Bricked S3, should I be concerned about data on phone?

[Chainsaw13]

Hey, guys, last week, my S3 just stopped working. After giving me issues with staying active, I came home and found it utterly unresponsive. Would not power it back on, could not even get it to do a hard reboot. It's dead. I contacted AT&T, and they've sent a replacement S3, which is great, except now I have to reset all of the settings and apps I had on my old phone. Now I have to send the original phone back, because I just can't afford to pay to keep a non-working phone. My issue is, I was never able to get any info that might have been native on the phone, or erase it. I get that that's probably all lost, but my concern is that, if the phone is restored at the factory, that info might be up for grabs. I do have some sensitive info that could be on there, in the form of downloads and saves from the internet browsers I was using. Is this just paranoid thought, or should I be genuinely worried about it?

 

[BRAINZ2013]

Hello and welcome to the forums. I see you having a problem with a s3 did you try kies to update . And did you ever have battery problems with it . When u get the new one try the battery in the old phone before sending back if it works do a hard or factory reset

 

[funkylogik]

Try holding in Power, Volume Up, and Home in all at the same time and see what happens :thumbup:

 

[Chainsaw13]

I'll give Kies a try, but I'm not sure if I can pull anything from it. The issue is I rarely got a chance to back anything up. Stuff like pics and files aren't the issue, it's stuff like texts and forms being unavailable on my new phone, I'm concerned if they end up being available if the old phone is restored at the factory. Also, I really didn't feel like reinstalling/resetting my old apps, was hoping it'd go back to normal on the old phone, but it doesn't look likely.

As far as I can tell, I had no battery issues leading up to it bricking.

Try holding in Power, Volume Up, and Home in all at the same time and see what happens :thumbup:

Tried it, didn't get anything back up. It looks like it's a solid brick.

 

[funkylogik]

Did you try the same with volume down too? If so, yeah its a brick and will just get recycled. Dont worry too much about data. They probably go through 100s a day and extracting data is probably quite a task. Nothing someone would do to recover marital pics and the off chance of finding anything of value. Relax :beer: