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[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
Y

Same, but for me remove the battery made the numbers of freezes increase and now wait the also annoying 23 minutes (all last 5 freezes it spent the same time to unfreeze) made at least the number of freezes reduce...I already had one today so no idea if it will finish or die anyway...here root cancel warranty so I am back to official (believe or not still no 4.1.2 from my carrier and Samsung released here last month the ELL1 version for unlocked which I am using)

Edit:

It froze 3 times today, last time it rebooted after 11 minutes....so it looks like far from a solution

:/

Update: froze 5 times and 2 reboots....so much worse than yesterday.... i am considering go back to 4.1.1 to accelerate death
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
@aalvico:

There is one more thing you can try if you want. Empty your internal memory from not needed files (pictures, music).

Then get the dummy file generator from play store.

Start it an hit "generate full".

It will write dummy files to your internal memory, until it's full.

After that, hit delete.

This will do a write operation on 90% of the eMMC.

It could be that the phone gets the normal freezes while doing that.

It can also be that this helps to prevent some freezes, cause the write operation on almost all blocks maybe resets some internal block maintenance data.

It's just a try.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
I will try later and report here .. becuse of the freezes almost no battery to try now...thanks

Edit:

After many freezes finally got to 100% ... then i used factory reset and tried again...more freezes but got 100% ... then froze at Google play....factory reset again....froze with touch wiz....factory reset again....this time by now it got 100% without any feeze....so the 11gb looks ok...but still there are 4gb (system etc)...that still can have problems...let see tomorrow how it goes

Edit: 1st freeze on Google play....then i tried that wifi power save solution.....right now no freezes :)

Update: got happy too soon....2 freezes already.... so no solution
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
anyone having freezes tried to do reparation ?? :rolleyes:

edit: anyone tried this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37432509&postcount=63 :)
[Galaxy S III General] LimitedStreak:
Sudden Death

Experienced the Sudden Death on Thursday and contacted Samsung. They're sending a bag which I can post my device in for repair but I have one question.

I bought my phone from Ebay without a receipt. Do you think they'll ask for the receipt for claiming under warranty? And also would a paypal receipt be accepted as proof of purchase as I've seen on many forums people saying they've used them?

Thank You all
[Galaxy S III General] alexsmith2709:
I did not get asked for any proof of purchase when i had mine repaired. No questions were asked at all
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
They certainly will ask you the purchase invoice, that you can ask to the ebayer who sold you the phone ...

Hope you to be lucky as alexsmith2709 if you can't have it ...
[Galaxy S III General] Pure_Evil:
Mine randomly bricked, stock rom, got it fixed under warranty... They replaced the main board and gave me 4.1.2 with multi Window (not released in New Zealand yet), so I guess that worked out
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Lucky guy ! In which country are you ?

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randomly bricked : It was not SDS but other issue. The main is they repaired it !

(New Zealand : oh! it's far away :) )
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
What's the best way of killing tbe phone? These freezes are too annoying now. I'm going on kernel without fix

?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
Smash it with hammer then leave it in a bucket of water overnight to be sure
[Galaxy S III General] ClaretJ:
Hahahaha :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] LimitedStreak:
Thanks

Thanks for clearing that up mate, are you from UK btw?
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
Are you already back on 4.1.1 kernel without fix? I assume you should have no freezes then. Is that the case?

If you wait on SD now, please report back how long youre 4.1.2 freezing S3 was able to run on 4.1.1. This information is worth much. Good Luck!

