yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] vbuijten:
Good to hear this Zanna, as I'm in a similar situation. My phone is currently away for repair but the repair center told me it may cost me 150 euro to replace the board as my custom counter in download mode is set to 3. In any case I will hear if it's going to cost me or not before they will repair. If they tell me I have to pay I'll make a formal complaint.

Are you based in Italy?

Regards,

Vincent
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
He'd installed an unpatched Siyah kernel, the fix is in the kernel, not in the rest of the OS (kernel is the "core" of an OS).

Zero. None of the fixes are confirmed to work.

All 4.1.2 builds (and onwards) are thought to be "safe". I'd recommend flashing LLC since it's the latest among these.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Oke do you know the serial number for that version to flash with kies?
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Lemme think... Oh wait, you answered yourself!

Sigh.
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
:laugh: no i don't mean that, i mean the serial that you enter in kies to flash, like RF1C56VAJYF is the serial for my country, its on the back of the phone.
[Galaxy S III General] zyclops1:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

What about that Chinese FW cant remember Code????
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Flash it via ODIN. I've never used Kies and I've never flashed stock, so I can't help you any more :p

---------- Post added at 05:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:03 PM ----------

1) Samsung hasn't even officially acknowledged SDS as an issue, they've only vaguely hinted at fixes

2) The fix is not possible to confirm (whether by us or devs on XDA) because the "bug" is not reproducible - we'll only know with time
[Galaxy S III General] dimi22:
Ok thanks.!
[Galaxy S III General] gadgetcraze:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Flashed Codec Rom black and got too many random reboots. Thought sudden death was near. Reverted back to vikingway. None in last three hours.
[Galaxy S III General] vbuijten:
Do yourself a favour and run Triangle Away so that you won't have any warranty issues if it dies.

I had exactly the same symptoms before the phone died, I didn't run Triangle Away and I regret it... :(
[Galaxy S III General] Stromma:
Sv: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Mine has behaved weard for the last week or two, and yesterday it suddenly rebooted and got stuck after the welcome sound. I managed to reboot it a couple of times with the same result every time, and it was quite warm, so I thought it cool could be a battery or memory issue.

I removed the battery over night and put it back this morning and it booted perfectly. Everything worked as usual and I made a couple of calls on my way to work. Two hours later it still worked fine when I needed to do another call, and when I dialed the number it rebooted again and now it's stuck on the first logo on boot if it responds at all.

Guess if I'm glad I managed to reset my counter status before this happened :rolleyes:

// Strömma
[Galaxy S III General] patka29:
Re

Can anyone to tell me, if I flash xxellc stock firmware using Mobile Odin Pro, I will flash bootloader together with fw or will flash just fw?
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Will just flash the firmware, no the bootloader.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] ilovehc:
Hi folks, so...after the terrible discover of my affected device

i just flashed the latest ReVolt rom, so the kernel is changed from siyah 1.8.9 to revolt's build-in kernel, for recovery i've chosen PhilZ Touch 4.00-b04

my question is: is this new configuration good for getting "covered"? or i should change kernel and return on siyah 1.8.9?

thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III General] patka29:
I was read somewhere where they say that you can flash bootloader too if using mobile odin.
[Galaxy S III General] T0xic4u:
AW: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

No, Mobile ODIN does NOT flash bootloader.

Taper di Tap with my S3 @190 days
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Hi guys

Can you please offer me the best way to downgrade my bootloader ?
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
0) Root

1) Install CWM

2) Flash the file in this post via CWM

For custom ROMs:

3a) Flash the ROM

For going back to stock:

3b) Get Mobile Odin Pro

4b) Flash stock ROM via Mobile Odin

If you do this via ODIN your bootloader will again be upgraded :p
[Galaxy S III General] Stromma:
Sv: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

When I tried to flash the restore file with CWM I got a wrong signature error, so I had to flash it via Mobile Odin.

// Strömma
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Can I flash CWM package with mobile ? I have not any cutsom recovery

I mean flashing a zip file (like this old bood loader) via mobile odine ? Can I ? Or mobile odin os just for flashing stock roms?
[Galaxy S III General] zhjackss:
what part is actually dies.. the emmc chip???
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Yeah although in what way, I don't know for certain
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
In CWM you can turn off signature verification. It'll be there somewhere in the options.

I have never used it, but if it's "ODIN" it should be able to flash to any partition (except /boot :p). But, this is not an ODIN file! ODIN always flashes TARs. ZIPs are to be flashed via CWM.
[Galaxy S III General] zhjackss:
thats sad. is there a way to find which part dies?? :) i asked it because the broken parts in the emmc could be disabled or emmc chip can be replaced (my opinion)
[Galaxy S III General] invinciblecc:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Why do u want to downgrade what's wrong with the new one

Finally enjoying s3

Yanks kernel

Sotmax v13

Zram enabled

Swap enabled
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

The flash memory. But whether its physical damage or just inaccessible due to the corruption we cannot say for sure but its unlikely the former.

