yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Unless you've tried alternatives, you could potentially be a frog in the well right now :)

I understand that you're not comfortable with wiping all the sh*t off your phone the first time, especially with all the disclaimers in big bold letters at the top - even I wasn't. But it's fairly straightforward, once you do it right. As for wanting to come back to stock, what he said:

This will get your device back into the exact state it was in when you took the backup, but it's still not technically "stock", since you have a custom recovery. Good thing about Samsung devices is that you actually can go back to 100% stock condition, thanks to ODIN and freely available firmwares.

Some technical jargon might have intimidated you here; it'll all be clear if you just go through the CM wiki or even just search the [HowTo]s on XDA.
[Galaxy S III General] Stromma:
Sv: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I can honestly say that I think the s3 is great, and from my point of view it still doesn't have any real competitor as the nexus don't allow ext sdcard. I don't know yet if I'm getting mine repaired, replaced our whatever, but the only other phone that I possibly gonna consider is the s3 with 2Gb ram.

The risk of getting another s3 that at some point will die from sds surly can't be greater than getting hit by lightning :rolleyes:

// Strömma
[Galaxy S III General] cooza:
I do understand how a nandroid works and that it will still leave him with his custom recovery and kernel but why do I have to go to the CM wiki?
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
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True, but the nexus is a LOT cheaper if bought from the Play Store, that's why that was my first preference. I'm going to stick to the S3 for at least a year anyway.

Not you! The person we'd replied to. I'd quoted your post just to reiterate the point to him/her. Sorry for the ambiguity! :)
[Galaxy S III General] cooza:
Oh sorry mate,my fault:o HA HA!!!
[Galaxy S III General] gadgetcraze:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I do have a nandroid of my stock rom. If I were to restore it from recovery, what else will I need to do to be warranty safe? I have already flashed the old bootloader and have triangle away installed too. In addition, I also have mobile Odin Pro.
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
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To be on complete stock for 100% warranty, you'll need to get rid of CWM also. That's only possible by flashing stock ROM via ODIN.

For most purposes though, resetting counter should suffice (that's the state my phone is in, too: custom recovery and ROM with counters reset). Mobile Odin Pro will help you flash stock ROMs without upgrading bootloader.
[Galaxy S III General] gadgetcraze:
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As I mentioned before, I did reset the counters but the system still stays modified when in download mode. I guess I need to have stock kernel to fix that.
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Stock recovery, more likely.
[Galaxy S III General] saldim:
Are lastet version of MIUI rom is 'safe'?
[Galaxy S III General] gadgetcraze:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

How will I get that? By flashing stock firmware via Odin? Can I use mobile Odin do that?
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

No

Because 1. Its not on first post 2. Its based on 4.1.1

Maybe if you flash a safe kernel over the rom it will be safe. I am not sure.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
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Its all about kernel and recovery. Any rom so long as a fixed kernel is used
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
DL the recovery here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2002953 and flash it with PC Odin or Mobile Odin , as u like.

Edit : if stock firmware : get the .tar file and flash it with PC Odin or Mobile Odin , as u like
[Galaxy S III General] abelrhd:
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Hi! The app emmc check was updated to v1.4. Detect the SIII SDS chip.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] normally_crazy:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

So now that I am on omega ROM with perseus kernel and CWM 5.5 , v 1.5

I'm guessing I'm safe, right?

Tapatalked
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Recovery is not safe, see 1st post.

Perseus should be latest.
[Galaxy S III General] normally_crazy:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Perseus is the latest.

The problem with recoveries is that if I have taken a back up with CWM 5.5 earlier, it cannot be restored with Phil our CWM 6 or anything else, right?

Any workarounds for that?

Tapatalked
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
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Now you have CMW 5.5, you can restore your back up.

Then flash the philz ( as a safe recovery)

Then back up again of your ROM with new recovery.

♥¥ موفق باشید ¥♥
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Not sure about CWM 6. Philz does both the new and old way of backing up. AFAIK, all CWM backups are compatible with Philz.
[Galaxy S III General] zyclops1:
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Omg!!! Plz dont die! !!!!
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Mine still says "sane" yet I have the affected firmware version. I wonder how it actually tests this.
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
+1

should have been "insane firmware" though.

more accurate i think...
[Galaxy S III General] quebec1:
j upgraded emmc check, but j don't see the screen shot that zyclops1 posted, but j see this.

why?
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
i think you should uninstall the emmc app and install it again. as far as i can see you still have the old version of the app.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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Or maybe just deleting data of the app could help.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @192 days
[Galaxy S III General] Stevemann:
Please Help!

