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There is a devil in disguise called Kies, which Samsung has unleashed on its victims (customers).
The internet is full of it! Google 'kies' and you Will find only problems from the first page itself!
Don't know what Samsung had in mind when it was released. Working on it is like a hurdle race and the normal user isn't an athlete! Even if you pass on hurdle somehow, another one is waiting for you with a big grin. There is no alternative. Use Odin and your warranty's in trouble.
I have been trying to upgrade my GT-I9000 to 2.2 for days! First Kies won't detect my phone. I tried deleting files with long extensions but it didn't work. After many more alleged solutions I finally had to hunt down all Kies files and registry keys. Reinstalled Kies and it worked. But this was not the end of the story! It detected the phone but won't upgrade it!
"This device firmware cannot be upgraded!!"
Why??
Even the Samsung people did not have the answer.
Another series of possible solutions and finally one worked!
But again this was not the end. Halfway through the firmware download came the 'Cannot connect to remote server'. Only once it had brought misery but it came again, and again, and again.
And until now the end user still lies in vain.....
You came here to complain about Kies.... ????
Dude, just flash it urself, it's easier and safer ....
I would never use Kies to upgrade, hell NO... But goodluck..... U ginna need it
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search on here for Kies Reg Hack and spoof the product code as XEU, then re-connect and it will give you the update.
or just do it the odin way as previously suggested.
Odin, definitely
Use Odin. Got Froyo in my GT I9000 yday with it.
Kies is the worst piece of crappy software I've seen.
Cheers,
Roger
1. Begin here
Use this method heimdall
2. Then here
3. Finally here
Hope this helps...
Fremen567 said:
You came here to complain about Kies.... ????
Dude, just flash it urself, it's easier and safer ....
I would never use Kies to upgrade, hell NO... But goodluck..... U ginna need it
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Dude, I'm just highlighting Samsung's deeds. Let it be a warning to all who read to stay away from Kies!
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kunjar said:
1. Begin here
Use this method heimdall
2. Then here
3. Finally here
Hope this helps...
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Thanx kunjar!
That sure helps a lot!!
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Turbokat said:
There is a devil in disguise called Kies, which Samsung has unleashed on its victims (customers).
The internet is full of it! Google 'kies' and you Will find only problems from the first page itself!
Don't know what Samsung had in mind when it was released. Working on it is like a hurdle race and the normal user isn't an athlete! Even if you pass on hurdle somehow, another one is waiting for you with a big grin. There is no alternative. Use Odin and your warranty's in trouble.
I have been trying to upgrade my GT-I9000 to 2.2 for days! First Kies won't detect my phone. I tried deleting files with long extensions but it didn't work. After many more alleged solutions I finally had to hunt down all Kies files and registry keys. Reinstalled Kies and it worked. But this was not the end of the story! It detected the phone but won't upgrade it!
"This device firmware cannot be upgraded!!"
Why??
Even the Samsung people did not have the answer.
Another series of possible solutions and finally one worked!
But again this was not the end. Halfway through the firmware download came the 'Cannot connect to remote server'. Only once it had brought misery but it came again, and again, and again.
And until now the end user still lies in vain.....
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before you move to other method, did you try KIES 2.0?
Kies 2.0 suck.............so iTunes-ish!!!! but it is ok for me...the problem is the system performance!!!
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bsamurai said:
before you move to other method, did you try KIES 2.0?
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I have an updated version of kies
Funny. It always worked for me.
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Same here, never really had any problems with KIES. I've flashed numerous times using the reg hack.
I use ODIN only for kernels and modded ROM's.
However, to use ODIN I always have to use my laptop (WinXP) as it gives errors on my desktop PC (Win7).
No problems with Kies here as well, but rejoice ... with 2.2.1 and higher, you can get OTA updates on your SGS.