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] LimitedStreak:
Would a PayPal invoice be acceptable?
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Means of payment is irrelevant, what matters is whether the seller was authorised.
[Galaxy S III General] nikki702:
My Samsung S3 died this morning, I was reading the news and it just went dead! I didnt even know it was a problem with this phones until I checked on here. I have had my phone since July 2012. I have called samsung who are collecting my phone tomorrow for repair, reading on here tho chances are it will happen again :(
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
Sounds like our options are:

Back to 4.1.1 and wait death

Back to 4.0.4 and live in the past

Keep 4.1.2 with that annoying freezes and wait for a solution

I removed destroy phone from the list becuase I already had problems with LG (phone replaced by touch panel problem after 4 months of discussions) Apple (fixed main button) Nokia (home button problems) Motorola (battery and charger issues solved during warranty but broke after) and Sony (motherboard problem phone replaced)..so hard to know which one is less worse... :(
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
this the problem : no device is prefect :(

but samsung always love to ****up with eMMC

GS1 have ****ty slow eMMC - GS2 have the eMMC erase trigger it self while wiping data when eMMC cap erase is on ( fixed in non stock kernel + in latest 4.0.4 and 4.1.2 ) - GS3 SDS and now the crappy non complete fix which causing freezing :crying:
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Actually the issue with the Galaxy S's issue was that it used RFS instead of EXT4. I've read that if you convert the file system to EXT4, most of the lag goes away. Although I started with the Galaxy devices with the S2, so I wouldn't know.
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
[OT]

HMM the GS1 has 2 eMMC's : OneNand which about 500MB ( the fast one and its for system ) and Movinand which the other memory ( for apps - data - music and other things and its the slow one ) the MoviNAND will bottleneck the IO operations to the hell when there is data writing which will cuz lag ( but the newest GS1 have little faster MoviNand so its have less lag ) :rolleyes:

[/OT]
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Oh! seems your not lucky with phones :(

but are you sure that Back to 4.0.4 is only a "past" problem ? I m not sure SDS was not in 4.0.4 , are you ?
[Galaxy S III General] blyx21:
Do i9305 16gb also have this SDS chip?

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] LimitedStreak:
Warranty Claim

Anyone been asked about proof of purchase when doing a SDS claim under warranty?

Either when bought from eBay or elsewhere (authorized seller)?
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
If the phone has firmware on the VTU00M, revision 0xf1 eMMC , it is concerned by SDS , else not ...

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YES ! proof of purchase (and international warranty card if you purchased it in an other country than you are ..)
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
HMM the crappy thing is most of Gnote 2 has VTU00M with 0xf1 firmware too :crying:

so soon the freezing will start :( and i saw about 3-4 note2 had SDS with 4.1.1 :eek:

samsung need to fix this **** :silly:
[Galaxy S III General] LimitedStreak:
I have booked a repair online and also called them. A jiffy bag should be here by tomorrow too, so when did they ask you for it and which country are you from if you don't mind me asking? :)
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
Not sure how it works after be affected by the 4.1.1 problem. ..but repair center here said the number of s3 phones with problem still is very low....4.1.1 arrived here only in november and no 4.1.2 except for unbranded (even that only jan24) ...so there is a lot of phones still running 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 for not a long time.

...i will keep this week 4.1.2 ...if still freezing i will go back to 4.0.4
[Galaxy S III General] nikki702:
I wasn't asked for any proof, they are sending a courier to collect the phone and going to return it in 5-10 days
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Good for you :good:

My S3 has (still ?) not be affected by SDS but to know (in case of), I mailed to Samsung and they reply : proof of purchase and international warranty card (as I purchased it in Italia 20% cheaper than in France) ...

Seems you are not alone on this forum to have not be asked for docs ..:fingers-crossed:

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Good for you too :good:

In which country are you ?
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
I posted earlier going back to non fixed kernel still froze. Also googling the freeze shows people downgrading or going to complete stock with no apps getting freezes still. For some stock no apps doesn't freeze. For some it seems wifi related, during heavy use.

I've tried the fix using fsck on xda to no change. I've tired wifi power save mode. I tried that dummy file creator. Basically I'm desparate and willing to try anything.

It may be a coincidence but I downgraded my modem and ril to 4.1.1 XXDLID while still on fixed kernel and 4.1.2 ROM. I haven't had a freeze in the last 5 hours where they normally come once an hour during a game. Here's the link to try http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2076857

?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
@Infy_Asix:

Strange. My freezes were gone on a short test on 4.1.1 and came back on CM10.1 with SD-fix.

