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[Galaxy S III General] wotsreallygood:
What happened: left to charge over night, heard a vibration that woke me up from deep sleep, and saw the blue led light on, pulled battery and expected it to turn on but nothing.

I thought it was just me as I couldn't find anything on google.

Hadn't noticed any lagging or reboots.

I did buy it on release in the uk. pretty damn annoying. I have taken it to the service centre and awaiting the to outcome. They believe it to be a hardware fault as they couldn't do anything on their end so they are sending to Samsung.

I'm back on my hd2!

Hopefully they fix it, being rooted and all was worried they wouldn't fix it. But from another post on here, they reset everything anyway.

What ROM/Firmware: wanamlite can't remember version number.

What kernel: stock kernel

OC or UV: no

Where phone was made: Korea

Where battery was made: Vietnam
[Galaxy S III General] Calpol:
I am sure they will repair it same as they did mine. Got it back after a week but now slightly worried again as it has turned itself off three times and will only reboot once battery is removed and re-inserted. I hope this phone isnt going to be unreliable as I love it. 3 years with no probs on my Iphone 3GS and already this in 6 months with S3.
[Galaxy S III General] redder95:
Sheesh! It's more prevalent that I thought!!! My SGS was a warrior compared to this 5 months old fragile baby. SGS lasted 2 years without any problem.

Note that I have never dropped the GS3. Been wrapped in casing and screen protector since day 1.

No third party charger or cable. I used all original from the box only.

I don't recall ever overcharging the phone. I normally charge the phone as soon as I got home, and it is normally fully charged way before I go to bed.

Bought the phone when launched in Indonesia, 4 June 12.

What happened: Battery level at around 60%. Made a call. No answer. He called back. Answered. Placed phone back in front shirt pocket. Less than 5 mins later, I tried calling someone else, black screen. Removed and replaced battery. Nothing. Black screen. DEAD!

What ROM/Firmware: Stock South East Asian JB

What kernel: Stock

OC or UV: -

Where phone was made: Korea

Where battery was made: Korea

Mine's white.

Bringing in to service centre tomorrow. Really do hope they replace me with a new set.

I have never rooted the phone. It's all stock. I don't drop my phone. I don't overcharge it. I use all original charger and bloody short cable which comes with it.

My friends overcharge their sets on daily basis and are still going strong.

So I really think it's crappy hardware QC that they have. Nothing to do with rooting, flashing ROMs, overcharging or mishandling.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Did you ever flash a stock rom or custom?
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
There was this problem with SGS3 which people were complaining about the charging time was so long months ago. Could this be related to this issue? People were saying their phone was getting too hot and it was taking like 5-6 hours to have the phone fully charged. Can anyone with the dead phone confirm if their phones had this problem ever?

I still do NOT think any of these heating problems should be the excuse. Personally i believe it is my job to know how much or long i stress my phone, it is Samsungs job to prevent it from dying when i am using it.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
No.

No flash, no root.

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I had none of this problems you mention.

And, yes, i agree to you, SW, charging, overheating, etc. is no excuse for HW-faults.
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
SO far the only good-ish thing is that the problem is not all Exynos-wide. Only a small amount of devices and a specific type of hardware.
[Galaxy S III General] Konnichy:
Same as me: stock ROM, no root, none of the mentioned problems.
[Galaxy S III General] oae08:
What specific type of hardware? Can you tell me so I can check, because its almost been 150 days since i bought my s3, and im too scared that it might die soon :'(
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
I meant the 16 Gb international Galaxy S3. I am sorry since this is the most sold model. I was trying to say if the US models and the 32 Gb models are not effectes neither will Note 2s be effected. This is just an assumption though.

I believe there is a soldering (or a design) mistake and this cousing a leak from the battery. This can not be over-heating by CPU usage. There are thermal protections for components like CPU. There must be a short circuit which drains the battery cousing the heating. But not by making CPU work more than it should. Imagine wire and plug it on the wall and touch it on a metal plate. when fully touched nothing may happen but when they "barely" touch with only a couple of hairs of the wire for a limited and repeated times then small burns occur on the metal plate. This is our main board in this case. This is either burning the chips or breaking up their solder joints (not completely, every time) so the chip gets isolated from the motherboard.

