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[Galaxy S III General] sandipn:
But phone is stuck on the samsung logo screen and guess most probably its a mainboard problems which samsung are not replacing for free cause they seen my binary counts which wasnt O .thats y wanted to reset it by any means:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] sevomemo:
thanks..
[Galaxy S III General] alwayseric:
guys i really need your experience and help.

i left my phone (i9300) on the charger over night. when i woke the next day, i noticed the phone was rebooting but stuck at "Samsung Galaxy" screen. i guess that's bootloop? the only way to turn if off is to pull out the battery. the phone can go into recovery and download modes. i used MIUI v5. so first thing i did was to refresh miui v5, but it didnt sovle the problem. so i refreshed slimbean on it, still didnt work.

can anyone tell me if it is SDS? i need to contact Samsung to have the phone repaired in/out of warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] alwayseric:
buy my phone is already "partially" dead (stuck at "Samsung Galaxy"). is there anything i can do to flash a stock and reset the counter before i send it back to Samsung for repair?

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update: i flashed the stock rom (australian voda's) via odin. the flashing was a "pass", but now the phone stucked in the endless loop of ""vodafone (red)" <-> "samsung" <-> black screen". what should i do? how can i reset the binary count(currently 1) before i send it back to samsung for repair?
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
If you successfully flashes stock rom via odin then your phone isn't completely dead, just go into recovery mode and wipe everything.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Samsung did, they developed Android 4.1.2 with SDS fix, but it's doesn't mean that it's completely fix your problem,it's just delays it on depending how much memory blocks were damaged when you were using earlier Android versions, and that SDs fix on Android 4.1.2 stops damaging more memory blocks.
[Galaxy S III General] lawong:
is mine confirmed SDS? Only download mode available. no recovery and only stuck at splash screen when switch on the phone..

also blank product name in download mode..
[Galaxy S III General] dxppxd:
Yes its sds. Holy s**t, just read the first post, where you get referred to rootSU post explaining EXACTLY what you just asked:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36499838
[Galaxy S III General] BLEK0TA:
System status must be official not custom

Repair service can abort warranty during this reason
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
As I've heard that there is a bug which changes system status from "official" to "custom" when product name in download mode is blank.
[Galaxy S III General] Reverzed:
I've had my SIII for 2 months now. Does this mean everything is fixed and that I'm safe? I am rooted and I run CyanogenMod 10.2 11-10-13 Nightly.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Just download EMMC brickbug check app and check what chip you have "sane" or "insane". If you have got "Sane" chip you're 100% safe, if "Insane" you will never be 100% safe, even with Android 4.1.2 (or above) version.
[Galaxy S III General] Reverzed:
I've got the "Sane" chip. Thanks for your answer! :)
[Galaxy S III General] inferol:
hey guys

i started reading about sds thread

and i'm still confused why emmc checker said chip is insane?

phone model: galaxy s3 international white 16gb

rom: cm 10.2 - 201310106 nightly android 4.3

recovery: cwm 6.0.43

kernel: googy max 1.7.5

bootloader: I9300XXUFME7

baseband: I9300XXEMC2

i had 5.5 (something) cwm version and i forgot to update cwm and then i updated it via rom manager and now version is 6.0.43

emmc result show : oxf1 fw

and i still have insane chip after checking memory test in emmc checker again. is something wrong with my rom/kernel/bootloader?

am i safe?

am i doing something wrong? should i be worried? any advice/clarification is much appreciated
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Half SDS

CyanogenMod 10.2 | Googy-Max

www.dadabhagwan.org

i9300
[Galaxy S III General] Fygaroo:
You cant change your chip whit a software update its hardware and emmc app will always show insane chip, you need to use safe kernel and recovery check the forum there is a list of kernels and recovery safe to use, but you can newer be 100% safe with that chip.
[Galaxy S III General] inferol:
in that case im selling my s3 and buy nexus 4 then :(
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
Looks like my s3 might be edging closer to a full on sds, few weeks back I had the issue with the notification led flashing but couldn't wake the phone, had to pull the battery for a few seconds and that sorted that problem at the time.

