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[Galaxy S III General] msbmsb:
I posted my experience here on the 19th of Nov, not seeing this thread until just now (since mine is a US version).

What happened:

Just prior to the Jelly Bean OTA:

1. All the sensors stopped working - gyro, proximity, etc. They all stopped working. They wouldn't come back on a restart either. I was getting ready to try a factory reset when the Jelly Bean OTA came.

After updating to Jelly Bean:

2. Updated to Jelly Bean, sensors started working again, but the phone would randomly restart, in my pocket, just sitting there on the table...

3. On Saturday I used the phone a little, just like normal. About 45 minutes after making a call and not using the phone again, I noticed that the phone was dead. I plugged it in thinking something had drained the battery.

4. When trying to power it up, it would vibrate once, sometimes twice but the screen stayed black.

5. I tried taking the battery out for a while, replaced it and turned it on - it started booting up, but before fully initializing, rebooted again and then went black.

6. Once i got a charging screen when i plugged it in, but could never replicate.

7. Became totally hardbricked. Can't get into download mode, can't factory reset, nothing at all. No vibrate, nothing. I fully charged the battery to make sure, and nothing. It's totally dead and unresponsive.

8. On receiving the warranty replacement SG3, I tried turning on the original once more, as a test. To my surprise, after several days of being powered off, it came back up and seemed to be working fine. It ran normally for a day and a half, at which point it then began to reboot, after turning on the GPS for the first time (whether that's actually related or not is unknown, just a note). It would either reboot immediately on the first screen unlock, or it would reboot while booting up.

9. Fortunately, this did give me an opportunity to factory reset. For anyone suspecting it had something to do with a rogue app, the phone would reboot on the very first initialization screen, where you enter your gmail account info.

10. Returned original unit.

What ROM/Firmware:

Stock USA T-Mobile Jelly Bean

Purchased on July 6, died on Nov 16, so about 130 days time.
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
shestha,i was told and shown a square on the back side visible after u remove the battery that it's color has changed to pinksih because of water or moisture and so no warranty bro plz check ur repaired phone what color is that small square on the right bottom side under the battery............do let me know i'll bloody well take these buggers to court there is no fault of ours i'm convinced

---------- Post added at 07:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:01 PM ----------

shetsha...plz do give me the nos on which i can contact them......and plz go through this link http://www.phonearena.com/news/Some...oung_id37944/comments?post=485699#post_485699 and do let me know how to get in touch with you....
[Galaxy S III General] PhrostB:
Mine died as well, how do I go about getting Samsung to replace it? I don't have insurance with my provider but I assume the phone is still under warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
I wish you a good luck using the warranty in Israel, especially in case your phone comes from the gray market, as opposed to an official distributor or a carrier :(
[Galaxy S III General] PhrostB:
Actually it's the tmobile t999 model. I'm going back to the states in two weeks. Maybe I can get it replaced and get it sent back to the states?
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
Don't ask me, i have no idea. Mine is the regular I9300, bought it from "Ron Phone" in Tel-Aviv, and, for now, it's still alive and well (154 days and counting). After reading this thread, i really hope it stays that way. Read my previous posts on this thread to see what i did to try & help it happen.

EDIT: BTW, you've just answered some previous poster question, if it only affects international models. You've got T999, not I9300. And it went dead. I guess this counts as "no".
[Galaxy S III General] PhrostB:
Ok I'll take a look. In the mean time does anyone have samsungs contact information for replacing the American versions?
[Galaxy S III General] zulahadi2:
Wow, I never thought that this is a "mass" problem.

This is happened to me, about several weeks ago (I'm quoting the post above because my problem are similiar)

Happened after I updated my software to Jelly Bean via OTA (note that I did not root my device or others, completely "pure").

Then, the update was success and I'm okay with that. About 12 hours later, my phone starting to lagging, but I think that's normal and charge my phone before sleep and left it.

In the morning, my phone just turned-off, weird since I'm very aware that I charge it in "on" position. Turned it on, then the screen said that my encryption failed and I have to reset my phone (well, I'm not even set encryption on my phone). I select to reset it, then just turned-one and stuck on "Samsung" splash screen. Tried reflash it, but has the "there is no PIT partiton" problem.