Then I cleared my internal memory and used the dummy file generator to write the whole memory 2-3 times and now it seems stable.

Do you have that kind of freezes that unfreeze itself after 5-25 minutes?

If not, maybe your phone has another kind of hardware problem.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
my freezes clear up after 2 minutes.

?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
Hmm, OK, that's fast. At least faster than all my freezes. Have you tried to dump a kernel log (for example with the app android tuner) direct after unfreeze and checked it for eMMC error messages like here?

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] cyberdroxxx:
I have gone back from EMA2 to ELLC. ELLC is more stable on my S3. My S3 have no glitches and no freezes with ELLC.

Battery I should also very good. I can get more than 1 day of standby time & more than 6 hours of screen time on a single charge.
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
ok ill keep an eye out for freezes to kernel log. Only had a couple since modem rill change. One was only a few seconds and since a restart there's no more.

?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
How do you know what the time stamp on the kernel log is. It's rather confusing

?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
I dont really need it. After unfreeze I directly go to android tuner, logs, manage, kernel log and freeze it.

Then I just need to look the seconds back.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
So, Freezes increase after add apps...after new factory reset it freezes until on the config screen.

edit: after reinstall 4.1.2 it freezed again on google play (ok wifi was on) but no freezes to generate dummy files, so i think our problem is in the part of memory reserved for system,

now downlading 4.1.1 again ...that probably will cause death

Yesterday I went to a store that sells unbranded phones....and the s3 there was running 4.1.1 (with ota updates pending) and i installed the emmc checker, different date than mine but same f....ing firmware rev 0xf1 chip.... I hope all of them die :angel: ... but by theory probably that wont since it will have only a few time with 4.1.1...but since no 4.1.2 for unbranded here many getting ready for the same kind of problems.

update: back to 4.0.4 ...froze in the first wi-fi connection :( ...so the only explanation in my mind is...emmc affected has no solution
[Galaxy S III General] Aero_med:
Mine died too

I had cases of freezing on stock 4.1.2

I did a firmware emergency recovery via kies, taking me back to jb 4.1.1,

it worked fine for a few days and died.

I get a scrambled screen (photo attached)

I can actually access Download Mode but whatever i try it gives me PIT error.

Even with 5 file flash.
[Galaxy S III General] sgsboyo:
Got my phone back at the end of last week. They'd replaced the main board and the emmc chip test says it's got a 12/2012 date. Running 4.1.2 ELLA.

Something still not right with it though, as I've caught it restarting several times.

Not good.
[Galaxy S III General] smiley1o1:
S3's 6 Months Countdown?

Hi everyone. Today I woke up to the S3's alarm while it was plugged in the charger. I took it off the charger and went back to sleep. I woke up and saw notification light and hit the power button to turn it on, but the phone was unresponsive. I tried restarting it, soft and hard reset, but it was stuck on the logo screen that says "Samsung Galaxy S3" with a black background. Finally after many attempts it stopped turning on and vibrating. T-Mobile will send me a new phone in 2 days, but I'm still angry because my phone was in perfect condition. I'm glad I came across this thread because I noticed a similar pattern to all these sudden deaths in GS3.

1. Most of these deaths occurred while/after fully charging the battery, typically overnight.

I noticed that mine quickly charged to 100% (like 1 hour or so) recently, and it also quickly died (after 12 hours- only 20-30% left... before a full charge lasted a good day and a half to two days if I didn't use it much). Someone said we should unplug the charger right after it is full... but this is hard to do as most people just charge it when they go to bed and take it out of the charger when they wake up. Is there a better solution to this?

2. S3 unable to boot up. It is all because of the motherboard malfunction? Is there a definite cause of this? Like too many apps running in the background and very little space on the phone? Someone suggested to keep everything in the SD card to allow the phone to have a lot of space. But does this actually help?

