So I have this issue with my rooted Galaxy S3 that my battery runs out really fast and I'm pretty sure the battery isn't the issue.
I've had this previously but that time I couldn't charge it as well.
I sent it to be fixed while rooted and they changed the port and unrooted/reseted my phone back to stock rom and kernel.
Then I idiotically rooted it again. Now about half a year I got the issue I first noted and took it to the shop to fixed, again while rooted with warranty but they sent it back, didn't do anything, charged me 33€ for shipping costs (not actually shipping but don't remember the word). and "removed" warranty.
I know probably all of you will call me stupid for sending it while rooted but I've done pretty much the same for 3 with my old Xcover for various reasons without any issues and thought there wont be any this time either .
So the phone has been sitting around for almost 7 months and I thought I would finally fix it.
When I went to get the phone from repair they said that the phone has unofficial firmware which could affect the battery life.
I have quite many apps and games on my phone but I uninstalled alot of them with still the same bad battery life. (I think it shouldn't effect battery life unless viruses)
So I need good links and instructions on how to fix this/unroot SGS3.
First off: would like some links to tutorials, guides and download links for official firmware.
Will this firmware work on my Finnish GT-I9300: http : // www . sammobile . com /firmwares/3/?download=33625[/url] ?
How can I reset the binary flash counter to 0, triangle away isn't working, probably because of non-stock kernel.
I have done quite alot of research on unrooting by myself but right now I'm just stuck with triangle away and need the right firmware so I need personal help with that.
What will happen if i unroot without resetting binary flash counter?
Thanks.
If you searched of even looked at the top 4 titles before creating this you would of found what you required.
The act of rooting does not cause battery drain, while it is true some non stock roms do not have the same battery life as stock it should not be terrible and more likely a rogue app etc.
Either find the betterbatterystats thread to help find the cause or follow this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/fix-s3-to-factory-unroot-stock-recovery-t2323847
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Hi all
My phone freezes randomly, it suddenly starts up driving mode, and Vlingo talk.
After that it freezes and drains the battery form 60% to 0% in like 15 minutes.
Deleted all data, changed rom, firmware and kernel but it still keeps freezing
Anyone knows how to get rid of this problem?
Cant return the phone anymore i think because of flashing.
thanks in advance
addy02 said:
Hi all
My phone freezes randomly, it suddenly starts up driving mode, and Vlingo talk.
After that it freezes and drains the battery form 60% to 0% in like 15 minutes.
Deleted all data, changed rom, firmware and kernel but it still keeps freezing
Anyone knows how to get rid of this problem?
Cant return the phone anymore i think because of flashing.
thanks in advance
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have you reset the download counter with a usb download jig? if not buy 1 and reset it, make sure stock firmware is flashed before.
your problem seems more than just software if it drains that fast, it may even be a faulty battery, But i would flash stock and reset download counter with a jig and send it off,
just a thought have u a memory card? ifso have you tryed useing the device without it?
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have you reset the download counter with a usb download jig? if not buy 1 and reset it, make sure stock firmware is flashed before.
your problem seems more than just software if it drains that fast, it may even be a faulty battery, But i would flash stock and reset download counter with a jig and send it off,
just a thought have u a memory card? ifso have you tryed useing the device without it?
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I have the exact same problem as you, today I will be enforcing a replacement under the Sale and Supply of Goods Act, 1994
S 14 (2) (B) states that satisfactory quality includes the following:
Fitness for the purpose
Appearance and finish including any relevant packaging
Freedom from minor defects
Safety and durability
It has no freedom from minor defects or is it fit for purpose, so I expect a replacement.
vimto25 said:
have you reset the download counter with a usb download jig? if not buy 1 and reset it, make sure stock firmware is flashed before.
your problem seems more than just software if it drains that fast, it may even be a faulty battery, But i would flash stock and reset download counter with a jig and send it off,
just a thought have u a memory card? ifso have you tryed useing the device without it?
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I think that is my only option,i have try'd so many things now.
