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[Galaxy S III General] Vrykyl:
Well my phone has died, been off for repair (for free) and returned to me wiht a new motherboard.

At NO point has samsung or anyone at their repair service asked me for proof of purchase - just the handset serial number.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
@un4seen

Thats not true. It depends on the manufacturer. I got a monitor of BenQ, a gfx card from Gainward and a harddisk from WD replaced on warranty without having the receipt. They just checked the serial to see how old those things could max be.

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[Galaxy S III General] un4seen:
It depends on the country. In most places manufacturers are free to choose what they demand, and in 95% of cases they demand receipt. I know of no country that explicitly forbids it, and I certainly had no luck trying to get things repaired without the receipt. Even worse, two years ago I was denied warranty repair for Nokia E71 because I didn't have the original box - a practice that is now forbidden.

Also, always make a picture of the water detection sticker when returning the phone - many service centers are still known to trip them themselves as a cheap way to weasel out of repairing the device. Regenersis was always known for that, I don't know if they service Samsung phones.
[Galaxy S III General] lukaaa47:
Where is that water indicator?
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Attached in the inside of the device,you can Google it and will find some pictures showing it

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[Galaxy S III General] un4seen:
Under the battery, little sticker with X on it. I don't know if there are any more inside.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
If you have official Samsung service center there then it would not take long, a few days perhaps. I delivered mine to their service center in dubai on 27th Dec thurs mid afternoon, friday is weekend here and on 29th Sat evening got sms that my phone is fixed and ready for collection. Picked it up Sun 30th morning.

You can try and contact them before hand and see how long the repair will take or atleast send it to them and tell them self collection when you go back there in late Jan.
[Galaxy S III General] darkcell:
how to know if my bootloader has been upgraded to XXELLA??
[Galaxy S III General] alexiuss:
cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep bootloader

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[Galaxy S III General] darkcell:
grep not found
[Galaxy S III General] alexiuss:
Install busybox from play store

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[Galaxy S III General] darkcell:
Androidboot.bootloader=I9300XXELLA is that it?
[Galaxy S III General] alexiuss:
Yup

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[Galaxy S III General] darkcell:
Thx man...
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonfx:
My phone just died :\ i live in venezuela, in the morning i will call samsung for the procedure.
[Galaxy S III General] sachinaik:
What was the bootloader and did u try eMMC Bugchecker before phone died ?
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonfx:
nothing :\ and the update just got released 2days ago, just missed
[Galaxy S III General] darkcell:
Let's see if users with XXELLA still get sudden death...finger crossed...
[Galaxy S III General] hotomaya:
i came across an issue like this last week, in summary:

# the phone was in my pocket and when i took it out i felt it was warm,

# then pressing the power button couldnt wake it up, i can see very dim light on the screen

# i left the phone there for several min, then when i long press power button again it rebooted

# the boot animation was running longer than usual

# after it successfully boot into android, it showed me the startup tutorial (normally shown when your phone was in factory default, but it is not asking me for google account---)

# the desktop was in factory default mode, all shortcut at desktop, widget that i placed gone

# all apps remained in drawer, but all were defaulted

# however, phone contact still there, sms still there

# phone log missing 3 days of record

# files in internal SD card still there

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2077950

kinda weird right? i suspect this is some early stage of SDS?? maybe my phone was written on some sector it shouldnt, and wiped certain area of memory causing all the apps couldnt read apps data?

anyway, the phone still running now, let's hope it will die before warranty ends
[Galaxy S III General] Werckmeister:
Alas in Berlin there isn't one... The nearest service center is at least 3+ hrs by train and car :(
[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
All the European SGS3s are currently covered by warranty, since the phone was released less than one year ago. So asking for a receipt is redundant at the moment. Past few years, I've never been asked for proof of purchase in any service center (Sony, Nokia, Samsung).

