yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] browy:
That's why I'm telling you there isn't one :mad:

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Look for "eMMC brickbug check" on PlayStore.

You can read your HW-Revision with this app.

Ignore the "Brick Bug?" message, has nothing to do with "sudden death".

Type and FwRev: is interesting.

Please post.
[Galaxy S III General] :
Already posted...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35982195#post35982195

Type: VTU00M

FwRev: 0xf1

How do I know the HW Rev from this? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
eMMC is VTU00M = the one and only HW-revision of this part. Therer are no other.

Your FwRev means you are HW Rev. 1.100

Phone is 5/12 to 09/12.

1.400 (1.500) is 09/12 to 12/12.

Sorry, but there is no relation between HW-Revision and the "sudden death" ...

Correction!

All HW-revisions (1.100 - 1.500) have FwRev 0xf1.

So this is of no use, sorry.

But, anyway, does not tell you anything useful at all ...
[Galaxy S III General] tcchuin:
I charge my phone overnight almost everyday since the day I bought it and it still is working properly, jsut sharing my experience :)
[Galaxy S III General] :
I bought mine on August 1st and the charger that came with it is also 0.7A. Even my SGS1 charger is 0.7A...
[Galaxy S III General] ProTofik:
I bought my S3 in October and it came with 1A charger...
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
How do you check current rating ? I can't see any marking on my charger ?
[Galaxy S III General] ProTofik:
I should be written on the side of the charger
[Galaxy S III General] s_h_a_g_g_y:
Dont mean to be pessimistic, but so did I. Till it died last night...:crying:
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
The fact that video player causes 99% cpu usage for some users is concerning. This might be bad software.

On the other side i find it very strange that the samsung chargers come with different ampere. isnt it??

And why could we not blame Samsung ?? stupid company! we didn't buy 20 million handsets per person! we bought 1 headset and if it dies without reason that is really bad and could not happen. Do you know how carefully people treat their phones..

and i never saw this kind of problem at any other device
[Galaxy S III General] :
I think it also depends on what type of charger-plug you have... Mine is C.

Please check yours:

http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm
[Galaxy S III General] storm01amorteo:
Is hard to know if theres water damage or if someone deliberately wet a bit the label. What looks weird to me is some part of your mobo, where the number 5162 is printed, looks like it has got burnt over the PBC. That is not so far from battery socket, probably damage is related with charger after all.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Mine is type G
[Galaxy S III General] ProTofik:
United Kingdom / Type G
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
"Sudden death" has nothing to do with charging.

Too many used too many different charging devices and too many did not charge at all when their phone died.
[Galaxy S III General] dli7319:
How many days have you had your phone?
[Galaxy S III General] Bigben38:
Writero from

My charger plug is a "C" type but it doesn't change because I read in other french topics that they have the same issue.

Why Samsung doesn't communicate about that? Now I just want to change phone becaus I don't whant to have the same issue in 90 days and after repair to have the same issue 200 days after but without warranty...
[Galaxy S III General] browy:
Can you share more information about your case please. How long have you been using it, HW revision, charge current etc.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] JKM2247:
You seem more knowledgeable on the S3 than the average chaps ranting here and advising others to not buy this or that etc. But why does my S3 running 4.1.2 not starting the video apk when connected to charger?
[Galaxy S III General] Angelus1984:
in the end it is all about the poor quality of the mainboard in this phone, nothing else. Poor mainboard, poor housing, just like those cheep items on ebay.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
you are absolutely right, matter of fact, its the only post i can like, as i said before defected units are less than 0.001 percent

about video player, of course it would be launched when you plag the charger as S3 has a HDMI output!! thanks man!!

regards
[Galaxy S III General] Entropy512:
No definitive confirmation, but so far, no reports of death. This could be for one of any of a number of reasons:

1) If it's a wear leveller bug, the 32GB and 64GB variants have more to play with, and might not start failing until later

2) It may be a wear leveller bug only in VTU00M

3) It may be a physical defect only in VTU00M

And what do you think is a primary determining factor of which emmc chip??? The storage size!

It's coming along, I think fully booting from SD is not yet entirely polished and usable for data collection.