I don't have a memory card in my phone so that's not it.good thought anyway
But the battery is not the problem, cause I was on the latest official firmware and battery lasted for almost 24 hours seems pretty resaneble to me.
Thanks allot
MaxxiB said:
I have the exact same problem as you, today I will be enforcing a replacement under the Sale and Supply of Goods Act, 1994
S 14 (2) (B) states that satisfactory quality includes the following:
Fitness for the purpose
Appearance and finish including any relevant packaging
Freedom from minor defects
Safety and durability
It has no freedom from minor defects or is it fit for purpose, so I expect a replacement.
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I will send it back to store back to.
Question,are you on stock firmware?
Thanx
Anyone fund a solution for above? Except turning in the device.
i have the same problem... its a kick in the ass...
i reflash to a older rom wide older one of the first ones and then reflash kh3 again, till now its working 1 day ago...
Hi All,
first topic in xda as i am really hope someone can help me on this. I am still new to root process as previously was on iphone.
got my S3 2 days ago and i am pretty satisfied with the stock battery performance. i need to root my s3 due to i have to run vpnc for access company vpn.
i follow this guide xxx.theandroidsoul.com/galaxy-s3-root[/url] for rooting my s3 and i have perform Part 1 as per the guide and then i go to part 2 and only realize "sgs3-root-install.zip" file no longer exist. i have to stop doing part 2 step 2 as i cant proceed without the install zip file.
then i come across this xxx.theandroidsoul.com/cf-root-6-0-its-the-new-samsung-galaxy-s3-root-package-includes-cwm-5-5-supersu-and-cwm-manager-app/ and i start rooting my s3 with step 2 again which loaded 'CF-Root-SGS3-v6.0.zip' with odin to my s3 again.
could it be due to i have double loaded twice of the tar file to my s3 and it cause the battery drain on it? i fully charge the phone to 100% and i didnt even on mobile data and wifi...turn the phone to standby and after 3-4 mins my battery went down from 100% to 99%...how can i rectify this issue?
Thank you for reading my long article and sorry for the bad english ..
100% doesn't always mean 100%. Sometimes the internal battery readings are a little bit off. Unless the battery keeps going down as fast as before, there is no reason to worry.
I've had the SGP 4.2 since August (North American version) and have become very fond of it. Although I've followed most of the dev areas, I have never rooted or installed any recovery, custom roms, etc...so it's on the stock Android 2.3.6 with 2.6.35.7 kernel and build number GINGERBREAD.UELD3. I have only installed things from the play store and amazon app store.
Sometime in the past week it has started shutting down randomly. Most times I notice when picking it up after hours of standby and it's fully off and need to boot up. A few times it has happened while in use - it just turns off. The battery level doesn't seem to matter, it can happen at 99%, 5%, and anywhere between.
Is there any way to tell if this is a hardware problem vs a software problem? Any other thoughts? I've not seen this problem in other threads, or at least not when running everything stock.
maybe a hardware issue.
see if samsung will fix/replace it
imgthat said:
I've had the SGP 4.2 since August (North American version) and have become very fond of it. Although I've followed most of the dev areas, I have never rooted or installed any recovery, custom roms, etc...so it's on the stock Android 2.3.6 with 2.6.35.7 kernel and build number GINGERBREAD.UELD3. I have only installed things from the play store and amazon app store.
Sometime in the past week it has started shutting down randomly. Most times I notice when picking it up after hours of standby and it's fully off and need to boot up. A few times it has happened while in use - it just turns off. The battery level doesn't seem to matter, it can happen at 99%, 5%, and anywhere between.
Is there any way to tell if this is a hardware problem vs a software problem? Any other thoughts? I've not seen this problem in other threads, or at least not when running everything stock.
