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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
definitely SDS, send it in for a motherboard replacement
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Just to echo some posts above, it is sds
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
I have the same problem with my s3.

will they be able to fix the problem?? and if yes would i pay for it??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Warranty should cover it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sriram231092:
if you have a warranty and your phone is official in every aspect, then you need not pay. if not, you should pay!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
My phone is official in every aspect and is still in warranty period. What worries me is that it was rooted and later unrooted but not put back to the factory settings (as I said, It doesn't allow me to officially upgrade the firmware). Will this void my warranty?

Can it be returned back to factory settings before sending to repair if it is in a SDS state? (I still can enter download mode)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dxppxd:
No problem if its unrooted. If download mode says no custom binary and samsung official it should be ok. Keep in mind that sds might change status to custom even if you never rooted it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
everything is official custom binary says 0

status has changed to custom.

it still has more then 1 year warranty left.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
Then the info displayed is OK for the warranty service?:

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME:

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
System status can be a problem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
Dxppxd said system status changed to custom is normal when you have SDS :confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
never heard about that
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
Rayenvs also reported the same status. Rayenvs, can you confirm that your phone has not been rooted or something?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
I haven't rooted the s3.

i traded my galaxy beam for the s3 and a splus.

What if the person tried to root it?

can i throw it away or sell it for parts?

if it was caused by faulty rooting why can't I not install pit or stock firmware?

in odin it stays at waiting for connection.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
So, if I understood you, you didn't root the phone but you don't know if the previous owner tried to root it. That's it?

Then we have not advanced in the question, I'm afraid :(

Dxppxd, can you confirm that a Galaxy S3 with SDS will show System Status as Custom even if it has never been hacked? Glebun has a different opinion about this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
5 months ago I rooted my phone to use Titanium Backup and since then, I haven't been able to update the official firmware OTA or using Kies because the phone says something is changed. CORRECT Pit is not a standard install . in odin it stays at waiting for connection>>> suggests one bad drivers bad USB connection . Or usb failure from the motherboard . All points to SDS . jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
Okay i have sent it to a samsung service point to have a go for me.

But the question is can it be fixed?

just contacted the previous owner who said that he tried to install a firmware and it backfired. So yes he rooted it. Pffft
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
I am the one who rooted/unrooted my phone, the original poster. Rayenvs is another user with a similar problem.

My concern is if the repair service can void my warranty because of this or if being in SDS, they can't know it. If they can discover the hack and void my warranty, can I restore my phone to factory state as indicated in this post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1710613 even being in SDS state prior to sending it to the repair service?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akshay8:
Have you tried flashing a recovery via odin to see you can go in and restore nandroid?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
No, I haven't tried it yet, just in case I make things worse (in terms of warranty, I mean. In terms of usability, the phone is dead, I presume)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Did not see your thread has been hijacked . SDS basically phone is dead or dead after the Odin mode . Not SDS then you may be able to flash a stock firmware via Odin . jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
i have the same info displayed when i go into dowload mode.

before i brought it to the repair centre it didn't want to go into download mode anymore.

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can it be fixed and so yeah is it in under warranty??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dxppxd:
A complete SDS, your phone is gone, finito, doesn't even turn on, no download mode.

Half sds, your phone turns on, but android cannot boot. While in download mode product name is blank, and system status CAN BECOME CUSTOM EVEN WITHOUT EVER ROOTING / MODIFYIN IT.

Edit: but yeah, depending on the service center, they might want to void warranty because system status says custom. You just have to play it cool, you never knew about rooting, roms, none of that stuff. Just don't give up, don't accept fault for getting faulty hardware.

Worst case, they refuse to fix it, so you end up in the same place you are now, and can try to flash a new firmware, even use pit+repartition.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
Thank you for your concise and clear answer.

After all, I think I was over worrying about it. I found in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1998801 that in the European Union, rooting a phone doesn't void your warranty :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
Just got of the phone with the repair centre they told me that i have to pay because of the rooting.**** not done by me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
I was checking my comments in Facebook from time ago and I realized I mentioned to someone my S3 had Android 4.1.1, so no ICS but JB from stock!

I thought Samsung had corrected the SDS issue with JB!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
Is there any way to transform my half SDS into a complete SDS? (so the service center can't tell if phone was rooted). Rayens warranty was denied and he lives in Netherlands, so legally they should honour the warranty, so I haven't still sent mine to service center just in case they also try to fool me here in the UK.

BTW, I tried flashing a stock rom but got a message flashing not possible because pit partition not found. Tried pit+repartition but same message.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sriram231092:
even some 4.1.1 firmwares had this issue. this was mostly fixed in 4.1.2 release!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dxppxd:
Well, that sucks (samsung's service), but it's a common complaint out there, google it and you'll see.

