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[Galaxy S III General] iExitus:
Hey guys. My phone died too :)

What happened: Battery was at about 10%. Went to bed, intention was to charge it over night. In the morning LED was lighten white, completely no responsibility. So I took battery out, back in and till then I never saw any sign of life. No LED, no screen back light, nothing.

What ROM/Firmware: latest temasek cm10

What kernel: latest temasek cm10 kernel

OC or UV: OC 1.6 / no UV

Because I couldn't enter any mode (Download/CWM), I had nothing to loose, so I sent it back (buyed on Amazon, warehouse deal) and they took it to w-support. My phone got repaired and i got full warranty. Paid nothing but I lost all data on internalSD. They changed motherboard and some other stuff and updated to latest android. It was back at my house after 5 days.

Hope this helps. Open for questions. :beer:
[Galaxy S III General] Toadeh:
Just picked mine up. They swapped out the main board on it so they won't know if its rooted or not
[Galaxy S III General] KickButts:
Yep. I´ve got mine back after 9 days. They said they swapped the motherboard. The phone was rooted and with the leaked JB 4.1.2 (it was before the Poland final got rolled out).
[Galaxy S III General] mortuus82:
its probably standard for this problem, doubt they do much once they consider the phone is dead they switch like u say the main board and flashes the phone with latest software, no big deal but it sucks so many have this problem phone suddenly dies... :(
[Galaxy S III General] pzenari:
One more dead S3 - in Brasil this time.

Damn S3, died without warning. I was using my phone as I always do, and after checking a calendar entry I turned the screen off by short pressing the power button, as usual. Then I had to make a phone call, so I pressed the power button to turn the screen on and unlock it, but nothing happened. I thought it was just a crash, so I held the power button to force it to do something, but nothing happened again. I tried to remove and reinstall the battery, and again, nothing happened. Not a single led blink, not a single vibration. Only a black screen. Nothing happened when I plugged the cable to the phone, either with a USB port or the wall charger. Dead. RIP.

What happened: Didn't come back after a usual push on the power button to lock the phone.

What ROM/Firmware: Claro Brasil Jelly Bean 4.1.1 - I9300UBDLJ2/I9300ZTADLJ1

What kernel: Stock kernel for I9300UBDLJ2/I9300ZTADLJ1

OV or UV: No

Where phone was made: Brasil

Where battery was made: Made in Korea, assembled in China
[Galaxy S III General] Dubhghaill:
Mine's also dead. I bought it in early June from CPW in the UK. It doesn't say when or where it was made on the back. I'll be heading there after work, hopefully they will replace it!

What happened: I charged it overnight as usual. I woke up to a flashing blue LED but the phone was not responsive. I pulled the battery and now it's completely dead. Won't respond to anything.

What ROM/Firmware: Stock (Jelly Bean)

What kernel: no idea

OC or UV: neither

Where phone was made: No idea

Where battery was made: "Cell made in Korea, assembled in Vietnam"
[Galaxy S III General] corb06:
You guys are not gonna believe this! My swedish s3 went dead on day 189 of use. My brother in spain, his phone also went dead exactly 189 days of use. What is the chance of that???

Samsung countdown to sudden death?
[Galaxy S III General] JohnM1973:
That's scarily accurate, would be interesting if others who've experienced sudden death if they could calculate how many days old the phone was when it occurred.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Thank you. I agree 100%. They just don't want to hold a press event because it's the first time they clearly overtook Apple's iPhone sales and they don't want it to end up all over the news that the S3 has a major defect.
[Galaxy S III General] Helix751:
No way..

Totally and absolutely incorrect.

If Toyota didn't recall their "potentially" brake issue-affected vehicles, even though there's a negligible 0,001% chance of failure, in case it is found to be a manufacturer-originated failure, there would be no excuse in case somebody gets injured or dead because of not taking due action and recalling back affected vehicles (and hence the lawsuit costs would be HUGE).

There's no need to recall all devices on the market, but to identify potentially affected ones, preparing a communications campaign, developing preventive soft-fixes if possible, directing carriers on what to do and expect, and replacing bricks is mandatory, even if nobody dies due to a Sudden Death Syndrome (at least a smartphone one ;) ).
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
You guys have too much free time. :p

Being serious: Samsung has a bad rep in communications.

