Samsung Galaxy Note 2

[Toocool]

androidfreak........need ur help man.

i came to know just now that even Note 2 has s3 sds bug(sudden death syndrome) , screenshot is of emmc app from playstore which tells what kind of chip i have and i have the fatal chip inside.

i hope that samsung has already updated the software updates with patch but i cannot further understand the issue , u are on top of the android dude , can u please find out ???


looks like i can never ever root othis phone and use custom rom ever as it will be highly risky affair now, as software patch is a temporary patch and i will be needing to be stock to avoid issue

 

[Nishant]

Afaik Note 2 doesn't have the buggy chip as far as emmc bug is concerned. The affected SoC which has this buggy emmc chip is Exynos 4210 while Note 2 has Exynos 4412. The screenshot states the same, no need to worry.And only s3 is affected by sds. Sds and emmc bug are two different bugs.

 

[Toocool]

Note 2 SDS (sudden death syndrome) - Page 14 - xda-developers

 

[anonuser7]

^That's fixed by an update

 

[Nishant]

Well that guy just says that's the affected chip without any concrete evidence. And no one has reported sds yet i guess.

 

[Toocool]

xda-developers - View Single Post - Note 2 SDS (sudden death syndrome)

 

[Nishant]

Again that guy is just assuming his note 2 died because of this issue. Also, there is no official confirmation or any news which states the note 2 is affected.

 

[Sushubh]

offtopic... but i read about a bug in linux that broke samsung laptops. the damage was irreparable. something related to efi.

Linux desktop enthusiasts have been booting their operating systems of choice on computers designed for Windows for years now. Windows 8, however, poses some unique challenges because systems with the "Designed for Windows 8" logo must ship with the UEFI secure boot mechanism enabled. That prevents the booting of OSes lacking a signature from a trusted Certificate Authority.

The Linux Foundation came up with a general fix that can address a variety of systems, and there are also solutions designed for specific types of computers. It turns out one of those fixes didn't quite work, and now numerous Samsung laptops are being bricked—that is, rendered unusable and unfixable without a motherboard replacement—when users boot Linux using UEFI.

 

[gadgetcrazy]

I also came across the fact that note also had sudden death vulnerability. If the hypothesis is to be believed, the affected chips over a period of time wear off and finally die. Again it is presumed that the update 7 fir s3 released by samsung seems to have fixed the problem. So the newer firmwares (all 4.1.2 roms) for s3 contained the fix. If they had identified the problem, even if note 2 shares the same chip, I believe they would have launched it on an already safe firmware.

 

[Toocool]

Well I hope and think so............. I got 2 back to back updates today itself in the morning :l