The next day I went to Samsung Service Center, and after a few minutes (I assume they tried to reflash it, just like I did at home), they said that my device need to be left-off. After 2 days, I got a call from Samsung and they said the device will be delivered to my home by the technician.

At home, I talk to the technician and asked what is the problem, and they said "unexpected problem" and that my phone's NAND has been replaced.
[Galaxy S III General] ixon2001:
Day 189 mine still going strong, no probs as of yet.
[Galaxy S III General] corb06:
Yeah some phones have died after 200 days as well. There was one guy a few posts ago that had two s3 in family that died 9 hours apart. That is way too close too be coincidence.
[Galaxy S III General] derPianist:
The Mayans where right.

It will begin with dying phones.

via Google Nexus 4
[Galaxy S III General] would69:
Hey, bought my S3 mid june , it died the 15th of December.It was simply resting on the table with the screen locked, battery was around 92% ,i went to get it to do a phone call and it was off.Plugged the charger but never got any sign of life from it.The day after i tried with a battery from my friend's S3 but of course it didnt help.

Now i handed it to a samsung assistance center the 17th ...lets wait and see

I was using 4.1.2

No brand from Italy
[Galaxy S III General] thecraw:
S3 motherboard NAND failure

I experienced the EXACT problem you are facing with my S3 International version as well all the way to trying to flash the FW and getting the PIT error just like you and trying to flash the PIT only and failing....

I purchased mine in Thailand, and I live the in the U.S so the warrenty is only valid in Thailand (wtf) so I had to ship mine BACK to Thailand and cost me 2 way shipping fees $90 .. but I just got it back a few weeks ago and everything is fine now, I'am just dreading the fact that people are saying that it was fixed with the same faulty parts and that it may fail again in another 100-200 days..:eek:!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] msbmsb:
I should note that I received mine on Jul 6, died on Nov 17 = 134 days.
[Galaxy S III General] luigino1:
My experience is very similar to others here. Bought international quad core version of Galaxy S3 from Carphone Warehouse in UK in October. Phone was purchased unlocked and was running stock ICS 4.0.4. Worked perfectly for about six weeks. Then one day after the battery had run flat and I had connected phone to charger I noticed after about 20 minutes that the charging light was not lit. I disconnected from charger and reconnected. I tried a second charger and different power outlet. Tried switching phone on, re inserting battery etc. Nothing I did resulted in any change to condition of phone which remained completely dead and unresponsive despite any amount of charging. Contacted Samsung and returned phone for warranty repair. Job was completed within space of a week.

In the customer care letter returned with repaired phone there was no mention of what exactly was faulty though they acknowledged a fault had been identified, repaired and the repaired phone quality tested. Phone has worked perfectly since.

Interestingly, I experienced an exact same 'died connected to charger' issue with the original Galaxy S (also UK unlocked) in 2010 just four months after purchase. In the returned repair form that time it stated that a 'replacement ic/pa/filter' had been fitted. About one month later the Galaxy S battery failed necessitating a replacement battery also under warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] rookiegenius:
holy hell.... so your S3 is indeed the US version Tmo... I was hoping the US S3 had immunity for this. Now my fear is growing again.
[Galaxy S III General] Algorismus:
My story:

I charged my phone and then take it off from charging. I closed the screen. Then slept two hours. Woke up. saw the blue notification light was blinking. Tried to turn on the screen. It didnt turn on. Took the battery off and then put it on. It didnt turn on. I understood that it is dead after some tries. Its now on warranty and waiting to be repaired. i bought at 9 July 2012. It died at 5 December 2012.
[Galaxy S III General] t4tteuz:
+1 for me :(

What happened: left on desk while charging overnight and no life signals in the mornin'

What ROM/Firmware: Foxhound 1.6

What kernel: Siyah

OC or UV: nope

And after about 5 or 6 days my friend's s3 deads same as mine...
[Galaxy S III General] Ali7000:
I have a hard bricked s3 sent for repair (week 2 of 3). And then I had a look at android authority and saw this. I'm worried about this and have a question did this ever happen to an s3 owner in Canada on Telus?
[Galaxy S III General] b0gd4n:
The phone is going to go straight on eBay after I get it.