That was the first time I had that issue happen with my s3 but last night my phone started rebooting by itself, I'd say about every minute it would reboot, the phone was idle and not being used when this reboot issue started, had to pull the battery for a few minutes to sort the reboot issue but upon using the phone I discovered it was freezing every few seconds so pulled the battery and left it out for 10 minutes, put it back in and it's been working fine since but from what I've read in this thread I think I know where my s3 is heading!
[Galaxy S III General] Fygaroo:
I sold my s3 and got note 2 with the sane chip , I thought about getting nexus 4 but no micro sd slot made me chose note 2 I just hope it wont have any issues like the previous batch, i will probably get note 3 when note 4 gets out just in case the first batch has issues like previous samsung devices .
[Galaxy S III General] edwok:
Hello everybody. Just wondering if you can help me diagnose if my phone has SDS or not. I have the ATT i747. I dropped my phone about 2 feet from my sofa and it landed on the ground facedown. As soon as I remove/insert the battery my phone turns on. It then goes into the Samsung screen, and sometimes into my ROM's boot screen then it loops. I can boot into recovery/download mode but only for about 2-3 seconds before it restarts. Is this Sudden Death Syndrome? :(
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
This might help you guys:

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/10/23/5022990/samsung-apologizes-to-chinese-customers

Edit: Holy moley! A journalist from the channel posted above.

Sent from my SGH-I337
[Galaxy S III General] clickme236:
My S3 died :(

Damn, I wish the media here in the US would jump on them for this. I have a stock Sprint S3 16GB and it died on me last week, after 20 months. At first it would freeze while scrolling in Chrome. it then started rebooting itself and then went on to shutting itself off after freezing. Two long presses of the power button would get it back on. Then it stayed off, suddenly. If I plug it in to the power adapter without the battery, the orange LED turns on for a few seconds and then shuts off. I can't get into download or recovery mode. I get the qualcomm device message if I connect to my PC via usb. I wonder if it's worth paying the $150 to fix with the hope that they'll reimburse me at some point like they did in China...
[Galaxy S III General] abderian2004:
Sudden Death of GS3

Hello Everyone, I am using a GS3 and my phone suddenly died yesterday. I was using the phone normally and it has 80% charged however all of a sudden the phone wont respond. I tried removing the battery, sim card, memory card however no response. When connected to a charger, the battery gets heated but the phones display wont turn on. Thanks to the forum and comments from where i got to know that this is a common issue. My phone may not be covered in warranty however will try visiting samsung support. Any other ideas or workarounds available? :crying:
[Galaxy S III General] highdiver_2000:
Battery is dead.
[Galaxy S III General] abderian2004:
I tried replacing the battery too however no change...
[Galaxy S III General] adkz:
Does the light turn on when you charge? if no then you got sudden death issue. But if there is light and you can't turn on the phone then I am not sure whats wrong. Try see if you can enter download mode (vol button up + home button + power button) or recovery menu (vol button down + home + power) if you can enter there then it might just be your rom.

Then again would be better if it was covered with warranty, when my phone died for no reason. I just headed over to samsung service center (my phone was rooted and custom rom). No issue as my motherboard died lol thus no prove to show I had it rooted it lol 3 days and I had it back like brand new :)
[Galaxy S III General] Hugo Santos Baptista:
Hello there people,

My GS3 just died... and came to life again...

Here's what happened yesterday night...

Battery empty, and the phone shuts down.

Inserted the charger lead and nothing... I thought that it was because I let the battery go totally empty, so I left it charging for about five minutes.

Checked again and nothing. Removed the battery and put it back on, also nothing. Tried an old Galaxy550 (also known as Galaxy Europa) charger and nothing. Both chargers are working because I've tried them on the G550.

Left it without the battery for a considerable amount of time, nothing. Also left it "charging" for a few hours and nothing. Today, before taking it to be checked a colleague tried connecting it to his PC and....... voila, it appeared the charging battery alert and it turned on!

Removed the USB cable and the phone went dead again because the battery wasn't charged at all, connected my charger and nothing again! Left it charging on my colleagues PC for a few minutes, disconnected, connected my charger and it's about 90% charged. Already rebooted it, and switched it off and appears that everything is working well now.

