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I just noticed the new update when I opened the Kies in the PC and happily updated in my XP machine hoping that my long pending FW update which I was unable to do can now be done.
But you will not believe, my xp still struggles to detect my device even in this new update, I wonder what kind of update Samsung makes and if you see the version number there is a huge jump between .10071 to .10074 but for what.
Now I am trying to update my Windows 7 machine and let me see if I can succeed atleast there.
i had good device detection in previous version of kies
but in the new version it sucks
also the download said 123mb but went to almost 200mb
in both versions samsung apps store doesnt work, maybe its just for bada os.
UPDATE: yes finally I succeeded with the update from Kies. The upgrade worked fine like a breeze on my Windows 7.
People try the new update, as far as I can see the new update is not available in the samsung websites. When you open your Kies on your PCs it automatically notifies of an update. Goodwork Samsung atlast, Kies works and now I am ready for the froyo release.
sany said:
People try the new update, as far as I can see the new update is not available in the samsung websites. When you open your Kies on your PCs it automatically notifies of an update. Goodwork Samsung atlast, Kies works and now I am ready for the froyo release.
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I would try, if I could download it some day in the near future. Now I have got 266 MB of 123 MB and sit several hours to watch those little pieces to flow from internet to my hard disk. It is senseless waste to update it for downloading a file at a time. Doesn't Samsung anymore can make an installation package?
Installed the Android SDK and now after the update on KIES, it won't go past 'detecting phone'.
My phone won't connect completely via Kies mode anymore. Oh my.
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Same lost my connection but not sure it was an application installed previously or Kies.
Uninstalled Kies and installed the previous version but still no go same problem.
Has to be something on my Galaxy causing the issue.
I read someone said to format the internal SD and external SD to ensure no files are on it then sync.
That would mean re-installing or backup restore all my applications again.
This is just nuts.
can't find the URL to download this
Some people are sleeping over at Samsung. What a crappy software!!
I hope there will be some good Kies alternatives soon..
Hi All, I've been trying to get this phone working since Monday. I have installed and uninstalled the different versions of KIES a number of times. Still no joy. Once, today, it recognized the connection, but wouldn't sync to outlook, for me to be able to transfer my contact details across. Great phone (I think!), but awful software. I hope there's a 'breakthrough' soon!
Kies works fine if you proceed like this:
Check: Galaxy > Settings > About Phone > USB > Kies (ask for BlaBla will not work)
WakeUp the phone from sleep mode
Plug the bloody thing...
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait UNTIL you can see the device in Windowz (about 2 minutes)
Start Kies
e volià
hanzi54 said:
Kies works fine if you proceed like this:
Check: Galaxy > Settings > About Phone > USB > Kies (ask for BlaBla will not work)
WakeUp the phone from sleep mode
Plug the bloody thing...
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait UNTIL you can see the device in Windowz (about 2 minutes)
Start Kies
e volià
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Not necessarily. Kies is one of the WORST applications I EVER USED! Terrible from the word go, NEVER been able to sync from phone to Outlook. Also, Outlook to Phone might happen once in a 100 times you try. Else it will give errors like "value does not fall within expected range". What the hell does that mean, hopefully Samsung knows and better improve the product.
Prankey said:
Not necessarily. Kies is one of the WORST applications I EVER USED!
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I can't resist asking... have you used Nokia PC Suite or - even better, a lot better - the latest, freshly compiled Ovi Suite?
Tears flood my eyes just thinking about using it once again. And I know I'll have to. Kinda like that nasty job you hate but keep having to shuffle yourself to since you depend on it due to lack of skills, education or any fu"#$ing alternative ideas/options....
Yes. You hate it. But you'll use it again. And again. You all will.
Beowulf_pt said:
I can't resist asking... have you used Nokia PC Suite or - even better, a lot better - the latest, freshly compiled Ovi Suite?
Tears flood my eyes just thinking about using it once again. And I know I'll have to. Kinda like that nasty job you hate but keep having to shuffle yourself to since you depend on it due to lack of skills, education or any fu"#$ing alternative ideas/options....
Yes. You hate it. But you'll use it again. And again. You all will.
