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[Galaxy S III General] mustasusi:
I was trying to fix a friend's S3 in a very strange situation. When I turn it on, instead of the I9300 splash screen I get this:

Yup, looks more like a static reception TV.

I can still boot normally into D/L mode and connect with PC Odin. Not recovery.

Anyway the real problem starts when attempting to flash something, even a custom recovery - it immediately fails due to a complaint of missing PIT partition:

So, using a dedicated PIT file along side with the firmware and it looks like this:

And forever. Waited 30 mins, 2hrs...Still the same, nothing seems to be moving, no visible progress bar.

Is it an eMMC failure and has it something to do with an SDS risk candidate version?

This phone used to run ALE2 4.0.4 unrooted version, never been updated since owned. I fixed this phone once as it got stuck on splash screen, due to memory overload\crash. But now...what would you seniors suggest?

Is it a dead end where things could only get worse?

Replace the motherboard?
[Galaxy S III General] kimdarrel:
Hi! I Wanna ask you guys if this incident still occurs even with batches of galaxy s3 LTE? I wanna buy the phone tomorrow that is why I'm afraid I may have a bad unit but.can you guys give me hints so I can prevent or atleast have a decent one like batch number IMEI code number needed firmware to updated right after I bought it.. I might pick the galaxy s4 mini if I can't prevent having a bad unit but I like the Galaxy s3 LTE more.. Please! Thanks in advance..
[Galaxy S III General] Nuppi:
Is/was the sds caused by a faulty eMMC or android 4.04?

Just checked my phone (i9300) with brickbug check and it says i have a sane chip (eMMC: 016G92 FwRev: 0x30).

Phone still has 4.04.

So am i safe, or should i install 4.12 as soon as possible?

I really don't like JB so id prefer sticking with ICS.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] gspears:
It's all about the firmware on the chip. They made some changes to later android versions to help work around the bad firmware. but since you've got a sane chip, you don't have to worry about it at all. But there are some great updates to the 4.04 software. Personally I recommend Omega rom for the I9300. It's still based on Samsung Touchwiz but get's rid of a lot of the crap and it utilizes the Aroma installer which give's you the ability to choose which programs install so you can pick and choose what you want to have on your phone eating up your resources. Since the I9300 only has 1GB of ram, Omega helps utilize it more efficiently so you can get the most out of the phone. Plus, if you look at Omega's XDA thread, you'll see how very popular it is. It is very stable, fast and reliable. Probably more so than stock.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent. What is boils down to is that since you have the sane chip, you have no worries.

Have fun with your S3
[Galaxy S III General] laklaklak:
Hi there everyone.

My battery was almost drained (around 5% left) and put the phone to charge and went to sleep.

I woke up after a couple of hours and both the phone and the charger were very hot. It was the first time that I felt my phone overheated. I tried turning it on, but nothing. The phone seemed dead. I thought that it was better if I left it for a few minutes to cool down and then try again. But still the phone does not boot.

I also tried twice to connect the phone to my laptop through the USB cable and I see that the phone starts getting hot around the "charging" area...And won't boot of course.

Any thoughts, anybody knows what may be happening?

PS. I tried all the combinations "vol up + power + home", etc. but nothing seems to be working.
[Galaxy S III General] disavow:
dead s3

OKAY, So my s3 was fine then it shut it self down. Did a battery pull and it came back on 2 min later screen goes black, boots up to logo screen and goes no further. If i plug it in then it goes to grey batt screen and goes no further. tried a hard reset phone now does not turn on at all no response when placed on charge with batt in. but with battery out the red light comes on. My question is there a way to access to the internal memory?
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Physically access it?
[Galaxy S III General] chavezone:
Hey All

I have 3 S3's on my plan and they all have started the same symptons discussed in this thread, the 3 phones were all purchased in Novemner of 2012 so not even 2 years old.

