galaxy s 3's is brickin' en masse

[OBLAMA2009]

there are reports that gs3's brick after several months and a lot of people are having that problem just about now. has anyone experienced this? supposedly its a motherboard problem and they are replacing them under warranty with phones with the same board version

http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-ga...dden-bricking-due-to-hardware-issue-21261974/

 

[grkM3]

im going with those phones were all softbricked,I mean its coming from xda and its on the hottest android phone on there where people are flashing every part of the nand memory to tweak with the phone.

can anyone post a link to the actual thread where people are having problems?

 

[bearxor]

Yeah, a forum full of geeks constantly tinkering with their phones isn't really going to alarm me.

 

[grkM3]

Looks like most went bunk during charging,looks like I wont enable fast charging with my custom kernel and rom anymore lol

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I don't trust anything that has mass users congregating on Xda and Reddit.

They're both full of 99.9% dumbasses. Full of stupid people who think they know what they're doing and then ask questions that are answered in the first post of the thread.

 

[shabby]

I don't trust anything that has mass users congregating on Xda and Reddit.

They're both full of 99.9% dumbasses. Full of stupid people who think they know what they're doing and then ask questions that are answered in the first post of the thread.

I guess you didn't hear about the exynos4 exploit that was found by xda members and patched the same day by xda members?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I guess you didn't hear about the exynos4 exploit that was found by xda members and patched the same day by xda members?

That's the .01%.

 

[thecapsaicinkid]

I don't trust anything that has mass users congregating on Xda and Reddit.

They're both full of 99.9% dumbasses. Full of stupid people who think they know what they're doing and then ask questions that are answered in the first post of the thread.

You don't need an electronics phd to notice your phone won't turn on anymore.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

so nobody here has experienced a bricked gs3?????

 

[upsdriver]

so nobody here has experienced a bricked gs3?????

No.

 

[NutBucket]

Apparently not. You can count the ones my wife and I have as working fine.

 

[podspi]

FTFA:

Samsung hasn’t officially acknowledged the issue yet, but users who have sent their devices in for repair say they have been told by multiple employees that the issue appears to be happening to many people as of late. So while it seems it’s an issue that Samsung will deal with, our guess is that they’ll keep mum on the details of the situation.

This says to me that there is definitely something wrong with at least some batches of the device. I worked for Samsung, and their MO for phone support is to have the techs tell callers "this is the first time I have ever heard of this problem happening" UNLESS it was a serious problem.

That was a while ago, so maybe they changed their policies or these are rogue employees, but chances are it isn't a design flaw and just bad caps (or whatever). It happens and frankly isn't that big of a deal, especially is Samsung is replacing all the phones under warranty.

 

[grkM3]

FTFA:




This says to me that there is definitely something wrong with at least some batches of the device. I worked for Samsung, and their MO for phone support is to have the techs tell callers "this is the first time I have ever heard of this problem happening" UNLESS it was a serious problem.

That was a while ago, so maybe they changed their policies or these are rogue employees, but chances are it isn't a design flaw and just bad caps (or whatever). It happens and frankly isn't that big of a deal, especially is Samsung is replacing all the phones under warranty.

or the people are running a messed up rom and kernel and have super fast charge enabled and burning out there phones lol

 

[shabby]

or the people are running a messed up rom and kernel and have super fast charge enabled and burning out there phones lol

Fast charge wont burn anything up, it charges the battery at the same rate you'd get from the ac plug.

 

[TuxDave]

Looks like a legit problem.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/04/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-sudden-death-fix-coming/

 

[Eug]

"So far, we know the problem applies to users running the stock software, as well as custom ROMs. For whatever reason, too, these defective models are all 16GB variants, according to Samsung."

So, there goes that theory that it's due to tinkering.

 

[waggy]

interesting. i will keep a eye onmine.

 

[cheezy321]

I shall dub this 'brickgate'