Root Using Samsung Kies Software With Reverb

[nathanbrand]

Any ideas on how to successfully do this? I'm trying to run Kies 2.6 on a Windows 7 system and keep getting a variety of errors. From the software not recognizing my serial number (I typed the correct one in, plus every other number I could find both on the display and the physical phone.), as well as "SPH-M950 does not support initializing" errors.

I also tried using Kies 3.0: no go.

Anyone using this successfully, and if so, what are your settings?

- Thanks

 

[bkttk2]

Any ideas on how to successfully do this? I'm trying to run Kies 2.6 on a Windows 7 system and keep getting a variety of errors. From the software not recognizing my serial number (I typed the correct one in, plus every other number I could find both on the display and the physical phone.), as well as "SPH-M950 does not support initializing" errors.

I also tried using Kies 3.0: no go.

Anyone using this successfully, and if so, what are your settings?

- Thanks

Unless you can get Kies to recognize your phone you do not have many options.
Not sure the reason but due to the way the reverb is configured you can not force an update. I never could even with help from Samsung.

That said ensure you have both the latest version of Kies and Samsung drivers, I know sounds redundant. Without Kies open ensure that your phone is properly recognized by Win 7

This link might help
http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?p=5768769

 

[soxtober05]

Personally, I can't STAND Kies. There are other alternatives to getting a stock phone (ICS or JB).

What EXACTLY are you trying to accomplish?

 

[pse]

Let's see what we've learned from our experience owning the Samsung product:
1. Kies is a piece of trash that won't run in Linux anyway.
2. I wouldn't touch any version of Windows with someone else's stick, so any drivers or other helper app is out.
3. Linux devs don't write mtp apps that work very well... they figure if you want to control your android badly enough, you'll learn to use adb. (That was the solution I finally had to accept. It wasn't as hard as I feared.)
4. Heimdall is fickle and refuses to give a useful PIT file. (crap, but I'm too nice to say so...)
5. Odin is Windows only. (See #2 above.)
6. jOdin, the Linux port of Odin, didn't work well... again no PIT. (see parenthetical comment in #4 above...)
7. Every entity's refusal to agree on and adopt some sort of simple standard that they can't make a nickel on just *pisses me off*.

Solution: If you have any sort of Linux OS, make it easy on yourself. Download the Android SDK. The few lines you'll need to learn like "adb push" and such really are a lot less trouble than searching Google until your head explodes.
Thank you all for your time and Godspeed Linux Mint.