So far, there doesn't seem to be a solution for getting system status official with a half sds, and its up to the service center or samsung's service wether to uphold the warranty or not. Like i said before, try (and insist) to get it fixed under warranty.

If the emmc got fcked, there's practically nothing you can do with software to fix ot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
95% of people in EU had warranty rejected on Xda because of root or half sds so dont rejoice just yet
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
EU re root Samsung say no.

EU generally the phone vendor is responsible for warranty for twelve months . The EU law regarding warranty would apply to the vendor .

Samsung offer an extra 24 months limited warranty bound by terms and conditions .i don't believe this extra warranty comes under that EU law .

I have seen both statements regarding rooting Adams and Samsung's and so far Samsung are winning with no challengers .

Reasons for rejecting warranty on SDS have been the usual suspects water damage cracked chipped screen as well as root . But in every case the phone has gone staright to Samsung or the phone vendor has returned the phone under warranty to Samsung and had it rejected .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dxppxd:
Yeah, its a shame, but its like that. Lets not forget that to this date there isn't a single statement from Samsung regarding (not even aknowledge) the well known sds. At most they refer in general terms to the 4.1.2 jb premium suite fixing problems (what problems?).

But, doesn't hurt to try and end up in that lucky 5% who got motherboard replacements. And since EU law doesn't find rooting as cause for denial of warranty, you can demand a replacement phone from your vendor if samsung's service denies to fix it. For the 1rst year, the vendor is responsible for service, root or no root. Legally, it doesn't matter if samsung agrees to the repair or not.

The problem remains the difficulty for EU consumers to exercise that right, when facing vendors.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
As you can see i replaced my motherboard but still am furiuos at samsung service. They try everything to make you want a phone, but replacing things they're even easier to say no warranty blah blah.

I'm switching over to htc.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
I've been reading the EU Directive 1999/44/CE (not the Free Software Foundation Europe article but the actual legal stuff) and starting with the fact that rooting or flashing is not mentioned in any part of the document, I can't find any part of the text from where you can infer that. I'm not saying it is not there, just that the gibber-jabber legal terms sound very obscure and confusing to me. It is even worse with UK's implementation in "The Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002" because this is an amendment to a previous existing law so you can't read the final amended text in full, only the list of corrections and the text of the old law.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedikalimero:
I finally took my phone to a Three mobile shop for repair. They tried the phone with a new battery, the same symptoms. Then tried the battery in another phone and curiously the battery didn't charge.

I gave them the phone and the battery. Today I received a letter: They say the warranty doesn't cover the repairs because the phone has physical damage. I called and they told me the USB port was damaged by liquid.

I have never wet my phone and the liquid indicator under the battery was ok. The day it ceased working I has just used it normally, left it on the bed and maybe one hour later I found it frozen in the boot screen forever.

I would say they were lying but the battery issue suggests it may be true but I am almost sure I have never wet the phone (I haven't even taken it to the bathroom with me never).

Anyway, the cost of the repair is £65 :crying: (I still can consider myself lucky, considering a second hand phone or even a second hand motherboard would cost me around £140 in ebay...)
[Nook Touch General] driftwould79:
Hi,

I bought a Nook ST running 1.1.0 specifically in order to root it. I've used multiple versions of touchnooter and it always brings up either a rooted forever screen or a touchnooter screen. It then flashes black and proceeds to boot normally, with no trace of any changes whatsoever. Having watched several videos, I know it should then bring up options to boot normally or to the rooted version, but no such thing happens. I've literally tried in excess of 30 times, including factory resetting multiple times, but still no luck. I've been through the information at the links below in detail and had an extensive correspondence with Alan Henry from Lifehacker, and he ended up saying it was weird and beyond his ability to deal with, since he'd never seen anything like it before.

Please help!!!

http://lifehacker.com/5889158/turn-a-99-nook-into-a-fully-fledged-android-tablet-in-four-easy-steps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1132292

http://nookdevs.com/Nook_Simple_Touch/Rooting
[Nook Touch General] cowbutt:
Create an SD card with NookManager on, make a backup (using NookManager) to the SD card, upgrade to 1.2.1, root using NookManager.

Worked for me.
[Nook Touch General] driftwould79:
Thanks, I'll try that. Can you please post a link to Nook Manager?
[Nook Touch General] speedman2202:
before do anything take back up and make sure 1.9 gb and then do what u want ...... for root method look at my signature and u will find useful links

good luck
[Nook Touch General] cowbutt:
It's in the NST dev forum. You can't miss it.

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NookManager zeroes unused space before performing the backup, and gzip compresses it, so its backups are rather less unless your Nook is full of B&N ebooks and side-loaded ebooks. My (virtually-clean) backups were about 280MB if I remember correctly.
[Nook Touch General] driftwould79:
Still unrootable!!