No one knows what the exact problem is, but there's more and more evidence pointing to some sort of defect with VTU00M flash devices, whether that is wear leveller or a physical packaging defect is still unknown.

Correct. Brickbug app is only useful for collecting model/CID data and I've been stating that repeatedly all along. The "sane" vs "not sane" determination is only valid w.r.t. the old "Superbrick" bug (inability to handle secure erase) - all I9300s will report "sane" or "unknown".

I9300 was never sold in the USA. Only Qualcomm MSM8960-based variants (the d2 family) were sold here. All I9300s here in USA or Canada are grey-market imports (fairly rare).

As to the role of charging, there are two possibilities:

1) If it's a physical packaging defect in the chip, charging leads to more thermal stress

2) If it's a wear leveller defect, remember - charging holds a wakelock, and there are various periodic housekeeping tasks that only run on a device when something ELSE (such as charging) is holding a wakelock.

The fact that people are starting to get free upgrades to 32GB devices as part of warranty service points more towards a defect in the 16GB VTU00M flash chip.
[Galaxy S III General] wihan1:
Pretty much EXACTLY same here! Green light showed it was charged, but when charger unplugged - nothing. Checked first if it was battery issue, but that works fine in another s3. Yesterday was 6 months TO THE DAY that I got it. On contract with 3UK.

Will take it back Monday. Glad to hear that they are fixing these whether rooted or not (I am rooted on stock ROM) although is that Samsung directly ie will I have problems with 3?

Let's get this sorted!
[Galaxy S III General] SirBenson:
S3 dead

Mine S3 died on Christmas day.

I put it on my desk and went to sleep. It was about 50% battery. It was not connected to the charger.

The next morning it was dead. I tried to start it without success. Even no LED is lightning.

I was running omega ROM 35 and the latest SiyahKernel S3-v1.8.6

I bought it in Germany and it was unlocked but (maybe) branded by Vodafon.

It is a nightmare for me because I like my S3 and I use(d) it a lot.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
I've posted a Question/Poll here about phones died against not dead so that will give some rough idea about the % of the problematic phones.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2071985

BTW got sms that my s3 is fixed, dropped it off on thurs, so friday is weekend here and sat working and they fixed it on sat itself. I'll pick it up tom.
[Galaxy S III General] s_h_a_g_g_y:
Bought on 21st May 2012 from Carphone Warehouse online.
[Galaxy S III General] yitzc77:
Hi, my GS3 died last Monday. I aslo purchased it on amazon in the uk like yours. Problem is that I live outside of the uk and so I am looking at being without my phone for 3-4 weeks... I will be back in the uk in a few weeks so hope to have it sent back to me repaired while in the uk.

Thanks for sharing your post, I was wondering how to go about fixing it.
[Galaxy S III General] theobabis:
Was contemplating getting a nexus 10 but now not until a definite answer on this issue is given.

I really can't understand why this isn't pinned in the xda portal so to put some pressure on Samsung

and possibly also help all those that have the "humidity" issue.

In a way it reminds me of brickbug which was causing failures from February and only in summer was

the issue first seen in the portal, as far as i remember.
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
Ah that's a shame. Shouldn't be too long now, you should have it before the new year. Look forward to seeing what they have changed on your phone. Seems as though HW rev 1.5 is out but I got 1.4 - I would have thought they would have put the newest HW version.
[Galaxy S III General] Bigben38:
I have a question : all S3 can die or only some S3 ? Is it possible to know if my phone is co concerned or not ?

Thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S III General] _delice_doluca_:
Even thought when you read this topic it seems like every S3 can die that is not true. Luckily it is still a very little amount of phones that die. If the case was opposite of this believe me Samsung would be on fire to make it up before bad public image occur.

And; No there is no possibility to understand if your device is going to die. But if it is a US model or 32-64Gb model it will %99.99 NOT die. Still if you have you warranty just enyoj your phone without thinking about anything and try to keep you inportant data on your SDcard or make backups just in case.
[Galaxy S III General] naathaanb96:
Picking up my gs3 tomorrow. If someone has had this happen in Australia on a phone supplied by Telstra can you pm me
[Galaxy S III General] danielhtc:
Happening in Australia to Telstra issued phones too as it seems ...