Dread using kies.it doesnt work on one computer its bricked my other computer.
rtoussaint said:
No problems with Kies here as well, but rejoice ... with 2.2.1 and higher, you can get OTA updates on your SGS.
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Didn't know that, any idea on how you should get the updates (when one is available )?
ota = over the air, which means u download with our phone, no need for pc.
now u need 2e recovery to do that now, because the update has to be signed by samsung(i could be wrong with this, as I didn't use it)
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Sysiphus1981 said:
ota = over the air, which means u download with our phone, no need for pc.
now u need 2e recovery to do that now, because the update has to be signed by samsung(i could be wrong with this, as I didn't use it)
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Thanks for the info!
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Those who did not have any problems must be the luckiest people on Earth!
I had problems with every install on all my machines.
Well im using odin to flash stock firmwares on my phone. Just using Kies for samsung drivers, is that ok?
Only problem I've had with KIES is that I have to plug in my phone before I start KIES or it won't find it. My experience with the software has been mostly positive.(That goes for the old and new versions of KIES)
Regards
I tried to use the previous version of kies to upgrade my gs2 but it never worked. Update would be from:
[KF3/phone:ke7/csc:KD1] to [KI4/phone:KI1/csc:kh2]
Which I'm sure is a big step forward as I haven't been able to update forever. I thought that once I updated Kies I'd finally be able to update my phone. Now when I connect my s2 and hit update firmware, as soon as it asks to backup it loses the connection to the s2. I've reinstalled drivers twice to no avail.
Does Kies just blow as a software or am I doing something wrong.
Kies blows big time - utterly useless... useless at upgrading, useless at backing up. According to their twitter @samsungkies - "Seamless experience with Smarter Kies". That's a joke of a statement. Go with Odin my friend, much less aggro and it works all the time.
^ I so much agree to that post.
Kies never worked for me, not even when my SGS II was used with the stock rom that shipped with it. While there was an update out for quite a long time (> 1 month) it still was showing my version as being current.
Odin is so much better or just as simple: flashing from CWM.
husaam said:
Kies blows big time - utterly useless... useless at upgrading, useless at backing up. According to their twitter @samsungkies - "Seamless experience with Smarter Kies". That's a joke of a statement. Go with Odin my friend, much less aggro and it works all the time.
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I briefly looked at Odin not too long ago, it looked sort of confusing. I'm in another country currently and spend most of my time either (50+ hours a week) working on projects here or exploring the country. As such I don't have much time to learn a new program if it's too confusing. But I'll give it a try and hopefully get to say goodbye to kies forever.
edit: Do I need to root* my s2 to use odin?
aDroidtoRemember said:
I briefly looked at Odin not too long ago, it looked sort of confusing. I'm in another country currently and spend most of my time either (50+ hours a week) working on projects here or exploring the country. As such I don't have much time to learn a new program if it's too confusing. But I'll give it a try and hopefully get to say goodbye to kies forever.
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It's actually quite simply. Most ROMS come with only one file. That can be flashed via PDA. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT, I repeat once again, do NOT, and again: do NOT! tick ANY option in ODIN, unless stated specifically in the ROM's instructions and even then tripple check that you're really about to flash a SGS II firmware.
So as long as you get the right firmware, do not tick anything and just flash it via PDA you should be quite safe. There's always a minimal risk, even if you do everything right but it's very very small.
Try This!
RUN Kies onces its loaded connect phone it will say connecting phone within a short period of time and error message will load, click onto the error message a new window will open, now it will have something like 4 stages. 1st stage will say disconnect cable from phone, once you have done this click on next or the follow up stage. Now this will or should Repair drivers, and now install drivers again once this has been done connect phone and phone will now load in Kies.
XP users may have to reboot PC for driver take effect.
Hope this hepls you.