However the motherboard design is completely the same with the 32-64Gb models. Only the memory chips are different so the same mistake "has to" happen to them too. So we can elect the burns coused by leak.. Or there are very few 32Gb models so we have not heard any 32Gb dead SGS3s, yet. Even now we have an estimated rate of %0.5 dead devices from the whole world which was pretty acceptable unless dead reports are coming continuosly since the thread started (which is kind of scary).

So my guess is Samsung will try to keep it quiet until the rate is over %1-2 or even the raplaced phones are dying. And i suggest everyone to use partition swap tools to use external SDcards for protecting data. Because they are not effected and can safely wait until your phone returns from repair.

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One more thing;

our CPUs are adjusting the voltages over and over again according to the load.

Scenerio 1; So lets assume there is a leak "on" the chip. This leak has its resistance. So if a current wants to flow into the chip to wake the CPU it has to have a low voltage rate so it will not flow to the leaks side.

Scenerio 2: If there is break between the solder joints then the voltage must be high in order to jump the "gap".

In some cases the phones are turning on. Are they starting with high power or low power? By looking at this we can select one of the scenerios.
[Galaxy S III General] dazzer1975:
Just to add, mine was fully stock, unrooted sgs3.

Just had a look myself and upon connecting to mains charger video process starts.

As said before, samsung repaired my 16gb s3 with a 32gb board, so who knows.

Also, in the U.K. at any rate, the handset is warrantied for 24 months
[Galaxy S III General] Parvinder25:
I did a small check while plugging in the charger for a minute. As soon as it's plugged in, video player starts in running apps, really weird and a bug for sure. Then I checked my cpu states using bbs, it shows full usage of 1ghz cpu state for that while. Then I plugged out my charger after a minute and things come to normal. I tried this process twice and same result. Everytime I plug in charge, video player starts. Have to manually kill it.

I'm on stock firmware 4.1.2 from India using s3 16gb model bought in October with hw 1.100

Fk I'm worried. :banghead:
[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
Guys let's just end the wild speculation that the video player is causing the S3 phones to die. And the fact that it runs upon charger connection is not a bug. The app, for whatever reason, is built this way, check its autoruns with an app like SystemCleanup.

No company, no service center will take this thread seriously if such nonsense becomes the center of attention. It's already a long thread, don't make matters worse.

iR¡D@k!* ? from i9300 via Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] arys64:
ok so I have a question: can anybody check under the battery the SSN # of a unit that has died?

Mine says I9300GSMH and I can't find any info about this unit...

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Parvinder25:
I just posted what I observed. Yes we all are speculating as no one knows the real cause. We can discuss and post our views here no matter if they are the real cause or not.

Do you expect this thread to be cooked in a way that Samsung just believes it and recalls all its hw. This is a discussion thread and we are discussing. I'm not junking it.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
NO, mine charged full in very short time, prob an hour and a half via wall charger by samsung. Never had slow charging been switching flashing roms from May once indie developed the first custom Omega rom. USB charge i set to 899mAh as i was using perseus kernel.

It did heat up 8/10 times when i plugged in usb port but would cool down within min. I had o/cd is 1800 for sometime earlier then kept it at 1600 with uv and was running perfect. Wasn't using TW and had a debloated version with just minimal samsung apps.

Already provided this info but again it was from May 24/25 and died Dec 27.. 210 +/- days or so i think made in korea both phone and battery. Now with Samsung service they said 2~3 days for fixing it. I asked if i can change it with something else they gave a number to contact. Will call them and see.
[Galaxy S III General] oae08:
Thanks for the detailed reply! Btw samsung is reparing even you have voided warranty ( because of rooting and flashing roms and kernels) ?
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Am agree with you... as you know..after charging you can check your charger when it still connected to the phone and you will find out thats not hot which means it stops changing automatically when battery has been filled..
[Galaxy S III General] nitinvaid:
So if that purple x sticker at back of battery turns pink it means we looses our warranty
[Galaxy S III General] Obagleyfreer:
Just to let you all know I have written a letter, well email actually, to Samsung Europe and also to Samsung US.

