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My S3i9300 is stuck on the start up screen and wont move. The charging has been crazy for a while. I tried the up volume, home and power button at the same time and nothing happened. I tried the down volume home and power and the warning screen came on. Please let me know what can be done/

I would like to be able to get my picture off the phone.

please help!

thanks
 
Hello and welcome to the forum. Sorry for the delay:)

The first thing I'd try is removing the battery for a couple of minutes. While the batteries out hold power and home for 10 to 20 seconds.

If your phone still won't boot, turn it off again and this time after pressing power continuously press menu and hopefully your phone will boot into safe mode.

If there's still no luck try recovery mode again (volume up, power and home). When trying recovery mode do you see a message in the top left saying recovery is booting? If you see that release the power button but keep holding home and volume up. If you manage to boot into recovery clear cache and then reboot.

If none of those work you will probably need to reflash your firmware using Odin but we'll cross that bridge if we need to.
 
Thanks mate.
Can you go into settings, scroll down to About Phone and take a screenshot or check what android version it says its on?
What country are u in btw?
 
Do you remember when was the last time the phone asked you to take an update mate? it would have downloaded the update then asked you to install it then rebooted itself :thumbup:
 
Would you be able to boot into download mode (volume down, power and home) and post back what it says. If it mentions knox that'll mean you have the latest knox enabled firmware with the locked bootloader.
 
okay this is what is says in the top left conrner

odin mode
product name: (none)
Custom binary download: no
current binary: Samsung official
System status: Custom
 
That means you still have the unlocked bootloader so you should be able to flash pretty much any i9300 firmware. Just don't go for the latest ones as they will give you the locked bootloader. I've been away from the gs3 scene for a while so I can't really say which firmware the locked one came in. Maybe funky will be able to tell you that.

Edit: have you rooted your phone? I'm hoping you say you have as if you haven't it isn't good news. The only way the system status will show up as custom is if you've rooted your phone or if it's suffered from the brick bug. If it's the brick bug the only solution is a professional fix.
 
Funky has been out of the samsung scene for a few months now lol so this 4.3 thing doesnt make sense to me but yeah its the samsung 4.3 update that changed the bootloader, ive just read of the problems it causes. Im on 4.4.2 and wouldnt touch sammy firmware again. Hope it isnt the brick bug thing man..
 
I'm really not sure where to point you to as they'll just replace you're motherboard so I don't think there's much hope of getting data off
 
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