[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hedgehoglet:
Hello.

I have spent around 20 hours troubleshooting and trying to repair my seemingly bricked S3. I am sorry for making a repeated topic, i know there are a lot of other people around here with a similar situation, and i really have tried "everything", i think. Probably not, but it sure feels like it. You would laugh at the number of tabs and open browsers with different searches of "s3 brick" i've got atm. :)

My phone is a Norwegian Telenor SGS3 GT-i9300, sorry to say i am actually unsure if i've got the 16 or 32gb version :o It was given to me by my employer and I've got no reciept. I've contacted Samsung about this and they go defensive and tell me to pay to get it fixed. (i may have to refer them to this information: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1998801 ([INFO] Rooting and Flashing don't void the warranty)

History:

- Cyanogenmod 10 + cwm installed september 2012

- Phone has been working pretty well since that. (A few spontaneous reboots)

-- A few days ago my phone rebooted and it got stuck on the Samsung GS3 logo.

- Unable to access Recovery mode (Vol Up + Home + Power)

- No LED indication what so ever

- Able to access Download Mode

-- Odin Mode:

--- Product Name: (blank)

--- Custom Binary Download: No

--- Current Binary: Samsung Official

--- System Status: Custom)

What I have tried:

- Leaving the phone with Logo overnight. (thought it may just take some time ...)

- Power + Vol Up, nothing

- Power + Vol Up + Home, boot-loops with logo (as if unable to go recovery mode(no blue text in upper part of display))

- Power+ Vol Down, Logo

- Reinsert Battery + Power + Vol Up + Home, Logo

- Reinsert Battery + Vol Up + Home, nothing happens

- Reinsert Battery + Vol Down, nothing

- Reinsert Battery + Vol Down + Home, nothing

- Reinsert Battery + Vol Down + Home + Power, Download mode

- Remove battery, hold power for 10 secs (as if to to "flush out" any power remaining inside phone) - nothing

I have tried more combinations, I've managed to get the Battery Icon with a "frozen Loading Circle" on it a few times. (whats this? google-fu tells me nothing?)

When in Download Mode, Samsung drivers + odin 3.04 (and 3.07)

phone gets detected easily enough. (i have tried another computer, and two different USB cables as well)

I tried my original files from when i first flashed my phone back in sept'12. NO PIT Partition

Usually my flashing ends up like this:

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003>

<ID:0/003> There is no PIT partition.

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I have, however (dont ask me how) gotten to this stage, ONCE. This was without any added PIT-files in Odin. I had gone back and forth between Odin/Heimdall (tried to extract my PIT files with Heimdall, (didnt work)) (I did re-install drivers after trying Heimdall, so the phone got detected by Odin again)

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> cm-10-20120920-ODIN-i9300.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> system.img

<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/004>

<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I've been unable to reproduce the last example.

I've tried flashing in different PIT files.

- GT-I9300_mx_20120220.pit

- GT-I9300_mx_20120322.pit

- GT-I9300_mx_20120329.pit

- mx.pit

Sometimes ODIN looks like it'll be able to flash in the PIT files, but it gets stuck, or it just fails immediately with the error "Re-Partition operation failed."

Heimdall detects the device, but is unable to read/extract PIT

I am sorry for the long post, but i hope i have supplied enough information for someone to help me. I have also tried to format the post so the reading is easier on the eyes.