PS:THIS problem only happen to me on live update, download new kies manually install no problems. Win 7 64bit
Looking at Odin for the first time can be a bit confusing. Once you know the score tho its very easy and quick. Flashing intras files for example is a complete doddle as it's 1 tar file
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Nyssa1104 said:
RUN Kies onces its loaded connect phone it will say connecting phone within a short period of time and error message will load, click onto the error message a new window will open, now it will have something like 4 stages. 1st stage will say disconnect cable from phone, once you have done this click on next or the follow up stage. Now this will or should Repair drivers, and now install drivers again once this has been done connect phone and phone will now load in Kies.
XP users may have to reboot PC for driver take effect.
Hope this hepls you.
PS:THIS problem only happen to me on live update, download new kies manually install no problems. Win 7 64bit
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I've reinstalled the drivers using the connection error troubleshoot, and the phone connects fine to kies. It just loses connection to kies when I try to update the firmware. When I have more time I will most likely just use Odin but I don't want to root my phone in order to do it. Is rooting necessary?
Once you get your head around Odin, its a piece of cake.
Look for Intratech's Official i9100 Firmwares thread in the Original Android Development section, you'll find everything you could possibly need in there (instructions, firmwares etc)
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I've reinstalled the drivers using the connection error troubleshoot, and the phone connects fine to kies. It just loses connection to kies when I try to update the firmware. When I have more time I will most likely just use Odin but I don't want to root my phone in order to do it. Is rooting necessary?
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OK Odin is easy just read the Q&A
link pls...
i just upgraded to 2.1 also and now can't upgrade firmware, just keeps looping in disconnecting and reconnecting never upgrading firmware
Since nobody answered yet... No u don't needa root to get Odin work
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i have had the same connect - disconnect or backup problems with kies (my version is 2.0.3) and have always blamed it on kies but once i tried to restart the phone, everything worked smoothly and i could do all kinds of operations with it. My phone is rooted and the current fw version is XWKJ1 original.
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mertakb said:
i have had the same connect - disconnect or backup problems with kies (my version is 2.0.3) and have always blamed it on kies but once i tried to restart the phone, everything worked smoothly and i could do all kinds of operations with it. My phone is rooted and the current fw version is XWKJ1 original.
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you're are correct for 2.0.3 but the new 2.1 is totally screwed up, crashed my windows even
Gavin.csy said:
i just upgraded to 2.1 also and now can't upgrade firmware, just keeps looping in disconnecting and reconnecting never upgrading firmware
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Just read a solution that works for me on the Dutch tweakers.net website:
- In Windows fully uninstall Kies.
- Download the latest Kies version and reinstall.
After that the upgrade worked for me.
janderk said:
Just read a solution that works for me on the Dutch tweakers.net website:
- In Windows fully uninstall Kies.
- Download the latest Kies version and reinstall.
After that the upgrade worked for me.
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do you have the link for the download, i still find 2.0.3 only, nothing directly 2.1
Windows 7pro (32bit) absolutely none of the problems listed here or on other threads (regardless of stock/custom anything) but.. Odin is easy if you follow instructions and seems much more reliable (see intratechs thread in dev section for instructions)
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It finally worked for me, i don't know what happened why it suddenly decided to work/
One difference i noticed is i got a notification 'Samsung Modem succesfully installed' which i did not get for the past 2 hours of restarting,uninstalling ,installing. It just suddenly came when i connected the phone
Kies is really crazy as hell
I think you may just have to turn off your anti-virus/firewall software while you update. It worked for me.
Hello there!
I Brought the Samsung Galaxy W yesterday, first smartphone, first time user of Android so in other words a noob.
I've been doing a bit of research, and i see there is a 2.3.6, i have tried to update to this via settings/about phone/update but it says "No Update" Also i have tried through Kies which im having trouble with as it just keeps saying "Connecting" when i plug it the usb in and load Kies up.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Dude..just throw away your kies..it's sucks..odin is your savior..
Anyway..congrats.welcome to da family..
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jahlee said:
Dude..just throw away your kies..it's sucks..odin is your savior..