Basically, giving them the opportunity to shed some light on this problem, so we can all stop speculating and maybe get a real answer.

It would be better for them to come forward with a statement and put people at ease.

I will post their reply in my OP when/if I get one.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] blackyz:
Whts that in mail that you sent to them. N what are mail ids. Parhaps some more people will also mail them to stronger thae problem

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
I don't think you will get an answer but thanks for the effort.

I would like to confirm that the video app. starts with USB to laptop charging connection.
[Galaxy S III General] mcjanka:
What happened: phone dead not turning on

Where phone was made: 2012.07.24

Where battery was made: no

What firmware you were running 4.1

Can you access download mode? yes
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I find that video player bug strange story. I dont have it running so whats the difference between our software???

If it was a hardware defect then there had to be 10-20% defects right

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No water damage is a great excuse for samsung to not repair anything
[Galaxy S III General] gauravinvouge:
hi jepep,i havn't posted the pics of thw ehite square i've posted the pics of my damaged motherboard....although the square had indeed changed color to pink but then i'm not sure as to how the water entered...........
[Galaxy S III General] JKM2247:
Same here, running Stock JB 4.1.2 XXELKC but rooted and the Video. APK does not start when I connect charger to mains power or Laptop. Question is, why would the APK run in some software build and not others?
[Galaxy S III General] philicibine:
Happened to my wife's s3 this morning.

Left charging last night... dead this morning.

I got this one when the s3 was first released. But it has been dropped a few times. It has suffered random reboots all its life. I have a white one that has no such problems.

Every time it got a slight knock, it rebooted. So I have always thought the hardware on this one was dodgy.

It was running the latest omega and is going back to T-Mobile today :)
[Galaxy S III General] Rahulrao:
Is the death happening to newer gs3's too?? or only the first batch ones??
[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
I want to point out once again that the Video Player app is supposed to do that.

It is built to run on power connection. End of story.

On stock Samsung ROMs, this is what is supposed to happen. It is NOT a bug or something that silently kills your phone.

iR¡D@k!* ? from i9300 via Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
S3 Repaired

Hi,

Yesterday I had received my phone back from Samsung ASC: regenersis in glasgow. It had taken two weeks:

1	15.12.2012	Assigned to Service Center to ASC

2	15.12.2012	Acknowledge(ASC)

3	15.12.2012	Acknowledge(ASC)

4	18.12.2012	Acknowledge(ASC)

5	18.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

6	19.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

7	20.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

8	22.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

9	23.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

10	24.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

11	25.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

12	26.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

13	27.12.2012	Engineer Assigned

14	27.12.2012	Delivery in Progress

Unfortunately, there was no reason given by the ASC as to why it was broken. I would suggest that if you are sending it then I would inquire if there is a place locally that can fix it because this is far too long for my liking especially since an Engineer had been assigned for 9 to 10 days.

There seems to be two different types of brickings occurring by the sounds of this thread.

Phone doesn't start up at all

Phone starts but stuck on Samsung screen and cannot be fixed by ODIN re-flash because of PIT partition error/NAND write error.

Mine was the second issue and I tried my best to fix it using software ODIN and the relevant tar/pit files but had no luck at all so I sent it off as that is what was recommended by other members on XDA to do.

I believe the ASC has made hardware changes as my RF cal is 2012.12.4 and HW Rev is 1.400 which I am sure that my phone wouldn't have been before it went for repair as I got my phone from Amazon 6th June 2012. Unless these statistics can be changed by software? In the meantime I will see if I can pull out anymore phone statistics for you guys.

Nevertheless, my phone was rooted and one of my statuses shown in the bootloader was custom and they still repaired and returned it to me without question.