Best thing you can do is never buy Samsung again.

But if you are expecting them to change... You'll be waiting a loooong time.

I doubt they are thinking about any changes with the sales they have.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
The thing is nothing compares to this device right now. There are no functional defects with the device other than this one. In other words the phone works perfectly up until it dies (which hasn't happened to me yet). So they could at acknowledge it as a small issue and issue a recall/replacement through the carriers rather than totally ignoring it.
[Galaxy S III General] fulcrum1971:
And my board was replaced without any questions asked and the internal memory jumped to 32 gigs. Just that my wife didnt have her s3 for 2 days. So no regrets.

sent from my Note 2.
[Galaxy S III General] Helix751:
Apple's CEO publicly admitted Google Maps issues, fired the executive in charge and is experiencing an increase in IP5 sales. Wonder why?

This is called brand confidence.. not on the device. Devices and software fail all the time, but companies must be on par with these circumstances and respond timely and effectively. The worse that could happen to Samsung is not measured today, but will be in the near future, when people will not be buying their new "S4" due to poor S3 customer experience (support) after the bug hit them. This will certainly have an awful effect on their future sales figures. It's basic marketing. Just that.
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Mate, we're on your side, we're just not posting large comments on XDA hoping for Samsung to magically set their eyes on it and burst with remorse, issuing a formal report first thing next morning.

Point is: Samsung sales will probably overshoot the iPhone's soon enough, and they really don't care about people like us. Look at their BBQ promise for Exynos and updated kernel sources.
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Exactly. If you want Samsung to change, stop buying their devices.

Plain and simple, numbers speak louder than words in corporate.

I'm not against the people protesting so vehemently in xda, I'm saying that you are just doing it wrong. Protest with your wallet which is the real power as a consumer. A company with such leverage and sales a Samsung won't issue a major statement if the failure rate is so small comparatively.

It would hurt their stock, it's far cheaper and easier just to fix the defective units.

PS: The iPhone example is pretty bad, Apple will sell regardless if the ship a minor revision over their previous handset with obvious shortcomings. They can call it a feature and it will still blow people away. Sad.

In the other hand, the investor confidence in Apple is going down, which is something to behold considering the solid performance. But the market is starting to realize that Apple as a creative force has grown stagnant and has stopped to innovate long ago.
[Galaxy S III General] NocturnalOne:
I thought I'd sign up seeing as this is SO frequently happening.

I have just received my device back from EE (T-Mobile UK) after getting the sudden death. The took a month to repair it, was so glad when it arrived through the door today!

Unpack it, get my first look at Jelly Bean, browse around a little bit, decide to go back to the home screen... Nothing.

My home button is completely dead, it hasn't worked once in about 1000 presses, which is absolutely infuriating after waiting so long! I absolutely despise T-Mobile, SBE and Samsung now.
[Galaxy S III General] Helix751:
Well, actually they already ended up all over the news... and also social networks and forums.. :(

And I bet Apple is having a good time preparing their upcoming advertising and communications campaign utilizing (and magnifying) both the technical failure and their rival's awful customer support.
[Galaxy S III General] hd779:
The S3 will likely be my last Samsung phone, as I stated in an earlier post this is the third galaxy s device to have issues for me. My captivate had the sleep/turn off issue, it was replaced and the replacement device's power button died, I then got a galaxy s 2 and had connectivity issues from the headset port, that one was replaced and sold on craigslist, now my S3 does the semi death. I fear the next one might blow up on me. I treat these phones well , always in cases immediately with screen protector, hardly ever dropped. Its almost enough to make me wanna go iPhone..... Almost.
[Galaxy S III General] fulcrum1971:
Guess its your bad luck mate. Still have my galaxy s running 4 2.1 followed by my note 1 still running fine, my wife's s3 which died suddenly but was repaired within 2 days within warranty and my lovely note 2.

sent from my Note 2.
[Galaxy S III General] SiriusCybernetik:
For those who are in fear of loosing their warranty after rooting, have a look at the following http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_rooting

