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[Galaxy S III General] ahaseeb:
Weird Issue

So my Phone died too. Following are the details

It is Telus S3, SGH-I747M. Not rooted but unlocked. When ever i put the battery in, it boots upto Samsung S3 and then dies. Pressing the power button, even does not turns it on. I tried to enter into the boot mode, by Volume down, Power + Home button, but as soon as it reaches that screen. So basically it keeps on only for like 3 seconds and then die. Even pressing the power button does not do any good .

I have to put the battery in again to get it turned on

Now my question is all the solutions mentioned here are by software, would they work on an absolute dead phone too like in my case ?
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
You don't have this phone I9300 so it would be worth asking the question in your phones forum .
[Galaxy S III General] dc_power!:
Did you try with another battery which you know for sure is good and charged... for example one from another working phone? Your description seems more like a battery problem.
[Galaxy S III General] ahaseeb:
Yes i tried it but still the same

[MENTION=3095420]JJEgan[/MENTION]

I posted here because of the Ultimate thread title
[Galaxy S III General] 2rgman:
Sorry if this asked before, but I have tried to search here and on other places and didn't found an answer (you can see in my posts, I do not tend to post questions so quickly, I prefer searching).

So, I have this situation:

Someone asked me about an i9300 with insane chip running XXDLIB (4.1.1 no SDS fix) for about 4 months. recently the owner started to encounter freezing issues.

Now my questions is:

1. Is there such thing as Pre-SDS symptoms?, is that can be one of them?.

2. If it's a sign for SDS, is update to 4.1.2 will solve the problem or since the proccess already started the only solution is replacing the motherboard?

3. There is any risk that updating in this situation will trigger the SDS since flashing do a lot writing to the emmc?

Many thanks!!! :)
[Galaxy S III General] Adrien05:
Hello all...

I'm new to the forum. I have a Galaxy S3 international (GT-i9300).

I recently experienced long period of freezes and after a Google search I tried to install Stock ROM 4.1.2 I9300XXEMB5 (can't put the URL since I'm a new user). That one solved the issue and I have no more freezes since the upgrade (2 weeks ago), even with Root...

Yet... I would like to go to Custom ROM (eg Cyanogen...).

How sure can I be that such ROM will prevent freezes (or worse, SDS !) from happening again ?

Many thanks in advance...

PS: Maybe it could be interesting to udapte the first message of the topic with updated information ?
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
We'll after almost a year of Samsung U.K. and Anovo sitting on my phone over in England and refusing to fix it they decided to ship it back to me in the states. Accidentally found out that mobile tech videos now does EmmC repair. Less than $200 bucks and a few days and my S3 has a brand new chip. Now to sell the piece of ****.
[Galaxy S III General] presto11:
eantov articles

I have S3 blue 16 GB which I have been using for 1 year and 2 months. The phone suddenly died. went to the service Center based in Manila, and told me that they need to replace the motherboard meaning that all my contacts, pictures and everything I saved therein will be automatically gone. Is their anyway to retrieve all my memorabilia?
[Galaxy S III General] maarten2001:
No, probably not.
[Galaxy S III General] 2rgman:
Thanks, but it's taking about freezing caused because of the sds-fix, this device running firmware without the sds fix...
[Galaxy S III General] Ackbar652:
So, SDS just hit my phone about 2 hours ago...

I had the phone in my car. I don't remember if it was plugged in to my charger. I had picked it up to check it before I left the gas station, and it appeared to freeze, then shut off. No big deal, I thought. It had actually done that a few times in the last few days, but rebooted without an issue. I don't know if that's an indicator or not...

Needless to say, the phone does nothing. No charging light, no response for the power button, nothing. Based on what I'm reading, that seems to be the norm with SDS, so nothing out of the ordinary.

Basically I'm just looking for a little confirmation. This problem seems to be affecting everyone under the sun, regardless of what ROM, firmware, or even exact model, correct? Second, is Samsung fixing these phones, no questions asked, as long as they're warrantied? I do not have the insurance through my carrier so I just want to know my options.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Check Product Code as per instructions in Odin Download Mode .

No product code = SDS .
[Galaxy S III General] schoolofmonkey:
Does anyone know how this is happening?

My wife and I picked up a couple of second hand phones a few weeks ago, her's had the SDS, but mine is going ok with rXTREME v14.0 on it.

