yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] behemot24:
thank you, I voted.

but it's difficult for people to see it - it's already on the 8th page of the Q&A section... a moderator should make it sticky and/or move it into the general section imo.

or Obagleyfreer and rootSU could add it in the first posts of their SDS threads.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
My mistake i shouldn't have selected it as a question when i created the poll. Just write a comment there and it will go to first page. But your suggestion is good to make it sticky at least.
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
Still need help is my recovery not safe is there a patched CWM yet? Also can't find the Page for the workaround to reset binary will th new bootloader...... Will just flashing stock rom reset it?

Galaxy S3

Omega Rom V36
[Galaxy S III General] CSeb95:
Maybe you should start here :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36499838

If you don't want to read this thread .
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
For your first question if u searched this thread you would find its been mentioned many times about philz touch recovery that has been patched.

Flashing stock from via PC Odin will bring your phone back to proper stock. Do a factory reset before flashing just to be more sure.
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
using Odin will not void warranty as i know and device state should stay official if u didn't root :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
And that resets binary count and shows official in download mode....?

Galaxy S3

Omega Rom V36
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
Whats your latest version? According to the occurence of the string "VTU00M" and "movi operation is failed" in the kernel binary, the fix is already in much stock XXELL* kernels.

I've found them in all ELL kernels I've checked so far, which are ELL1, ELL4, ELL5, ELL6, ELLA and ELLC.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
No. You have to reset counter manually by using TriangleAway.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @179 days
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
i think it will not show official if u have root :/
[Galaxy S III General] cyberdroxxx:
It will show official if you have any official stock rom.

It will show custom if you have other rom or CWM recovery on your device.

---------- Post added at 01:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:34 AM ----------

My S3 eMMC is infected. I am on ELLA official rom and running custom kernel Purseus A31+ right now.

Hopefully it will not die of the SDS.

189 days and counting.
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
Just checked the kernel that comes with WanamLite XXELL5, and it is, indeed, there. Kinda implies that it doesn't really help. Or was there really no sudden death cases on any of those kernels??
[Galaxy S III General] mjb:
Certainly possible that the fix in the stock kernels has been through a few revisions before getting to ELLA/Update7.. probably need to trawl the whole thread to try and find definitive examples of SDS on previous kernels.

Personally, I think that this 'fix' isn't the one we're looking for.. and that it's still coming from Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
What Kernel were you using in combination with UltimaROM 8.1.1?
[Galaxy S III General] ckenni2000:
darn, i didn't even know about the Sudden Death issue until it hit me just today.

Phone was bought on June 2012. Friend was just watching youtube when it crashed then it wouldnt go past the samsung logo. That's when i found out about the SDS thing :eek:

I'm planning to bring this to our nearest Samsung center but I need to ask if its true that the Download mode won't show if your phone was rooted. Mine showed the same stuff like no product name, official samsung but status is on custom. Would that possibly allow me to claim warranty?

I am worried because i just recently Rooted the phone just for titanium backup and adfree, its still on Stock ROM, so I am really hoping theres a way for this to get fixed. :crying:
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
So you can still go into download mode? What happens if you start Odin and Plug your phone in USB. Does Odin recognize it while in download mode?

Also what Firmware and Kernel were you running?

Edit: If you have a custom Status then you probably voided your warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] wooptarik:
It is SDS better go to Sammy repair center and don't ever tell them you know what root is. Good luck
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
If it is a SD shouldn`t the phone be completely dead? He says that he can still go into download mode.

And if his status shows custom in download mode then they will know that he played around with root and/or custom ROMs, so playing dumb won`t work in that case. If he is lucky they will repair it anyway (heard stories about that) but that is rarely.

And if he is able to go into download mode, maybe he can flash a stock firmware and repair it himself.
[Galaxy S III General] wooptarik:
Well this looks like a half brick, it's been happening to a lot of devices in this thread and is irrecoverable.