More specifically for EU customers:

http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/legal/flashingdevices.en.html
[Galaxy S III General] sabirwest:
I THINK I AM GONNA GO HTC AGAIN.... :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] pijindrin:
Well I' running this. Hope it's safe.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] donalgodon:
Going to the Xperia Z myself.
[Galaxy S III General] hd779:
lol... I also forgot to mention that I also have the Samsung Focus (windows 7 phone) and the camera flash died on it... so yeah I think as far as Samsung smartphones I am cursed, before the smartphones I had several flip phones that worked fine. I am glad you are having better luck than I.
[Galaxy S III General] animoo:
My SIII was repaired today under warranty (it was the half-dead kind, and was running custom rom, it could be seen in dl-mode),the complete motherboard was replaced. But according to the brickbug checker app, it has the same faulty kind of chip. Altough I was very lucky, and this Samsung premium guarantee service is great, where it's available.:good:

Now it's on stock 4.0.4 T-mobile rom, and I'll leave it alone. :)

Think I'm gonna sell the phone, and buy a Nexus 4...
[Galaxy S III General] sharm:
No replacement phone as I went through Samsung directly and not Optus. I have an old Motorola Milestone running 2.3 Cyanogenmod which has got me through since the phone died. Just received an email saying my phone will be delivered today which means less than one weeks turnaround which seems pretty good and would probably be much quicker than going through one of the networks I imagine.
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
I've had 4 Samsung phones with no issues at all so not interested in hearing people trash a company that has as good a record as most others .

IPhone has its issues as has HTC and as will all companies that need to release new models quickly in technology growth industries.

if you aren't happy with your phone change it but stop bleating on here about it
[Galaxy S III General] chrizhaynes:
got a replacement after sd

Hi guys my s3 dies 2 weeks ago posted on page 307 and mine was sticking on boot logo not recovery only download and fails when flashing via odin, it wasn't rooted at the time of dying because it had been crashing a lot the few weeks prior so was trying fully stock to see if it would go. it didn't and then the new update xxella and 1 hour later it died. top two in download was all saying official but the status last one was saying custom. I took it back to carphone warehouse 2 weeks ago and it updated on the online checker yesterday but saying my fault wasn't covered by the warren but would fix it anyway for free? ramg up and they couldn't find it saying anything about it on the system and told me the have replaced it for a brand new one no motherboard change. glad got a new one back but strange. same emmc chip but 09/12 date.
[Galaxy S III General] Jovica666:
My story

Hello and thanks to all the developers and members of this site!

Afraid from the SD-Syndrome 4 days ago I`ve flashed mine and my girlfriend`s phone (both with the VTU00M, revision 0xf1 eMMC) with the XXELL4 firmware because we had the Trinidad&Tobago(CSC:TTT) versions and the 4.1.2 update would take forever to happen. Flashed XXELL4 firmware (from SamMobile), changed the CSC version to SEE and did factory reset. Rooted mine with CF-autoroot and had PhilZ recovery installed while my girlfriend wanted to keep everything stock. Everything was working fine until she noticed 3 days ago that the phone had turn off left on the table overnight and doesen`t turn on until she took the battery out and switched it on. The battery had some 14% juice left and that was weird to me. 2 days ago while surfing the web(watching a video-stock browser) she had a freeze up and even pressing the phone`s menu button, back and power button she couldn`t go back to homescreen. The phone was just frozen while the back and multitasking buttons were going on/off. Then she took the battery out and restarted the phone. Since that night her phone froze once more with the same symptoms - while watching a video in stock browser(no FlashPlayer insalled). For the whole time mine was working just fine and had no issues but the very next day I decided to do some stuff:1.Rooted hers, then did backups. 2.Cleared cache/dalvik-cache and factory reset the phones. 3. Flashed both with official 4.1.2 XXELLA firmwares. 4. Rooted them again with CF-autoroot and installed PhilZ recovery. 5. Cleared cache/dalvik again and did recovery. 6.Reset the flash counters with Triangle Away v.2.37 so now in Odin mode everything is official while in system app device status is stil:modified. Both phones are working just fine for the whole day with no freezing whatsoever but I don`t want to speak early. Just had some message on mine that S-Voice had unfortunately stopped twice and that`s it. Do you think that these freeze ups have to do anything with the SDS-that the eMMC had taken enough damage or it is more software related? Today her phone froze for 20 seconds while using the FB app-so I wonder can it be the app itself? Anyway she flashed Siyah kernel 1.8.8 just to see if that will help. Any suggestions are more than welcomed! Just want to keep ur phones alive...thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
I don't have any suggestions but keep us posted on the status of the freezing phone.....

