Couple of days back I factory reset my galaxy s3 on 4.1.1. I set up everything and today whilst using instagram the phone started flickering and shut down. When I put the phone back a couple of times it froze. Can someone help???
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I was on the phone and all of a sudden my phone froze and dropped the call. I pulled the battery and restarted the phone, but now the phone stays on the Galaxy S screen for a long time and then goes to a black screen with the soft keys lit up. What do I do? I'm rooted using OCLF with lag fix installed, no roms
Let it sit on the black screen for awhile. This happened on my phone when I reboot it after performing the lag fix and thought I bricked my phone and pulled the battery, just give out done time
some.
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How long? My phones been sitting with black screen and soft keys lit for 15 mins
i got my phone functional again, but now all my data was wiped
How long to let it rest?
Sucka612...how much longer did you wait? If you didn't anymore, what did you do to fix it?
Thanks
So about a 10 months ago i rooted my note only to use tethering. Everything has been fine and dandy till the other day my phone took a dump. It reset itself and turned on to the atnt screen then dies and pulsates. restarts then dies again it some times only gets to the samsung screen then dies out if i leave it alone it just pulsates. I can get to the download mode but the longest its has stayed on for was 30 secs other times its just 5 secs its not making any sense to me. I am so lost and being a noob doesnt help!!! i was thinking somehow reset the phone thru odin if at all possible?
Are you sure the battery has a charge? Try removing sim and/or sd card and see if it boots. Try factory resetting from recovery?
Hello,
I have an international unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300) that is no longer in warranty and that started behaving strangely (unresponsive) a couple of weeks ago on Android 4.1.2 (official ROM, rooted with CF-AutoRoot).
After reading several threads here on XDA I believed it was subject of Sudden Death. So I started with a factory reset and rooted the phone again with CF-AutoRoot but after that I still experienced the same freezes and started my mission to try and resolve this using whatever method was required.
I starting with trying the DFG app but to no avail. The freezing was provoked but did not go away after many days of iterations and freezes (it always recovered out of a freeze).
Next I tried the eMMC check app to verify on what version I was so that I could help my in further pinpointing the problem. It said I was safe, but while running that app the phone freezed again but this time the screen turned purple/pink and it did not recover from the freeze after several hours until I finally removed the battery. The purple/pink turned into purple/pink with black lines and after removing the battery I could not power on the phone.
In all desperation I started trying out different "SDS-safe" custom kernels, ROMs and bootloaders (all flashed using Odin on my laptop) but the problem did not go away. In fact, I discovered a very strange correlation between the time that I leave the battery out the phone and the time it takes before the purple/pink freeze occurs again.
If I wait half an hour, put the battery back in the phone and boot it (in whichever mode) it would freeze/flicker/die after about 20 seconds. If I would wait several hours, put the battery back in the phone and boot it it would freeze/flicker/die after a solid 1 or 2 minutes.
Whether the phone is connected to the laptop or not makes no difference. I also tried with a different battery but the same behavior occurs.
After waiting a solid day, in still in act of desperation, I decided to flash the leaked 4.2.2 (I9300XXUFME7) official ROM. But even after a factory reset and wiping of cache I found that the problem still remained.
Now I believe I've tried almost everything I've found on these forums I'm not sure what I can still do. It seems it's not battery, ROM, kernel or bootloader related and it also does not seem a case of Sudden Death (I never heard mention of the purple/pink flickering, and it also never snaps out of the freeze; also the strange correlation between battery out of the phone and time before it freezes is something I haven't read about).
From all the research I've done I've not encountered anyone with the same symptoms (does not wake out of freeze, purple/pink lines appear on screen when freeze starts and keep flickering for hours, there seems to be a correlation between the time the battery is out of the phone and how long I have before it freezes again when I turn it on) and I'm running out of ideas.
I believe it is hardware related (but not a screen issue) rather than software related because the USB connection with the laptop disconnects when it freezes, purple/pink flickering and no recovery; but I have no idea what options I still have.
Before I give up on the phone does anyone have any recommendations of what I can try before sending it to a Samsung repair center?
Attached are 4 pictures to show the typical process after waiting ~4 hours and powering on the phone:
Phone boots OK
The phone freezes and a purple/pink overlay appears
More and more flickering making the screen turn more and more purple/pink
The screen seems to be divided in 4-5 parts
Everything is pink and black lines start to appear
Thank you for your time.
I'd say you need a new motherboard or screen, possibly both - you've ruled out any software causes.
just had this issue
Did you find a solution, given the fact that this happened a long time ago?
I was watching a video and my screen turned pink like the 4th photo you posted.
Now it wont work, get the pink screen everytime is turned on.
dendera said:
Hello,
I have an international unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300) that is no longer in warranty and that started behaving strangely (unresponsive) a couple of weeks ago on Android 4.1.2 (official ROM, rooted with CF-AutoRoot).