Also, gee, you reminded me of the good old Nokia days, I had to keep those huge boxes for years!! :D

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[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
Can anyone post a link of a XELLA bootloader to flash it with odin?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] 75markus:
find it in bootloader

http://perka.zapto.org/
[Galaxy S III General] w1n4rt0:
I am on XXELLA and it just happen this morning it's suddenly dead. I can't even reload firmware using ODIN, saying that there is no PIT mapping. trying to repartition also failed.
[Galaxy S III General] pRo_lama:
But did you have new bootloader or no ???
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Obviously he had the new bootloader
[Galaxy S III General] kevinmcsp:
Back From The Dead

:good:S3 back from Samsung, alive and doing well! Three day turn around. Motherboard replaced.
[Galaxy S III General] skivnit:
why obviously?he could have flashed a custom ROM and that wouldnt have updated his bootloader
[Galaxy S III General] pRo_lama:
Why do you think so ??? For example new VikingWay with official Samsung 4.1.2 XXELLA firmware doen't have new bootloader becasue developer remove him from ROM.

* This rom does not include the new bootloader!

* I didn't flash the new bootloader yet while testing & running this, just so you know
[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
That and also flashing via Mobile Odin wouldn't have affected the bootloader.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
How did you flash XXELLA?

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[Galaxy S III General] 75markus:
c´mon... read a lil bit here :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] pRo_lama:
Why ??? He didn't write how he flashed BL.
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
It depends, here in Slovakia u have to have a proof of purchase to everything. And I remember when I sent an HTC device to official service center, I have to sent also the proof of purchase.
[Galaxy S III General] 75markus:
flash bootloader with odin PC (PDA section)

bootloader : http://perka.zapto.org/
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
Nahh, I know how to flash, don't worry. I just wanted to know how "HE" did. He has XXELLA flashed and gets a SD. So that sounds interresting to me.

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[Galaxy S III General] 75markus:
ok, sorry, i thought it was a general question ;)
[Galaxy S III General] pRo_lama:
Yeah, we know how to do it. But we wantto know what method used user w1n4rt0 and if he had new bootloader too.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
More details are required if you don't mind.

As some asked already, we need to know how you flashed XXELLA, what did you exactly flash, steaps and more information. If you just flashed a random custom ROM updated to XXELLA via CWM you won't have the new bootloader suposed to fix the issue (suposed, in capitals, SUPOSED, no evidence for now)

Captain Obvious to the rescue! Sorry but no, you can't flash (or at least it's not recomended nor usual procedure) via CWM a new bootloader... Only if he flashed it in Odin in purpose or flashed the full XXELLA rom via Odin he will have the new bootloader :)

+1 +1 +1

Btw I've just seen he last posted on oficial Odin firmware thread asking for advice, so for now I'm gonna get he flashed full XXELLA via Odin, involving new Bootloader... But well, he asked there some time ago anyway, let's wait for him to answer
[Galaxy S III General] mjb:
C'mon guys, seriously - stop clinging to the hope that XXELLA has the fix. It doesn't.
[Galaxy S III General] electrotune1200:
Ahhh the suspense! This drumroll in my head needs to stop!

Just answer the questions already!
[Galaxy S III General] pRo_lama:
Nobody with this FW notice SD. Until this user ... but we need to know details.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
Right now nobody knows for sure if this Bootloader fixes the SD. If user with this Bootloader still get the SD, then we know for sure, that it does not fix it. Thats all.

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[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
You have just as much proof that it doesn't, as anyone believing that it does.
[Galaxy S III General] madscientistdam:
Good news guys this sudden death problem has made its way to Engadget I've just read it so hopefully we will get a fix real soon I mean very soon
[Galaxy S III General] RectorReflector:
Is there anyone who believes that when I wait for a few days, Samsung starts replacing S3's with the SD-problem?

Mine is dead since dec 31st. Bought it in June. I know they will replace the mainboard under warranty, but I prefer a S3 replacement.

Maybe when there are too many dead S3's it's cheaper to replace, instead of repairing?

What do you think?
[Galaxy S III General] mjb:
Very true- I should have written "Current evidence suggests it's a lot more likely that it doesn't, than does."

So, my apologies - just getting frustrated at the number of people that have blinkers on. I want a fix too, I'm just trying to be realistic about it.
[Galaxy S III General] Marilize-Legajuana:
After updating firmware via Software Update, my bootloader version still previous :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III General] electrotune1200:
My bootloader updated via OTA... The reason I know...

I have a GT-I9300T, which used to boot with that model displayed on the screen. Now it just boots as GT-I9300. Bootloader updated.
[Galaxy S III General] kire.htc:
Is there any way to go back to old bootloader?