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that was happening to me too. i just bought mine from best buy about 1.5 months ago. everything was fine, mine also wasnt ever rooted or flashed anything - just oem with playstore apps. then every now and then after about a month of having it, it would turn off and on by itself (only if it was idle though, without me touching it) its never happend to me while i was messin around with it. and then it started freezin up on me and gettin really laggy at times with certain programs but it was random and i couldnt reproduce it to try and pinpoint the program that was causing it. but then i read up on rooting it and the benefits of root and cwm and backingup everything and roms and since then, everythings perfect. better than new as a matter of fact. so in my opinion, you owe it to yourself to root your device so you can make changes to your lil buddy. i made sure i learned all about rooting and flashing and backups etc first though so i can do it safely. i mean, cmon i dont know about you but i paid alot of money for mine which is why i owed it to myself to 'safely' release the full potential of my device. :cyclops:
Totally agree that I want to start to release the full potential, thats' whay I've been poking aorund here for months (and tinering with my Acer tablet is getting old). My hesitation to start down that path is if there's a hardware issue I don't want to compound the inevitable probelms and end up with an out of warranty bricked device
Maybe I'll see what Samsung says. Like the previous poster - i can't directly replicate the issue so perhaps they won't replace, I'll see and update this post accordingly.
imgthat said:
Totally agree that I want to start to release the full potential, thats' whay I've been poking aorund here for months (and tinering with my Acer tablet is getting old). My hesitation to start down that path is if there's a hardware issue I don't want to compound the inevitable probelms and end up with an out of warranty bricked device
Maybe I'll see what Samsung says. Like the previous poster - i can't directly replicate the issue so perhaps they won't replace, I'll see and update this post accordingly.
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well one of the good things bout this forum is that it explains how to un-brick our devices if it happens. it was kind of intimidating at first for me too as this is the first android ive ever rooted and flashed diff roms. but as long as you make backups thru titanium and also a nand backup thru cwm and then use roms and kernals specifically made for your device that have been tried and tested and retried....then you really have nothing to worry about. and i also read somewhere that if you flash it yourself and somehow manage to brick your device, you can flash everything back to stock so your warranty wont be voided anymore - i could be wrong but im almost positive ive read that somewhere.
First off, I have read all of the other soft brick threads on both xdadev and other sites, but all of them seem to address issues that come about as a result of a failed root attempt. My phone is 100% stock, running 4.1.1, and has been working great for months. I haven't installed any new apps in a few weeks, but my phone has been doing any regular updates. Today, my phone completely locked up about 5 separate times (about 2-3 hours apart for each). Each time, the only way to get my phone back was by pulling the battery (even the 10+ second press of the power button didn't work)... annoying, but manageable.
After the last lock up, my phone got stuck on the SAMSUNG logo (not the S-III logo). I let it sit there for about 45 minutes, and it was pulsing the entire time. Finally, I gave up and pulled the battery one more time. After putting it back in, the phone gets to the S-III logo, but the S is not pulsing. I've let it sit on that for over an hour - with no luck.
The failed root threads all suggest installing ODIN, rooting, wiping everything, then installing a stock firmware. I'm really hoping there is something else I can try, since wiping my phone would be extremely painful at the moment...
Anyone have any ideas?
Backup data factory reset and wipe >>> Or return phone to a service centre .
jje
Sadly as this may be, mine derped out exactly like yours one week after I bought it. It would randomly reboot, lag a lot until the day I woke up to that brilliant Samsung boot screen and nothing more helped.
Had not done anything to it so I returned it for a replacement. Turns out I had a faulty unit.
Sorry bro, guessing it's the only thing that will get yours sorted again. While I know in every product there will always be faulty units, I'm seeing dead sgs3 threads very frequently, I'm guessing Samsung's build quality isn't that good...
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shaunco said:
First off, I have read all of the other soft brick threads on both xdadev and other sites, but all of them seem to address issues that come about as a result of a failed root attempt. My phone is 100% stock, running 4.1.1, and has been working great for months.
