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[Stephon.]

so my 3 month old s3 just stopped working. Screen froze; did a battery pull and it refuses to come back on.
Was running Cyanogenmod 10.1
NO "PIRATE" APPS ON IT.

3 months old should still be under warranty.

[dean_spleen09]

Samsung rolls out Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy S II GT-I9100
You might not be able to update your device to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean right away as the update is rolling out in phases.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page ... 1#firmware

[streetlifestyle]

so my 3 month old s3 just stopped working. Screen froze; did a battery pull and it refuses to come back on.
Was running Cyanogenmod 10.1
NO "PIRATE" APPS ON IT.

3 months old should still be under warranty.

so the fact that i rooted and on CM wont affect warranty?
trying all kinda how to get the phone on so i cud put it back to stock mode before i take it in.

ever heard of this yet though?
Happened to anybody?

[Stephon.]

Oh shux, you try changing the battery to see if that could possibly be a problem?

[Chimera]

http://androidadn.com/2013/01/samsung-r ... to-fix-it/

Some speculated that the problem was due to defects in the motherboard of the terminals of May, June and July that generated them from being killed after 150-180 days of use, while others blamed the NAND memory device and charger . The worst part was that it was not possible to establish a pattern and that sudden death affected root user, not root, to those with factory ROMs, cooked ROMs, etc..

The number of people affected grew daily and Samsung was silent about it, but finally spoke. A few days ago, a company spokesman said that would correct the failure soon and today the Korean company has officially acknowledged the problem.

[achillies]

http://androidadn.com/2013/01/samsung-recognizes-sudden-death-in-the-galaxy-s3-how-to-fix-it/

Some speculated that the problem was due to defects in the motherboard of the terminals of May, June and July that generated them from being killed after 150-180 days of use, while others blamed the NAND memory device and charger . The worst part was that it was not possible to establish a pattern and that sudden death affected root user, not root, to those with factory ROMs, cooked ROMs, etc..

The number of people affected grew daily and Samsung was silent about it, but finally spoke. A few days ago, a company spokesman said that would correct the failure soon and today the Korean company has officially acknowledged the problem.

It is a problem with the wear leveller, the firmware that resides on the actual eMMC chip, it's a variation of the issue that exists on the S2, Note 1 and the Galaxy Nexus

They released a "fix" in the "update 7" kernel sources probably 2 weeks ago which was then implemented into the popular custom kernels, so people who are running custom kernels have had that fix for that time, the memory exploit was also fixed in those sources.

The patch checks for the firmware revision and the date of the eMMC chip and is applied on every boot to the affected eMMC chips.

Hence the release of all these new firmwares with all the necessary fixes applied to the stock kernels

[achillies]

so my 3 month old s3 just stopped working. Screen froze; did a battery pull and it refuses to come back on.
Was running Cyanogenmod 10.1
NO "PIRATE" APPS ON IT.

3 months old should still be under warranty.

so the fact that i rooted and on CM wont affect warranty?
trying all kinda how to get the phone on so i cud put it back to stock mode before i take it in.

ever heard of this yet though?
Happened to anybody?

How old was that nightly you were running, haven't been following CM development lately, but they should have implemented the fix in there kernels and recoveries already

If it is truly a result of the sudden death syndrome, then your motherboard needs to be replaced, the eMMC chip is dead, they won't know what you are running before

Have you been having reboots or freezes before, according to most people who suffered the issue, there were some warning signs that your eMMC is failing

[maj. tom]

First Firefox phones revealed by Mozilla and Geeksphone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21159531

[rocknrolla]

so my 3 month old s3 just stopped working. Screen froze; did a battery pull and it refuses to come back on.
Was running Cyanogenmod 10.1
NO "PIRATE" APPS ON IT.

bro just take it back.. say it stop workin just so and let them replace it under warranty.. the end.

First Firefox phones revealed by Mozilla and Geeksphone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21159531

nuttin topping android right now. it actually does everything ive been waiting for in a mobile. theres not much to go again.. a 16mp camera might be all i would want.. droid 5 might bring that to the table. i know they might never make it dual sim so i not crossing my fingers self about that. i real cool right wey i is right now lol

[Stephon.]

The SIV coming with a 13MP camera.

[rocknrolla]

The SIV coming with a 13MP camera.

im just not into the touchscreen typing thing. i just dont find it as enjoyable and confirming as the feedback from a button press.

[rocknrolla]

Motorola X-Phone coming soon with unbreakable display!!!

www.newsfactor.com/news/-New-Product--a ... 300B435T47

expected official announcement date seems to be in may with a scheduled release in July.

reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57565175-251/more-google-motorola-x-phone-details-emerge/

hope this is an upgrade to the droid 4 and that they kept the hardware keyboard!

[Ted_v2]

Anyone with a s3 can comment on how easy is the screen to break?