The phones would be about 14 months old.

Does Samsung still cover phones that old with the SDS?
[Galaxy S III General] rickydg316@gmail.com:
Has anyone have any problems with 4.3 jellybean update with the gallery it doesn't share it force closes and some of my pics and vids are corrupt I'm new to this site so bare with me
[Galaxy S III General] itsmi87:
Hi everyone,

A few hours ago I faced exactly the symptoms which were diagnosed to be a "Sudden Death": I checked emails, put the phone back into the case. 20 minutes later I wanted to check emails again and unlock it. Nothing happened but the green LED was flashing. So I put out the battery, put it in again and wanted to start it. Everything remained black - no LED, no display, nothing - dead. Beforehand, during the past week, the phone froze a couple of times. No big deal, I only hat to manually restart it.

The big difference is: It's a 32 GB version !! I read that they don't face that problem. However, those posts were 8-9 months old and I can't imagine it to be anything but the sudden death. Can I certainly exclude the sudden death or did it happen to others as well?

Thanks a lot!
[Galaxy S III General] Railius:
freezes...

Oh god.. im scared about my s3 now..

i bought my phone 10 months ago, i've never experienced anything related to sudden death, even since day 1 i rooted and started to flash new ROMs for the past 3 month ive been using CM10.2 and PA 3.99 they both are 4.3 android version NO PROBLEM up until 3 days ago that i flashed one of the temasek unofficial 4.4 build.. random freezes! i had to pull out the battery in order to get it back, im sure its just my phone since no one is reporting my issue on the temasek's thread.. So i tried wiping caches, doing MEGAWIPES on the internal, REVERTING back to PA 3.99 and STILL GET the freezes on the 4.3 build so what happened to my precious phone??

a guy told me about the app and these are the results.. What should i do??

Thanks in advance..

Update.. i was talking with my brother about the matter and it got frozen.. its still frozen.. took a pic with another phone.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
About time you read the stickied faqs and guides.

Freezing and SDS thread .
[Galaxy S III General] itsmi87:
Any more information about the 32 GB version? Does the sudden death occur?
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Mostly - now no more phone as are affected with phone above 4.1.2 o's equal and 32 Gb are safe -
[Galaxy S III General] ponepo:
There are some 32 Gb chips with eMMC VTU00M and FW Rev: 0xF1. Those could be effected by SDS.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
I thought this thread was closed long time ago. . You waisting your time here people
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Yes this topic has been eliminated - only people who don't update their phone regularly don't known about it.

ParanoidAndroid | i9300

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] RohanM:
Is Samsung still shipping S3 with that chip??
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Y? You are in nexus, newer s3 are now safe

ParanoidAndroid | i9300

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] RohanM:
My bro wanted to get one so asked...
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
The best phone -

I played with it as - rom, kernel, efs, bootloader, dalvik, 4.4 Art,

Still working as a young horse!

Get your Bro one - and you will fell jealous about you n4 against the s3 developer support

ParanoidAndroid | i9300

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] RohanM:
Well N4 is way ahead in development support than S3... And if you take a look at my sigi you will find that I have already used S3... Yeah I will be jealous of that Amoled screen and camera and battery life and sd slot though.... ;)
[Galaxy S III General] BLEK0TA:
As i said only never rooted s3 with stock 4.1.2 is fully Safe
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Hmm I have regretted for not getting n4, but still now happy with it

Bdw which state? Are we nearer?

ParanoidAndroid | i9300

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] RohanM:
MH
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Okay far away - can't meet! :(

ParanoidAndroid | i9300

www.dadabhagwan.org
[Galaxy S III General] yousaf2k:
Samsung Galaxy S3 GTI-9300 Orange Sudden Death

I have Samsung Galaxy S3 GTI-9300 Orange rooted and unlocked and i am using it from last 1 year. I was using ICS firmware. I used to charge my phone overnight from last few weeks. Because i play clash of clans and my battery drains very fast.

I went to Google play installed ANDEngine demo, run the demo then pressed the home button and pressed the power button to suspend it.

I also stopped some running services in the phone to free some memory because phone was slow.

After few minutes i picked my phone and pressed the power button to use my phone.

It was not responding at all complete black screen no led light.