I am thinking of getting the lte S3....does that one has the same problems?

thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] sodeknetters:
Happy to report my GT-I9300 has been fixed under warranty. Picked it up today, running cm10.1 since a few hours already!
[Galaxy S III General] llothar:
Another one bites the dust... 3 days ago I had a reboot and a freeze. 2 days ago the same. Yesterday I had 3. Today I decided to re-flash and wipe, thinking that maybe the new 4.1.2 update is the problem. No luck. Got some freezes while setting up the new system. First the main app freezes, I can move the notification bar; after 5 seconds that freezes as well. WiFi icon flashes for few more seconds and everything finally comes to a standstill.

I bought my S3 as a pre-order in Norway. Running stock.

I am thinking - maybe this is the problem with winter? Cold air = dry air = static electricity. Are there failures in currently warm countries as well? Sure, a phone should survive static electricity, but I'm just trying to pinpoint the design flaw.
[Galaxy S III General] XHULIOZ:
well mabye the dead s3's were unlocked versins so add tat detail too by the way i never owned a s3 and never will own it because im a nexus type ;)
[Galaxy S III General] kylec:
Same thing happened to my girlfriends S3. After updating to JB about 3 weeks ago from Vodafone Australia, the phone started rebooting and crashing a lot with very sudden battery drains.

I assumed it was due to the JB update, but based on this thread it appears she may have been getting the early symptoms of sudden death. Luckily happened to send it back for warranty repair and got it back yesterday and everything looks new so hopefully all good. She is also back on ICS.

off topic: but I lent her my One X while she was phoneless and accidentally dropped and cracked the screen yesterday about 10min before she got the call that the phone was ready for pickup haha
[Galaxy S III General] ridobe:
Well, I've read most of this thread but have seen no mention of the Note II. This exact thing where I woke up to a blue flashing light but phone wouldn't wake up. Somehow list 69% overnight.
[Galaxy S III General] saisrujan:
Damn the Mayans

My phone died today. Was chugging along till 2AM yesterday night and then I dozed off with the phone connected to wall charger. Woke up and saw the green light on but the phone was unresponsive. I 'long pressed' the on/off button and the phone switched off (no vibration, so it probably died then). I pressed the on/off button again, no response. Removed the battery and tried again. Nope. Tried another charger, no response.

I bought my phone (international version - I9300) in mid-June from Flipkart India. No rooting, no custom ROMs. Upgraded to official JB ROM about 20 days ago and was chugging along quite well until today. Will take it to the service center today. Fingers crossed.

Any India users out there with the same problem? What's the response from Samsung service centers? How long do they take to fix the problem?
[Galaxy S III General] Netskyliner:
Is the Gt i9305 (euro LTE ) involved?

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9305 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] teopanta1:
i want to ask that problem it is for all the devices ?
[Galaxy S III General] Motogp1:
I've not heard of any problems yet ,its,a newer phone and some slightly different hardware so hopefully not.
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
I have the LTE version also and the hardware revision number is 0.600 so completely different to standard S3
[Galaxy S III General] Marz2292:
Just adding my story:

Model: GT-I9300

Country: UK

Bought: August 2012

What ROM/Firmware: Completely stock

What kernel: Stock

OC or UV: Nope

Where phone was made: Korea

Where battery was made: Korea, China

What happened:

Happened yesterday to me, got home from shopping during the day and as usual plugged my Galaxy S3 into it's charging stand.

An few hours later I go to wake it with the home button and nothing. So I press and hold the power button and also nothing. Then I take the battery out and put it back in: you guessed it, nothing. Will be taking it to T-Mobile/EE today and will post what response I get from them.
[Galaxy S III General] marvi0:
Hmm, a bit worrying this, my phone went dead 2 weeks ago sent it off, it came back on Tuesday. I rooted it again installed the latest omega and siyah 1.8.4, and it started to reboot, a couple of times, exactly the same way it was doing when it died again last time, so booted into recovery and reinstalled omega, but haven't gone back to siyah kernel, and so far it's good. Am not implying its the kernel, but it just freaked me out, cause when it died last time it was doing exactly the same thing. I also had it over clocked to the maximum speed. Also noticed whenever I reboot phone on the top left side an orange pixel line only a few mm, shows this is probably eversince I got it back to be honest I just think this is a walking dead phone.
[Galaxy S III General] mario06:
I have an international galaxy s3 that I bought on day one.