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Nokia PC Suite is/was horrible and slow but at least it connected, can't say the same about KIES... personally I've only had little trouble with it but there's a whole lot of people who haven't been as lucky. Thank god we can use mass memory without starting up KIES
I have encountered the connection issue as well but that was after i installed Launcher Pro. into my i9000. Once i remove it, the connection run smoothly without any problem.
Hope this help.
when i updated kies i couldnt connect either , my phones said it was connected but kies begged to differ.
i uninstalled kies and all reg keys and downloaded the full kies and voila it worked again.
to the above poster get homeswitcher from market and you wont have to uninstall launcher pro , just switch when you want to connect to kies
regards
I think it's software conflict which are causing the issues.
I had a fully working Kies with the exception of the Calendar sync but after several application installations I can now not connect to my computer by USB.
I'm thinking of noting down all my software installations and resetting my phone as well as formating my internal memory. See if Kies comes back up.
Then I will install my software bit by bit testing each time to see which software might be causing the conflict.
chtan said:
I have encountered the connection issue as well but that was after i installed Launcher Pro. into my i9000. Once i remove it, the connection run smoothly without any problem.
Hope this help.
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I installed home switcher so i can use the default launcher when i need to use kies.
Yesterday i updated kies and it took over 3hrs to download using the update function.
I wish Samsung would learn the magic of OTA.
(and remove all kinds of bloatware like touchwiz)
I wish i still had my old N1.
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Nokia PC Suite is/was horrible and slow but at least it connected, can't say the same about KIES... personally I've only had little trouble with it but there's a whole lot of people who haven't been as lucky. Thank god we can use mass memory without starting up KIES
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Yes mine did connect last week. I'm glad I installed the latest suggested upgrade build with the "Several Stability Enhancements" on the change log. It did connect fine this time.
And after the nicely animated Synch I'm now busy deleting the several randomly-added duplicated entries to both my calendar, notes and contacts on both the device (E72) and Outlook 2007.
That was useful, because it connected. And plus, sorting out all the mess manually will be a great past-time and distraction while I await for Samsung and Broadcom to figure out why gps tracks look like something your 3 year old drew on the living room wallet when you left that CD pen forgotten on the table.
Its been like 2 hours now downloading kies from the update popup while trying to run previous kies. Says its 100% dowloaded but still keeps downloading files like 980mb/123mb and to make it worse i keep having this popup from kies saying "The Internet is not connected. Do you want to check the connection and try again?" theres a Retry button i press in order to continue the download. I have windows 7 x64 and internet speed of 16mb so i dont get it. I thought of going to sleep and let it download all night, but its impossible since i need to press the retry button every minute when i get the pop up.
TheCarl said:
I installed home switcher so i can use the default launcher when i need to use kies.
Yesterday i updated kies and it took over 3hrs to download using the update function.
I wish Samsung would learn the magic of OTA.
(and remove all kinds of bloatware like touchwiz)
I wish i still had my old N1.
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Thanks for the home switcher suggestion, for whatever reason i don't actually have to switch out of launcher pro when i use KIES.
Also, someone i correspond with here in PMs since we are both English speakers in Korea, hasn't installed KIES because he's on a mac. Yesterday we were talking about Swype and since i had asked him about his fw he brought up that he received an OTA update. I was shocked to say the least, and his firmware is as current as mine, however he didn't get the first three updates that i did through KIES.
I have to say, the SGS forum seems full of people experiencing problems, usually of a bricking nature...
Is there something inherently unstable about the SGS or is the process of flashing it just really dangerous? I used to have a HTC Touch HD and I didn't remember the forums being this full of problems...
it's Windows and its horrible way of controlling the USB ports
i always have problems with USB in Windows, with any USB device on any version of windows.
on Linux it's simply it either works, or it doesn't work, no grey areas
Windows have lots of grey areas, like USB works but is not detected properly, or detects properly but the speed is crippled because something else is also on the same bus, or is detected and working, but the port is very slow operating at USB 1.0 when it should be at USB 2.0 speed, etc, etc, etc
all kinds of random problems with USB in windows
that's why some people flash fine no problem one day, then next day try again and it fails
Well I had problems with KIES for a while, and just as I got that working and tried flashing my phone (was running JM1 tried JPM Froyo) and its not worked since, just sent it back to Phones4U today hoping they can re-flash it. I've been flashing phones for years now having previously owned 2 HTC WinMo phones and NEVER had a glitch like this.