There is nothing we can do to resurrect the emmc
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
And replacing it would be a huge hassle and only very very few people have the skills in soldering to do so.

It's far easier to replace the whole mainboard but more expensive.
[Galaxy S III General] zhjackss:
well i dont have a dead s3... just wondering :) thanks

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26285877&postcount=12
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Because of the f****ing counter.

I want to flash custom roms and I have guarantee.

The new bootloader check the binary in each boot and if its custom it will set the counter to 1.
[Galaxy S III General] guerouig:
I still don't get it : why downgrade? am I missing something?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

See post above yours
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
read this ... carefully ... please

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36862795&postcount=893
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Does anyone knows if the new firmware from Trinidad and Tobago has the fix included in the kernel and in the recovery?

Thanks!

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] ilovehc:
Sorry for self-quote but i'm really worried about this ****....
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Why wouldn't it be?!
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
your question looks simple but is not that much ...

you better follow these amazing guys patches than samsung trumpet
[Galaxy S III General] migz012788:
okay. so this custom roms and kernels fixed the sds probably right? i want my s3 be stock as possible. so is it okay with the ota update ELLA version?
[Galaxy S III General] vostikan:
but we have cases "sudden death" with LLA at this forum.
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
i think there's a possible threshold where the fix won't work as the wear levelling has gone too far in writting too much to the EMMC.
[Galaxy S III General] kaiur:
¿Where?
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
I unpacked XXELL5 kernel and it also already contains VTU00M string.

This means, it has a high propability, that it has the fix already.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] vostikan:
can you unpack XXELL6 kernel please?
[Galaxy S III General] Bushido76:
That would mean that the samsung source code patch didn't fix the problem.
[Galaxy S III General] kaiur:
Yes, but I repeat, where did you see sudden dead with ELLA in this forum?
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
...unless the failure process had already started to take affect?

Are these definitely the only 2 strings in the LLA kernel? I haven't looked at Andrei's commits yet
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
If you could upload the kernel only (boot.img) from inside the odin tar file and PM me that link, yes.

XXELL5 kernel was compiled DEC 10 and already contains the VTU00M strings. I assume when XXELL6 compile date in android settings / information is newer, then you can also assume it has the fix already in.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] Bushido76:
Could you provide a download link to the kernel image? I would have a look at this tonight.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Here are the commits CM have included in their CM Kernel for SDS:

https://github.com/cyanogenmod/andr...mmit/da8461692362317a8ffce4d4646953985fcf4e1d
[Galaxy S III General] zyclops1:
I flashed latest FW(XXELLA) am I safe from sudden death issue? :confused:

:(:(:(:(:(
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
To the best of our knowledge, if you flashed the official firmware, we believe you are safe.
[Galaxy S III General] galbatrox9:
nice

Did this and i think im safe now.
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
now you can sleep at night :D
[Galaxy S III General] ArbiterGR:
There's no "wear" on our chips due to the bug. That would be a hardware problem and there would be no fix to address that.

The problem is caused by corrupted data due to a bug in the emmc's firmware. There's no wear (more than the normal anyway) involved. That's from Andrei's findings, so people stop spreading nonsense, please!

Also, despite what everyone here believes, we have no evidence that the bootloader has some sort of fix coded in it, but again there are no sources available for it to check! In other words, if the devs can't fiddle with the bootloader's code there's no way to prove anything!

The only thing Andrei said, is that the kernel code fix seemed complete and there was nothing in it that could link it to the bootloader.

Also the emmc bug checker app, wasn't build for our phones. It was an effort to find the problematic emmc chips found in SGS2 (and maybe note too?) that had the -similar- superbrick bug. So having the app reporting "sane" doesn't mean anything to us. You just want to identify your emmc chip.
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
so these kernel fixes are useless? why doesn't samsung release the EMMC firmware instead?
[Galaxy S III General] vostikan:
whether there is a bootloader in one-file firmwares?

maybe they will. maybe them laziness:angel:
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
according to this from OP

-=-=-

Custom Roms (that include a ROM specific and dedicated kernel - including fixes):

These are custom ROMs that have their own kernel that is not flashable separately. This means it is not packaged with a kernel from the "Custom Kernels" section. If you have the version specified or newer, you are "safe"

Any with packaged XXELKC or newer Kernel (Providing Kernel hasn't been replaced) (i9300)*

...