I don't have problems with the new one, but i don't like the red dot on booting.

I try to flash via Odin stock firmware 4.0.4 but it wont boot
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Nope, at least not that we know! It actually prevents you from downgrading... that's why I'm keeping from flashing it until anyone can prove it actually fixes SDS issue
[Galaxy S III General] krivinash:
I think The question did you flash xxell with new bootloader is absolutely ok.

Official 4.1.2. for my country is also xxell but with old bootloader.

I cheked the change list with the new xxell for UK.

So, only correct way is to flash your device with whole 4.1.2 relised yesturday for UK's market, or flash the new bootloader via odin.

Am I right?
[Galaxy S III General] kire.htc:
Yesterday i read somewhere that some guy succesfully return to the old bootloader, but i can't find the post now.
[Galaxy S III General] electrotune1200:
I think there is a way but I haven't tried it yet....

If you flash back to let's say a 4.0.4 build, and you get an OTA to 4.1.1, and that contains an older bootloader, it will install that bootloader.

I've read that the older bootloaders are blacklisted, but not in an OTA pit flash.

I could be mistaken, but it should work. I might try it out tomorrow with my T model, and see if I can get that bootscreen back.
[Galaxy S III General] adamj123:
What happened: Got home and phone was stuck at logo screen

Where phone was made: ?

Where battery was made: ?

What firmware you were running: 4.1.1

Can you access download mode?: Yes
[Galaxy S III General] 17RoiDavid:
hi guys just updated to 4.1.2 italy (h3g) with KIES.

how can i check if i got the new bootloader?
[Galaxy S III General] migz012788:
how to check the bootloader on full stock rom?
[Galaxy S III General] darkcell:
Cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep bootloader
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
Get App "android system info"

Go to tab "System"

Go to "Buildinfos"

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[Galaxy S III General] roguefan99:
What happened: Updated to the latest Vesion of Ultima ROM (v8), upon reboot, missing all information, when entering name it hangs the phone. Now its stuck at Bootscreen only (the 1st one)

Where phone was made Vietnam, I think, not sure where this info is

Where battery was made Cell made in Korea, Assembled in Vietnam

What firmware you were running 4.1.2

Can you access download mode? Yes, but it wont talk to Odin at all, starts to flash and gives up the ghost. Can repartition the PIT though.

Stock Kernel both times, no OC or UV. Brought in Australia from international stock (thus Samsung wont have a bar of it)

Also add to this until I killed the partioning I could access CWM. It wouldn't allow the data partition to be mounted or wiped at all. Also would crash a backup in it was to be restored (due to said partition issue). Also note that the thing was lagging pretty badly the two weeks before it went down. Not sure if this is connected, but its why I upgraded to the latest version of Ultima (was on Wannamlite), still was lagging on Ultima too.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
Sounds not like SD.

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[Galaxy S III General] 17RoiDavid:
ok it says my bootloader is I9300XXALF6

is it the new one?
[Galaxy S III General] 75markus:
newest one all are talking about is ELLA
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
Because only UK-Firmware XXELLA has New bootloader.

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[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
maybe not because i installed the new firmware via mobile odin and after flashing it i had the old bootloader...who knows
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Bootloader will also get updated if updated via KIES IMHO

He is from Singapore, and it seems he did updated/flashed (a UK Rom) through ODIN.:)

Only he can confirm it :p
[Galaxy S III General] 17RoiDavid:
i'm using XXELL4 with that bootloader
[Galaxy S III General] NorthernNoel:
I finally got mine back yesterday after it died on 15th December. No report as to what has been done but I did get the upgrade to 32gb. Ironic really as after the failure I'm not so sure I'd trust my data on internal storage. Guess I'll just have to be more frequent with my backups.

Phone does seem a lot snappier than it was.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
I9300XXALF6 is stock bootloader for Stock XXELL4 and many other Stock firmwares.

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[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
I don't know and i'm not gonna say anything until $am$ung will step out and say they fixed the SDS with the new bootloader/ROM but since it came out 2 days ago i don't see anyone anymore on this thread saying phone died... before this is no 1 day since the thread started without someone saying the phone died... either they fixed or the ,,bad batch'' of phone allready died and thats all. Hope everything will be ok for everyone from now.
[Galaxy S III General] umberto.sulla:
I don't think a new bootloader can fix the problem at all.