This seems rather odd that they all are doing the same thing, should I just replace the phone? from what I hear its not fixable
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
I think that now it better would be to buy a new phone instead of replacing Galaxy S3..For example you can buy Moto G which is much faster,uses stock Android.
[Galaxy S III General] james0908:
Hi Guys,

I'm sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here and I apologise for sounding like a noob but I own a I9300 S3 and recently had some problems with it.

I tried flashing a custom recovery and it ended up hard bricking the phone. The phone itself is out of warranty so I took it to a repair place and they

said it had something to do with the eMMC chip and thus they replaced both the Chip and the motherboard. After getting it back my girlfriend has been using it and I have been too busy to test it out. After rooting it and replacing the stock recovery with the latest Philz and flashing CM 11 Snapshot M9 I finally got around to installing the eMMC bug checker app. I know I should have done it sooner. It is saying that I have got an insane chip. The VTU00M with the 0xf1 firmware. After reading around the forums I have these questions.

1) Having the latest Philz and CM11 Snapshot M9 build, am I indeed safe? In most of the forums I read including the linked one to rootSU, they have said as long as you are running Philz and CM10.1 or later you are safe. Is this true?

2) The repair place loaded stock Samsung ROM for me and said to me the motherboard has a 3 month warranty but that rooting it will void it.

Should I flash the stock rom from Sammobile and take it back to them? How much risk will that entail? If the answer to the 1st question was that I am safe then should I still complain and ask them for a sane chip? I'm afraid that flashing back the Stock ROM will somehow brick this phone again.

Please could someone advise me the safest course of action. I spent a lot of money replacing the motherboard and would not afford to do it again.

Thank you all!

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I had the same problem on mine man. Mine was running 4.1.2 and it was out of warranty. I rooted it first then attempted to install custom recovery. Tried every version and it wouldnt work. I did the same thing you did and also flashed a PIT file and still nothing would work. Took it in to a repair shop and they said eMMC chip problem so I replaced that with the motherboard too. Come back and after 3 weeks of my girlfriend using it (I was away on work), only after rooting it again and installing CM11 did I notice that I have an insane chip again. Dont know what to do. But your symptoms sure to look a lot like mine. No recovery and only download mode and cant flash anything.
[Galaxy S III General] paul x:
sudden death

i have samsung galaxy three , i picked it up saw was dead so plugged into charger , nothing , used another battery nothing , used friends battery still nothing , tried pressing volume and on button same time and leaving it on charge and still nothing mine is completely dead , now i see on internet im not the only one , samsung should fix this problem at there cost a they have supplied faulty goods , im back to using my 5 year old blackberry and still works fine , i wrote to samsung if dont get satisfactory reply of them i wont be buying no more of there good , had problems with samsung tv i bought also . shame cos really liked this phone.
[Galaxy S III General] otaconremo:
phone fell victim too

to share my experience with my s3:

phone is at 4.3 official rom, international model, i can't remember what exact build it was since i just used kies to upgrade before.

checked it with brickbug app, it says sane chip so i felt safe from this sds.

but still my phone still died on me.

i was on a call that time and got my battery drained to the last juice. when i plugged in the charger, it went charging while phone is still off.

then i tried to power it on, it booted to samsung logo then screen goes black and then colored green dots appeared everywhere all over the screen.

now it won't respond even when holding down the power button. so i had to pull out the battery and that was the last time i saw something on its screen.

now it won't boot or go to download/recovery.

i sent it for service but the shop can't repair it so they gave me a their spare board for a little bargain. spare board comes from another s3 with broken screen/lcd. they flashed my old imei/serial back and phone's working fine now. although i can't flash customized firmware as it loses its imei/serial number. so i just stayed with stock 4.3 MK6 rom for now.

