Recent content by BarneyC

Mike, I'm running Windows 8 64 bit with a Galaxy SIII and have got Kies to work OK, but it was a bit of a fiddle. I don't remember to dialog regarding the additional driver that you mention, but I suggest that you uninstall Kies, having made sure that the 'phone is unplugged first, then reboot...

I know Total Commander very well and fully understand what you are doing. I use the Total Commander Android app on my 'phone the whole time - its MUCH superior to the one provided with the phone, but I prefer Directory Opus on the PC because of its greater programming capability. I will look at...

What fixed my problem with battery life, was to go to Settings/WiFi/Advanced and change the 'Keep WiFi on During Sleep' setting to 'Never'. Hope this helps Barney

The problem is that the SGIII (as with most Android 4 devices) does not connect as a USB Mass Storage device (Google dropped support for USBMS in Android 4). It connects as an MTP device instead and Windows does not see MTP devices as a mass storage devices, so as indicated by worwig, you don't...

I have been working on this one for sometime, and there is no simple way of doing this, although I believe that over on XDA-developers, someone has produced an application that will do it, but the 'phone must be rooted for it work. However you can do it (and this is the way I do it) if you...

I've just come across this thread, and thought I should post reply as no one else has. I'm using Kies (usb connected) to sync my Galaxy SII running ICS with Outlook 2010 (32 bit) on Windows Home Premium 64 bit and it works very well. I'm syncing Contact, Tasks, Calendar and Outlook Notes...

I do something similar between a PC and two Android devices. What I do is to connect each Android device to the PC in turn by means of usb and mount them as external disk drives. I then use a piece of software on the PC called SyncBackPro by 2BrightSparks (Backup software that works -...

I think I know where you are coming from and the answer is YES. I run an Android 'phone, and although I use a Google account with it, and use Google email with the 'phone, I don't sync my contacts or my appointments with Google nor keep them in Google. I keep them on my local PC in Outlook, and...