As we say in Portugal: "Ca ganda milagre de Fátima!!".

By the way... love XDA ;)
[Galaxy S III General] mrm43:
Hi, I just wanted to ask if all custom roms have the sds fix in them even if their rom is base on a leak rom. That is right now all official Samsung roms on sammobile are up to 4.1.2 only. What about those custom roms that are base on leak 4.2.2 or those based on 4.3, do they still have the fix? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Akhorahill:
Hi,

Mine died to.. Was on the charger, used it this morning. Put it back on the charger for a while, and an hour later is was just dead. Nothing works..

If the mainboard is replaced, I assume all data is lost? What about files I want/need to recover?

Is there some way to do this? If not, is there some way to guarantee the data is gone? I have several work related files on my phone which shouldn't go anywhere else..
[Galaxy S III General] grypho:
Fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
28/5/2012

1.100,

perfectly alive, guess we are save? :) for what I've read is happening to 1.3 HW revision... Right?

7 months and working great! And I charge it twice a day (I game too much... Tooooo much)

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
Yes - please safely assume that unless you've asked the service centre to try & save your data, your data in all probability will be lost. You should have backed up regularly. If you haven't, your data on the phone sd card will be lost, but not your external sd card, which i'm sure you already know.

As far as guaranteeing your files have gone, at best you can try & ask the service center to hand you back the old motherboard, if they agree. Even then, there could be a very small probability that they 'stole' your data before junking the old card - dont rule it out completely - anything's possible in the world.

All the best. and do not overcharge your phone anymore - that apparently is the solution.

And if it is any solace to you, I had to pay $140 for the motherboard repair as the service center unilaterally decided that it was a case of waterlogging.
[Galaxy S III General] grypho:
I really hope so, because if mine dies I'll have to go back to iOS and I don't want to!
[Galaxy S III General] Rick O:
I have a custom ROM and *#12580*369# doesn't work; any other way to tell the date?
[Galaxy S III General] juniorelvis:
My Story

I bought my S3 as soon as it was available, from Three in the UK. I charged it overnight yesterday night and (as at least one other person has said) was surprised when the alarm didn't go off. Luckily I have kids that act as standby alarms :) Anyway the phone seemed sluggish, but I noticed when going out the door it was stuck on the boot up 'Samsung' screen. During the day I tried all the ways to bring the phone back to life, but it wold never boot into recovery mode (power/home/up volume didn't work). However download mode did work and on advice of staff in my local Three store I used Odin to try and get the firmware on there. However this failed repeatedly with 'there is no PIT partition'.

We (or some of us at least) criticize Apple left right and centre, however I note little criticism of Samsung in this thread...what are they saying about this problem? How can they have built/released a device that fails so quickly?
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
Sorry Gaurav. That hardware code isn't working on my phone - some sort of connection error.

I just think Samsung is going to have a big problem to deal with going ahead as right now it seems only those who bought their phones in June are affected

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Gaurav - just pay up for now and fight your battle with Samsung later. It is more critical that you have a working phone in your hand. Most other replies in this thread have got free replacements of their motherboard.
[Galaxy S III General] nebsif:
I took mine to a repair thingy shop and they said it would cost me 478$ to repair it, even the customer service guy who was on the le phone with the repair guy lol'd at the price..

Any way I can just order a main board myself from somewhere.. ?
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
+1. I'm unlikely to buy another Samsung product, and only because of this experience. I shouldn't have to wonder when the next catastrophic failure will be.
[Galaxy S III General] Nees3:
Wrong... These are both from diffrent dailer codes and I only asked people to check wat FTA HW version they are on, that in case it breaks and gets returned, it might be a newer version then they had, just to know if perhaps people with 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 all had the problem.

I have FTA HW Version 1.3 and HW Rev.: MP1.100, so i'm sure yours is the same.

It could be all phones have the same and since launch and have not had a revision, so we are all in for a surprise...