1. I removed the battery and inserted the battery but still with black screen.

2. I tried to go into recovery mode no success.

3. I tried to go into download mode no success.

4. I tied to go into SD card mode no success using VOLUP+VOLDOWN method.

Please help me what to Do.
[Galaxy S III General] Chaosruler:
I was under the impression that any ROM above 4.1.2 was safe, but Paranoid Adnroid 3.97R2 is not listed

the app says I am on the unsafe group of S3, so I don't want to take any risks...

am I safe to use PA3.97R2? I heard they don't use CM kernel anymore so I duuno, should I flash another kernel?
[Galaxy S III General] benjieg:
So it's essentially dead?
[Galaxy S III General] yousaf2k:
Resistor Short SD Card Boot.

Last night i disassemble my galaxy s3, made the bootable sd card for s3 using win32 image software and downloaded bootable image. I then put my card is sd card slot , shorted the resistor in the galaxy s3 board as per the instructions. Pressed the power button. Pressing the power button drops the voltage in voltage monitor connected at the battery connectors. I powered the s3 from laptop usb port to s3 battery terminals. using metal clips as connectors. But there was no response no sd card mode. So i will now try a JIG method to go into download mode. My battery voltages are also at 3.28v. I think its lowest and will not make s3 to boot. I will buy an external battery charger. Will update more.
[Galaxy S III General] Fygaroo:
If you mean the eMMC bricikbug app it will always show insane chip , you need to read your rom or kernel post to check if you are safe using them.
[Galaxy S III General] Kelentaria:
Seriously This isn't a dead thread...Know Why? BECAUSE SDS KEEPS HAPPENING!!!

I like many others that have posted previously, I believe my S3 has SDS. It was very sudden. No signs warning nothing. I mean occasional freezes and battery dying with heavy use, but after you get used to having a piece of crap Moto Atrix 4G (known for constant freezes , restarts, calls dropping, lack of reception, among other things...) I knew phones were not perfect...far far from it. My version is the 16G red I747 (USA AT&T) bought Feb 14, 2013. I love my phone, but I had no idea about SDS. My phone is rooted, and has an unlocked bootloader. Just the basic modifications, although it did cross my mind to flash a custom rom, but like everything else I did to my phone I was afraid I might brick it. So I was still in the debate. But that is beside the point. So still stock rom. 4.1.2. the point I am trying to make is not everyone has had the ability to get said update(s). I have stumbled on a terrible thing about my S3 being rooted; It no longer has the ability to get updates OTA (note this is even with Voodoo) which SUX!!!. I even tried Kies. Even after I updated Kies it still says that 4.1.2 is up to date. I did find that there is at least one update out there. Although while researching why phone wouldn't update I found a bunch of horrible things about the update. Which is why I was thinking custom. To be entirely honest, when my phone crashed, and sadly dead (no pushing buttons in any fashion/ plugging in (no light), even plugging into laptop just to see if it would recognize it (to no avail, try all for mentioned ideas in other's posts) I had no idea what it even was. After reading sone of this thread I believe it is DEFINATELY SDS. Extremely upset by this as I imagine just about everyone else is. But now I must thank you guys for putting this thread up here, because I didn't even know what had happened to my phone, and after googling it I found this. THE MOST INFO ON THIS ISSUE EVER. the title of the thread fits very very well. If you have any suggestions for me post them below. And I will read it.

Thanks,

Kelentaria
[Galaxy S III General] cfds:
Look for an S3 with a broken display and or look for a replacement motherboard and install it in your phone. That's wat I did. Mainboard replacement is very easy. I sold my old S3 while in the mean time I bought an new S3. Good luck.
[Galaxy S III General] Kelentaria:
This is what I did. I went into our local AT&T store and asked what to do. To bad the guy that helped us knew absolutely nothing about anything phone related...retard. Anyway he called the warantee dept. for AT&T and handed his phone to us (my fiance and account holder) and got everything squared a way. Thank God it was still under warantee or I would be out almost 200$ for a new (refurbed) phone. Luckily my fiance used to work for AT&,T before he had to quit to go back to school, so he knew exactly what info they needed and what to do. I am just glad everything worked out and I will have a good working phone in a few days.