Upgraded the firmware to 1.2.1. Got NookManager here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2040351

It booted up a screen that said Nook Manager and after maybe 10-15 seconds went white. The post says, "You should see the NookManager boot screen followed within 15 seconds by the welcome screen." Waited a very long time, it just stayed white. Rebooted it and it just brought up the normal Nook boot... just like before! Tried a second time, same results. I don't feel like ding this 30 times like I did with the previous versions, the point is made. It simply refuses to root!!! :eek::eek::eek:
[Nook Touch General] cowbutt:
Weird. All I can suggest is to try another SD card, particularly if you're using a Class 10/UHS-I card.
[Nook Touch General] driftwould79:
Still no good...

...even bought a new SD card, but this one doesn't even load the boot screen!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] BDFreak:
I have colored some stuffs for all 2011 HDPI Xperia Phones.

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Main Features :

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+ Orange Colored Framework (Xperia Z Styled Framework)

- Some New Icons Which Is Made By Me

- Jelly Bean Animation With Some New Animation (Lockscreen Exit Animation)

- Extended Power Menu (Reboot, Recovery, Screenshot)

- Some Layout Are Changed

- 22dpi On Screen Button

+ Orange Colored Setting (NXT Styled Setting)

- Some New Icons Which Is Made By Me

+ Orange Colored SystemUI (Serajr SystemUi v9.0)

- Some New Icons Which Is Made By Me

- Added Analog Clock In Notification Header.

- 1st Status Bar Style Changed (Signal,Battery - Notification - Clock).

- 2nd Status Bar Style Changed (Signal - Clock With Second And AM/PM - OICS).

- Botom Tab Buttons Behaviour Changed (Just Tap On Buttons And See).

- Can't Remember Other Modification Now.

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Changelog :

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v1.0 :

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+ Initial Release

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DOWNLOAD :

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+ Orangy ICS v1.0 by BDFreak.zip

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How To Install :

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+ Stock Rom

+ Download the Orangy ICS v1.0 by BDFreak.zip file

+ Place it to your phone sdcard

+ Reboot into recovery

+ install this zip

If you having any problem after installation than Wipe Cache Partition and Dalvik Cache and install the zip again

Thanks to

serajr

DdcCabuslay

PS: I can't post screenshots now because I am in a hurry. I will later for sure. In this mod I have edited many PNG's and created many new PNG's myself. I also edited some xml files and added some new xml files for my modification. If you use these on your mod then please don't forget to give me credit.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] BDFreak:
If anyone can post some screenshot's then it will be helpful for others...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] BDFreak:
Reserved 2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
hy Friends i just had my phone back after i had bricked it while trying to flash ...

well this time i want to know how to flash firmware with odin and learn how to install a costum rom like i used to do under my GALAXY ACE i want to have the tuto of flashing and rooting even installing CWM and is it just like the GALAXY ACE when trying to install a costum rom like the stock ones !!!!

PLEASE HOW TO FLASH SECURELY AND HOW TO ROOT MY DEVICE WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE !! I DON4T WANT TO BRICK IT ONE MORE TIME :'( help please !!

NOTE THAT I'M FROM ALGERIA AND I'M RUNNING UNDER FROYO 2.2.1 JXJPF sO WHAT FIRMWARE I USE WITH ODIN !!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
MORE INFO ON UR DEVICE! WHAT SGS VERSION, WHICH COUNTRY UR BUYING IT, DA BUILD NUMBER, VERSION OF ANDROID INSIDE N EVERY INFO NECESSARY NEEDED FOR FLASHING SO WE ALL CAN COME UP WITH SOMETHING!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
well here are the infos

GT-I9000

version du micrologiciel

2.2.1

version de la bande de base

I9000 JXJPF

version kernel

2.6.32.9

root@SE-S606 #30

numero de version

FROYO.JPJPM

SORRY I USED THE FRENCH LANGUAGE BCZ I DON'T WANT TO MISS ANY THING WHILE TRANSLATING :) :) HELP PLEASE :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linek_big:
Which rom is the best at this moment ? And which modem to Rom ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
http://www.mediafire.com/?twyyc6ukh6fyko4

take this first, its ur firmware if something goes wrong

http://www.mediafire.com/download/rgd9msuiv76rt0c/Super_One_Click_2.3.3.rar

take this, its superoneclick (windows), first root ur fone and make a backup of ur efs or anything that ur wanna to, inside there will be ur md5 and imei if anything occur. Juz run extract and run superoneclick, on da debugging mode and juz plug it into ur pc, and click root and install busybox, juz follow da instruction.

after root, find some root file manager and go to /efs, copy da folder and put it into anything, ur pc, fone or anything safe.