My phone has suffered Sudden Death. Is there any way of triggering it into responding to adb commands?

It will not power on, nor respond to different button presses - is there a special combination that might work?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
If you can`t go into recovery or download mode, there is probably nothing you can do. You could of course try a USB Jig but it`s unlikely that it would work.

You are probably looking at a Service Repair.

What ROM + Kernel were you using when it happened? And how did it happen?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
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Screenshot says version 1.4
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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Yes, but the Text for S3 is missing. It still looks like old version. Try to delete the data of app.... Maybe it works then.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @192 days
[Galaxy S III General] normally_crazy:
I flashed Philz Recovery v4 and am running Perseus Kernel v31.2 - I am safe now right ?
[Galaxy S III General] invinciblecc:
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Lol mines shows insane chip

So uphill now approzimately how many handset have dies which had pills recovery and new bootloader and patched kernel???

Finally enjoying s3

Yanks kernel

Sotmax v13

Zram enabled

Swap enabled
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
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Yes. You are safe. Enjoy !

♥¥ موفق باشید ¥♥
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
I've cleared data, uninstalled, reinstalled. Still doesn't say S3
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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Lol..... Maybe you have a China plagiarism :p

Taper di Tap with my S3 @192 days
[Galaxy S III General] owl74:
screen shot 1 = am I safe with this rom ?

screen shot 2 = eMMC check says S3...

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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Just read what Screenshot 2 is saying. Then you have your answer.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @192 days
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Maybe it's not recognising your device? Can't say without knowing HOW the app figures things out anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] owl74:
SDS fix is different from exynos fix... screen shot 2 is for exynos...
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

No its for emmc brick bug which is sds. Nothing to do with exynos in screen shot 2. It even says "sudden death"
[Galaxy S III General] EtienneBordeaux:
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Mine doesn't say s3 too. I've reinstalled it a few times but still the same. Oh well no biggy so I'll just uninstall it for good.

Sent from my GT-I9300 with Omega v38 + Boeffla 2.6
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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Lol... Lol.... Lol

1: you are wrong.

2: If you only would read first post, you would know, that 0XF7 isn't affected by SD. But maybe it's to much work for you.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @192 days
[Galaxy S III General] owl74:
thanks, Im confused after reading a lot about this topic...:good:

exynos is for the security hole... dang !

I read it just got confused and I know about the chip version but there is no real evidence that other chips are not affected that is why I want to update everything.
[Galaxy S III General] rezapatel:
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Yup, same on my end. Exactly the same details and says Sane chip.

Sent from my Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III General] quebec1:
in management applications when I click on EMMC check, I'm not erase the data and so I deleted the application and reinstalled but in any case the screenshot is always this.

comes out so the application icon?

confused:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] owl74:
have you tried using titanium backup to clear and then uninstall, then download from play.. that's what I did earlier..
[Galaxy S III General] joanquro:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Same here, model not correctly identified. Kernel Siyah 1.8.9 and TWRP 2.3.3.1, ICS bootloader

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] quebec1:
for unistall this app i used systemapp remove
[Galaxy S III General] XeonB:
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There is an Update for the emmc app, especially for the s3!!
[Galaxy S III General] Sauriann:
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this is mine, ou nou i can't sleep anymore :)
[Galaxy S III General] vostikan:
why Samsung roll out new firmwares 4.1.2? for example, there was ELL6, offers ELLA
[Galaxy S III General] MIKEMON:
What does / Insane chip /?? Thank all...
[Galaxy S III General] zadusimple:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I tried to uninstall an app (I have nova launcher). The home screen was non responsive. The menu buttons were not working. However pull down menu and settings menu (via settings icon) were working fine. Long pressing power button brought the power menu and i pressed the restart button. Phone is working fine at the moment.

I am running latest neat rom, jkay mod, latest siyah kernel and recovery. I have the affected chip.

Could this be the sign of sudden death? Or problem with Nova launcher?

Please suggest.

Sent from a better Galaxy designed for humans!
[Galaxy S III General] Lui-g:
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Sounds like a minor crash. As far as I know, pre-SDS freezes leave the phone completely unresponsive.
[Galaxy S III General] padraigdoran:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

My phone started acting strange AFTER flashing Philz Recovery and the latest CM 10.1 at the time a few days ago, both with the correct kernel patches. I had regular CWM and the previous unpatched CM 10.1 nightly before that, which I was regularly flashing. My phone started becoming unresponsive, black screens, stalling, and rebooted a few times. Since then, it is becoming less unresponsive but it still feel sluggish sometimes. It's nothing to do with apps or whatever because there had been no changes to that stuff.