And if the versions are the same after repair, i would not assume they are improved parts, so in 6months after repair, be ready for another load of broken repaired sudden death phones. If that will be the case, I don't know what will happen....
[Galaxy S III General] GrandArcher:
You should use stock dialer to make those codes work.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Won't keep answering as i can't understand what you wrote... Joy :)
[Galaxy S III General] saadxe:
I"m one of those who got their mobo replaced.

My info is:

HE Rev: MP 1.100

RF cal: 2012.6.10

FTA HW VERSION: REV1.3

So I guess it's the same as lauch phones. In for an another surprise?!

If that'll be a case I might not look at sammy ever again
[Galaxy S III General] whitebait:
Well that sucks. I assumed they'd fixed the issue and were replacing our mainboards with a later revision. Giving us back the same revision is just going to leave us with the same problem in 6 months isn't it? Or could this be one dodgy batch of NAND chips and there's nothing wrong with the mainboard per se?
[Galaxy S III General] corb06:
That's **** if my phones dies again in 6 months! I will be pissed off like hell. I really hope Samsung ha realized that there is a wear-and-tear-fault with mainboards and that they have fixed it. And don't replace our phones with same board as launch phones back in May.
[Galaxy S III General] jmaciak:
Mine died today ... I fully charged yesterday evening (on original charger), when I woke up today it was working normally, took some phone calls in the morning, took notes, emails - normal everydy usage. Turned the screen off and placed it on my table. Few minutes later it just did not wake up when I pressed the power button. Completely dead. Tried removing and putting back battery, charging for about 30 minutes, nothing. Completelly dead. Luckilly the mobile provider supervisor was at our company at that time so he already took it to the servicing centre.

I had cwm 6 with omega v33 and stock kernel and did not triangleaway, but I believe there's no way for them to find out :) figers crossed!

Too bad I did not check my hw revision earlier so I can not tell now. ****ing bad is that I am leaving for extended business trip in four days and will be withou my phone :((
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
I for one will be ebaying the pos when it gets back, I am one P/OFF Samsung customer right now. :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
Don't really know if it is sds my phone is suffering early signs of now or not, I've had the constant rebooting, think I've seen others in this thread talking about that and the notification led flashing and being unable to wake the phone up, removing the battery sorted that, but I've also had some other weird issues which I don't recall anyone mentioning in this thread.

I've sometimes had no sound playing while the Samsung logo plays during the bootup process, other times the sound has played but in a really slow tempo, and on one occasion the phone speaker threw out a load of static during the boot logo! Yesterday the phone started constantly freezing when using the on screen keyboard, I've got a few different keyboards installed and this freezing was happening on all of them!

I decided to go back to mg4 from the mh1 I was running, I didn't factory reset and so far everything had been running sweet, no reboots and no freezing or weird issues during the Samsung logo on boot.
[Galaxy S III General] drbstevic:
Sudden death SG3 any help appriciated

Well my phone died..suddenly...itc a big chalenge for you guys here if possible help since it is tricky situation.

Let me start from the beggining, itc a company phone with 16gb memory, fuly encrypted, due to exchange policy.

Yesterday I was reciving e mail when the phone suddenly shutted down, I thought it was baterry, left it on charger. In the morning battery charged 100% and I turned it on, but it comes to the samsung logo and keep restarting (never comes to the point of asking pin). It enters recovery and download mode, what I tried to do I deleted cashe.

There is a note in recovery mode can not mount /data (invalid argument), phone has never been messed or routed, stock all the way.

My question, is there a way to repair it to original state without loosing data (images etc), since it is encrypted is there any way to retrieve these data.

If anybody can help itc You guys.

Thanks....:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] tom0:
Thought the mount problem was there if you have encrypt your phone.

To start you can only try, sound at first not like SDS.

I'm not secure if you can recover the data because all what you try can cause in some problems.

Have you try to press on/off long to force restart?

Maybe you can try to delete the cache partition?

I mean try to delete twice. I have to reset my phone 4 times before it works back normal.
[Galaxy S III General] cfds:
Hello,

Several weeks ago my S3 died from SDS. Bought myself a used motherboard of ebay and installed it.

It came with Andriod 4.2 flashed on it and when I run the eMMC check app it give me eMMC chip VTU00M date 12/2012 and FwRev:0xf7 and states it has Sane chip. Am I right in my assumption that a bad chip with new firmware would be classified as a "sane chip"?!