3. 6 months expiration date? I read several threads where after 6 months the S3 dies. This one couple had 2 S3 phones bought at the same time and both phones died within 7 days. I bought mine in August, and it is now February, and so my phone also falls into this category. What exactly is going on? :confused:

My warranty lasts until August. I'm thankful that I only have to pay $20 for a new phone. But I don't want it to die again! :crying: I've never had this problem after owning 4 samsung phones. My Samsung Galaxy never had this problem. I just had to take out the battery and reboot it if it becomes unresponsive (which is often). This is the fourth time that my S3 has become unresponsive within my 6 months of use, so it isn't much at all. I still can't believe it died on me. Do you guys notice a similar pattern too? Do you have more to add? And what should I do in the future to prevent this sudden death? Please reply if you have answers or stories similar to this! Thanks!!
[Galaxy S III General] tangosierra_:
For the last question - always have the latest firmware, although the phone you will receive will likely have a 0xf7 chip which isn't affected by SDS. And keep all data backed up on the sd card.

Not sure about the rest though I'm from the arc forum I was randomly reading this as my friend's S3 died. She was on 4.1.1 though.
[Galaxy S III General] aalvico:
after spend all my holiday with the phone trying to solve the freeze problem i am back to official 4.1.1 waiting its death... I hope as soon as possible :crying:

Edit....it died after 30 minutes...rest in peace....tomorrow lets see the problems with samsung repair center....

It still goes to dowload mode and f it says:

Custom binary : no

current binary : samsung official

but system status changed to custom :/

is that a problem ?
[Galaxy S III General] ludovicianul:
Quick question. When you have lags do you see mmcqd and/or kswapd as being top CPU processes? Yiu can enable it by going to Developer Options and tick Show CPU usage.
[Galaxy S III General] tangosierra_:
Iirc, no thats what its supposed to say.
[Galaxy S III General] Aero_med:
That's what mine says too :(
[Galaxy S III General] humbertm:
sudden death with no warranty

my galaxy s3 died (sudden death) on thursday i went to my isp an they told that because my phone has 1 scratch the warranty is voided and they are charging me us$300, is there any way that i can fix the phone by myself?
[Galaxy S III General] jeffnz:
Short answer , no. Read the first post and you'll better understand the tissue
[Galaxy S III General] humbertm:
Thanks man samsung. damn going back to iphone. for a little scratch samsung void my warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Go to Samsung direct, it is not up to your ISP to decide this.
[Galaxy S III General] humbertm:
im at the dominican republic, samsung doesnt have an office or a repairment shop in here
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
So go to the next nearest one
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
indeed they clearly seize usage during the freezes. What does this mean?

?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Is there anyone here who is in the USA that has successfully gotten there I9300 fixed and if so how. I'm in Virginia, bought my S3 on Ebay from a seller in CA. I called Samsung/us and they could get nothing from my imei number because it's the international phone. He also had heard nothing of "sudden death" issues. He told me to call Samsung support in the country the phone came from. I have no clue. The country code of the imei is 05 but Google could find nothing to tell me what country that is.

I spoke to the Ebay seller today and he bought it from an Amazon seller who said they don't keep records. He thinks it may be Spain. PLEASE if anyone can offer any guidance I would be so grateful. My phone has been lifeless since last Saturday. Now I have nothing but a 523.00 paperweight. I could kick myself for not buying that square trade warranty when I was able to.
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
I live in Alaska my cellular company sells the GT-I9300 so I would just have to give it to them Samsung USA only deals with the branded dual core models your best bet is to contact Amazon and find out were the phone came from or An International Samsung service center and find out how to claim a warranty it seems pretty screwed for us in the United States that we should have to go through the trouble.... Also look on the Galaxy S3 freezing thread there was a guy from New York or sent his phone to Germany and got it replaced he did have to pay for shipping though......
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Thanks for that info.I'm going to make more calls tomorrow. I don't mind paying shipping. Hell, I don't even mind paying a couple nicks to get it fixed. Don't want to but it is better than a paperweight
[Galaxy S III General] RohanM:
The fix is here.

The main features of XXELLC Android 4.1.2 updates

Fixes the infamous Exynos 4 vulnerability

Fixed the Galaxy S3 sudden death issue

Multi-View or Multi-Windows.

Page Buddy.