Galaxy S3

Omega Rom V37
[Galaxy S III General] odoto:
well, Toyota is a totally different story, because - as you said - lifes were at stake...

someone here mentioned that lifes might as well be in danger due to dead phones... well sure, there is a possibility your phone dies in the very moment you need to make an emergency phone call... but I guess chances are relatively small for that, compared to other factors like your phone running out of battery, your reception being bad/non-existing or android going mad and/or freezing due to your highly customized rom.

smartphones are computers... you wouldn't rely on your computer for emergency calls, wouldn't you?

seriously, if you are worried about making emergency calls, get a Nokia (or a landline for that matter)
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
HTC has worse problems. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37054488&postcount=1200
[Galaxy S III General] gboydroid:
Its all about luck hahahahaha
[Galaxy S III General] cile381:
I see that this issue becomes obsessive for some users ... the less you read this thread you will sleep better ! :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
:good:

Best thing to do: flash the patched kernels, continue living life as normal. If it still dies, too bad! No point worrying about it now :)
[Galaxy S III General] DJ Palmis:
Wow: New firmware for Italy on Sammobile..

I9300XXEMA1

Wow..

I hope something new about SD..
[Galaxy S III General] sab65:
I was not so lucky. Phone suddenly died in my pocket after six months of use. I then found this thread. I am now waiting for it to come back from repair.
[Galaxy S III General] Kcake:
+1 SDS Brick

My phone died today. Was on Anonorom, i rebooted to go to the recovery to flash a new mod and boom! It wouldn't enter recovery. There were a few symptoms of the death. Sometimes the device would reboot when i was flashing a mod in recovery. This is gonna be the last samsung device i buy!
[Galaxy S III General] Kcake:
Back from the dead

Guys i guess i've figured out a solution!!! My phone was dead and i couldn't enter recovery mode nor would the ROM boot. I flashed the stock recovery from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37000423&postcount=7

And tadaaa! My S3 is back from the dead!
[Galaxy S III General] yhrn:
Just got my phone back from a Swedish service center after 12 days. They had replaced the motherboard and as a bonus they had even replaced the display, which had been damaged in a completely unrelated accident a couple of months earlier. All under warranty so it didn't cost me a cent. At least I got something out of this mess.

Curiously, the phone had XXDLJ2 (4.1.1, from October 2012 I think) installed when I got it back. Haven't checked the boot loader yet.
[Galaxy S III General] soulgin:
I don't think so , especially Sammy would made a statement to all repair official stores to use the chip with the new revision 0Xf7 , plus the Oxf1 is the commolnly used chip on S3 , about revision date , yeah that's true , maybe that's the clue

Question si there some SDS with the 0xf1 and the revision date 09/2012.

Ps : i buyed a S3 no warranty , 0Xf1 damn chip , life is a all about risk hhhhhhh :D
[Galaxy S III General] gabrymr:
Yeah, the first I've heard it I was going nuts, but now I think, hell !@#$ happens you know, they'll fix it if it goes south, at least I will know what happens to it, unlike to some other phones I had.
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Now that's balls :D
[Galaxy S III General] kangoulius:
It seems there are multiple sudden death issues. Ones that can be fixed with firmware and ones that cant and require new motherboards. I dont see how they are related yet yield the same non boot issue. Mine had all the usual symptoms. 6 months old, white 16gig. Got warm one day and pulled it out of my pocket to see it stuck on boot. I tried flashing the firmware that samsung released that supposedly fixes the problem. Via keys and via Odin. Keys was useless and Odin gave me a partition error that some others are reporting.