It is factory unlocked

I have stock 4.0.4 Icecream Sandwich, never modded it nor flash any custom rom or official rom

It's just rooted with cwm

Works great, I never got a call drop, reboot, crash or any type of error.

It's the best Samsung (best android) phone that I ever had.

Kind regards

PS. I only used original Samsung Chargers
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Got another story. Last night I went to bed, put phone in charger light turned red. Today it was green, unplugged it and screen turned on.
[Galaxy S III General] jmaciak:
Few pages back someone from India reported similar issue, was charged 140$ becase he was accused for watering his device.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
How can we note the NAND number ?

Also we need to map these incidents. Most incidents are being reported from UK.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Fellow Galaxy s3 users,

Please fill in my form, so we can collect data about the sudden death of our beloved phones!

If i have 100 filled in forms i go to contact some news websites and consumer collectives so that this problem would get the attention it needs.

I hope it will get on the Dutch tv hopefully samsung would react then.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdtbV9FMEc2b2gxdTAwME1rNy1taVE6MQ
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
"International Business Times" takes notice: http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-gala...-bricked-without-warning-corrupted-nand-blame
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
Sadly, i am reporting what seems like one more case now.

It has been updated OTA only, never a custom ROM. Correct for about 2.5 weeks ago, and likely still correct at the moment of death , it has been running 4.1.1XXDLJ4 with the XXDLID modem, kernel 3.0.31-368423, everything 100% stock. Not sure where the phone and/or battery has been made.

The device has been bought in Tayelet KSP branch, Eilat, Israel, just 3 weeks ago.

It happened without nothing even remotely suspicious ever been done to the device, and happened as in most other case, just out of the blue. The devices still turns on, but is stuck at the bootloader logo, NOT boot animation, as far as i could understand from her, and i've explicitly asked about a "rotating Samsung logo" or a "white I9300 logo". It still goes into recovery, yet factory wipe fails. Considering the fact it would be extremely difficult for me to guide her on trying the ODIN flash, and considering the symptoms, ODIN has never been attempted.

Again, judging by the fact it has never been customized in any way, yet won't boot beyond the bootloader logo nor manage to execute the factory wipe from recovery mode, meaning something went seriously wrong with the NAND flash partitioning, to an extent a wipe can no longer work, this is NOT a simple soft-brick, despite the fact it still goes into recovery :(
[Galaxy S III General] mcall_r:
OK, I've got the same problem, the phone suddenly died when taking it off charge yesterday morning.

Is anyone who has/had a custom ROM and their binary counter is "yes" getting a repair from samsung or a replacement motherboard?

I would like to know this before I phone samsung and tell them it has been custom ROM'd
[Galaxy S III General] derPianist:
Yes they don't mind.

In my case they also repaid my scratched front screen.

No costs.

via Google Nexus 4
[Galaxy S III General] r1ch04:
Another one to die

Well over the last few days ive noticed my phone rebooting in the morning around 5 minutes after the alarm went off. Well Thursday morning was no different and this time it didn't come back on. The dreaded Sudden Death had developed. I also noticed that the last few days it had been making the noise as if the charger had been plugged in when it was already plugged in. I took it to a repair center who advised that they were unable to get it working. Its now on its way back to Samsung so hopefully ill get a fixed phone...
[Galaxy S III General] mcall_r:
OK, What country are you in, and did you take it back to the retailer for a repair, or directly to Samsung? Also should I tell them the binary counter is yes before I send it in?
[Galaxy S III General] derPianist:
I am from Germany.

I sent it directly to Samsung.

Way faster than my retailer. (Amazon told me so)

There is no need for telling then that your Counter says "yes"

In this case they really don't mind and I am not the only one who sent it in with no problems. Actually I was running cm10.

Just send it in and relax back.

via Google Nexus 4
[Galaxy S III General] r1ch04:
So was your phone rooted when you sent it back?
[Galaxy S III General] derPianist:
Yes. Rooted and running CM10.