now i tried to check my new board with emmc brickbug, it says insane chip. hopefully i this phone won't die again anytime soon. :(
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
I would suggest you to sell your Galaxy S3 and buy a better phone (for example Moto G) ir HTC Desire 601. Then you won't need to worry about SDS. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] matyas69:
I'm not agree with that ! My wife and I have 2 SGS3(me a I9305 and my wife a classic I9300) and both of us are a imei start by 352. My phone was built in May 2014 and the other was built in March 2014. That's not a good detection of SDS...
[Galaxy S III General] racz41:
Mine nearly died, it was constantly bootlooping so I decided to rest the phone for around 6 months. After that, the phone updated to jb 4.3 and I never experienced a bootloop again. Now I'm running on Paranoid android ROM and no problems so far. I've been using the phone for around 2 months now and still no problems :beer:
[Galaxy S III General] luq529:
Moto g is worser than s3. Samsung has better screen, camera, processor. Maybe battery is a lot worse than Moto g. But it's because of a7 cores and dim display with blueish white.
[Galaxy S III General] Scorpionea:
I did have few time random reboot and stuck in reboot in my 2 year old s3 but after the release of the fix for sds no more problems like that..
[Galaxy S III General] KondeTpm:
I started to have boot loop, but luckily it was a faulty power button.

Ordered a couple from china and soldere it, that was 4 months ago, its still working perfectly now.
[Galaxy S III General] ak.89:
white color note 2

hi i am trying to fix this note 2 and it has this weird white screen with random colors all hazed over the screen. is this something can be fixable because i tried replacing the lcd and cleaning the board with alcohol but still not working. please suggest :confused:if you have any idea. thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] Gargoyles:
my s3 have the same issue. probably eMMC chip is damaged. I tried many method to solve but no chance. Please tell me if you`ll solve that. Good luck!
[Galaxy S III General] Joker87:
Hi, I bought my gs3 in July 2012 and it has the affected chip but it always worked fine. I'm currently running a 4.4.2 Rom with boeffla kernel 6.2, in the first post I saw there was a software fix... I'm safe?? Thx
[Galaxy S III General] Scorpionea:
Yes u are safe, i also have affected chip and never had problems.. Boeffla kernels have SDS fix :)
[Galaxy S III General] alexmihai92:
You were unlucky with that sane chip. I own my S III for 2 years now, the eMMC test says it has insane chip, but I never experience any SDS problem.
[Galaxy S III General] tetakpatak:
Hey, [MENTION=4712061]Obagleyfreer[/MENTION], still around here?

It seems like we have new members in the eMMC faulty chips family: Galaxy Tab 2:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=58626847

Can you please consider to update the PlayStore app? Please contact our Tab 2 developer [MENTION=5153662]Android-Andi[/MENTION] if any info required.

Thanks a lot in forward! Greetings from Switzerland, the opposite end of the earth :)

tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
[Galaxy S III General] tetakpatak:
Look, [MENTION=4712061]Obagleyfreer[/MENTION], here is the insane chip MAG2GA being displayed as sane.

Honestly, IDK if it makes sense to update eMMC brickbug app with this, because this chip here is affected with a TRIM bug.

tetakpatalked from P5110
[Galaxy S III General] b22c:
Is there a solution?

Is there a solution in 500 pages of this topic? Mine wont turn on... How can we do something if phone dont turn on?
[Galaxy S III General] tetakpatak:
The solution is in the first lines of the first post.

Security patch must be included both in the recovery and in the kernel.

If the device is affected by SDS, only motherboard replacement can revive it. It is worth doing it IMO.

tetakpatalked from N7100
[Galaxy S III General] rialynfae:
so...

what happened: my phone has been receiving "system UIDs inconsistent: UIDs on the system are inconsistent you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable." for a month now and I always click on ‘I’m feeling lucky button’ and I could use my phone without any issue. However, two days ago, i was just casually using my phone and i kept it in my bag. After an hour or so, I checked on my phone and it was turned off. I turned it on, it had been stuck on the samsung startup page for more than 15 minutes so I took out the battery and put it back and turned it on again. It's still stuck on there. When I tried charging it, it's just stuck at the battery picture with a loading symbol that's not moving on the middle of it. I tried getting into the reboot mode but I cant, the samsung startup page just blinked.

