Hi, I've read numerous posts relating to brick bug for SGS3 and other phones. Do we know if our beloved SGN2 phones are affected? I checked my phone with eMMC check and it does appear as if its using the same affected memory controller and it looks like it does, so are we next in line for this issue hats affecting the SGSIII and other phones?
Few minutes before I saw this post, I installed a application called "eMMC check" form play store and for the result i got "No san chip". Can anyone who is aware of this problem tell me what does that really mean. Does that mean having No san chip causes the brick, or having the san chip causes the brick or this application is to fool guys like us who is too much worry about this problem.
This app is for an older phone with brick bug. This is of no use for galaxy s3 or note 2. You will get the correct info about your hardware but brick status is of no use to you.
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By the way "no. sane chip" means the phone does not have brick bug hardware. It is good. But as I said it is of no use.
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I get the same message on my ohone (thats its sane) but after reading online I do have the ill chip.
My phone is ith custom FW and I dont want it to die suddenly. Its got 2 years warranty and it will be sad to loose it because of a stupid bug and not get it repaired.
I might go back to stock abd reset the counter to 0 and wait and see how thos develope later.
K.
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So that means i am safe right. I get No San chip
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Not to worry, it seems like someone has fixed the brick bug. Go to the link below to read more about SDS fix :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927852
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yeh its kind of worrying if the S3 has the issue, since Note2 shares so much of its little brother, perhaps Samsung should get on top of this before it starts to impact peoples phones. Since the Note2 isnt that old, its possible will start to see this issue in the not to distant future. Is SAMSUNG not good in the flash memory market anymore?
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I only had my phone for about 9 months now. Just recently i encountered this problem.
My phone will not charge unless i hold the wire in a weird way. It get detected by pc fine with no problems, but i do have to hold it a weird way again to into storage. I've tried every charger there is in my house including the stock one they gave me with the phone. Changed the rom and still. I even bought a new battery, still same problem. The only way for me to charge it without having a nervous breakdown is externally charging the batteries.
Whats the best way to handle this? Do i do this through insurance? Do i got a warranty of some sort?
Also, I'm currently rooted and have a custom Rom if i do go through insurance or warranty i need to know if there is any extra steps other then unrooting and going back to stock ics.
Thanks ahead of time.
Call T-Mobile or chat with them. Go through warranty with them. They'll tell you to call back from a different phone if you're on that phone because they want you to factory reset it. From my experience, that doesn't do anything. I just pretend that I am since i know it's a hardware problem..they tell you to do it anyways because it's just protocol.
Say the problem is still present and they will issue a warranty exchange and charge $5 for overnight shipping
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Oh and just Odin back to stock if you can.if not flash a stock Rom and delete super user
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Teo032 said:
Call T-Mobile or chat with them. Go through warranty with them. They'll tell you to call back from a different phone if you're on that phone because they want you to factory reset it. From my experience, that doesn't do anything. I just pretend that I am since i know it's a hardware problem..they tell you to do it anyways because it's just protocol.
Say the problem is still present and they will issue a warranty exchange and charge $5 for overnight shipping
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Oh and just Odin back to stock if you can.if not flash a stock Rom and delete super user
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Thanks for your help!
currently i have a Galaxy s3 i9300,and im afraid of sudden death and im gonna sell my s3.
and i decided to buy a Galaxy note2,and my friend says note 2 also have that Sudden Death issue.is it true? :laugh:
If you have warranty Samsung will replace your handset even if you have rooted your device. And I've heard they are going to release a new update to tackle that issue with sudden death. It also affects a very few number of devices.
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Also if you do have that issue with your device it usually happens within the first 200 days of usage so if you're lucky you'll still be covered.
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Thanks mate,I dont have warranty thats why im worried,tomorrow im going to buy a note 2.:thumbup:
Sorry for my bad English.
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Thanks mate,I dont have warranty thats why im worried,tomorrow im going to buy a note 2.:thumbup:
Sorry for my bad English.
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All the best! And since you haven't got warranty it shouldn't be much of an issue to root your device and install custom rom.
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Long story short my phone is hard bricked (I think that is what its called). I can go into recovery mode (Home+Down+Power) and then when I press up it says:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME:
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: NO
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
Pretty must im wondering since it says NO do I still have my warranty with Sprint (US)?
A hard brick implies your device doesn't even power on. Seeing as it does, I'd wager dollars to doughnuts that it is a soft-brick and recoverable by you. What symptoms make you think you have a brick?
I'm trying to put a stock recovery on the phone and when I use Odin it keeps saying it needs a pit. When I tried three different pits that I found none of them worked.
It's SDS, don't do anything and send to service station. Yes your score is fine to claim warranty. Just ask them, it was very fine till end of day, when you see after woke up, device never turned on. You don't know anything about flashing.
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A hard brick implies your device doesn't even power on.
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It can.
I have seen lots case of hard brick (sds) having accessible download mode, sometimes even recovery too.
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It's SDS, don't do anything and send to service station. Yes your score is fine to claim warranty. Just ask them, it was very fine till end of day, when you see after woke up, device never turned on. You don't know anything about flashing.
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It can.
I have seen lots case of hard brick (sds) having accessible download mode, sometimes even recovery too.
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so you are saying even if download mode is accessible...with SDS we cannot repair the phone ourselves by flashing a stock ROM using Odin???
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No
SDS is hard brick. It needs motherboard replacement.
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Ok, I was under the impression that SDS caused the phone to never turn on again, thus the name: Sudden Death Syndrome... not ever being affected by it, I had no idea that wasn't the case.