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2030080
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
There is a very similar thread on the SII Forums and symptoms are almost the same:

1. Phone died while charging over night.

2. Phone went to standby and never went on again.

etc.

So this is not a SIII phenomenon.

SII Thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1876232
[Galaxy S III General] dazzer1975:
If it is the sudden death thing, they will change the main board... I don't have anything massively important on my phone, but I do have auto upload set up to a few different cloud based services for all photo and video taken on the phone.

I lost all data... aside from obviously that which I have set to auto upload to cloud.

For future ref, check out jottacloud, google drive, dropbox, box, photobucket, google+... I use all of these, and there are probably a good deal more that offer free cloud storage too.

If it turns out you have lost your honeymoon pics, then I am sorry dude... get onto auto-upload to cloud as soon as you can, for the future safety of important stuffs.

My phone was not on charge when it died.

Hi, I have replied via pm to your pm, but basically, Amazon don't want to know if your product is older than 30 days and has not had a defect from delivery... they suggest contacting manufacturer (by law as the retailer they really should deal with it, but it is easier just to give samsung a phone call and arrange a repair... especially if amazon seem reluctant from the get go).

Just to verify, I had to show zero proof of purchase to samsung, they just wanted mine and the phone details... I think this is because the phone is still within warranty by such a huge margin given as it was released in q2 2012.

Hope you get it sorted.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Well out of 32 people voted on my poll of S3 Death 15 have had their S3 die. It's 46%.

Poll:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2071985
[Galaxy S III General] nani67:
hi..

have been reading this thread and really scared of the things going on..

just charged my S3 to 100% and started to monitor the cpy frequency... just after it reaches 100% battery status.. the cpu started running at 1400MHz,

am running on indian jellybean stock.

may be this screenshots can explain something..

HW version : MP 1.100
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Read Entropy512's post on previous page
[Galaxy S III General] sad_janus:
in american continent, any cases??

My Friend, I say America in de Continent meaning.. Not only US are America.

Im from mexico and i have the galaxy s3 i9300..

My info has writen before but At the end anyway phone build in china, battery cell in japan, encambled in china

What i try to say before is i dont see cases in the american continent.. like argentina, or brazil (only one case), or any other large countries.

thx
[Galaxy S III General] GavinZac:
Update to this:

Samsung in Low Yat refused to look at my phone because it came from Thailand (Apparently the i9300-T doesn't sell in Malaysia, the i9300 does). Sent me to a third party who wanted to try to flash it (I told them it wouldn't work) before trying to JTAG it (I told them not to use the i9300 firmware). They tried to use the i9300 firmware and that didn't work so they are currently downloading the i9300-T firmware. Not a terrible price - €60, and I only pay if it works.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Quick service, dropped it on thurs 27th around 14.00, picked it up today 9am Sun 30th.

Attached the Information regarding hardware.
[Galaxy S III General] jhuff83:
I have 32gb Sprint version since July 2012. The last 2 days the phone is randomly off with no response what so ever. I have to physically pull the battery and put it back in to power the phone back on. I'm running freegs3 3.0 rom with stock kernel. Do I need to start worrying about the phone dying from what I'm describing?
[Galaxy S III General] eitama:
As a previous s3 owner and now a Note 2 owner, I checked the eMMC revision on the note and is exactly the same as the s3.

I sure hope for every one including Samsung that the problem isn't the flash.

Else it sound to me that in 3 months the same thing is going to happen with notes.
[Galaxy S III General] KeesStolk:
Hmm, i guess i have a zombie S3.

Mine is from the first bunch, may 2012 and with 1.100 mainboard.

And it's still working.

Most off the time (9 of 10) i charge it over night with the standard 1 ampere wall charger.

Just put it in before going to bed and unplug when i wake up.

The only thing i do is 4 to 5 times in a week, when unplug, i turn it off completely for a few minutes.

Old PC habit i guess, to clear memory, probably placebo, but old habits die hard.

But i am wondering if the ones that died, where always running and hardly turned off completely for a few minutes.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
i do exactly the same!