I have yet to save all my photos and i was going to but the computer cant seem to connect to my phone. Tried using different cables and different computers. I really wanna get a new phone, preferably an iPhone because i have had enough with androids. Oh and, my GS3 has been with me for 2 1/2 years? somehow around there.
[Galaxy S III General] Warren_Orange:
Hi.

I just bought my S3. I have checked and it says I have the insane chip dated 2012.

Now it came with stock 4.3. I have now rooted and put TWRP on it. I intend to flash CM11 or CM12 and put arter97 kernel on it. Now looking from the first post it says both the recovery and kernel need to be updated to prevent SDS. Looking at the arter thread the arter97 kernel seems patched. What about using TWRP recovery? I have read that CWM recovery is patched. What about TWRP?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] tetakpatak:
All recent custom recoveries include the patch, don't worry ;)

tetakpatalked from 1+One
[Galaxy S III General] p0p0y23:
Hi Guys,

I need help with my Samsung S3 i9300 16gb Navy blue.

I can still boot to Recovery but this is what i got on screen . (please see photo)

I can still boot to download mode..but, i can't flash any Official or no Official firmwares. even the emergency firmware is not working.

i already try to flash the efs repair via odin but still no luck.

Hope some one can give me any idea how to resolved this issue..and i do believe that this can be solved with the help you YOU!

Thanks in Advance.

Cheers!
[Galaxy S III General] tetakpatak:
Did you try to format /cache in recovery?

tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
[Galaxy S III General] p0p0y23:
i think i have tried everything...but still no luck.

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I think i ve tried everything i could but still no luck..
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
[/COLOR]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.

thnx foer reply bro...i really appreciate it point is mine had a screen damage which happened within one month of purchase but the phone was working fine i bought it in june 2012 from srinagar and now when iam in chandigarh it just switched off the service centre says that since the screen is damaged they cant change it under warranty so i've literally have no choice but if it is true that the phones purchased in june have some defect then i may stand a chance,and as such my phone was working pretty fine with that lillte damage.

another point i searched the net and found on a site mobiletechvideos.com about a JTAG repair don't know much about it but found the phone working after that JTAG repair but they are situated abroad don't know how they are gonna help us JTAG repair cost was $50 so cheaper may be.

what do u say?? and how do we go about the claim from samsung....plz keep me posted.u can pm me at gauravinvouge@gmail.com
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
thnx foer reply bro...i really appreciate it point is mine had a screen damage which happened within one month of purchase but the phone was working fine i bought it in june 2012 from srinagar and now when iam in chandigarh it just switched off the service centre says that since the screen is damaged they cant change it under warranty so i've literally have no choice but if it is true that the phones purchased in june have some defect then i may stand a chance,and as such my phone was working pretty fine with that lillte damage.

another point i searched the net and found on a site mobiletechvideos.com about a JTAG repair don't know much about it but found the phone working after that JTAG repair but they are situated abroad don't know how they are gonna help us JTAG repair cost was $50 so cheaper may be.

what do u say?? and how do we go about the claim from samsung....plz keep me posted.u can pm me at gauravinvouge@gmail.com[/QUOTE]

Delete your e-mail from here NOW unless you want to get tons of spam or w/e ;) Send your e-mail by PM to whoever you want, but not on a public post, ever :) Unless you want to buy growing pills, then post it, you'll see! :D
[Galaxy S III General] zziggy:
Got mine back today (1 week)

Replaced motherboard
[Galaxy S III General] clouds5:
Now after reading through this thread I'm a bit afraid. Is this only happening to certain models? I never had any issues and only load my sgs3 when its needed, usually with the sgs2 charger.