And Samsung did repair rooted devices before, but In specific regions.
[Galaxy S III General] offgrey:
If Custom Binary download is blank or 0, you should just play dumb. If I remember correctly, there were a bunch of posters here that had stock everything (rom, kernel, no root etc) that also had custom in System Status.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
As above if it goes in download mode and shows customer then unless you are in Europe most likely they will charge to fix your phone. Do try it with PC odin and try and flash the latest ROM for your phone.

BTW what ROM were you on currently and when was phone purchased?
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
If you're in Europe you're covered under warranty even if you're rooted and have flashed custom ROMs.
[Galaxy S III General] Ottoman52:
After SD even if phone goes into download mode,you can't flash a firmware. You always get errors and errors.

And because of the exynos bug it is rumoured that some programs in market can have root access without your knowledge.

And somebody said that there is a law in EU that says "users is free to change software unless the software harms hardware." here is the post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36530300&postcount=3004

So ,They can't say anything about that. Any program could have root access.

Mine was rooted and samsung repaired my phone under warranty,

I told only my phone isn't opening .

Tomorrow i'll get my phone with a changed motherboard i hope.
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
I believe that in EU after 6 months you must provide proof that your bricked phone has nothing to do with Root or custom ROMs, before that they must repair it even if it has root and no proof needed.

Correct me if I'm wrong here.
[Galaxy S III General] ckenni2000:
It was on stock ICS ROM when i bought it. Im not in Europe unfortunately, im just hoping that they accept the warranty but im just worried that theyre not aware that this is an international phenomenon and still charge me for that Status: Custom thing even if there are quite a number of reports from non-rooted phones that showed the same thing :(
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Within 6 months they will have to repair it no-matter what. After six months they have to prove that your fiddling around caused the problem that you're wanting them to fix under warranty. If they can't, you still get a free ride :)

At least that's what's officially supposed to happen.
[Galaxy S III General] Kaatrea:
Phone died

Hi, I'm from Malaysia. Just want to share what happened in my case. Phone kept freezing and lagging. Had to pull out batteries to get it to work. Was running Omega rom V36 with stock kernel. And then only I read about this SDS that's been happening globally. I managed to flash to stock ROM and did a full wipe in recovery mode just so that there wouldn't be any proof of rooting. A day after that my phone restarted randomly and then just stuck on Samsung logo. Brought it to the service center the following day and the phone had completely died by then. Unable to turn. Called yesterday to check status and was advised that the motherboard needs to be replaced and it is currently out of stock. They're already ordered stock and said that I can collect mine on Wednesday. Hoping it's the new version HW version 1.4/1.5 though I'm not entirely sure that is the issue or if it will fix it for certain.
[Galaxy S III General] jshashwat93:
If my phone is already lagging and just freezes while charging when Phone is switched on and stuff like that should I flash the new fixed rom? Will it remove the stupid lags and freezes I have been facing since 2 weeks or is the emmc permanently screwed? Because my dillema is that if I flash the fixed rom and keep the device status as custom and the phone gets screwed I will never get warranty is I get death later and download mode is accessible. The other option I have is keep the phone status official and unmodified and whenever the phone dies I can claim warranty and get a new motherboard in which I can flash the fix when it is brand new. So can someone please suggest me if flashing the fix will repair the damaged emmc or whatever is causing the lags, freezes and phone become unresponsive while charging with phone on and blue light still on just like sudden death reports.
[Galaxy S III General] xufos:
Follow up of my previous post

I got my phone repaired yesterday. It took 5 days at Samsung Service Center in Bogor, Indonesia. They repaired it without asking anything about firmware / root / etc. The physical body of the phone remain the same (screen, battery cover). I remembered mine has the letter "S" missing from the cover. So they didn't replace it with a new phone. The IMEI remain the same and it still has 16 GB memory. I checked with eMMC app my eMMC is VTU00M, FW 0xf1, date 09/2012. If this app is accurate then the memory chip is obviously newer because my phone was bought in June 2012. The repaired phone came with stock Samsung firmware 4.0.4 ICS and all data is lost.

They only change one component with code name GH82-06521A (as stated in the repair repot). A quick google search reveals its a whole mainboard of the phone.