When i worked at tfortelecom i got customers with different strange problems that solves in 80% by rebooting their phone
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Mine was from May 24th purchase as well. Good luck to you if you really have a zombie one. Mine died on 27th dec.
[Galaxy S III General] KeesStolk:
Then this would be D-day then, mine is from 27th, so 3 days after you and it's now 30 dec...... :)
[Galaxy S III General] arek_pl:
I have nothing to worry about? can start a countdown to death?

AP: I9300XXELL5

CP: I9300XXELKC

CSC: I9300VFGELL1

RF cal: 2012.9.19

HW Rev. : MP 1.100

my english is poor sorry
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
Me to it's still working from june ,i think someguys are faking that they're victims of GS3 Sudden death.
[Galaxy S III General] sodeknetters:
Why would anyone do that? The fact that your phone still works is not proof that so many other people's phone didn't die...

I sincerely hope your phone keeps working as it was meant to do but denying there is a problem with this model is the same as sticking your head in the sand.

Some people report freezing and random reboots as "late warning symptoms". If you start experiencing any of that, prepare for the phone dying very soon...
[Galaxy S III General] DaniGalaxy:
My phone died while charging over night on December 27th.

I9300 purchased on the first days of june, 16gb white.

I was running PA 2.54 and i was able to enter download mode but i wasn't able to use odin to flash anything.

Sent to Samsung center on thursday, let's hope i'll get it back before this week ends.
[Galaxy S III General] jmaciak:
Mine died and was sent to samsung already. But I remember that since I get this phone, almost everytime I put it on charger, watchdog reported media service going extensively on 100% cpu ... I did not bother, thought it's just ok since it is rescanning my rather huge media collection or something and ended up not using the watchdog app anymore. How stupid :) so it might be caused by simply poorly written media service ...
[Galaxy S III General] czaja995:
info from Polish forum:

pracuje w ASC Samsunga. Potwierdzam, ze problemem jest pamiec NAND FLASH - po wymianie telefon smiga jak nowy.

Dokladnie takie same usterki zdarzaly/zdarzaja sie w I9000 i 9100 (gdzie wymiana pamieci NAND takze pomaga).Nie jest to wiec to jakis odosobniony przypadek czy wada tego konkretnego modelu. Co wiecej - wada zdaje sie dotyczyc tylko telefonow z pamiecia 16GB.

it mean

i work in Samsung ASC. I confirm that the problem is NAND flash memory - after enxchange phone is like new.

Exactly the same fault occurred / occur in I9000 and 9100 (where the exchange of NAND memory also helps.) So this is not some isolated incident is the fault of this particular model. What's more - the defect seems to be limited to phones with memory 16GB.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Do you mean that every 16gb is effected? And why during overnight charging?

And i never heard of a replaced nand but only replaced motherboard... and why do some users have this problem in 2 months while other power users have no problems in over 6months??

---------- Post added at 12:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:47 PM ----------

:p why you think that? I also find it strange that every time their is a new discovery new users go report their phone died another way and we are not right.
[Galaxy S III General] GavinZac:
A tech tried to fix the phone with JTAG, it didn't work. Is there any reason it would work? Or would not work? Does some hardware component need to be replaced?
[Galaxy S III General] czaja995:
if i get more info i will post it hear but i can't promise anything
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Service always changes motherboard in total when a chip on it has died.

They only change defective parts, they do not repair them.

All symptoms point to a defective NAND Flash Memory chip.

Its the system memory which is not accessible.

CPU and bootloader still works.

Reading/writing the system memory is defective.

So defective NAND ist the most logical explanation for this kind of fault.
[Galaxy S III General] nephilim1973:
Hi folks !

Maybe I can help some news...

This night, my SG-I9300 died the "sudden death".

Battery life was aprox. 70% as I fell asleep.

Waking up in the morning and the day starts crappy :(

After disassembing my device to try some recovery steps, I discovered the burned IC on the mainboard.

Please have a look...

Does anyone know what the task of this chip is ?