In the mean time I bought a new S3 wich has complete different eMMC chip and other firmware but dated 07/1997?

The new S3 has type 016G92 and FwRev: 0X30...
[Galaxy S III General] UknownUser:
i have check from emmc brickbug check and my S3 is sudden death, about 3 month ago it's always sometimes when i open application it's freeze so i remove the battery and insert the battery again and now it's never happen again :laugh: so i'm wanna to custom rom to MIUI v5 the question is am i need to fix to update firmware XXELKC ?
[Galaxy S III General] tangosierra_:
A chip with fwrev 0xf7 will be a sane chip.
[Galaxy S III General] GuyInTheCorner:
Hey all!

Sorry if this has been covered, but I need to know pretty much immediately as my phone is essential as I am a councellor to my friend who has a mental health issue, so I need to be contactable at all times.

Is firmwareJZO54L.19300XXEMD2 effected by SDS.

My phone has gone into a bootloop twice:

1st time: As I got off the bus, my phone was in my pocket asleep AFAIK. Only lasted about 10 seconds

2nd time: As I ended a call the phone became unresponsive. Bootlooped for 30 seconds, finally ended when I held the power button down for 10 seconds.
[Galaxy S III General] Fygaroo:
I think thats one if the newer roms and it should have sds fix but you are really newer gona be 100% sds safe because its a hardware issue , but bootloops can happen for other reasons so do a factory reset and wipe cache in the recovery mode to try and get rid of those bootloops, and get another phone for backup just to be 100% sure your friend can contact you at all times.
[Galaxy S III General] highdiver_2000:
I guess this is too late. Get a disposable phone and sim. Give that number to your friend.

Flash away to your hearts content.
[Galaxy S III General] nm8:
Hi All

My wife broke the dscreen and digitizer of her S3...

Samsung does not want to sell the part, they want me to send it to them for repair. I already removed the broken part...

To those who have international S3 who had the sudden death, if you want to sell me your phone, please pm me...

I am located in Arizona...
[Galaxy S III General] highdiver_2000:
You can buy all the parts on line.
[Galaxy S III General] nm8:
do you mind telling me where to buy it... I want the original samsung part not the china copies.... thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Gdroid1:
If I sold my emmc dead S3 as is (otherwise mint), could someone actually mine any of my data from the dead chip?

I know if they could it's far fetched and I don't really have anything that concerns me but I'm better safe than sorry. If not, has anyone replaced one of these themselves having never done it before?

It appears the most important thing is to ensure it's heated properly, cleaned effectively when removed and the correct solution is applied to reseal. Other than that (and not discounting that skill) it appears to be unscrew, pop out a few connectors (no jarring or prying) and proceed with above. Anyone have feedback on this?

I know mobietechvideos.com replaces them for $150, however, I'd also have to pay for shipping there and back as well as Insurance coverage for that shipment (if not provided at about $300 value already). Since I'm in Canada I'm looking at, at least $210 and my resale profit would then be minimal and $210 for a phone I bought on 3 year contract for $129 in the beginning just kills me. I'm looking to get the N5.

Appreciate feedback and advice!
[Galaxy S III General] highdiver_2000:
Try contacting some of the sellers on ebay.
[Galaxy S III General] ciprigeorgiu:
2 months ago when I was all stock I tested the phone and the app said I have a sane chip. Now after rooting it said I have an insane chip. What could be the problem? Btw: I didn't have any issues since I got the phone 4 months ago.
[Galaxy S III General] funk_doc:
I've got a question depending the Dummy File Generator.

I have done about five passes. Each pass have written about 8,5GB. At the first pass my S3 got frozen at about 67%, after 45minutes it has come back to life ;)

I got no freezes at the last four passes.

Does that mean my device is fixed right now? So that "bug" will never come back or is it just a temporarily solution? I mean, if this problem maybe come back in some weeks or months, I will use my guarentee :)
[Galaxy S III General] Guihardrock:
cm10.2

cm10.2 snapshot M1 is secure? i mean without the risk of sudden death