Just to be safe now I'm using Perseus Alpha31+ kernel, and PhilZ Touch 4.00-b04 recovery as recommended in this thread.
[Galaxy S III General] htcsnap93:
That is bull**** sir.

Also : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2092530
[Galaxy S III General] tutankamon09:
what can ı do

well this is the moment of death? what can I philipz recovery've uploaded and galaxgish v2.0 beta7 kernel installed on this problem ?
[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
Samsung released a new firmware ELLC.can anyone see if it has the fix?
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36499838

Taper di Tap with my S3 @179 days
[Galaxy S III General] CSeb95:
Not exactly, in the first 6 months whatever may happened they have to repair the phone, after six months they have to prove that your software modification is at the origin of the default ( Very difficult with a bricked phone ;) ) elseway they must repair it.

I've sent samsung french customer service two mails asking for samsung official position regarding this european directive, no answer yet :(

(Cause either the first hotline level or certified repair centers told you that rooted= no warranty :( )

Here are more informations :

Read this : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36530300&postcount=3004

and this : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36537218&postcount=3018
[Galaxy S III General] Ottoman52:
I take myphone just a few minutes ago they said motherboard changes (they wrote"everything changed expect cosmetic parts")

It's running 4.1.1 XXDLID and it's faster than first day.

The photo of eMmc is here
[Galaxy S III General] jarule08_2008:
Hi. all VTU00M, FW 0xf1 will be exposed SDS ? or a limited number of them ?
[Galaxy S III General] SiriusCybernetik:
Concerning your complaint about better consumer protection in the EU tan in the rest of the world:

This has a cost. Did you happen to know that the same product is sold in the EU 25% to 30% more expensive than let's say in the US? Taking the SGS3 as an example, the launch price was around 600$. The same device in Europe did cost over 600€. At an exchange rate of 1.3, this makes 780$.

Of course this price also includes higher wages, import taxes and shipping costs.

The manufacturer warranty of one year, that is offered by Samsung is pretty much the same as anywhere else.

The only thing that is different is that all consumer goods that are sold within the EU must be guaranteed by the reseller to be free of hidden flaws, during a period of 2 years. So between beginning and end of the second year, samsung is no longer in charge. For this reason, the resellers must take bigger margins and the resell price increases....
[Galaxy S III General] hteles:
Can't believie it. If i were you i would go to all Facebook/Twitter Samsung social places expose your situation. What country are you?
[Galaxy S III General] sodeknetters:
Another one down to the GT-i9300 graveyard...

Hello,

I have been subscribed to this topic to be informed about the situation with the mainboard failures of the GT-i9300. Unfortunately I saw all the feared symptoms when I woke up this morning...

yesterday evening; fully functional

rooted: yes

custom ROM: yes (CM10, recent nightly)

kernel: stock CM10 (never tried any other)

UV/OC: no, never did

My normal procedure is to put it on the AC charger on my bedside table every night. Left it running, wifi data synch all on. (very happy with the 'silent hours' feature of CM btw..)

This morning:

White boot logo (samsung galaxy SIII, GT-i9300), frozen.

Held power button 10 seconds: powered down, back on, white boot logo once more.. no more life.

Pulled the battery. Replaced it and plugged the AC charger: Battery symbol appeared, without actual charge indication and circle icon (non-moving). No LED.

Pulled battery again and tried to enter download mode. Works. Unfortunately, I got the same display as cartman4u and others have reported in this thread:

In my case:

Product Name: (empty)

Custom Binary download: No

Current binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Custom

I think the NAND corruption/failure theory is applicable on my phone. Most parts of the board/SOC works, but it cannot read or write the flash memory that contains the ROM and data.

Took it to a vodafone service/repair center today. The guy tried to use an automated samsung tool (universal reflash tool) which failed, and also tried to reflash everything manually using ODIN. Failed as well.

Phone is sent away for motherboard replacement now.

Had one minor scratch to the plastic bezel around the screen, but I swear I'm going to explode if they try to make me pay for the repair because of this....

I hope I can report soon that the phone was fixed and returned to me at no charge...
[Galaxy S III General] mikep99:
All these stories are making me uncomfortable!!