It has been in with Samuel King IT (samuelking.com) at Angel London for 8 days now and the useless pricks say it's still in for testing. I'm not sure if they are inundated or just plain useless (like most repair centres)

I've been without a phone for over 3 weeks. Had I known it would be this long I'd have bought a new one already! Definitely my last samsung device.
[Galaxy S III General] shorty_blitz:
So my device is about 6 months old, running stock 4.1.2 on O2 network, un rooted blaa blaa. Since a few days ago it's freezing multiple times, I've read through most of the threads related and what I'm getting is that Samsung has safeguarded my phone from dieing but the side effect is that it will constantly freeze? Am I misunderstanding lol? Also, someone mentioned that their phone stopped freezing when they put it off power save mode for the Wi-Fi, I can somewhat confirm it helps but I wouldn't say it's 100% or satisfactory for that matter.
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
There are currently two theories on SDS. One is long-term wear happening quickly, in which case flashing the patched update might not save the device as enough wear might have already taken place. The second is the eMMC firmware trying to access some non-existent memory due to buggy code; in this case ideally once you flash the fix devices shouldn't die.

We just don't know which of the two (or maybe a third altogether) is the correct one; though the devs are inclined towards the 2nd one.
[Galaxy S III General] Akiainavas:
So what happens if i have safe rom kernel like cm10.1 but not-safe recovery ? Is my phone at risk only when booting into recovery or all the time the OS is running ?
[Galaxy S III General] boo85:
Yup, I asked this question before on this thread which was answered by pickandwhammy. It would be possible to just use a safe kernel without a safe recovery, as long as you don't boot into recovery.
[Galaxy S III General] Akiainavas:
Sorry for posting again but I just recieved my Note II, as far as i know the sudden death issue haunts this device as well.

It came with:

ROM: 4.1.2 N7100XXDLK7

eMMC: VTU00M

FW Rev: 0xF7

Date: 11/2012

Is this eMMC version Sudden Death free ? Everywhere i look, people point to 0xF1 being faulty - were there any reports of F7 suffering from the sudden death issue ? Or can i flash freely and consider myself safe ?
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
no 0xF7 suffered yet.

you are 99% safe already
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
It's pretty easy to understand.

When you boot the device normally, it loads up the normal kernel.

When you boot the device into recovery, it loads up the recovery ("backup") kernel, in case you flashed a bad kernel or something that would normally prevent it from loading up at all.

If you use an un-patched/unsafe recovery/recovery kernel, but have a safe normal kernel, you're only at risk when you boot into recovery.

I'm not sure if it exists on your Note 2, but on the S3, we have Philz Touch Recovery, which is basically CWM Touch Recovery patched and with much more features.

Also, I want to say you're safe since you have a newer revision, but I'm not 100% confident.
[Galaxy S III General] optima:
I can get into boot loader but anything esle comes up with a odd white screen is there any way of getting my data or wiping my personal data
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
If you have SDS, there's absolutely no way to get anything on the internal storage. Only the memory card if you were using one.
[Galaxy S III General] optima:
gutted i was so far on grand theft auto
[Galaxy S III General] shorty_blitz:
What about the constant freezing that my S3 is suffering from? Is there any way to get rid of this problem? Should I take my handset to O2 and ask for a replacement under warranty?
[Galaxy S III General] optima:
That's how mine started with constant freezing I would back up your grand theft auto save file now
[Galaxy S III General] shorty_blitz:
Haha is it still gonna die with the ELL4?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
We don't know. Depends if the fault is accumulative or instant. ELL4 has the same kernel source as ELLA
[Galaxy S III General] optima:
I updated to Ella and it died the next day
[Galaxy S III General] Brooks316:
My girlfriends died this past Sunday, I'd downloaded the update Saturday night too. Bit lame.

Has anyone used the 'freesamsungrepairs' mentioned in the first post to get their's repaired.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Someone said that they did and shipped it from the US, but you'll need to contact them and provide them with the IMEI/Serial number so they can make sure that it's from the UK/Europe.
[Galaxy S III General] Dabarr:
just to add my 2 cents...

My phone died because of a half SD last thursday and I turned it in the very next day after several unsuccesful attempts to revive it. I also had long freezes the days before. It was rooted and on a custom rom. Now I just hope it will get repaired. I know most of them do but I have also read that they were refusing repair for some people having a half SD because of modified software (some of them didn't even modify but had still been accused of)

I had been using ELLA roms for a while already always using the newest siyah kernel. It didn't help... :(