**Ultimate GS3 sudden death thread**

[Isadora]

The S3 is meant to draw more than the S2... S3 charger is 1A output, S2 charger is 0.7A output. IIRC my HD2 had a 1A output charger too and that phone didn't die despite being charged overnight all the time.

Maybe there's simply something wrong with some of the motherboards in the S3 and we're just chasing ghosts.

And I'm a bit annoyed that mine didn't get upgraded to 32GB when it got fixed... maybe it will die again in 4 months time and I'll get 64GB

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[alankstiyo]

The S3 is meant to draw more than the S2... S3 charger is 1A output, S2 charger is 0.7A output. IIRC my HD2 had a 1A output charger too and that phone didn't die despite being charged overnight all the time.

Maybe there's simply something wrong with some of the motherboards in the S3 and we're just chasing ghosts.

And I'm a bit annoyed that mine didn't get upgraded to 32GB when it got fixed... maybe it will die again in 4 months time and I'll get 64GB

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no offese but could you consider taking my thread´s info???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970422

 

[wshyang]

Eh, just curious, if yours randomly stops working like this, there is no way for you to Triangle Away and reflash back to stock!

Will Samsung take the opportunity to deny you your warranty claim?

 

[Obagleyfreer]

If the phone is totally dead Samsung have no way of knowing what's on your mobo
They seem to be good at honouring warranty anyway. I think it's obviously a known issue to them

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[Obagleyfreer]

I just had a mini freak out.

I haven't experienced any issues with my phone at all until 5 minutes ago.

I pulled my phone from my pocket and the blue led was flashing for a notification. I couldn't turn on my screen, I couldn't reset my phone, even a battery pull and replace did nothing!
I had to put it on charge and it worked, but I still had 70% battery.

I think as Isadora said, seems like motherboard faults in certain batches.
Hope this isn't the beginning of the end for me.

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[putkte]

What happened: Took from charger, was on that over night, drove to work. took phone from pocket, was on Samsung logo on boot, Does go to download mode, not on recovery, Odin flash says NAND write failed.
What ROM/Firmware: CM10 nightly 20121117 I think, not sure on that date
What kernel: CM10
OC or UV: NO and NO
Where phone was made: dunno, got it on 29.5 so first batch
Where battery was made: dunno.

Took phone on repair, repair was denied cause Root + Custom firmware. Would cost 377e to repair.

 

[hakkun]

This sounds very dangerous, Im on CM10. Now I'm afraid my S3 will die..

Can someone help me out get the stock Firmware and unrooted? I dont want to pay 400 Euros for repair due no warranty. Damn..

 

[putkte]

yeah, sound dangerous. If you are lucky you device will broke that kind it wound not go to Download mode any more so then they can not verify that custom binany and flashcounter then warranty is on. But in my case device can go to download and they spotted flashcounter.

And this sucks big time.

 

[ImS0Raw]

It's not only this phone, happened twice with my cousins XPERIA Arc overnight while charging and also when it wasn't charging. Guess it has to do something with the motherboard.

 

[modmymobile]

This sounds very dangerous, Im on CM10. Now I'm afraid my S3 will die..

Can someone help me out get the stock Firmware and unrooted? I dont want to pay 400 Euros for repair due no warranty. Damn..

Follow this mate there is a video at the bottom from totallydubbed: http://www.modmymobile.co.uk/category-blog/81-samsung-galaxy-s-3-sudden-death-brick-warning.html

I will be doing the same till someone finds out what the hell is killing them.

 

[|Night|]

Mine died aswell, it at the shop now, been since the 6th, they say they have found the error and waiting for spare part, but no word on what was wrong, they first clamied it was because i had a small scatch on my screen, i told them to do their job, waiting for result..


i ran SGS GT9300, csc NEE, with lateste Nordic JB.
I had not in charger at the time of it demise.

 

[Shizbazki]

Oh my this looks scary :crying: hoping my Wanamlite SGS3 doesn't sucuumb to this

 

[spirol]

Has anyone tried jamming a usb-jig into their S3 to see if that could force it to boot??

 

[Isadora]

Has anyone tried jamming a usb-jig into their S3 to see if that could force it to boot??

Yep of course, tried after getting no response from key combo - it did absolutely *nothing* phone was still dead as a dodo.

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[gspears]

I've got an interesting one. It's not a what's happening here but still interesting. I received my son's phone via UPS, rooted it, flashed Omega 31.1 and sent it to my son via UPS.