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It might be worth remembering that there ARE a certain percentage of faulty units - those are all covered by warranty
It is also worth pointing out that accuracy can be a ***** - there is no "normal" Galaxy S3 that 2 or more months ago was running 4.1.1 - so if you indeed have 4.1.1 that is as a result of some (probably OTA) upgrade at some point in that interval
JJEgan said:
Backup data factory reset and wipe >>> Or return phone to a service centre .
jje
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I would love to backup my data, but since I had a stock bootloader (not CWM or one of the others) and the PIT seems gone, I'm SOL.
xclub_101 said:
It might be worth remembering that there ARE a certain percentage of faulty units - those are all covered by warranty
It is also worth pointing out that accuracy can be a ***** - there is no "normal" Galaxy S3 that 2 or more months ago was running 4.1.1 - so if you indeed have 4.1.1 that is as a result of some (probably OTA) upgrade at some point in that interval
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Yeah, bad wording on my part. When I bought it (the first day Amazon sold the I9300), it had 4.0.4. It has had 4.1.1 since mid-October. My comment of it "working great" was in relation to the random lockups (and now the stuck at logo issue).
Lucky for me, the phone is a work phone, so I bought a new I9300 at Fry's this morning and at least got my service and all my apps back, along with the data for the apps that were nice enough to put it on the SD...
This means my focus has shifted from returning my old I9300 to a working state to simply getting data off of it. If the bootloader shows "no product", it seems that the partition table is shot. Loading a new partition table would destroy the underlying data... so, is there anything I can do (even things that are physically destructive to the phone) to get the data (even as a single binary blob) off the internal 16GB storage?
As I said, I'm happy to rip this thing to pieces, if there is a way.
Hi
I was running SuperNexus 2 on my phone for a few months untill it just got stuck, i removed the battery and restarted, it got stuck on boot several times, so i entered in CWM, flashed the rom again and it stopped working at all. Doesn't enter in download mode or cwm and when charging the battery status doesn't appear (just gets a little hot). It also gets hot in the camera area when the battery is in.
Any help? Thanks
You can click the link in my signature, and go to the section 'No download mode?' and try the things listed there. Some members have managed to 'jump start' to download mode by using the methods listed there.
Unfortunately if there are no signs of life whatsoever after trying those things, and it gets hot around the camera whilst charging, then I'm afraid that's a hard brick = motherboard replacement. Sorry
Sent from a galaxy far, far away
magalhaes.resende said:
Hi
I was running SuperNexus 2 on my phone for a few months untill it just got stuck, i removed the battery and restarted, it got stuck on boot several times, so i entered in CWM, flashed the rom again and it stopped working at all. Doesn't enter in download mode or cwm and when charging the battery status doesn't appear (just gets a little hot). It also gets hot in the camera area when the battery is in.
Any help? Thanks
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It is not easy to tell if the issue is a brick problem or a hardware issue. First investigate if it is a software problem.
If hardware, there are some sudden death cases known describing exactly what you have. It can occur on any ROM (even stock), usually after 1 year of usage.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1876232
I had the same with mine (stock ICS ROM, after 18 months of usage). First it got stuck several times in heavy 3D games, and one day it suddenly didn't do anything else than getting warm in the camera area. It got fixed for free by Samsung (We have 2 years of warranty in Belgium)
Hopper8 said:
You can click the link in my signature, and go to the section 'No download mode?' and try the things listed there. Some members have managed to 'jump start' to download mode by using the methods listed there.
Unfortunately if there are no signs of life whatsoever after trying those things, and it gets hot around the camera whilst charging, then I'm afraid that's a hard brick = motherboard replacement. Sorry
Sent from a galaxy far, far away
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Made a Jig and tried everything in your guide... Nothing worked, still dead... Guess I'll have to take it to Samsung... Thanks...
spicyalan said:
It is not easy to tell if the issue is a brick problem or a hardware issue. First investigate if it is a software problem.
If hardware, there are some sudden death cases known describing exactly what you have. It can occur on any ROM (even stock), usually after 1 year of usage.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1876232
I had the same with mine (stock ICS ROM, after 18 months of usage). First it got stuck several times in heavy 3D games, and one day it suddenly didn't do anything else than getting warm in the camera area. It got fixed for free by Samsung (We have 2 years of warranty in Belgium)
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Yeah, looks like the same thing... We also have 2 years warranty, but mine ended october 5th..., 15 days ago... -_- Thanks for the answer