New here, need help with connecting to Kies

[iMxDot]

i'm running windows 7 prem. 64 bit and ive tried everything and kies wont see my phone, and windows explorer wont either, please help. I'd like to put movies and music on my phone

 

[SlappyMcgee]

You dont need Keys to transfer music and movies to the phone.

1st. thing make sure you have the drivers installed on your pc for the phone (if you have kies installed then the drivers should be as well.

2nd. Go into the usb settings on your phone [Settings - Applications - USB Settings] and set it to "Ask on connection"

3rd. When you connect your phone to the pc, it should prompt you on the phone how you would like to connect. Here, I just select mass storage so it shows up as a drive on the computer.

4th. After it connects pull down your notification bar at the top and select the usb to mount it.

After doing all of this you should see the phone as an extra drive on your computer.

P.S. If you want to try out Kies then just select Samsung Kies on the phone after connecting it to the pc. IMO Kies is buggy, slow and crashes alot.

Oh almost forgot. If you go the mass storage route, when you are ready to disconnect your phone use "safely remove hardware" in windows, then on the phone select to unmount before disconnecting.

 

[TheBronze]

That pretty much sums it up. Still think an automatic mount should be the order when you have already set it to mass storage... Pretty sure the Droids do this?

 

[SlappyMcgee]

With Kies you can setup the auto synch. The app itself is just buggy, locks up sometimes.

 

[LBCAPTIVATE]

I have read alot of posts and tried allthe suggestion but Kies still won't coonect to my phone. MY computer sees it with no problem and I can copy file to it but so far Kies is uselss. I have the latest version of it but no luck. Running XP Media Center Edtion wihh al updates installed. Anyone having any luck with it? If so, how did you get it to work?

 

[SlappyMcgee]

I actually had to uninstall / reinstall kies for it to register my phone was connected. And remmber the phone has to be in Kies mode for Kies to see it.


Edit: Which samsung site did you download Kies from? I got my from the UK site.

 

[LBCAPTIVATE]

I actually had to uninstall / reinstall kies for it to register my phone was connected. And remmber the phone has to be in Kies mode for Kies to see it.


Edit: Which samsung site did you download Kies from? I got my from the UK site.

I got it from the UK site. I don't remember where I got the link from.

 

[SlappyMcgee]

That is th version I have as well but I just went to the samsung uk site directly and found the download