For future reference, what information in this thread tells you this is SDS?
what about yellow triangle
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It's SDS, don't do anything and send to service station. Yes your score is fine to claim warranty. Just ask them, it was very fine till end of day, when you see after woke up, device never turned on. You don't know anything about flashing.
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It can.
I have seen lots case of hard brick (sds) having accessible download mode, sometimes even recovery too.
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Please help, I just have 2 weeks left for warranty.... I have the following
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME:
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: NO
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
and The Yellow triangle while entering the download mode!!!
should I take it for warranty or should I corrupt the boot loader as mentioned in this !! (search this on youtube Samsung and the eMMC Data Corruption Bug), i am not able to put links!!
which will not let them know if there was ever a triangle as phone will not boot at all!!!
Thanks!!
You can send to service station, your warranty Is intact
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Just in case anyone was wondering I took my phone to sprint and they were like "omg the motherboard just fried" and then they gave me a new one immediately and I did not have to pay anything.
I had a similar report when my N2 died of SDS. I received a message back from the Samsung service point here that my warranty was void because of the fact that the last line indicated a modified phone.
They agreed that SDS was acknowledged by Samsung on the S3 but not on the N2. I have filed a complaint against the decision and had to go to Samsung directly myself to have the warranty void decision overruled. Eventually Samsung agreed on a warranty repair though they made it sound as it was just because they did me a big favour, and not as it was a company all-customer-wide decision. This process took me nearly 2 months!
After I received my phone back, it was working again, though it did not register on the network. Somehow it lost its IMEI. I could have sent it back to the service point but as I didn't want to lose my phone again for a long time, I restored an EFS backup I still had. That fixed my problem!
A few days after getting my phone back, I read on a local tech site that Samsung has loosened they strictness on similar repairs so hopefully others suffering from sds benefit!
I checked my chip before and after the repair. Before I had a bad chip. After the fix the tool reported that the new chip was sane, thank god...
Now my next dilemma..... Get the Note3? ..
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After rooting my Samsung Note2, and after 10 month from purchasing, I started to notice that its auto reboot.
I took it to the samsung shop, and they told me I have to replace the motherboard.
But because my note note2 was rooted, I had to pay QAR 1000.00 for the new motherboard.
After investigating I red about something called sane chip, which happens to some samsung devices with no reason, and I used a tool from the market called EMMC check, and it found a sane chip in my note2.
my questions are :
1- Does rooting cause this sane chip??
2- How may I get my warranty back after i root my device?
Yes, maybe not.
Last Samsung device i used was a s2 and 3, are you able to use the device at all? Does it power on like normal?
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No
dj2muchxx said:
Last sanding device i used was a s2 and 3, are you able to use the device at all? Does it power on like normal?
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Actually it looks so normal, but when i open any application, it stuck, and auto reboot.
I paid for a new motherboard and now it's ok, I just wanted to share what happened, and to know if i should root it again or not.
xinc.sgt said:
Actually it looks so normal, but when i open any application, it stuck, and auto reboot.
I paid for a new motherboard and now it's ok, I just wanted to share what happened, and to know if i should root it again or not.
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Sane Chip is an updated version of the MMC chip fitted to the motherboard. - The original Chip had a flaw and failure caused Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS). Newer versions of the chip fix the problem.
If you have the insane chip, then sooner or later the phone will die.
Rooting makes no difference to the hardware components at all.
What do you advice me to do?
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Sane Chip is an updated version of the MMC chip fitted to the motherboard. - The original Chip had a flaw and failure caused Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS). Newer versions of the chip fix the problem.
If you have the insane chip, then sooner or later the phone will die.
Rooting makes no difference to the hardware components at all.
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Sooner or later my phone will die, is there any solution or anything i should do to it.
i think i have this sane chip even after i had the motherboard replaced.
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Sooner or later my phone will die, is there any solution or anything i should do to it.
i think i have this sane chip even after i had the motherboard replaced.
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SDS related problem was found in 4.1.1 roms. It was sortout in latest 4.1.2 roms. So if you want to root phone, update to 4.1.2 rom and then root.
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My firmware was 4.1.2 when SDS happened.
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Sooner or later my phone will die, is there any solution or anything i should do to it.
i think i have this sane chip even after i had the motherboard replaced.
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You seem a bit confused about this chip.
Version 1 of the chip has the bug and can get SDS. it's known as the insane (crazy) chip.
Later versions (mine says 0xf7) DO NOT have the bug and DO NOT suffer from SDS. This is known as the sane (not cfazy) chip.
If you have 0xf7 then don't worry
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Hey guys I don't know if that was a question before but I cracked my screen and I am getting a replacement today and I was wondering what OS the phone going to be and if it comes with lollipop can I revert back to kit kat if I mess up my device?
If it has bob7 or earlier yes. Otherwise no. Ask if they have a white one if all of the black are updated past bob7. in my area the white moves slower and is more likley to have older os.
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Some reps will try to update phone before they hand it over. Ask them not to.
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If it has bob7 or earlier yes. Otherwise no. Ask if they have a white one if all of the black are updated past bob7. in my area the white moves slower and is more likley to have older os.
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Some reps will try to update phone before they hand it over. Ask them not to.
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I just got my replacement and it is bof5. But I am getting a new pone soon so I might not root it. I went through the insurance company.
It all depends on what they give you. I had 2 replacement phones in the last 4 weeks. The first one came with BOF5. The second one came with BOB7. I think they gave me the BOB7 phone because I complained about severe lag on the BOF5. Maybe it was a coincidence I'm just glad they gave it to me lol
I'd say wait until the new Moto X comes out and get that, worth every penny for the insane specs you get. I cannot wait to leave the Note 4. Samsung is by far the worst brand I have ever moved to lol but I make the best of it by developing and giving support to others!