If I buy a new S3 now and it has the new bootloader as stock probably it will never die for sudden death...

But if my s3 has "lived" for 200 days with an old bootloader and then I upgrade... it probably has a corrupted hw and it will die in the next days...

So I stay with my old boot loader,,, it's a nonsense to upgrade
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
He said he had one. But left out details

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[Galaxy S III General] Aklesunio:
Hi i only just heard about this problem and i am worried that it might happen to me aswell. The wanamlite rom is based on the firmware XXELLA and i heard that this is the one with the fix ( i'm proabably wrong though). So if i flash this rom with cwm will that fix the problem? if now how to i fix it? Kies dosnt allow me to update and right now im running Omega 4.2 AOKP rom. If i flash stock will it let me update?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
Yes i know , but he didn't say that he did with PC or Mobile Odin, or just OTA or something else, so we cannot assume that he flashed the bootloader too. So until then , is no dead phone yet. I said what i said because on this thread i'm reading all the time since it started and everyday was some complaining about dead phones.

I hope for the best anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] marthewlett:
Waiting

Got mine back from VF UK who wouldnt fix it due to "water damage", (well, not until I paid another £100)

So, its off to a Samsung service centre for a fix.

If it comes back with the same MB its straight on Ebay and a change to the Note 2.

Will post any reply that Samsung give (if any) when it returns.
[Galaxy S III General] 17RoiDavid:
so the question is

since i still have the stock bootloader even after new update, is there gonna be a new update by samsung for the SD fix?
[Galaxy S III General] LenAsh:
The only way to get the new bootloader is to flash it or firmware with it included via PC Odin or Kies
[Galaxy S III General] mkrajaci:
Hey guys did anybody think that maybe charger is problem. 90% of Sds was on overnight charhing. Maybe output on stock charger 5V and 1A is to much? Could it be if we use let say 500 mA charger we could prevent overcharging?

Stock car charger gives 700 mA output.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
Nope. Your phone will never get an update to fix the sudden death.

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[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
Innocent until proven guilty by Samsung herself:p
[Galaxy S III General] iArmghan:
0 Flash Count on a New Bootloader

Last night I updated my S3 to Ultima Rom 8.0 and flashed new bootloader, I was surprised to see the red exclamation mark which was use to be there before was gone and after running triangle away app my flash count went to 0 and it is still 0 even after many reboots. Before it i was on a bootloader that samsung released with a jelly bean update and i use to see ! mark every time... i don't know how but new bootloader worked wonders for me ;)
[Galaxy S III General] spamtrash:
Last night I hired a hooker and we had some fun till the morning light. :D:D:D

We tried a lot of positions and configurations, so we both were tired but happy in the morning.

I can say:

1. It was the very good spent money;

2. My post is same way common to sudden death as yours.

:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] 17RoiDavid:
could you please explain me why? :D
[Galaxy S III General] omek07:
Hello

I have the ι9300XXDLIH bootloader and i have the red exclamation on boot screen .

I want to flash older exclamation but i dont know where i can find older bootloader

Can someone gave it to me please ???
[Galaxy S III General] electrotune1200:
It looks like this whole bootloader fiasco is going to lead to SDS v2...

:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] fedort:
Is there anyone who knows how many phones worldwide have died? Is it around 5%, 10%, 20%? I really have no idea, but I would like to know.
[Galaxy S III General] drraptor:
No body expect God and the samsung themselves can provide those figures :)
[Galaxy S III General] emelsk:
What happened: Won't boot - stuck on Samsung logo. Download mode available, recovery mode NOT available.