My new question is do they ship phones (replacement so it will be refurbished) out with the new update or do I need to download it?
[Galaxy S III General] android addicts:
This might be a SDS. Why didn't you update your device to latest JB or safe kernel?
[Galaxy S III General] LannyLin:
Someone starts a class action suit against Samsung please!! My phone died just out of warranty, and even my AMEX extended warranty wouldn't cover it because it was an international version.
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
Well my S3 didn't die on me but it's currently fairly useless as the sound chip is fried, kinda figured it was on its way out after that random static the speaker randomly chucked out and the very slow distorted sound I also got. I might think about getting a motherboard off eBay in the future as the screen /digitizer is in perfect condition but then it's a case of making sure any replacement board doesn't have an insane chip on it!

Might not even bother fixing it as I have an s4 now anyway but if prices drop on a replacement motherboard then I might consider getting the handset up and running again.
[Galaxy S III General] hitback:
check this firmware. and i root my phone via cf autoroot. is it safe to sds?
[Galaxy S III General] sh_:
Yes it is safe.
[Galaxy S III General] firehod:
dead phone

Two days ago I did an upgrade to the operating system, upgrading the original by telephone to 4.3

This morning the cell phone stopped working,

He does not show anything on the screen, not responding to connect to the computer, not responding to connect to electricity.

I tried to replace batteries Battery otherwise I know she is good but just not responding cell phone.

what can i do?
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Can you go into recovery? If so, make a factory reset.
[Galaxy S III General] hitback:
My emmc chip is oxf7 and no sane chip. Is my phone 100% sure safe from sds? Im using stock rom xxema5 4.1.2 rooted.
[Galaxy S III General] scottcwhite:
Send it in to MTVideo. Fixed mine in a flash so I can now sell the piece of ****
[Galaxy S III General] tyj82:
SDS permanant fix

My phone has been random freeze after upgrade to 4.3 from 4.0.x. During 4.0.x, everything was stable without issue. I tried the DFG method. The first run the phone freeze at 95% and freeze for 21 mins. Then i perform another 8 runs, all go thru without freeze. Now 6 hours later, i run DFG again and it freeze at 96%, had freeze for 35 mins then i remove the battery. Now I run few more time and it randomly freeze from different %. It even recover itself after 45 mins to 1 hours. At times, i left it for 2 hours and it still freeze.

Now my question did anyone managed to have permanent fix on this issue or this is just temporary fix ?
[Galaxy S III General] QaisDroid:
thanks for the info :good:
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
Devs says that till the firmware has the fix this the only temporary method , while on the other hand we have s3 with fox and playing now with all ROMs kernels bootloader recoveries don't freeze the phone running more smoothly on 4.4.2!

Try some rom kernel recovery with fix

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] tom0:
Can confirm. The phone is nearly useless.
[Galaxy S III General] babumb4:
Sudden death

you can fix it without going to the service center?

when I put it in download mode only lasts 3 seconds then restarts. How can I do?
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
You won't fix it without changing your motherboard.but on download mode does it show product name or it's blank? And can you go into recovery mode? If you can go both but it's restarts after few secs it's probably a stuck power button.
[Galaxy S III General] Razec26:
i have an affected phone, with eMMC VTU00M

i use cyanogen 10.2 (android 4.3.1) and i want to come at stock, because i read that i have a huge risk to kill my phone with this room.

what stock room is good for me?

sorry for my english
[Galaxy S III General] julianbracco:
hey guys..i wanna share my story about my galaxy s3 16gb international version,One day it suddenly stopped working,i couldnt power it off i tried everything it was dead, so i went to the service with it as it was still in waranty and after a week they fixed it.They told me they had to "rewrite the flash memory" and they put android 4.1.2 on it.Is that a possible fix for the sds or my phone had a different issue?
[Galaxy S III General] Element4q2:
My phone screen would not switch on this morning so I pulled the battery. Now all I see is grey/green/black lines when I start the phone.

