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Help Kies / USB mode issue

After searching tons of pages on the web, still no luck.:mad:
Until today when I decided to look into device manager.
I went to portable devices->GT I9100.
Right click -> Properties
Driver -> update driver
Search location -> c:\program files (x86)\Samsung\

Now the generic M$oft driver is replaced with a dedicated Samsung driver.
After connecting the phone, it now is correctly recognized as a media device, and KIES no longer complains. :)
 
rctroodt said:
After searching tons of pages on the web, still no luck.:mad:
Until today when I decided to look into device manager.
I went to portable devices->GT I9100.
Right click -> Properties
Driver -> update driver
Search location -> c:\program files (x86)\Samsung\

Now the generic M$oft driver is replaced with a dedicated Samsung driver.
After connecting the phone, it now is correctly recognized as a media device, and KIES no longer complains. :)
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Thanks Man You fix my problem Thanks again :):):):):)
 
Hi, I'm still trying to connect to Kies through the USB, I have a galaxy Ace and have read through this entire thread trying everything I can think of! I was using a laptop before but now I am on a desktop with Windows XP, just downloaded Kies, connected the USB and the computer is not finding it. This is everything I have tried:
I have gone to Settings>Applications>Development> and I read in some posts that USB debugging must be not selected for it to work so I tried that way, didn't work, and I've also tried it with it selected. It still didn't find my phone.
When I go to Setting>Wireless and networks> When I go to Tethering and portable hotspots, this is where it shows me if the USB is being found. I've tried connecting both over wifi and with my data activated. I've gone to the control panel on my desktop and laptop, tried searching for my device and it's not locating my device.
In the same place where I can see USB tethering, there is also an option to set up and manage Mobile AP...I'm not sure if this is related or not.
This is everything I have tried I believe, if anyone has more suggestions I'm willing to try it. I have a Samsung phone so I prefer to stay with a Samsung application to backup everything on my computer and to download music to my phone, but if I can't get Kies to work on my phone I might do it another way.
 
Kies installed 1 driver and that's all I've got, do I need more than that? I was thinking that maybe it's not working because I'm not using my own cable, it belongs to my dads phone. I'm trying to fimd my own or I'll go buy a new one.
Thanks for replying an the help!
 
finally, finally, finally.
After much frustration as has been shared by others in this thread and other places.
Reinstallations, reboots, swapping ports, changing phone settings (the USB debugging mode setting is spectacularly well buried on the S3), not that Kies cryptic error messages help, unmounting SD Card, unplugging SIM, killing apps etc etc it finally came down to the USB driver used, Kies did continue to work on home PC but stopped working on laptop, I'm thinking it was the last Kies software update that did it, once upon a time it did work on both.
Was figuring it was something to do with the laptop install that was the issue given it continued to work on another PC (note I use Kies and 'working' in the most generous terms, but I do use/need it for calendar and contact syncing).
Forcing it to the MTP driver (took two goes for Windows to allow the driver install correctly) did the trick. Thanks all.
 
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