ReVolt JB Nightly 20130111 (i9300 AOSP)

-=-=-

it seems to be safe , it is !

you may ask on its thread as well
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Don't know, that's why I am asking... Does any dev could take a look into the codes?

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[Galaxy S III General] ilovehc:
thanks for the reply...unfortunatly i can't yet post in that section cause of my posts count :(

so i can take the build-in kernel without troubles, isn'it?
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
i was searching for some details on revolt thread and i couldn`t find more info ... but CM nightly kernels are patched for sds
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I made a decision to not look at any more kernels. They wont take the fix out. All 4.1.2 kernels have the fix.

We can't look at every kernel for the rest of our lives. A line must be drawn.
[Galaxy S III General] ilovehc:
so just like we say in my country "i'm into an iron barrel" lol

jokes apart i really hope that this config will preserve this ****in issue
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Theres a link at the bottom of post 1 of the revolt thread to facebook. Then go to the update on January the 11th.

Please don't worry, things don't get into my post 1 without being checked by me.
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I have a question.

I read an article in the SamMobile some days ago that said Samsung told they release an update for sds issue as soon as possible. It say some one of Samsung said that in first days of new year.

But some of the kernels you said safe were released on December 2012.

So why that person said that the update will be released ? However they were released ??
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
oh , no doubts about it mate ! i was just trying to find a very clear answer for him , like this one !

-=-=-

from FB page

" ReVolt ROM Yeah, this was because when

i added the Fix for the Sudden Death

, I forgot to allow the camera to use it ... Camera is depending on that folder, so when I changed the permissions to prevent Sudden Death, the camera couldn't reach it, but now I added an exception for it so when the camera tries to access the folder, it will be able to ....... So CM Kernel AND Siyah Kernel will BOTH work completely fine here Enjoy ReVolt JB !! "

-=-=-

for his mind to be at rest :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

We can't answer why. We are not that person.
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I mean we cant say that they had SDS fix. We are not that person or any that works in Samsung!
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I don't get it.
[Galaxy S III General] Banana.Pancake:
I have a noob question:

I am not sure if I understand everything, but if I have the stock ROM, with the stock Kernel and the stock recovery of the ELLC version it is "safe"?
[Galaxy S III General] erikrh:
If you are not rooted, then everything indicates that you're "safe"... AFAIK
[Galaxy S III General] paulrh:
I bought the Mrs a Sensation as her first smartphone, what a piece of crap (just received a 3rd one from HTC repair which has gone to my son) so after much grief I bought her an S3 then after I bought it I found out about SDS - holy crap, I'm heading for a divorce! Received an OTA update the other day so it should be OK (for a while) :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] Banana.Pancake:
And If I am?
[Galaxy S III General] guerouig:
sorry I just came back; I hope you"re still there. Thx a lot, I read carefully as you advised, but I already knew this. What I cannot understand is that I'm on ELLA, flashed throug PC ODIN, which means with its kernel and bootloader. I did not degrade, I rooted with Cf-Autoroot, flashed Philz recovery, and made good use of TA (Play version) including allowing tracker to run and workaround the modified device ...... and it did the trick : - -

custom binary download : no

current binary samsung official

system status official

and in settings, the device status is normal again

what else should watch for, or look for?? hence my question: am i missing something

edit : if i boot into recovery, i simply TA again, and it's all back to official again

edit ; of course no red mark, kies and OTA work perfectly
[Galaxy S III General] erikrh:
if you're really sure that you're on ELLC recovery then you're "safe"
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
i thought you were concerned about bootloader downgrade.

you must do it because the new one still keep the red mark and the count to 1 after using TA.

you seems to be fine now , so no worries

to check your bootloader version run this command suggested by Tectas
[Galaxy S III General] Stromma:
Sv: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Off topic:

I guess we can agree that the Sensation wasn't really a sensation then. I had a Desire that was absolutely great, and I loved my htc so the next I bought was the incredible, which I pretty soon learned wasn't that incredible either. When I had to send back the third in one month I really had it, so I decided to upgrade to something else and hopefully better. I chosed between the S2 and the Sensation, and as a bit of a htc fanboy I decided to go with the sensation. Not my finest hour :banghead:

The first one died after two weeks, my second after four days and the third lasted almost two months. The fourth however has done pretty well (for a sensation), and after 18 months its still going strong. Not a fun phone though, and I don't think it would last a whole day even if I replaced the battery with the one in my car..

On topic:

Last time I bought a phone I chosed between the hox and the s3. With the technical specs on the s3 and my experience of htc it wasn't much of a choice, so I joined the dark side and bought the s3.