I've unrooted and gone back to stock in anticipation of mine failing....

S3 bought near release date in the UK.
[Galaxy S III General] :
won't make a difference mate... and your warranty won't be affected anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] sodeknetters:
doesn't matter. As long as you do not touch the initial white boot logo (and I think you cannot change this even if you wanted to really badly :cowboy:) there is NO WAY to see you did anything special before it failed.

The ROM is in the memory that failed. So is a custom ROM. Cannot read = same result stock or custom
[Galaxy S III General] Juancito:
I'm from Belgium. I already wrote a mail to 'consumentenbond', and 'ombudsdienst'. They should be defending customers. Let's see what they (can) do.

But actually I don't expect anything. I also made a complain on Samsung website this morning. Already get an answer:

"... the repair center has shown that user-damage was found, which means that your warranty is void..."

David against Goliath...
[Galaxy S III General] akinandroid:
This its exactly identical to what happened to me when on holiday in Rome on September. Retailer I bought it from sent it off for repair and it came back with replacement motherboard. It was a distressing time for me! Phone was about 3 months old at the time, so was definitely one of the early ones.
[Galaxy S III General] hteles:
Maybe what they need is bad press :mad:

Also they can not hide behind scratches when/if there's a serial problem with the PCB or other component. This will get them a class lawsuit.

Mine is working great till now, lets hope that will stay that way. I bought mine later, cause i had bought the S2 4G ( i9210 ) two weeks before the S3 was announced.

Regards
[Galaxy S III General] marvi0:
have same issue, worried they wont repair, as mine was rooted, how can they tell it was rooted? and if i was to take it to a samsung repair centre will they repair straight away?
[Galaxy S III General] nebsif:
Lol I remember randomly checking this thread a while ago.. anyway:

Rom: Paranoid

Kernel: Stock, I think.

What I did: Had a few spontaneous shut downs after installing paranoid the same week. When phone died I was at le party, took it out of the pocket and its "off" again, tried to power on, nothing, completely nooothing like the battery isnt even in.

When I came back home, I put it on charging and next morning battery was pretty hot but it still wouldn't power on, even the notification light doesnt work when I charge it. Swapping batteries doesnt help either.

Edit: I also had no reception that evening, no calls and no 3G (after recently changing to a very cheap, but crappy "carrier" (Golan T).

I bought it at Netherlands (I live at Israel), lost the receipt.. prolly gonna buy a goophone or something now, or a nexus4, oh wait, GS4 will get announced before I can buy a N4 w/o dedicating my life to it. :rolleyes:

Could any1 recommend me a temporary ~200$ Chinese phone or something in PM please? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] Demansia:
Another S3 succumbs to Samsung sudden death syndrome!

Optus Australia, white S3 August 2012, unrooted, unmodified.

Has been sent off for repair, hope it comes back as a 32gb LTE... I wish!
[Galaxy S III General] marvi0:
Guys mine was rooted wil Samsung be able to tell, when I take it to repair centre.?
[Galaxy S III General] pedropac72:
When this issue happens, there is no info of your device.

Enviado desde mi SGS3 reparado tras la Muerte Súbita usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
Unfortunately, this thread has become a mix of righteous "sudden death", and "endless boot loop". Not the same phenomenon at all. I'd say from what's been described, there's a fair chance the "endless boot loop" folks may face warranty problems. Which is why I've just un-rooted. :(

Whether they've meant to or not, Samsung's managed to persuade folks to un-root, and for no other reason than that their products are SO unreliable, that's the only way people can count on the warranty. :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] marvi0:
But it says custom on rom when you go into download mode.
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
Is it really SO unreliable? How many are dead? How many did Samsung manage to sell?
[Galaxy S III General] pedropac72:
What is the solution for boot loop? The only one I had is to change the mainboard. No way to reinstall any room.

Enviado desde mi SGS3 reparado tras la Muerte Súbita usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
32 pages of stories, and these are only the geeks who care enough to report it in a tech forum. There's surely lots more who simply go back to point of purchase for an exchange without us knowing about it.
[Galaxy S III General] InfX:
This thread is about 350 posts long, not every post is sudden death story, many other replies to other stories, posts like mine, etc. Let's say about 1..2 out of 3 posts here is a death story indeed, giving us roughly 150 dead units reported.