What ROM/Firmware: Rooted; JB 4.1.1

What kernel: Siyah 1.8

OC or UV: No

Where phone was made: "Made by Samsung" :)

Where battery was made: Cell made in Korea, assembled in Vietnam :)
[Galaxy S III General] Natan868:
try flash with odin?
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
that is not Sudden Black Screen Death issue. It is soft bricked. Try what the psot above mine prescribed.
[Galaxy S III General] Northern-Loop:
What happened: Phone has been working but today but went to check GMail and its not switching back on

What ROM/Firmware: CM10

What kernel: CM10 Stock

OC or UV: Nope

Where phone was made: Korea

Where battery was made: Stock 2100

WTF :(
[Galaxy S III General] patriotaki:
Pff i hope mine doesnt die :/ same as yours

Sent from a modified Galaxy S3 using Swift Key.
[Galaxy S III General] Northern-Loop:
Bought mine in the UK from online shop week ish of release.

Its been fine up until now - Installed CM9 and then pretty much every CM10 nightly since release and no problems.

Received a text message before, replied. Came back 30 mins later with the phone off charge and it wouldnt power on!
[Galaxy S III General] patriotaki:
The bright side is that stock phones that never got flashed or rooted can die too ..so if u send it back to samsung they would repair it..

But im not 100% sure..

Sent from a modified Galaxy S3 using Swift Key.
[Galaxy S III General] Northern-Loop:
Will take it to a service centre tomorrow and report back :)
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
Can you get it to Download mode?
[Galaxy S III General] Northern-Loop:
No,

No Download Mode,

No Recovery,

No Boot

No Power LED if connected to mains.

Totally dead
[Galaxy S III General] emelsk:
Tried that multiple times - any attempt for PDA flash ends up with 'PIT missing' and any attempt to actually flash PIT (I know what I'm doing) ends with unsuccessful flash (don't remember exact message). Looks like NAND corruption to me.

The problem possibly started one day before, when I found the phone unresponsive (frozen) and unusually hot. It did reboot after holding the power button for a couple of seconds. The boot took much longer than usually, but it did boot eventually and worked normally for the rest of the day. Battery was very low compared to usual level - I charge overnight and typically have ~40% around 5PM, this time after forced reboot had below 10%.

Once I arrived home, put the phone on charger, used it for some time and went to sleep. The next day, I found it stuck on Samsung logo screen and that was just about it. I immediately sensed a problem - with Siyah installed, I was expecting to see Siyah splash screen, but it would not show up - Samsung logo instead and nothing else.

The phone was of course rooted. I can live with the one-time HW failure, but what worries me is if this could actually be caused by any application. I am very keen IT user in general, so don't install any crap anywhere. SuperSU had only a couple of allowed applications, Android Market was allowed for automatic updates. I had Faryaab's SuperNexus v5 installed as the 2nd ROM, but used that mostly over weekends (playing around with it). The configuration as described worked just fine for a number of weeks/months.

The first hypothesis was some sort of buffer overflow (or a memory leak if you will) going through the roof and corrupting the file system - which would be rather unpleasant finding, but still repairable via Odin. Since PIT upload keeps failing, I'm stuck with the other theory - actual NAND failure/corruption.

Could someone more experienced than me confirm if this all makes sense? Eventually, can any not-well-behaving application cause this type of corruption, even with root access allowed? Thanks in advance...
[Galaxy S III General] wotsreallygood:
Hi all.

Have received my s3 back from the service centre.

I rooted and flashed with wanamlite Rom, my phone died after being on charge all night.

No flash mode, or charge etc.

Samsung fixed it, the report they sent didn't give me any clue as to what the problem was. The guys at the service centre assume it to be the motherboard.

Anyway good news is it's back and it was rooted. So anyone that's worried, don't worry too much.

They reflash the stock Rom so all good.
[Galaxy S III General] patriotaki:
Thats some good news :) how did you send it to the centre?

Sent from a modified Galaxy S3 using Swift Key.
[Galaxy S III General] UncleBeer:
Wait; they flashed the stock ROM and they rooted it for you? Really? :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] PjotrFias:
No, he had a rooted phone and they repaired it anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] brar.arsh:
My phone was bricked on 27th Night..

I was having Omega + Siyah1.8

No tweaks in stweaks.

Slept with 41% battery and when I woke up phone was Off.

I thought there may be a battery drain due to any wakelocks, I connected the charger.

NOTHING happened..

Pulled battery and tried to turn it on after 5 mins, still nothing..

It was not entering any of the download/recovery mode.. Completely DEAD..

Even PC was not recognizing anything..

Now at Samsung service center and they will be replacing the motherboard.