Do i have to be concerned that this sudden death could happen to me too? I only bought my sgs3 3 months ago in september.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
As anybody experienced this issue on Stock Jelly Bean ? :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] daevilb:
My phone died December 18, 2012 without warning,

updated to newest official android version avaliable in Sweden 4.1.2 ?

No rooting or tweeks made.
[Galaxy S III General] juniorelvis:
Yep.
[Galaxy S III General] funb0b:
Yes, its a hardware fault.
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
Yes. DLJ1
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Wondering if somebody has counted the amount of bricked devices... 500 posts only here, it's nothing to worry about nor to panic... There are over 10 milions sold...

Blogs are freaking people out for a few defective devices...

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] Lynchy30:
Only a very small percentage of those people will register on here to tell us about it. The majority will go straight to their suppliers.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Let me doubt it... many will come here, as this post has been linked in MANY blogs, so when ppl google about a crashed device is almost the first thing that will pop-up for them...

Moreover, if you check, many of the ppl having this issue have few posts or short time registered, so are quite new in here, and they still could find this thread so... We're talking worldwide...
[Galaxy S III General] scsjc:
Hello from Spain, I have a same problem, in the htcmania we have a counter from people have a same problem, we have a small questions to define where are problem ( when buy, colour, always charged with official adapter...... And more ) now we don't have a clear what's problem, but I can say... To much people have the same problem.
[Galaxy S III General] robogo1982:
I am 8 days shy of my S3 being 6 months old. So far no problems.
[Galaxy S III General] jmaciak:
Mine died today. Also bought in September. I've read almost entire thread today. To me it seems that as an SGS3 owner there's no reason for you to speculate as when and how you're phone will die - it seems it's not date, colour, rom, kernel related, it's just a hw fault. If you own sgs3 you just have to deal with the fact that it might die some day but also might never happen :)

I am curious as what could happen with those whose phone will die after one year warranty? (luckily I have 2 years warranty)
[Galaxy S III General] Lynchy30:
Doubt what you like pal, you are wrong though. If you think the majority of people will come on here to register and post just to tell people their phone has died instead of simply going to their supplier you are mistaken. A quick browse at this thread which requires no registering to do would tell me the only remedy is to send the phone back to where it can be repaired.

The amount of people with dead phones and complaining about them on here is not an accurate representation of the millions upon millions of people out there who have this phone who may have had this very same issue. To say that it is, is a tad foolish. The average end user of these phones wouldn't google anything if their phone died, why would they? They would simply call their supplier, their first instinct would not be to look for a fix on the internet.
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
Not sure anyone's "panicking". :rolleyes: It's not unreasonable to expect an expensive product to work longer than 6 months, and when it's caused by faulty hardware, it's not unreasonable to expect the manufacturer to step up and take responsibility publicly. This is normal business practice in most countries.

And as for "worrying": as in my case, once the phone's died once, it's not unreasonable to wonder when it'll happen again. Expectations based on pure experience.
[Galaxy S III General] romeyjdogg:
Yikes

Never knew about these issues, interesting...
[Galaxy S III General] sodeknetters:
the only one who knows the real failure rate is Samsung, since they produced both the whole phones, and the replacement circuit boards.

nevertheless, there seems to be a much higher than average failure rate among the early series of the GT-i9300

I would seriously recommend all owners of the early series to backup all important data and documents (PHOTOS!!!!) from the internal memory to 'somewhere else' as soon and as regularly as possible.

Dropbox allows for automatic uploads of pictures taken by the camera.

Oh.. and PLEASE... Stop worrying about:

- rooted/custom rom/recovery etc (if you cannot open recovery it cant be detected!!!)

- charging only when it is empty vs charging every night

- leaving it on the charger or not

- using any type of original or non-original charger or charging by USB

all this should not matter a single jota to whether the phone keeps working or not. Any kind of mobile device is fully compatible with any options. Board failure should not occur. If it does, warranty it!