This phone is really...  Hopeless....

Lets see. While driving, it slipped from my leg and dropped to the car mat. Probably hitting the door on the way I don't know, but the screen cracked. FINE! It wasn't gorilla glass, my own neglect for assuming it is. I just ignored the crack and continue using.

Today, out of no apparent reason, it just died. DIED! Can't boot into recovery, can't boot, flashing from ODIN gives no PIT file error, PIT file given and it shows partition failed. Lol wut?

So my phone is now bricked, by doing nothing. I'm a little tired now to search through the thread for any solution, been doing that for the past couple hours. I did notice there are some people who faced this when doing a sudden death search.

Anyway, since there's no way to unroot the phone now, I'm gonna have to go get a new phone. Great! This is a very nice phone don't get me wrong. But dropping from my lap to the CAR MAT and cracked, and so many people around the world are complaining about this sudden death that happens for no apparent reason, and CANNOT be fixed, I really hope you guys who're considering this phone, to know what I went through.

Buy with risk, this is a fragile phone, VERY fragile phone. Buy with caution.

You put a lot of assumptions there.
First..the phone screen is not unbreakable.  No matter it's Gorilla or Orang Utan glass. .it still break and scratch.

Second..regarding motherboard sudden death..not all the phone have it. Maybe your phone is on the unlucky list. Or maybe something inside mess up when you drop the phone.

Instead of buying new phone..why not you sent it to service centre. You only pay for the crack screen that cost around RM600 while the motherboard is covered by warranty.  That if your phone is SME set la. .

noted
from now on
no more Samsung galaxy s3 for me
I would b getting Samsung galaxy s4

Well, I did say maybe it did hit the door on the way down to the floor mat. My point is, it can break very easily. And if the fall had anything to do with the phone going dead all of a sudden, when there are so many cases online, then I'm really that unlucky.

Anyway man not trying to argue with you. I'll try to bring it to warranty. I don't care about the screen I just want my phone to work, and having noway to unroot this, looks like I won't even get my warranty :/

No need unroot..if it can't even power on and go into download mode then chances are..service centre also cannot check anything..lolz

It can still do 1 thing, and that is going into download mode 

aiya... if its dead... sent in to claim your warranty.. my first death didnt unroot cos cant turn on also... so just change... thats it... 2 days out already.... as long you got backup nothing to worry... once got back the phone less than an hour you are good to go with your new Motherboard Phone and ur previous settings is back up already....

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Added on December 16, 2012, 10:11 pm

then reflash lor or restore....

This phone is really...  Hopeless....

Lets see. While driving, it slipped from my leg and dropped to the car mat. Probably hitting the door on the way I don't know, but the screen cracked. FINE! It wasn't gorilla glass, my own neglect for assuming it is. I just ignored the crack and continue using.

Today, out of no apparent reason, it just died. DIED! Can't boot into recovery, can't boot, flashing from ODIN gives no PIT file error, PIT file given and it shows partition failed. Lol wut?

So my phone is now bricked, by doing nothing. I'm a little tired now to search through the thread for any solution, been doing that for the past couple hours. I did notice there are some people who faced this when doing a sudden death search.

Anyway, since there's no way to unroot the phone now, I'm gonna have to go get a new phone. Great! This is a very nice phone don't get me wrong. But dropping from my lap to the CAR MAT and cracked, and so many people around the world are complaining about this sudden death that happens for no apparent reason, and CANNOT be fixed, I really hope you guys who're considering this phone, to know what I went through.

Buy with risk, this is a fragile phone, VERY fragile phone. Buy with caution.

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Added on December 16, 2012, 9:47 pmUpon reading the past couple of post... It seems like you guys are just talking on this topic? Hah way to go. I think my phone died today around 4PM.

err..bro..gorilla glass doesn't means that the glass is like a real gorilla--unbreakable. lol..

the hardness degree for gorilla glass is just around 7 only. try to take some sand and scrub on ur screen u will notice serious scratch over ur screen as the sand hardness degree is higher than 7. 

Dude, I know its not unbreakable. But how big of an impact can it be by dropping from my lap to the car mat? I know gorilla will NOT break under such a simple drop. Even if you factor in the possibility of it knocking the door on the way down.

