Unfortunately my galaxy bothers and sisters, I am a victim of said failure. My pebble blue went down about a week ago for no apparent reason. I had just finished sending a Whatsapp message and rested the phone down on the bed next to me. A few moments later i saw the notification light on, so i figured that i had gotten a response from the person i was conversing with. However, when i pressed the home button nothing happened. I have never had to do a battery pull with the phone but no matter what i did it refused to come on. So I pulled the battery, put it back in and still nothing. Plugged in the phone hoping it was the battery that just needed charging but still nothing. Not even the red notification light came on. No need to tell you guys but my heart sank. For that whole night I could not sleep. The next day I took the phone back to the store i bought it from with receipt in hand only to find out that i was just outside the warranty given by the store. The guy there told me they only honor a six month warranty and as i had bought the phone on June the 3rd and it was Wednesday December 13th i was out of luck. Needless to say i was furious. After much complaining he said they would try to repair the phone and failing that he would sell me a new phone for half price. Now in my country there are no Samsung repair centers so i took him up on his offer. I still needed a phone to use in the mean time so i bought a cheap nokia asha 311 for 100 bucks. As my luck would have it a few days later he call back to let me know they could not get it fixed and i could come and get the new one. Let me tell you those three days without my GS3 were pure torture. The little nokia worked fine but it was just not up to marks with what i had been accustomed to. I was faced with the dilemma of choosing a different phone or going back with another s3. As I had loved the GS3 so much and it never failed me until now i got a new one, but should it happen again I will have lost all confidence in Samsung and may have to switch.