After reading several threads here on XDA I believed it was subject of Sudden Death. So I started with a factory reset and rooted the phone again with CF-AutoRoot but after that I still experienced the same freezes and started my mission to try and resolve this using whatever method was required.
I starting with trying the DFG app but to no avail. The freezing was provoked but did not go away after many days of iterations and freezes (it always recovered out of a freeze).
Next I tried the eMMC check app to verify on what version I was so that I could help my in further pinpointing the problem. It said I was safe, but while running that app the phone freezed again but this time the screen turned purple/pink and it did not recover from the freeze after several hours until I finally removed the battery. The purple/pink turned into purple/pink with black lines and after removing the battery I could not power on the phone.
In all desperation I started trying out different "SDS-safe" custom kernels, ROMs and bootloaders (all flashed using Odin on my laptop) but the problem did not go away. In fact, I discovered a very strange correlation between the time that I leave the battery out the phone and the time it takes before the purple/pink freeze occurs again.
If I wait half an hour, put the battery back in the phone and boot it (in whichever mode) it would freeze/flicker/die after about 20 seconds. If I would wait several hours, put the battery back in the phone and boot it it would freeze/flicker/die after a solid 1 or 2 minutes.
Whether the phone is connected to the laptop or not makes no difference. I also tried with a different battery but the same behavior occurs.
After waiting a solid day, in still in act of desperation, I decided to flash the leaked 4.2.2 (I9300XXUFME7) official ROM. But even after a factory reset and wiping of cache I found that the problem still remained.
Now I believe I've tried almost everything I've found on these forums I'm not sure what I can still do. It seems it's not battery, ROM, kernel or bootloader related and it also does not seem a case of Sudden Death (I never heard mention of the purple/pink flickering, and it also never snaps out of the freeze; also the strange correlation between battery out of the phone and time before it freezes is something I haven't read about).
From all the research I've done I've not encountered anyone with the same symptoms (does not wake out of freeze, purple/pink lines appear on screen when freeze starts and keep flickering for hours, there seems to be a correlation between the time the battery is out of the phone and how long I have before it freezes again when I turn it on) and I'm running out of ideas.
I believe it is hardware related (but not a screen issue) rather than software related because the USB connection with the laptop disconnects when it freezes, purple/pink flickering and no recovery; but I have no idea what options I still have.
Before I give up on the phone does anyone have any recommendations of what I can try before sending it to a Samsung repair center?
Attached are 4 pictures to show the typical process after waiting ~4 hours and powering on the phone:
Phone boots OK
The phone freezes and a purple/pink overlay appears
More and more flickering making the screen turn more and more purple/pink
The screen seems to be divided in 4-5 parts
Everything is pink and black lines start to appear
Thank you for your time.
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hi all,
i have a very unusual freezing problem that is driving me nuts. i have read loads of posts about people using dummy file generator, clearing defaults, factory resetting etc. but my problem remains after all of the above.
here is what happens with my device.
device is galaxy s3(gt-i9300)
running stock vodafone branded but open to all networks 4.3
baseband i9300buugnf1
build number jss15j.i9300xxugnh4
the problem started back in october last year. the screen would freeze and the only way of getting it back would be to hold the power button in for about 10 secs, or pulling the battery. i tried leaving it overnight to see if it would unfreeze itself, but no joy.
this was just occasionally to start off with, but has now become too frequent to allow the phone to be usable. sometimes the phone would go for about 20 mins without a freeze, but other times it would freeze after just a couple of mins.
sometimes, when i reboot the device, it freezes on the samsung logo, but the logo still pulsates as if it is still booting up. but never does. it also freezes when turned off and charging. i have to hold the power button in for about 10 secs again to get it to start up.
the phone is out of warranty. i did have a problem with the phone over a year ago and sent it away to samsung, where they changed the motherboard as it was force closing all my apps. but just after a year of it working perfectly, this happens. it seems samsung have put a self destruct timer on their devices. lol.
has anyone had the same sort of problems, if so did you manage to fix the problem?
any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Hi! When i woke up, i saw a blinking snapchat notification so I wanted to wake my screen up and check it. But when i pressed power button/home button - nothing happened. I've tried for about a minute an still nothing, so i pulled out my battery, pulled it again, pressed power button and my phone booted into the "samsung galaxy mega i9205L logo. After 5 minutes i tried to turn it off by the button, but it didn't work so i pulled the battery out again. Now it doesnt turn on completely Phone is not rooted. Any solutions?
P.S. If its possible i want to keep my photos and videos. They are really important to me.
EDIT: I was charging the phone whole night.
Almost the same happened here. Yesterday evening I connected my i9205 to the (official Samsung) charger and I went to sleep. This morning the alarm on my i9205 didn't go off. When I checked the Phone I saw a grey batterysymbol with a white circle in it. I switched off the Phone and switched it on again. I saw a message that the memory was corrupted and the Phone needed a factory reset. I tried this several times but the Phone didn't work anymore. Now I have a blanc screen when I start it up and that's it. Only the backlights stay on. Any help would be welcome!