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Added on December 16, 2012, 10:17 pmAnyway, the sudden death is my problem not the screen crack. If you really want to compare just go see some youtube drop test. You'll notice the S3 will crack and crack the worse among other phones.

Okay..done rooting to one latest batch of new S3 (thanks to fallenangelz ). This new phone comes with Jellybean right out from the box instead of ICS. Root it the usual way with CF-root 6.4 that comes with custom CWM.
And the little red dot appear. TriangleAway and the red dot disappear but it will appear back once you use CWM.
So to avoid using TriangleAway on every time i'm using CWM i flash the old bootloader. And the little pesky red dot disappear permanently

Successfully flash to Omega. Finallyy

This phone is really...  Hopeless....

Lets see. While driving, it slipped from my leg and dropped to the car mat. Probably hitting the door on the way I don't know, but the screen cracked. FINE! It wasn't gorilla glass, my own neglect for assuming it is. I just ignored the crack and continue using.

Today, out of no apparent reason, it just died. DIED! Can't boot into recovery, can't boot, flashing from ODIN gives no PIT file error, PIT file given and it shows partition failed. Lol wut?

So my phone is now bricked, by doing nothing. I'm a little tired now to search through the thread for any solution, been doing that for the past couple hours. I did notice there are some people who faced this when doing a sudden death search.

Anyway, since there's no way to unroot the phone now, I'm gonna have to go get a new phone. Great! This is a very nice phone don't get me wrong. But dropping from my lap to the CAR MAT and cracked, and so many people around the world are complaining about this sudden death that happens for no apparent reason, and CANNOT be fixed, I really hope you guys who're considering this phone, to know what I went through.

Buy with risk, this is a fragile phone, VERY fragile phone. Buy with caution.

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Added on December 16, 2012, 9:47 pmUpon reading the past couple of post... It seems like you guys are just talking on this topic? Hah way to go. I think my phone died today around 4PM.

You put a lot of assumptions there.
First..the phone screen is not unbreakable.  No matter it's Gorilla or Orang Utan glass. .it still break and scratch.

Second..regarding motherboard sudden death..not all the phone have it. Maybe your phone is on the unlucky list. Or maybe something inside mess up when you drop the phone.

Instead of buying new phone..why not you sent it to service centre. You only pay for the crack screen that cost around RM600 while the motherboard is covered by warranty.  That if your phone is SME set la. .

noted
from now on
no more Samsung galaxy s3 for me
I would b getting Samsung galaxy s4

It's not possible to reflash or restore man. I've tried every possible way. I've been using Android for years and have been rooting and flashing and doing all sorts of things and none of it works now. Maybe I am missing something, so here's the situation.

1. The phone cannot boot into recovery
2. ODIN fails saying no PIT file available
3. When PIT file is provided, it says partition failed

There are many other things I tried but basically I think the key ones are up there. Any other things I'm missing out?

It's not possible to reflash or restore man. I've tried every possible way. I've been using Android for years and have been rooting and flashing and doing all sorts of things and none of it works now. Maybe I am missing something, so here's the situation.

1. The phone cannot boot into recovery
2. ODIN fails saying no PIT file available
3. When PIT file is provided, it says partition failed

There are many other things I tried but basically I think the key ones are up there. Any other things I'm missing out?

so you means if use the cwm recovery come with the cf root 6.4 will got red dot ?
me now using cwm touch recovery 6.0.1.2 @@

The red dot comes with new bootloader..not because of CWM though both CWM or touch recovery or TriangleAway allso will trigger it if your phone using new bootloader.

is yours is SME set , try to flash back stock msian rom . If it's AP and u know which country it's from , flash back the same ROM . If i remember , if mobo failure , cant even boot into download mode . Not 2 sure , best ask some forumers here if they can boot into download mode when they have mobo failure

it can go into download mode right... if you can ODIN mean can i suppose...

Flash the phone cant?

new bootloader ??
new batch only got eh ?

I dont really know which batch or what firmware bring in that new bootloader. Mostly it comes together with FOTA updates.
I think it started with Jellybean...ICS should be using the old bootloader.