[Q] S3 keeps freezing, how to fix/unroot?

sander13

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I'm sure this has been asked several times but I never seen a answer that can help me.

About 6 months ago my phone started to become really slow and freezed at some points. I decided to root and and put another rom on it. So I installed purelook HD. Since a few days I can't use my phone for more than 5 minutes until it freezes. Everytime it freezes I need to take out the battery and put it back in. Decided to install neatrom but same problem. Here is how and what:

- I can't access my phone in any way, it freazes before I can do anything.
- SIM in or out doesn't matter, I'm living in the Netherlands and my SIM provider is KPN.
- My binary counter is set to 1, so I can directly send it back. Is it possible to change this without accessing the phone? Because that is impossible.
- If/after the above is possible how can I unroot it? Is it possible to do a reset trough KIES? This is how I did it last time.

If there is someone that would like to help me it is really appreciated. I screwed up my S1 and I'm really scared I'm going to do it again.

Some Details I can get to:
MODEL: GT-I9300
FCC ID: A3LGTI9300A
SSN: -I9300GSMH

Thanks for your help.


btw, I do got skype if anybody would like to add me and help me. zander19951
 

boomboomer

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Go and read the freezing thread in the general forum, flash a stock rom to unroot but you can't reset flash counter unless you can run triangle away (which you will need root for).

You should have sent for repair before flashing anything, warranty is now void.
 

sander13

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Go and read the freezing thread in the general forum, flash a stock rom to unroot but you can't reset flash counter unless you can run triangle away (which you will need root for).

You should have sent for repair before flashing anything, warranty is now void.
I couldn't know freezing might be a hardware problem and not a software problem. I can get into my phone every 1/20 or so so I'm going to try and install triangle away.

Can I do a reset trough KIES? Or will it brick my phone?
 

boomboomer

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I couldn't know freezing might be a hardware problem and not a software problem. I can get into my phone every 1/20 or so so I'm going to try and install triangle away.

Can I do a reset trough KIES? Or will it brick my phone?
Never used kies, always odin, you can't reset anything in either. To keep flash counter zero after you run triangle away you'll need a stock kernel and recovery installed, do this before you triangle away.

Then flash a stock rom, with a zero counter you are ready for repair.
 

snake_mgs

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Root doesn't cause freezing therefore, using the unroot option in supersu will not help the situation

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 4
i know, i was thinking he could send the phone to warranty maybe, tha t s why u said the unroot option, but ur right he must solve the other problems first