Custom Kernel and Custom Recovery.

via Google Nexus 4
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
Yes. I wrote my story a few pages back. They'll tell you it's water logging and charge you about rs8000 for a new motherboard. You're basically helpless no matter how hard you fight. Just go on to Samsung India ceo feedback site and vent your frustration there.

Took about 3 days for the replacement.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Is your phone also bricked?? Keep Reporting your findings!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdtbV9FMEc2b2gxdTAwME1rNy1taVE6MQ
[Galaxy S III General] mcall_r:
Yeah I've already filled in that form
[Galaxy S III General] AaronMichael:
Possible Exynos Exploit relation?

I've just bought my Galaxy S3 and even though this only happens to GS3s around 6 months old or so, I'm still worried. I heard of the Exynos exploit only a week after I bought my GS3, and now I am hearing of the sudden deaths of GS3s around the world without prior notice. So I was reading and suddenly thought back to the Exynos exploit found a while ago. I can be talking complete rubbish here and I'm sorry if I am, but could there be a possible relation from the Exynos exploit discovered with the deaths of GS3s?

Though if it did have a relation to that then wouldn't Qualcomms Snapdragon ones be fine? It's just a thought from a worried GS3 user.
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
Today i found my phone "death"(like turned off) but i unplugged battery and then plugged and now all wors fine.. Is. Abad presage?

Im running ARHD 17.1 with perseus kernel
[Galaxy S III General] Nightspider:
S3 died about a week ago

Had low battery just before going to sleep

put on charger

Woke up and it wouldn't turn on or charge no indication of any power getting to the device

swapped batteries and charger and still nothing

Uk phone on the Three network rooted

Just got the phone back and its all ok but firmware has been reset to 4.1.1
[Galaxy S III General] AaronMichael:
How long had you had the phone?

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] 5N4PDR4G0N:
:eek:

Bought mine on release day here in the UK on 3, has never skipped a beat and have lost track of the number of roms / mods etc that I've flashed, has been charged overnight every night and I'm terrified now, feels like I'm holding a ticking time bomb. It was bad enough when I went to work one day and left it at home, truly felt so isolated and cut off from the world.

I have an old SGS contact which runs out in March I'm seriously considering ditching the S3 then and getting something else, but I love my phone and nothing else ( bar the S4 ) is of any interest to me, I like the Note2 but cant get used to the size, tried and N4 and thought it was pretty meh.

Argh decisions, decisions!!
[Galaxy S III General] saisrujan:
That's unfortunate. Well I took my phone to the service center today and they accepted the phone without pointing out any water logging. Also, I had checked the indicator under the battery slot and it was not pink. They said they should be able to get it ready by Monday evening. Hope they don't dupe me come Monday. Fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S III General] harrie007:
International SGS3 i9300 died two times already

My international SGS3 i9300 died two times already! Bought the phone at July 2012 in the Netherlands (Vodafone). Currently my phone is send for repair for the second time. Same issue twice. Phone just wouldn't boot anymore. No response at all...First time (October) they've replaced the board by warranty. Phone was rooted with a CM 10 nightly build back then. The word 'flash' was noted at the envelope containing my phone after repair (no costs). I didn't want it to happen again, so I flashed the phone with a rooted (root needed for development purposes) version of the newest official Samsung JB rom. Only removed some bloatware. A few days ago my phone died again. Currently I'm waiting for the second repair...

Simularities for both crashes:

- JB rom (CM10 & rooted Samsung)

- Got a completely empty battery (because of heavy usage) one or a few days before the crash

- Battery always fully charged overnight

- The hours/day(s) before breakdown the phone was less responsive and got more app crashes

- Just before the crash the phone temperature was much higher as usual (mainly @ lower back).

- Used the phone multiple times during the day and suddenly couldn't turn on the screen anymore.

- Led didn't turn on when plugged a charger.

- No battery problems measured (checked twice @ repair desk & tried other batteries)
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
ATM i have 25 filled in reports Please keep reporting it will help us all! :good:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdtbV9FMEc2b2gxdTAwME1rNy1taVE6MQ#gid=0