Anyway..congrats.welcome to da family..
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I can update using Kies (for almost 1.5 hours needed). Now it's 2.3.6
I try to use Kies first, if can't. Odin is the final answer. Scare of this warranty claim issue.
U should be...
But installing via odin more fast and reliable compare to those kies..i hve once soft-bricked tho because that kies ****.
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Good day,
I am trying to connect my wifes SGH-T989D Samsung Galaxy S IIx Koodo phone to Kies. The phone is stock and not modified. Running Stock ICS 4.04 Android. Kies don't recognize the phone connected. I tried the debugging method. Nothing and I am really peeved. Anyone have suggestions????
ern88 said:
Good day,
I am trying to connect my wifes SGH-T989D Samsung Galaxy S IIx Koodo phone to Kies. The phone is stock and not modified. Running Stock ICS 4.04 Android. Kies don't recognize the phone connected. I tried the debugging method. Nothing and I am really peeved. Anyone have suggestions????
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why would someone use kies ? it is completely useless
try uninstalling (I recommend "your uninstaller") for a clean uninstall , then install the samsung usb drivers , the kies
nabilbek said:
why would someone use kies ? it is completely useless
try uninstalling (I recommend "your uninstaller") for a clean uninstall , then install the samsung usb drivers , the kies
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To update the phone. Since this version don't have over the air Update Like my HTC One has. Wish Samsung would have done that!!!!
ern88 said:
To update the phone. Since this version don't have over the air Update Like my HTC One has. Wish Samsung would have done that!!!!
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still, I would grab the stock rom from here or sammobile.com and odin flash it
I hate OTAs
nabilbek said:
still, I would grab the stock rom from here or sammobile.com and odin flash it
I hate OTAs
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Well, I don't have OTA option. And lies is the only way to check and install updates. This is my wife's phone and I rather not use unofficial updates. Sammobile doesn't have updates for canadian phones.
ern88 said:
Well, I don't have OTA option. And lies is the only way to check and install updates. This is my wife's phone and I rather not use unofficial updates. Sammobile doesn't have updates for canadian phones.
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here is the latest update that u would get from kies, grabbed from sammobile : http://www.hotfile.com/dl/180851941/242c562/T989DTLLG2_T989DKDOLG2_KDO.zip.html
nabilbek said:
here is the latest update that u would get from kies, grabbed from sammobile : http://www.hotfile.com/dl/180851941/242c562/T989DTLLG2_T989DKDOLG2_KDO.zip.html
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Well after hours of searching I found what the problem was. I had to dial *#7284# and turn on PDA mode on the USB section. And I connected it to Kies and it worked. I am sure this will solve the problem lots of ppl have had with connection issues.
ern88 said:
Well after hours of searching I found what the problem was. I had to dial *#7284# abd turn on PDA mode on the USB section. And I connected it to Kies and it worked. I am sure this will solve the problem lots of ppl have had with connection issues.
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well this is new to me, take my thanks
Thanks
ern88 said:
Well after hours of searching I found what the problem was. I had to dial *#7284# and turn on PDA mode on the USB section. And I connected it to Kies and it worked. I am sure this will solve the problem lots of ppl have had with connection issues.
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this solved the Kies problem with recognizing the T989D
Having Trouble updating to Jellybean via Kies
Hello guys! As my username implies, I've been the owner of a Samsung T989D Heracles for about 8 months or so. I've had so many **** ups when it comes to doing any exploits with my phone and most recently I've had issues upgrading my firmware with Kies. Twice now there's been this notice of this box that appears to say "PC can't recognize my phone" and that was due to my phone being in download mode. Tried unchecking and checking USB debugging resulting in the same **** happening again. Not comfortable with installing Jellybean unofficially because I don't wanna deal with my wireless carrier(the sales people in the store are a bunch of idiots). Any advice or suggestion?