It's a great phone, it really is, when it works. Mine died today, probably by sds :banghead:

I'm such a wiseguy :D

So now I'm thinking of selling my sensation as well and go back to something that really works every day, like my SonyEricsson k810 :)

// Strömma
[Galaxy S III General] guerouig:
so i just checked; quite a lengthy coded response to such seemingly simple command; still i could finally decifer it ; the bootloader as expected is I9300XXELLA. SO, how to conclude? are we running different devices? obviously not _ are people using TA (play version I insist) properly?
[Galaxy S III General] raresvintea:
Noob question: i have custom firmware, i flashed Perseus Alpha31+ (i9300 TW), but i don't know if i need to flash Custom Recoveries, becuase now i use cwm 6.0.1, i hope i don't make a mistake or confusing but i want to make sure that's everything will be ok.
[Galaxy S III General] boo85:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

If I understand from you, you are confused why with the new XELLA bootloader you have installed, you don't get the exclamation mark during boot up compared to others?

That's because if you are running stock kernel and rom, you will have no issues with the new bootloader. However for people who wants to use custom roms and kernels, the new bootloader will detect and show the exclamation mark every time they boot up. This would then be recommended for them to revert to the old bootloader which does not do that during boot up.
[Galaxy S III General] Hexgore:
I used to be an HTC fanboy too... but like you I had terrible battery life and my Sensation is now broken and I have no warranty (eBay), and it seems quite commonplace too. Bad quality hardware, such a shame, HTC used to be top quality :(

Since there's no stock of Nexus 4's anywhere I'm gonna ditch HTC (which is broken in a draw, using my old iPhone for now) for the S3 in a month or two as long as I can get my money together and make sure I don't get affected by this sudden death problem. I buy all my stuff used so no warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Mobile ODIN / bootloader ?

There is someone here : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36966275&postcount=1075 who flashed bootloader !

So, flash or does NOT flash ?
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

I wanted the Nexus 4; obviously Play Store doesn't even exist in this country (where almost 60% devices are running Android). After getting the S3 I found out about all these problems + Sammy being a b*tch.

I hope Google brings out a proper Motorola phone next year, otherwise I'll have to shift to Sony, which will again be temporary (I'm pretty sure they'll forget about community as soon as they regain traction).
[Galaxy S III General] dias13:
just a noob inquiry here,

i have a i9300 on omega 38 w/ clockworkmod recovery flashed by rom manager,

like everyone with SGS3, im concerned with SDS and im thinking of replacing CWM rec with CF auto root to be safe,

but it stated that it has stock recovery, will it be able to install zip files and do back up and restore like like CWM rec,

i would have post on the official thread of cf auto root but if forbids new members with below 10 post on posting the thread :p
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

Use PhilZ recovery instead. It's CWM patched with the fix.
[Galaxy S III General] dias13:
tnx alot, will flash it now :D
[Galaxy S III General] siavash_Skh:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

You were on stock rom ? Which one ?
[Galaxy S III General] samppl:
Ever since I flashed 4.1.2 I9300XXELLA I've had a fair few apps just randomly close on me, even the system ui has just randomly closed when trying to enable NFC from the dropdown notification bar (it enabled fine from system -> settings area, and ever since then the dropdown menu has worked fine).

I will be honest and say I have rooted it and deleted a couple of unwanted "system" apps (useless things like the instant messaging client) so perhaps one of the apps I got rid of was tied into something else somewhere. Only time will tell I guess. I made backups of everything I got rid of, maybe I'll put them back & see if I still get strange shenanigans. No hard lockups though, I've never had to pull the battery to get it back.

GTi9300, unbranded, bought in Australia, November 2012. Not really looking for advice or help, just throwing this out there.

emmc check output:

Phone Model: Samsung m0xx

eMMC chip

Type: VTU00M

Date: 05/2012

FwRev: 0xf1
[Galaxy S III General] pickandwhammy:
Re: [Important] Sudden Death Fix - Are you covered?

If you are rooted, you might as well flash a custom ROM, no?
[Galaxy S III General] cooza:
If you want an easy way to downgrade your bootloader then flash this in recovery.Works fine.I used it to downgrade from ELLA and now I got no red marker and Triangle Away works perfectly again.I did it cos I didnt beleive the stuff in the end about the bootloader being the problem and more so the kernel.Any if you want to flash a different one then open the Zip and replace the bootloader file with the one you want instead.
[Galaxy S III General] samppl:
I'm not that confident in my ability to get the phone back if I mess it up. I'm happy enough to root it using odin, but that's as far as I go. The official ROM was flashed using Kies. Besides, I kind of like the stock rom.
[Galaxy S III General] cooza:
Flash a custom recovery and do a nandroid backup.If something goes wrong you have a carbon copy of your stock ROM that you can restore at any time.Most customs have stock themes or are stock look any way and you can mod them as you go.Thats the good thing about custom.