Regards

Nephilim

PS: Mobile phone was bought june, 28th 2012 by Amazon
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
That doesn't look nice. Was the phone on the charger???
[Galaxy S III General] :
It's the WIFI chip... :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] nephilim1973:
No... phone was unplugged over night.
[Galaxy S III General] vladarh78:
My GS3 just died couple of hours ago. A typical sudden death thing. The screen went black and then it wouldn't turn on. It was bought in June through Netcom in Norway.
[Galaxy S III General] hlastras:
Another one: my S3 fails today. Sudden death: black screen and no response to keys nor to charger.

Buyed in Spain 6 months ago...

It's a white one, with 16GB.
[Galaxy S III General] hawster:
Brick History

GT9300 INT. - bought end of june 2013

IMEI 35166...China

16GB pebble-blue Germany

service, dropped it on sat 15th, picked it up fri 28th

HW Rev.: REV0.1 ??? means?
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Yup, it is.

Although it seems a bit odd to me that the part number is different from the iFixit teardown:

http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/qneCB1ZDEXXKkcum.huge

Murata M2322007 WiFi Module

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S+III+Teardown/9391/2

Edit: Rewinding back some days ago...another wifi chip was the weird spot...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35919984&postcount=1118

But, that seems to be the standard appearance of the chip (see iFixit).

However in this case:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35991050#post35991050

My poor eyesight cannot identify whether there is an issue on the wifi chip, seems to be a completely different module that got roasted.
[Galaxy S III General] tchesco:
sudden death too

My GS3 just stopped working yesterday morning :

What happened

Yesterday morning, I unplugged the phone. It was working and I did some stuff with GMail & Google Now and put it back in my pocket.

At some point, I wanted to see what time it was, took the phone out of my pocket.

The Led was blinking blue (mail or Facebook), but the phone was unresponsive : no button would wake it up.

Took out the battery and put it again, nothing.

Bought on 26th July 2012 (digigood)

Where phone was made

Stock Korea phone

Where battery was made

Stock Battery

What firmware you were running

Stock firmware

V 4.1.1 I think

Can you access download mode?

No

I called samsung that gave me a ticket number and told me to take the phone to a local "phone doctor"

People from the "phone doctor" told me I wasn't the first one that brought them a dead S3.

The phone has been sent to the factory; They expect it to be replaced in about 2 weeks.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Your photo doesn't show the eMMC chip
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
So eMMc chips fail

Wifi chips burn

Most phones die during overnight charging

Some die in 2 months, some live more than 6 months.

Some report cpu hits 100% while charging

Some report cpu hits 100% when charging is done.

the only thing we can conclude is that we know nothing :crying:
[Galaxy S III General] deniz2051:
Mine is like yours.LED turned blue I immedietly try to eject battery and luckily it turned on.I did not understand what was it but I received an e-mail and it suddenly turned off.I'm a bit lucky.
[Galaxy S III General] Entropy512:
Superbrick didn't make the XDA portal until we had more definitive evidence and a complete understanding of the issue.

Up until April or so, most people thought it was just a bug in CWM Touch on the E4GT. It wasn't until N7000s started dying, and especially the Siyah 3.1rc6 incident, that there was an understanding of where the problem was. Once we got in touch with a Google engineer that had seen the exact same problem in prototype GNex units is when we truly understood the situation.

SoD - totally unrelated, probably just a buggy kernel.

It's just like the Superbrick mess. "I wiped and didn't brick, this whole thing is a lie!" - The truth was the chances of death on wiping were fairly low, probably less than 5-10%. It only happened if the MMC wear leveller was in a very specific state when wiping. (And no, there is no way for anyone to know whether it is in this state or not, other than "I issued secure erase and it died.") Still, even a 1-5% failure rate at 6 months is unacceptably high - 1% fallout rate within 1 month is OK (infant mortality), but at 6 months the user is more confident and trusts the device more, plus all infant mortality should be gone at this point.

If it's the sudden death problem, where all evidence points to the eMMC chip failing - no, it won't work. There is no way to fix this without replacing the chip, which needs BGA soldering experience - even for Samsung, they just replace the whole motherboard.
[Galaxy S III General] JepeP:
Please, vote here!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2071985
[Galaxy S III General] KeesStolk:
Well this is interesting, if it's indeed the wifi chip causing this.

I always use the never setting when phone is in standby.