I think there are a few serious issues with this phone that Samsung need to address or seriously risk alienating customers. I won't have another Samsung handset if this keeps happening to mine
Thats a pretty weird selection on that poll, lol.
Yes IMO the SGS is quite unstable at times, especially with early firmwares and stock - JF3 was absolutely appalling beyond belief IMO - nearly sold it in my first week!
With the later firmwares and with the voodoo fix, it is a LOT better, but still far from perfect, and the GPS never worked properly for me.
As for flashing being "dangerous", I couldn't disagree more. These phones are hard to brick. I bricked my N1 today but I still got it back, it just took an hour!
SGS is pretty hard to brick, as long as you have the 3 buttons operational, you would have no problem recovering from a bad flash
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Thats a pretty weird selection on that poll, lol.
Yes IMO the SGS is quite unstable at times, especially with early firmwares and stock - JF3 was absolutely appalling beyond belief IMO - nearly sold it in my first week!
With the later firmwares and with the voodoo fix, it is a LOT better, but still far from perfect, and the GPS never worked properly for me.
As for flashing being "dangerous", I couldn't disagree more. These phones are hard to brick. I bricked my N1 today but I still got it back, it just took an hour!
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I think most of the problems with flashing through kies or odin is just that the new installation can't boot because of some conflict with previously installed software or setting. Since a factory reset seems to usually fix the problem. It just sucks that so many phones don't have 3br mode.
Why only 2 options? 3rd option should have been: No biggie as long as you have 3br-mode
My bet is = get a good cable (yes, this Samsung one IS crap -> I prefer Nokia's),
get a good motherboard (not top of the line, why would you?, not budget either)
make sure ur system/USB port is stable (u might want to undo overclock for the process... still I got mine fsb OC'd from 1066 to 1642 and still no prob)
make sure you have good drivers, and no viruses! (important! and underestimated)
And yes, 3button download mode is A MUST.
Plug in/flash/sit back and relax...
Flashed mine like 30-50 times already, not a single problem (besides the missclicks ;p)
My SGS and KIES work together happily. Never have any problem flashing via KIES. The 3-button combo (either download or recovery mode) is a must. Waiting for Froyo to be distributed in my country (Indonesia) now.
Never had issues with flashing with kies nor Odin3
A lot of the people who "bricked" it though soon managed to unbrick it.. Many of us freaked out and posted one of those threads at SOME point of time.
Most of the real bricks seem to be:
1) People flashing wrong ROM's
2) The IMEI thing
It's less riskier these days anyway probably, because of the existence of the Riff Box.
I've not been able to connect to Samsung Kies since I got my phone (well, through Mass Storage yes, but not y'know, Kies).
And this has probably been posted somewhere before, but considering 2.2 is out I think it should be reposted.
ttp://arvindgaba.com/computer/samsung-galaxy-s/mtp-usb-device-failed-to-install-for-samsung-galaxy-s-kies-resolved/
That guide fixed it for me. I mean, I tried a lot, read around in the forum, found nothing. So after, what.. almost two months, voilá. Try it if you're havin' problems with Kies.
Hello guys, I am having some problems with the official Update froyo for samsung vibrant. I can't answer any call and the status bar doesn't work. Anyone else is having the same problem. I am going to downgrade my phone with odin to android 2.1 and then instal the rom axura or Nero.
dont have this problem
Mine has been stock ROM since I bought it last fall, upgraded to the official 2.2 KA6 and experienced huge lag issues, status bar would sometimes take up to 5 seconds to open after a swipe, apps would lag, etc. GPS was never fixed for me. No problems with calls though. I went back to JFD and then flashed Axura. No lag, GPS works (<10s lock, excellent accuracy), etc. Just do it, I should have done it long ago.
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I am having a problem as well, have search not just this one but many. I can hookup mini kies and it starts the download gets about 1/3 of the way through and stops, says " cannot upgrade, try to pull the battery and reinstall and try again" have tried that four times? Suggestions anyone, I have not even heard anyone have this problem, have tried T-mobile, XDA, Android Community forums and nothing.
Anyone?
Have you tried resetting the phone?
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No have been trying to avoid that, I will try it though. Did not want to redo everything I have on the phone. Oh well, I will give it a try.
Thanks,
try to do this.
