I am in Hawg Heaven.
Never in my life have I ever been able to make a Kies install/connection to a phone work. My previous phone was the Galaxy 'S' Fascinate on Verizon.
I can't remember how many times I corrupted that phone and had to spend a whole day rebuilding it again and again....
I have already once, messed up this S5 and had to do a Factory Reboot/Erase and rebuild it. Lost a full weekend that would have been better spent making the wife happy.
Just now, once again, I thought "I have to try this again."
1st try, nada.... "looking for connection"
2nd try, same O same O
3rd try....
I brought up Kies 3.0 on the Win7 PC
Made sure the phone was awake, all apps closed
Then plugged in the USB 2.0 cable
I was gratified this last time with a Notification Bar "Connected as an Installer"
There was a long pregnant pause with nothing visible happening.... then I saw this:
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Oh Lordy, did that ever look good
I spent a lot of time getting familiar with an application I have never used before.
Wonder of Wonders, it will save everything to do an image backup/restore of this S5 or a replacement S5 if need be. Oh garsh, why did I not have this before I bolixed my phone?
this screen was so neat to see:
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If you don't have Kies 3.0, you need to click here and get it.
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