I wonder if the eMMC had already been partially damaged?
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Is there any question in your post ? If u can't sleep anymore cos of SDS , have a look at post 1 for fixes

---------- Post added at 09:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 PM ----------

I think eMMC could not be partially damaged , it is or it is NOT.
[Galaxy S III General] megafan:
numbers

My first post here, and it's about this stupid thing. been reading quite a lot :) (sorry for bad english :) )

My question is, does anyone know how many phones were killed by this SDS syndrome? Can anyone tell in percent (approximately of course) how many devices are affected in global, is this really that serious or it is normal for any smart phone to have some percentage of devices that are dying?

Mine is with problematic emmc chip :( I flashed recovery, kernel, rom... to be "safe" of course, but i'm curious.
[Galaxy S III General] padraigdoran:
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Would be nice to know if the phone might die at some stage in the future because of previously done damage, guess we won't be able to tell.

Is the fix more of a preventive measure that will stall up the phone so it won't actually do damage? If so, I wonder if there will every be a proper fix, depends on Samsung probably so not holding my breath.
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
~40 000 000 phones sold / if 4000 died : ~0.01 %
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Truth is we don't know. I witnessed about 10 days of symptoms such as reboot to splash overnight before my sds. It really did start acting badly. Reverse paranoia? Possibly... but we just dont know
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Impossible to know at the moment , the future will tell us ...

Yes depends on Samsung ... and fortunatly on XDA forum whom reation is a "little bit" speeder ...

---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:36 PM ----------

Yes we don't know, but we could make some assomption/comparaison : eMMC on phone has the role of system disk of a computer : correct ?

If so, it works or crash . to be discuss....
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
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I've read on other threads if the phone dies the status in download mode changes to custom is this true... I am running g a custom rom and recovery and I have download mode using TA I have everything showing official incase SD happens but don't know now since some said the mobo is fried it can't read the status so it states custom can anyone confirm?

.

Galaxy S3

Omega Rom V37
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Latest bootloader causes status to be set custom every boot if you have custom recovery or kernel. So if it partially boots after sds, it will be set custom but you need android to reset
[Galaxy S III General] Stromma:
Sv: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I experienced the same with a weard behaviour for almost two weeks before mine caved in. It's should be interesting to see what they have done or replaced when I get it back, if I get it back, or if they replace it with a new.

Did you get any explanation why your died?

// Strömma
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
When it died (before we all talked about SDS) I had a feeling it was motherboard failire, but the symptoms also looked like dodgy storage.

I rang up because the email said my phone was at the shop to collect, but didnt say if it was repaired. On the phone they said "motherboard failure". On the return notes, it said "Parts replaced and soldering"
[Galaxy S III General] guitahero:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Hi the developer just updated again. Try it again.

Enviado de meu GT-I9300 usando o Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] padraigdoran:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Were these phone patched with the kernel fixes or no?
[Galaxy S III General] Stromma:
Sv: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Mine wasn't safe the first week, just the last few days before it died.

I've had the feeling all along that this "something" could possibly damage the phone in the long run, at least if you don't have the fix before it starts behaving weirdly. But there's no proof or evidence to support this, and in my case it's just a hunch based on the fact that my phone was getting warmer every day after my problems began.

// Strömma
[Galaxy S III General] amradel:
I get that flashing new sofware will fix the problem of SD .... but how to flash the new software since the mobile is not responding and wont even open in download mood or chargning !! :) I need Help plz ...
[Galaxy S III General] zyclops1:
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Damn.what is this??? :confused:

---------- Post added at 02:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:00 AM ----------

Lucky.guy!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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I bet that eMMC-Check looks after "m0xx" in build.prop whether your have S3 or not. If it does not find "m0xx" it won't give you the S3 line in results.

EDIT:

eMMC-Check-App got an update. Maybe it works now.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @192 days
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
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No. Mine was one of the first
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Yeah I have m0zs in my buildprop. Probably due to the "clean build prop" in it.
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
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Is the 1.4.1 the latest one ? Just freshly installed on a new ROM
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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As you can see, you don't have m0xx, so App doesn't recognize it as S3.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @193 days
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
The phone model should be showing up as "GT-I9300" and not "m0zs". The app isn't recognising your device as an S3 and hence is showing the result for the S2 - on which the resulting combination is not an "insane chip".
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
THANX !

as root said , i have doubts about the way this app is checking for infos .

so from my point of view ... not so useful
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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It doesn't matter if you phone is recognized as S3 or not. All you need to know is if your chip is VTU00M with 0XF1.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @193 days
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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Of course you are affected. You have the affected eMMC

Taper di Tap with my S3 @193 days
[Galaxy S III General] JPsy Droid:
This is the real Q! I can tell you, that Telekom Germany has no information on SDS. No high(er) Count of died S3s. No special SDS process for repairing and so on. The asked to Samsung - Samsung said that no Android 4.x Phone is going to have SDS.