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Hello guys! As my username implies, I've been the owner of a Samsung T989D Heracles for about 8 months or so. I've had so many **** ups when it comes to doing any exploits with my phone and most recently I've had issues upgrading my firmware with Kies. Twice now there's been this notice of this box that appears to say "PC can't recognize my phone" and that was due to my phone being in download mode. Tried unchecking and checking USB debugging resulting in the same **** happening again. Not comfortable with installing Jellybean unofficially because I don't wanna deal with my wireless carrier(the sales people in the store are a bunch of idiots). Any advice or suggestion?
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Download mode is used to install packages, Kies put your phone in download mode only if he installs any update, so it means you shouldn't put your phone on download mode to make it recognized by Kies. Did you install the specific drivers for your phone?
Noob_Android_User said:
Hello guys! As my username implies, I've been the owner of a Samsung T989D Heracles for about 8 months or so. I've had so many **** ups when it comes to doing any exploits with my phone and most recently I've had issues upgrading my firmware with Kies. Twice now there's been this notice of this box that appears to say "PC can't recognize my phone" and that was due to my phone being in download mode. Tried unchecking and checking USB debugging resulting in the same **** happening again. Not comfortable with installing Jellybean unofficially because I don't wanna deal with my wireless carrier(the sales people in the store are a bunch of idiots). Any advice or suggestion?
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A lot of the time this is due to your PC not installing the drivers correctly.. Either that or you should try different USB ports.
Try downloading the newest Odin connecting your phone and put it in download mode. If Odin does not recognize your phone then the drivers got borked up during installation .. And if Odin does see your phone ..then just use that instead.
**** kies !
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jonmassot said:
Download mode is used to install packages, Kies put your phone in download mode only if he installs any update, so it means you shouldn't put your phone on download mode to make it recognized by Kies. Did you install the specific drivers for your phone?
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Did install specific drivers so which one of these drivers do i use?
Noob_Android_User said:
Did install specific drivers so which one of these drivers do i use?
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The only drivers you need to concern yourself with called Samsung USB driver for mobile phones
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Hi! I got a Samsung Galaxy A52s 5g that i bought from a store as second hand. They give a 14 days waranty but I don't really have the time to send the phone to service.
My problem is this... The phone right now has android 12 one ui 4.0 with Android security patch level from march 1, 2022. I want to upgrade it to android 13, but everytime I try thru OTA it fails at 25% and comes back to original saying Failed to install update, contact a samsung service center. Or something similar.
I found on the web that updating thru Samsung Smart Switch should work, but for me it doesn't. It downloads 7.3 gb of updates, after that phone enters download mode and I get after some time a NOTICE on the computer that "failed to recognize software update mode" and instructs me to reboot device and try again. I even enabled USB debug mode and I get the same NOTICE on the computer. And after that I reboot phone from downloading mode and everything is back to original.
The phone was charged 50%+ everytime i tried, also I got enough rom memory, I checked. Changed usb cable to another USB on the laptop and I get the same result from Smart Switch.
Phone model is SM-A528B/DS. I will provide more info if needed.
What I can do to succesfully update the software on my A52s 5g? I searched on the web to no result to my Smart Switch error. Also I've seen that are alot of cases where thru OTA the phone fails at 25%, but either they succesfully updated thru Smart Switch or no response.
I want to try installing the official rom from sammobile but I really don't know what firmware I should pick.
Thank you in advance!
A528BXXS2DWB5
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A528BXXS2DWB5
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Does it matter from what carrier did the phone come from? The baseband is different from the file that you posted. Or doesn't matter? Anyway, downloaded it, now i'm looking for a tutorial on how to flash the rom. Thanks!
Unreal_Hawkz said:
A528BXXS2DWB5
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Can I use update from SD card from recovery mode? It's easier i guess.
I just flashed the rom you provided. Hurray! It works just fine with odin. If anybody got the same problem with their phone, flashing with odin does a great job!
God bless you Unreal_Hawkz!