A revamped Gallery application UI.

Notification panel with customization support.

The Brightness Slider in the Notification Panel can be disabled in this new update.

Smart Rotation.

Page Artist app and the Group Cast app.

New Swype-like keyboard that has been demoed in the Android 4.2 OS.

Multiple enhancements and other small features were also added so that you’ll get the best possible Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Experience.

;)
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
For problem 1, just setup a loud alarm in any battery app when it's fully charged so that you can immediately unplug it.

For a permanent solution I'd switch to the note 2 - a much smoother experience.
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
Just be sure you don't buy a Note II with the same affected chip OXF1.....
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
I bot my note 2 in Jan and my mfr date as well as chip date was dec12 and it's oxf7. So I'm sane. Caveat : its from the Samsung store.
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Off topic, but just FYI, Li-ion batteries aren't meant to be fully (dis)charged at all. Ideally you're supposed to keep the level between 40%-90% (some say 80%, but if you don't go up till 90% your battery stats will not get cleared).

The whole charging/discharging fully funda works with Ni-Cd batteries, not Li-ion ones.
[Galaxy S III General] planetf1:
Now I'm confused about SDS -- after seemingly being able to read all the memory cleanly. I'm not far off sending to service, but would this be a waste? Hummm

I posted complete details in another thread -- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37929853#post37929853
[Galaxy S III General] larsson86:
Seems like the warranty is void when rooting a SGSIII, according to Samsung. My phone was sent in for service, but they concluded that it's been rooted earlier and therefor is the warranty not valid and I had to paid for it to be repaired.

I contacted Samsung VOC regarding root and warranty, and this was what the told me:

Swedish:

English via Google Translate:

How can I respond? What can I do?
[Galaxy S III General] CHEVYbarracuda1:
Grab a tissue and cry.. Or go to samsung repair centre and dramatically breal the phone in the main hall
[Galaxy S III General] EtienneBordeaux:
No other way, you have to pay for it. Sorry for your loss.

Sent from my GT-I9300 with Omega v42 + Yank555.lu v3.1i
[Galaxy S III General] larsson86:
Then this in the first post is incorrect and should be deleted?
[Galaxy S III General] sgsboyo:
As somebody who also had to pay for getting the main board in my phone replaced just because it was rooted and showed all the signs others have mentioned prior to SDS I agree that any mention of rooting not voiding the warranty in the EU should be removed or at least modified to say Samsung won't agree to it. It was because I'd read all over here that rooting didn't void the warranty that I felt safe enough sending my phone in that state. I've learned my lesson, but I'd hate for anybody else to have to pay what I had to pay and have the absolute hassle I had trying to get Samsung to listen to my point. It still infuriates me that I had to pay for their ****ty hardware fault!
[Galaxy S III General] shethsa:
I wonder if there's a fear psychosis now about buying s3 at least from those who know about sds. I certainly am having a rethink given one bad experience.

Surprising that Samsung is taking this so lightly despite us being a small minority.
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
Just because Samsung successfully "got one over on you" doesn't mean they're not breaking EU law in the process. It just means they refused you authoritatively enough that you didn't feel like following up with legal action. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1998801
[Galaxy S III General] sgsboyo:
It's not that I don't "feel like following up with legal action" it's that I have no clue how to go about it.

I've written to the FSFE website asking them for their help but had no response. It's all very well them telling you that you won't void your warranty by rooting your phone, but if there's no help for you to ensure that you get your full consumer rights it's useless.

I haven't given up on the fight in the slightest. I'm just trying to figure out how to move forward...

---------- Post added at 03:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 PM ----------

Edit: ...And for the record I felt there was nothing I could do. I was without my phone for almost a month, THEY had it and were refusing to fix it unless I paid for it. They're at the other end of the country from where I am. There really was nothing I could do except pay, or get the phone back unfixed. I would like to know what you would have suggested I do in that situation. I was already pissed off that I'd had to do without my phone for so long. As you can imagine, this whole situation has left a very sour taste in my mouth. There are no words strong enough to describe how I feel about Samsung right now!