I can get into Download Mod just fine and the screen does not look corrupt, but when trying to reflash a ROM via Odin to see if it fixes the issue I get a "There is no PIT partition" error
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
It's means that your phone is bricked,need motherboard replacement.
[Galaxy S III General] Element4q2:
I thought as much :(
[Galaxy S III General] nutuprofe:
About Month ago, I installed Kitkat Mod, working normally, (some little bugs. e.g Phone name I9070 replaced I9070P - My phone is I9070)

I had rooted also... well... yesterday, suddenly phone hang up, I restarted phone and voila! It began to boot up by flashing the normal samsung galaxy s advance screen, but it continually flashes over and over and wont start. I tried everithig - custom rom, stock rom (may be same),downgrading yo GB, f**king room, everithing tried many times, but it continually flashes sumsung logo again... and it goes only download mode... (using Vol down+Home+Power) Vol Up+Home+Power not working to go in recovery mode... also wont work "vol up+down and plug in" (i searched and founded it in google). this is my problem... please help me anybody... what can I do?

when i go to download mode

looks like this

(this photo i founded google, i cant take photo and post it, but its same)
[Galaxy S III General] I AM THE HSS:
I have SGS3 With XXELLA 4.1.2 with VTU00M Faulty eMMC

I'm having Freezes and Crashes almost every 5 Hours

Freezes are like my Live Wallpaper Animation Works but the Phone don't Respond to anything

Is this a SDS Syndrom ?
[Galaxy S III General] tom0:
SDS mean that the phone is dead.

But it sounds like the memory problem which related to this if a reset doesn't help.

One point you can notice is if you hear music from memory and have breaks.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Install Latest Android 4.3 official firmware for your phone.Because XXELLA is a "bad" firmware that caused freezes to a lot of the users,so I suggest you to to stay way from XXELLA firmware.
[Galaxy S III General] I AM THE HSS:
No I Can Hear Music and Everything else Perfectly ,Even When I'm playing a Video Game the Video Game Keeps Playing or The Music Video Keeps playing it Just Stops Responding to my Actions like TOuching or Pressing the Home Button and etc

It's Weird because I Updated to XXELLA 4.1.2 Almost instantly when I Bought this Phone

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Thank U For your Quick Response Simonna ,So U Don't think it's eMMC Related? I Just need to Download the Firmware and Flash it using ODIN ? No need of Rooting or Unlocking Bootloader?
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
I don't think that it's eMMC related because I was using XXELLA firmware for one month (and it was totally nightmare,random freezes and etc) but after few weeks I updated to XXEMB2 Android 4.1.2 (now it's quite old firmware) so month ago I updated to Android 4.3 version with XXUGML2 and never had any freezes yet with this firmware,and even after having freezes with XXELLA firmware my phone works great for 10 months and never had SDS issue even beside that I have "Insane chip":)

And flashing any official Samsung firmware you don't need root,and Galaxy S3 I9300 has unlocked bootloader by default.
[Galaxy S III General] I AM THE HSS:
Ok At last it happened:

Galaxy SIII Running XXELLA and at last updated to XXUGML2 is now COmpletly Dead

First it ran out of Charge than when I attempted to Charge it the Charge Screen Came up but then the Phone restarted and this happened for 5 times than I Booted into Recovery and Wiped out Data and Cache it stuck on Samsung Logo than it turned off and it was dead. RIP :|

So XXELLA Wasn't a Fix SAMSUNG,U fooled us all

So now my Question would be like this: Now that the Phone is dead and they can't access to Flash COunter WOuldn't they Accuse me of doing something to the phone ?

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SOMEONE HELP ME !!! It booted UP :| PERFECTLY :| does anybody know What the hell is wrong ??

LAST UPDATE: It just boots up when it's connected to the Computer,it won't do anything with AC CHarger, and when I try to turn it On it turns on Perfectly but than Turns off !
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
If it's boots up,it's not dead. ;) I think it's a problem with your AC charger.
[Galaxy S III General] I AM THE HSS:
I figured that out :)) But Perfect timing !! In middle of being worried about SDS this happens :)) lol Anyways ;)

XXUGML2 Works fine with no problem not even a single Freeze or Crash on it ,my AC Charger is Fried though

Thanks for the Help :P
[Galaxy S III General] alex98uk:
Awesome... add me to the list...

My Galaxy S3 running absolutely stock 3 Mobile UK firmware died a few days ago (but using it in Germany with o2 DE SIM - Officially unlocked via 3 Mobile). Was plugged into a wall charger and I was dozing. Next time I woke up, phone was in a reboot loop.

No new updates that I was aware of beforehand and wasn't actually using it at the time it broke. Only silver lining is that I still have 2-3 months of Samsung's 2 year warranty... but they will only accept it back to Samsung UK, not Samsung Germany :( :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Buckycasuals:
Meant

I thought the sudden death has been fixed in kernels? AFAIK