He got it with the screen broken in 3 places, but the box was not damaged in any way. How does the screen get cracked in 3 places with no damage to the box? It would boot but nothing on the screen. Just indicator lights. Made UPS replace it but still don't understand how that could have happened.

 

[drknezz]

Oh man, this sounds horrible! Im backing up everything on my phone right now and changing the AC charge down to 800mAh just in case.

I really hope Samsung are aware of this problem and try to find a way to fix it. Perhaps there are certain batches it only applies to? Is there a build date or something along those lines written anywhere on the inside of the phone?

I'd check but I'm using my phone to write this post at the moment, maybe others could suss it out in case it's a design issue. Might mean a huge recall of handsets, I'm sure Apple fans are cackling their heads off right now though...

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[Shizbazki]

Hi again all

After having a lil sleep I woke up and thought about this a bit.

Everyone here is blaming the charger or motherboard and it could be that the case, some people are rooted others not, some have different Roms from stock etc. So far the only thing we all have in common is that everyone seems to be using the stock battery mostly, in this thread I have only read about one person using possibly a different one but even then he cannot remember if it was stock or 3rd party battery that was in the phone at time of death.

I'm thinking, we all know that such electronics are sensitive beings to sudden power surges and whilst I know that the battery is only a 3.8v rated a small change outside those parameters could fry the motherboard we know this happens even in more robust devices such as pc cpus where a slightly elevated score can kill it.

It is only a thought and I could be talking complete rubbish but it's the only thing we all have in common, my guess is that after charging over and extended period e.g. overnight the battery releases a slight over surge some times enough to fry the phone, it may not be one big one either but a series of small ones that overtime stresses the components causing our galaxy s3 to become glassy paperweight.

Until a number of people step and say that the same thing happened to them whilst using third party I can only assume it to be the battery, we all know that li-ion batterys can bust energy in one successive go often as heat aka when they blow up in balls of flame under normal usage YouTube it and you'll see. So at the moment I am pointing at the battery as well as a possible murder suspect.

 

[saadxe]

Hi again all

After having a lil sleep I woke up and thought about this a bit.

Everyone here is blaming the charger or motherboard and it could be that the case, some people are rooted others not, some have different Roms from stock etc. So far the only thing we all have in common is that everyone seems to be using the stock battery mostly, in this thread I have only read about one person using possibly a different one but even then he cannot remember if it was stock or 3rd party battery that was in the phone at time of death.

I'm thinking, we all know that such electronics are sensitive beings to sudden power surges and whilst I know that the battery is only a 3.8v rated a small change outside those parameters could fry the motherboard we know this happens even in more robust devices such as pc cpus where a slightly elevated score can kill it.

It is only a thought and I could be talking complete rubbish but it's the only thing we all have in common, my guess is that after charging over and extended period e.g. overnight the battery releases a slight over surge some times enough to fry the phone, it may not be one big one either but a series of small ones that overtime stresses the components causing our galaxy s3 to become glassy paperweight.

Until a number of people step and say that the same thing happened to them whilst using third party I can only assume it to be the battery, we all know that li-ion batterys can bust energy in one successive go often as heat aka when they blow up in balls of flame under normal usage YouTube it and you'll see. So at the moment I am pointing at the battery as well as a possible murder suspect.

Btw my SIII died while it was not on charging, and neither the battery was warm at the time. Anyway 80% was left in it at the time of death. It was spontaneous. I was smsing in that period.

 

[patmacca]

Well no death of my gs3 but I have had 3 episodes in the past week where my phone has frozen requiring battery removal. Phone is total stock running jb

Did anyone have these symptoms before their phone went down?

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[ph512]

Well no death of my gs3 but I have had 3 episodes in the past week where my phone has frozen requiring battery removal. Phone is total stock running jb

Did anyone have these symptoms before their phone went down?

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My experience I documented on the first page of this thread - 2 gs3's dead in less than 12 hours. Both were bought at the same time, unlocked international versions with no network branding - "completely stock" phones and died within 9 hours of each other and 60 miles apart - one on charge, the other not.
Mine was behaving ok, but looking back my wife had kept complaining that things were hanging and I'm pretty sure she had to do a handfull of reboots in the week prior to complete destruction (she didn't have the need to do any battery pulls though)! They've been repaired by the CPW repair centre and are getting picked up by my wife this afternoon - hopefully I'll find out what they've done to repair them (she's been told to ask!).
I'd be interested to know if anyone has experienced a subsequent failure following a repair ie are they putting in a more recent version of motherboard. I have no idea how you could find this out though