A good case should be good enough right?

[nervewrecker]

I wonder when s2nr selling his s2 jed? Almost time to upgrade

[Jonathan_337]

Anyone with a s3 can comment on how easy is the screen to break?

A good case should be good enough right?

It's fairly sturdy and scratch resistant but of course.. If something hit it hard enough and in the right spot, it will shatter. It's not sensitive to say it shatters easily though.

[kurpal_v2]

Anyone with a s3 can comment on how easy is the screen to break?

A good case should be good enough right?

Youtube it

[Rooki3]

Anyone with a s3 can comment on how easy is the screen to break?

A good case should be good enough right?

not easy, wish u cud have seen my phone, d whole body scratch & dent from falls, but the screen is in perfect condition & its always in my pocket with key & coins

[Ted_v2]

My grandmother coming from Canada I think I know what I need

[Stephon.]

Temple Run 2 is now available for the superior cellphones.

Play Store Link

[Chimera]

was getting this error

Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped.


playstore wasn't opening, nothing was downloading etc

found the fix here though

http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-gala ... ped-3.html

Same problem on note 2. Solution: i went to Settings->Application Manager->All tab. I scrolled to the bottom. Download Manager was diabled. I enabled it.

i was about ready to unroot and reset phone lol

[streetlifestyle]

so my 3 month old s3 just stopped working. Screen froze; did a battery pull and it refuses to come back on.
Was running Cyanogenmod 10.1
NO "PIRATE" APPS ON IT.

3 months old should still be under warranty.

so the fact that i rooted and on CM wont affect warranty?
trying all kinda how to get the phone on so i cud put it back to stock mode before i take it in.

ever heard of this yet though?
Happened to anybody?

How old was that nightly you were running, haven't been following CM development lately, but they should have implemented the fix in there kernels and recoveries already

If it is truly a result of the sudden death syndrome, then your motherboard needs to be replaced, the eMMC chip is dead, they won't know what you are running before

Have you been having reboots or freezes before, according to most people who suffered the issue, there were some warning signs that your eMMC is failing

Had the phone charging the night before and it started vibrating in d middle of d night saying that the battery low (while the charger was plugged in) so i did a batt pull and put it back to charge. The next morning, the screen froze and i did a battery pull cuz none of the keys were working but the phone never turned back on.

Was running a cm nightly no more than a month old.

Sent it back to bmobile to let them sort it out.

[kurpal_v2]

Anyone with a s3 can comment on how easy is the screen to break?

A good case should be good enough right?

not easy, wish u cud have seen my phone, d whole body scratch & dent from falls, but the screen is in perfect condition & its always in my pocket with key & coins

Just for lolz

[achillies]

so my 3 month old s3 just stopped working. Screen froze; did a battery pull and it refuses to come back on.
Was running Cyanogenmod 10.1
NO "PIRATE" APPS ON IT.

3 months old should still be under warranty.

so the fact that i rooted and on CM wont affect warranty?
trying all kinda how to get the phone on so i cud put it back to stock mode before i take it in.

ever heard of this yet though?
Happened to anybody?

How old was that nightly you were running, haven't been following CM development lately, but they should have implemented the fix in there kernels and recoveries already

If it is truly a result of the sudden death syndrome, then your motherboard needs to be replaced, the eMMC chip is dead, they won't know what you are running before

Have you been having reboots or freezes before, according to most people who suffered the issue, there were some warning signs that your eMMC is failing

Had the phone charging the night before and it started vibrating in d middle of d night saying that the battery low (while the charger was plugged in) so i did a batt pull and put it back to charge. The next morning, the screen froze and i did a battery pull cuz none of the keys were working but the phone never turned back on.

Was running a cm nightly no more than a month old.

Sent it back to bmobile to let them sort it out.

Good, let them deal with it, at this point. we can't even be sure your battery has power as you have already sent it in, one note though, if your phone freezes for any reason, just hold the power button till it reboots, sometimes pulling the battery may cause data corruption or it may cause the device to boot up in safe mode

Holding the power button reboots the device

[streetlifestyle]

^^^ I tried all that. All the buttons stopped working

[achillies]

^^^ I tried all that. All the buttons stopped working

Lawd, hmmm, then if you were running an old build, which probably didn't have the fixes, you may have suffered the SDS

Period kind of short though, usually it happens due to a lot of I/O reads/writes, well hopefully bmobile fixes it

[Stephon.]

hi

[Rooki3]

wow, thatz cool

[S_2NR]

hi

It is proven the brain can only truly focus on one thing at a time so.... *yawn*

[kurpal_v2]

Briarwood massive!!!!

[Ted_v2]

anyone knows of how to save a pic from twitter/facebook to a galaxy tablet?

its impossible, iv been trying for about 10 mins and im not making any progress

only thing is screen shot atm