Siyah Kernel S3-v1.8.4

OC or UV: NONE

Where phone was made: No idea, its a UK unbranded handset bought on day of release.

Where battery was made: "Cell made in Korea, assembled in China"

Phone has lasted exactly 6 months, 18 days
[Galaxy S III General] Ohamn:
Another Swedish S3 Dead like a nuked Dodo......

Mine is also quite stuck @ Samsung Galaxy S3 boot screen! :eek:

Can get it to download mode, not recovery mode.

When I try to flash stock firmware this is the Odin message:

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

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

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> I9300XXBLH1_I9300NEEBLH1_I9300XXLH1_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004>

<ID:0/004> There is no PIT partition.

<ID:0/004> Added!!

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

I'm not the only one with these symptoms!!

I don't know weather to be relieved or worried! :D

My specs:

Pebble Blue SGS3

Not rooted.

No OC or UV

Stock firmware JB 4.1.1(nordic countries, unbranded)

Bought the 9th of june 2012 (dead after 188 days from purchase)

Battery made in Korea, assembled in China

Phone "made by Samsung". Duh.....

Download mode displays:

Product Name is blank

Custom Binary Download: No

Current Binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Custom

Also noticed no network connection and intermittent hangs and sluggishness in the last days.

Not sure about the warm battery though... perhaps sometimes.

Will bring it in for service Monday next week!

Will try to "force" repair shop to specify what was wrong with my phone.

Using my trusty HTC Topaz atm. (Diamond2)

Will be following this thread for sure.. :cool:

// Ohamn
[Galaxy S III General] Northern-Loop:
This isnt the sudden death fault as you have a part working device.

Sudden death is nothing working, no recovery, no download etc
[Galaxy S III General] Ohamn:
I didn't state that it was Sudden death.

Then for me it was "Sudden partly working device". ;)

// Ohamn
[Galaxy S III General] ramonguthrie:
My Sudden Death story

I have a UK Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 (16GB version) in White my latest Baseband number is I9300XXELLA

Since after the 4.1.2 update this year, i have been experiencing random crashes and switch offs up to 5 times a day even when my phone is fully charged.

I followed the steps from the online Samsung help team, i reset my device by going to Settings > Backup > Factory data reset. was still buggy, i booted into recovery mode, i cleared cache and did "Reset all user data/factory reset"

But that just made my phone feel even more buggy and crashes on application loadup even with the stock apps that come with the phone and still randomly switch offs and reboots.

I tried to get help from o2 gurus for online, they told me to reload my OS through Kies I did that for about an hour i was screaming yes it's fixed, but then it went back to it black screen freeze state again. It seems to be a hardware issue, I handing in my phone to the Samsung SMART Service repair centre on Friday they told me repairs take 7 to 10 days

Everyone in the UK should have a 24 month Warranty that comes with the phone so get it fixed by Samsung asap!
[Galaxy S III General] guerouig:
have you ever rooted your device, and ever flashed any custom rom?