http://hotfile.com/dl/140301534/be8872c/I9000XXJVU_I9000OXAJVU_OXA.rar.html

take this 2.3.6 firmware. pass = samfirmware.com

http://www.mediafire.com/download/di27wwzt0vi8a67/CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVU_2.3.6-v4.3-CWM3RFS.tar

and here is da cf root for recovery (if da firmware zip above doesnt provided it)

http://www.mediafire.com/download/a0b6f025zbwwlm9/Odin_1.83.rar

and here is Odin and pit file (if da firmware zip above doesnt provided it)

See below pic for guide to use odin, juz follow da pic. Put ur fone into download mode, 3 combo button. home+vol down+power and plug it into pc,

After flashing firmware, juz close ur fone after its rebooting. go to download mode and open odin and flash kernel. See picture 3 for guide on flashing kernel, juz follow da pic and plug in ur fone to flash kernel

If succeeded, ur fone will have 2.3.6 with rooted and cwm. But please make sure ur fone really i9000, not i9001 or anycall ok. juz read da below sentences first !

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38025542#post38025542 or u can view here first.

JUZ MAKE SURE U REALLY KNOW AND WILLING TO DO THIS, I WILL NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE OCCUR AS I HAVE GIVEN DA RIGHT INSTRUCTION. USE AT UR OWN RISK.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
here are some screenshots of my phone :)

i hope it works fine !!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
May Lady Luck on ur side this morning.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
what do you mean please !!! should i give it a try ?? i don't wanna get my last problem like the screen of PHONE ------/!\-------- COMPUTER :S and after that i had the phone doesn't respond to any thing not turning on or go to recovery or download mode !!! please Help me SIR :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
its really depends on luck, as for mine, always working. I m not trying to slow u down or anything, but da result really depend on luck, as some people follow da

rite instruction but still stuck at any occur error, thats why i keep telling here flashing at ur own risk
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
:D i understand Bro :) well i used Super one click :) And my device is now rooted and The SU is installed thnx :) so all i need now is to wait for the FIRST FILE IN THE FIRST LINK "" MEDIAFIRE "" i'm waiting it ends and then i start the this link "" HOTFILE "" :$ i'm so exciting :D please if you can i want to reply with any step i do :D & i hope you help me after each post i do :)

>>>> please note that the last time when i tried to flash the SGS it tooked 1h and half and it didn't gived any result :/ now i have a new cable USB and i think i should try another PC :!! what do you advice me ?? or what you propose !! please :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
juz follow da step to 2.3.6 (if succeed) and root it. I will not be around here as i got work tomorrow and its actually 4 in the morning at my country here. I really need some slepp, really tired myself today. I wish u luck and if succeed, we will be continuing later, sorry

dont forget to make backup of ur EFS folder, its really important. using app for efs backup also valid, search for any app that can backup efs.

flashing will not takes long time, most of it will be half an hour. if reach 1 hour, thats mean something wrong, either with usb connection or ur fone or etc. juz be sure to plug in really tight.

GOOD LUCK
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
okay Thank you so much sweet dreams and thank you so much for help if any thing succed or ... :p i'll reply ;) have a good wednesday :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
and dont worry, we call 'xda; da 'community', so there will be hundred of people will help u here. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
well please one last question :D you gived me 4 links the CF and the GT_I9000_JVJPJ_JXJPF_OJVJPF and the Odin 1.83 and now i'm downloading the I9000 XXJVU ..... which one is used in the Attachments !!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
please Help i started the flash and the SetupConnection please what should i do ??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
i'm stucked in the SetupConnection step pleaaaaaaaaaaase HElp Guyys
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
done done :D i flashed it :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
YES FINALLY DONE :) all the steps :) thank you so much [MENTION=3574024]compacity[/MENTION] :) ♥♥
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
now i want to know some Roms and how to flah them :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
as i told u, juz follow da pic.anyway,congrat. and sorry, got so much work to do.

hav u flash cf root?

now download this

http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/7080/cm-9.1.0-galaxysmtd.zip

and copy it to da toot of internal sd, not in any folder.

and then go to dev section and choose any 4.2 or 4.1 rom u desire there, download it and copy da zip into internal sd,not inside a folder
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
hello and welcome back :) well the link was a direct link ! because when i clicked on it it goes directly do download a file called cm9.1.0-galaxysmtd.zip !!! you want me to flash it ?? with CWM ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
do not flash it yet!, find ur desired 4.2 rom first, go to dev section
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
where i find this DEV section !!! sorry :p i don't know what it's :/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compacity:
juz read and find anything u wanted there first, any tweak,launchers or anything first, then i ll give instruction for flashing it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
well i think you talk about developmnt section !! i'm on it :) but can you give me a link for a stable rom which doesn't make battery drain faster with cool player :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aek-tiesto:
okay searching thank you so much ^^