Good luck guys.
[Galaxy S III General] JKM2247:
Not true. I am on stock JB 4.1.2 XXELKC but Video APK does not automatically run when I connect phone to charger either on Mains Power or USB laptop
[Galaxy S III General] loaded82:
My GS3 died last week exactly 6 months old to the day!

I left it on charge over night, woke up green LED, screen unresponsive, unplugged charger and held power button down and nothing!

On contract with T mobile (EE) and they didn't want to know anything about it... and suggested contacting Samsung directly.

What's the fix for this? is it a replacement system/motherboard? What's the likelyhood of keeping my files as I haven't backed it up in a week and have some honeymoon photos and never stored them to my microSD card :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Giasou iridaki!

Can you explain why it starts? what is the purpose of this app and why do people report it is using 99% cpu.

Maybe it is a normal app but what does it do? and maybe that the app is broken thats why cpu is getting hot?
[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
Perhaps some firmwares use a different version of the app that does not include those receivers. I am on 4.1.1. In any case, it does not cause sudden deaths. Also, the overheating isn't one of the causes of the global climate change either. I had a feeling we'd soon go there. :p

iR¡D@k!* ? from i9300 via Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] jackobox:
Oh no, now my S3 is having trouble booting up on a few occasion. Just hope that it will not fail on me while I am on call.
[Galaxy S III General] ante0:
I have the same problem.

Left it on charge over night, woke up in the morning about 10 and it was working then. 30 minutes later I check but no response. Unplug charger but the LED still is green. Held power button, LED died but phone didn't reboot.

I can't get anything to work, no charge, no download mode, no boot logo loop.

Battery works fine in my wifes i9305

edit: I use cm10.1
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
my s3 RF cal: 2012.6.12 HW Rev : MP 1.100 , still working fine no sudden death ,is that normal??

i surpassed the so called 150-200+ days of the sudden death.

From and including: Tuesday 12 June 2012

To and including: Saturday 29 december 2012

It is 201 days from the start date to the end date, end date included

6 months, 18 days including the end date
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
They changed your motherboard.

You now have the latest revision of hardware

Still nobody can say if this new hardware does not have the same fault.

At least you have another 200 days left ...

Good luck to you too ---

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Mine died in the age of 208 days ...

Same HW Rev.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Sure i think its normal, i know two persons who have the phone over 200 days and stil working fine.

it is just a small percentage of the sold devices
[Galaxy S III General] droidgirl74:
I got mine at the same day as you. Still running fine, but who knows...

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] iArmghan:
my device is similar to yours and working like a charm... i just hope it will not die too soon....
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
Mine is working since the 30th of May.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
So your phone is over 210 days of age:D

What is your secret to keep your phone so health :D

Do you have a 16gb international?
[Galaxy S III General] nitinvaid:
anyone?
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Yes, that means liquid damage. If you have that its a very simple case for samsung, they don't search for the cause anymore and you have to pay around 40 euro to get your device back because of the research cost.
[Galaxy S III General] nitinvaid:
ok thanks i just want to confirm to what color it changed in contact of water damage
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
16gb international, yes. Bought off car phone warehouse

Without knowing any of these issues up until a couple of weeks, I have always charged from a desktop charger my second battery and replaced that on each morning, very few occasions have I been charging overnight.

I usually reduce the memory usage a few times a day, esp. If I think the phone is getting warm, and that is about it. Always on stock rom.

However as mentioned before, I'm not without problems and crashes. Touchwiz crashing with animations on off and Samsung keyboard always switching back to default on every restart. I'm having the motherboard changed for those reasons as these are annoying and were not there on 4.0.4 firmware. 4.1.2 did not fix them either.