First check if you have checked on usb debugging. Samsung mini kies has to detect you phone now. Upgrade your phone
No I didnt, I will try that first. I have to charge the phone now, I did not realize that was not checked.
The ICS update finally appeared in France for stock Note.
It appears the update was pulled shortly after because a lot of users bricked their Notes in the process.
Moral of the story: don't update as soon as you see an update, but wait...
Samsung really sucks at software development.
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as tu une source s'il te plait merci
Samsung france facebook page for the source.
SFR update and XEF for the short time i spent there.
i'm in the same case except that i'm booted and running( for me was a FOTA update, wich installed nicely except with a "failed " message after the fist boot), but the phone cannot be mounted by any ways under windows now ( even with drivers reinstalled ).
But some seems to be blocked in bootloop
Epic fail on this one, especially just before a week-end.
I'm one of the lucky few that got it to boot - sigh come on Samsung!
Managed to upgrade to ICS with 'failed to upgrade firmware' warning.
Missing S Note application, not sure whatelse it might be missing.
You can manually install S Note app by looking up apk file.
Search 'S Note app xda' from google if anyone having similar problem.
Kies 2.0 is recognizing phone as well. I can link screenshot if anyone need for w/e reason if it may help them.
Also, battery drainage problem still there i believe.
Tried the infamous aeroplane mode method, not so sure if it helped:
1. Turn off touch sound and screen lock sound from setting->setting
2. Turn on aeroplane mode
3. Switch off phone
4. Take out battery for 10sec
5. Boot and wait till everything loads
6. Turn off aeroplane mode
App called 'Play Movies' was installed along with ICS, but it gives 404 connection error for 'movie rental' section.
Other than that, Note is running really smooth with ICS.
Firmware version shows up as PDA:LQ3 / PHONE:LPT / CSC:LP1 (XEF)
Wasted time trying to download this so-called update
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When I see that, I'm happy to install safe custom roms...
It's a shame for such a company to provide such crappy roms...
Well I am one of those who got stuck on the infamous Samsung logo...
Stock Note, purchased in November, never rooted, 2 GB updates via OTA since November, CSC XEF.
Yesterday morning I got the upgrade notice, did it OTA and on rebooting stuck on Samsung screen...
As an idiot I had been waiting for the "official" ICS ROM.
Thanks Samsung, lesson learned.
Many phone manufacturers will tell you to stay away from custom roms to avoid bricking your phone but to brick your device when updating on an OFFICIAL stock rom after receiving a notification is definitely UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! What is Samsung doing to this expensive device - after the EMMC Bug episode where many people have bricked their Note, now we have another update problem!
Samsung's reputation will take a hard punch with these things if the press writes about this. I think most people who bricked their Note will be fed up and avoid Samsung's phones in the futur.....
For those who want to follow this :
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileFrance
Final5k said:
Many phone manufacturers will tell you to stay away from custom roms to avoid bricking your phone but to brick your device when updating on an OFFICIAL stock rom after receiving a notification is definitely UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! What is Samsung doing to this expensive device - after the EMMC Bug episode where many people have bricked their Note, now we have another update problem!
Samsung's reputation will take a hard punch with these things if the press writes about this. I think most people who bricked their Note will be fed up and avoid Samsung's phones in the futur.....
For those who want to follow this :
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileFrance
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totally agree... it would have been good for them if they silently provide fix for the emmc bug... staying on GB has become the best solution to all this crap..
I have to say that I'm glad to hear of this. At least it's not just me!!!
My French note got the update yesterday and although it's not hung up or bricked, it certainly has huge issues. Running so hot and battery discharging even when connected to PC by usb. Using wall charger is barely keeping up with the drain even when not using phone.
Have done battery pull and cache wipe twice. No change. Factory reset, nothing either.
Swype not working. Premium suite totally missing. Really disappointing.
Probably not worth waiting for them to figure it out. Downloading UK version now.
I left my note on overnight under the following condition.
Wifi off
Bluetooth off
Data off
Auto rotation off
Gps off
Silent mode on
Power saving off
Between 1am and 10am battery % changed from 81% to 79%.
Quite satisfied with standby drainage.
I just did aeroplane methid as i mentioned on page 1.
Not using any battery save apps.
However when using apps such as dolphin browser, s note, s memo, there seem to be heavy battery drainage issue.
Charged fully then used the browser for approx. 30min and it was on 90%.