Now, is there any way to get either the number of unique XDA users under a certain thread node? Or, maybe, a total number of users with their device set to I9300? This would likely give us a fair approximation.
[Galaxy S III General] Cdjones187:
Most depressing thread ever. lol. =/

From my personal conclusion, don't leave your phone on the charger longer than need be, and definitely don't leave it on over night. Possibly restart your phone more often also..
[Galaxy S III General] solrakk6:
Sorry about that, but i'm maybe think a new S3.

What's your opinion? Buy a S3 whit 32GB in Portugal?? Or can i buy a new S3 16GB in Portugal and just update the firmware?!

That will solve the problem? Or..

thx
[Galaxy S III General] fatsomak:
Sorry man,, U had yo first freeze, assuredly sudden death is by the door. I assure u, u dont have 7 days (168hrs)
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Better stick to the 32GB if you can, it's the safest alternative.
[Galaxy S III General] eduardo96:
SGS3 Doubt

hey folks! i have a sgs3 with the cursed eMMC chip, i got the phone in december! since the first day i rooted it, because i didn't like the Touchwiz, it has never freeze or something like that, i updated to XXELLA stock firmware, with perseus kernel, i know that from now on the phone shouldn't present the SDS if i use the phone this way, but does all the roots, and roms, that i installed the phone before will affect on something now?

Another doubt, is there a kernel for download mod? i mean, when i want to root the phone, if there's no risk of sds when using odin

Pls Answer, im worried! :(

PS: im doing this question after reading a lot of pages in the forums and didn't found something like this!
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Download mode doesn't require a fix, it's low level flashing. As for your rooting and ROM flashing, nobody can really say for sure. It's possible that enough damage has occurred, but it's highly unlikely since you bought it only a month ago and the fastest deaths have been about 4 months short.
[Galaxy S III General] x3sed:
Don't know about all of them but is the vtu00m fw 0xf1 and it's still working till now... I installed the ELLA release since it was released and i just installed the PhilZ kernel patched.

Hope it's gonna be ok since i have no warranty.

I don't know why but a lot of people have this chip and they didn't encounter any SDS issue so the real reason behind it is still unknown.

NAND problem but just for some users... I hope someone can illuminate this case.
[Galaxy S III General] invinciblecc:
Guys nobody answered are all s3 supposed to be facing sds at Some point of time or only few are supposed to face this pleases answer
[Galaxy S III General] kofiaa:
We don't know, only thing we do know is people with VTU00M / ofx1 are vulnerable. It's not guaranteed that ever person with that chipset is going to experience sds.
[Galaxy S III General] MIKEMON:
No one knows whether or not infected, just do what is recommended and quite.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
And do you know what is recommended? Cuz sumsung it self doesnt know what is recommended!
[Galaxy S III General] zeziv5150:
Hey, just for the stats: i bought mine S3 on october and it died december 26th, so it was only about 2 months of using! :crying:

Now it's alive again after a motherboard replacement.
[Galaxy S III General] invinciblecc:
,and how am u supposed to know if I have vtu00m/ofx1
[Galaxy S III General] DonHuan:
"emmc check" in Play Store.
[Galaxy S III General] kondronaute:
and do not believe when it say sane :crying:coz it do not give date of internal firmware and this date is the key but we cannot read it easily with tool we have
[Galaxy S III General] invinciblecc:
So i an vulnerable

Please guide me what to do i am rooted

And I have never flashed anything and don't know what kernel is or how to flash anything guide me to do what is recommended
[Galaxy S III General] BOZG:
Woke up to my phone looking like this today. Restarting achieved nothing. Can't access recovery but can access Download Mode but Odin is giving me the No PIT partition error and Kies fails. Is this related to the sudden death issue?
[Galaxy S III General] kofiaa:
For those who want the link to check their chipset - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check

What chipset do you have? We can't figure out the date, but we can flash a "safe" kernel as a precautionary measure.