=> So, Telekom knows nothing - allthough the have enough sold S3s i think, and Samsung tells Bull****...

0,1% of all phones would be OK, every TV, Bluray Player and so an will have a few products with errors. It should not be that big deasaster i thought a few days/ weeks before.

I think we should releaxe...
[Galaxy S III General] AndreiLux:
Just an update on the point of:

Apparently that's wrong, download mode on the device uses a microkernel from inside the bootloader instead of the full blown Linux kernel. When flashing something via Odin in download mode you'd be using the bootloader's MMC driver and thus be at risk.

All-day users are still safe via recovery and live kernel, but are not advised to flash things in download mode with an older bootloader. This also explains why they updated the bootloader in LLA. The security checks are a mere update to bring it up with what the 9305 and Note 2 users already have in terms of not able to get rid of the exclamation mark.
[Galaxy S III General] zyclops1:
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Da faq? My one telling insane chip :(:(

Can you tell your FW version??
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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Are you able to patch an old bootloader??

Taper di Tap with my S3 @193 days
[Galaxy S III General] normally_crazy:
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Ok...I'm on omega ROM v36 with the fixed perseus kernel and Philz recovery 4.0 ...ran triangle away and now everything shows official in download mode.

I still have the red exclamation Mark in the top left corner when booting.

Why so? Is it because of the new boot loader? Do I need to flash an older ICS boot loader to get rid of that?

Tapatalked
[Galaxy S III General] padraigdoran:
Update: More failing symptoms

My phone was charging, went to 100%, green LED on. I went to turn the screen on by pressing the power button as normal but it didn't respond. Nothing was responding. I held the power button to restart and it did.

Next I downloaded 20130125 CM10.1 Nightly and tried to flash it using Philz recovery, it was "installing" forever, never moved the installation indicator up, and then failed and kicked back to the recovery menu. So, I tried to flash the previous nightly which I had on the phone and it did but it took a VERY long time but it worked.

I have noticed over the past week or so the flashing it taking longer and longer, I wonder if it's connected to SDS?
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
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As per pic 0xf1

@ crazy , positive on both questions
[Galaxy S III General] quebec1:
i upgraded emmc check to 1.4.1 version, but i start the app j see always the same informations.

Now j have omega rom v38, with perseus alpha31 kernel, •PhilZ Touch 4.00-b04 recovery and ics botloader xxale8
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
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Well , it's obviously that everyone is eager to find out if their device is surely exposed to death by that syndrome ... I think is better to name it HIV not SDS ... or SIV ... Samsung immunodeficiency virus .

Certainly emmc test/diagnose app won't give any kind of infos about that . Only what kind of Fw memory chip set we've got which helps a little though.

So let's cool down regarding it .
[Galaxy S III General] JPsy Droid:
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@AndreiLUX: Sure? Everybody here said the bootloader has nothing to do with this.

If you are right, these people should be quiet - telling so much users here the opposite!

Damn.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] ivan4o5:
My phone is constantly freezing ... touch wiz crashes every 20-30 seconds ... I gues this is the end for my phone :) . I hope it doesn't suffer that much ... The phone isnt rooted and it is running a I9300XXELLC firmware .
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
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So sad ... I like this posts :D , sorry , nothing personal dude I'm just so amused when ... anyway ... why don't you try to do some maintenance , save your stuffs , factory reset ... it might be just "dirty" inside
[Galaxy S III General] ivan4o5:
Forgot to say that I reflashed it 3 times with odin and also factory reseted it ... But ,no problem , I am amused too :D
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
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OK then ... a black cover for your phone and a black suit for you ... let us know how it goes ... xxellc supposed to be safe ...
[Galaxy S III General] owl74:
How long have you used the phone, and when did you first update to the "safe" rom? Maybe someone can figure out is this sds thing has a "wear" effect on affected chips...
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
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He knows what he is talking about.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @193 days
[Galaxy S III General] ivan4o5:
I'll keep you in tact