So without the sudden death, my phone still needs a mainboard as according to the technical team something has gone wrong with it that software cannot fix or hard reset cannot fix either.
[Galaxy S III General] whitebait:
Strange, my repair tracker looked like this:

15-12-2012	Assigned to Service Center

15-12-2012	Acknowledge(ASC)

15-12-2012	Acknowledge(ASC)

24-12-2012	Acknowledge(ASC)

24-12-2012	Engineer Assigned

25-12-2012	Pending	Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC

26-12-2012	Pending	Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC

27-12-2012	Pending	Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC

27-12-2012	Pending	Re-scheduled from Eng'r / ASC

27-12-2012	Repair Completed

27-12-2012	Goods Delivered

Repair completed and goods delivered both showed up at the same time. Not quite sure how goods can be delivered at exactly the same time as the repairs are complete? With no 'Delivery in Progress' showing at all?
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
Thanks!

OK, i thought they might have changed my Motherboard and I am glad they did. It shows that even if your phone can get to bootloader and you have a PIT partition error, then it can still be a hardware fault. It's just a case of recording which HW's a faulting for everyone.
[Galaxy S III General] Kasamy:
Galaxy S3 suddenly died

made by samsung (korea i think)

cell made in japan

official android 4.1.1 (never was rooted, firmwared only by KIES)

It seems that I can access download mode.
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
That's pretty amusing however shows that the system isn't great or isn't followed properly by the ASC. Mine doesn't even say "Goods Delivered" at all. I probably should have waited for them to send me the packaging as I shelled out £6 for special delivery to the ASC hoping to speed up the process. Maybe it took so long as the ASC were waiting for new motherboards. What's your HW version?
[Galaxy S III General] ProTofik:
Hi.

I have a quick question.

Is it possible to check HW revision on flashed I9300? I tried to dial *#12580*369# but nothing happens.

I'm running ParanoidAndroid v2.54.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
Unlucky, it's becoming a really big issue.

Try access the recovery mode by Vol-up, home and power and wipe data/factory reset (if you don't mind losing your data otherwise do step 3 and request to keep as much data as possible).

if that don't work then you can try and flash the relevant version of stock firmware using ODIN if you're brave. You should be able to find instructions somewhere on this forum.

If you don't want to try step 2 or it didn't work then I would just send it in for repair
[Galaxy S III General] whitebait:
Haven't got it back yet, gave them my work address to send the prepaid package out, the chap I spoke to at Samsung call centre said to call up the repair centre once it was in if it looked like it was going to be finished in time to get it sent to my parents' over xmas. Up until the repair completed note showed up, the estimated repair date was 29/12 so I assumed I'd be back at work by the time they posted it out, so I didn't bother calling them to change it. Rather frustrating, but such is life...
[Galaxy S III General] s_h_a_g_g_y:
Another one Bites the dust

What happened- Battery went dead last night when out - came home, put on charge, this morning green led shown up, would not turn on. Unplugged charger, green led went off. still dead.

Where phone was made-Not Sure - Bought from CPW new

Where battery was made - Not sure but orginal battery

What firmware you were running - CM10.1

Can you access download mode? Nope.

Screen shot here from the System,Device and CPU info.

h**p://flic.kr/p/dFipU4
[Galaxy S III General] :
Same here... I'm on CM10.1.
[Galaxy S III General] browy:
It only works on stock based Rom. I'm using Siyah kernel and have dual booting. The primary Rom is ParanoidAndroid and the second one is Omega. It works on Omega but not on ParanoidAndroid.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] blackyz:
After reading most of the problems. We can come on a conclusion that overnight charge or a over charge is the biggest reason of sudden death.

So i will advice people not to have phone charged overnight or might be 98%

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] :
That's why we are asking for alternative way..! :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
i agree, but there's some other people who say that that is more reasons than the overnight charging. like for exemple the phone is in idle mode on desk suddenly when you check it it's dead....speculations are running rapbids
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
I say its overheating and the reason is corrupt software.... if your phone doesnt die on charger its a tough on.

Some people die during an accident and some die in the hospital... same thing if you understand me.

If you have an audi a8 6l car and the car drives 300kmph for 8 hours your engine can break while you drive or when you stop driving or the other day when you go bring your kids to school
[Galaxy S III General] bicapa:
There is not alternative. Sad but true. The only way is using a stock rom. May be Exynos' drivers that Samsung promised us?