Guide | How To How to use your Samsung phone without KIES

[Deleted member 178]

You know that most phone's vendors "force" you to use their own apps to upload/download files between your phone and computer.

As you also know, KIES is heavy, use a lot of resource with many processes and startup items, and is not very necessary (unless u need to update your firmware).

So there is how to deal without it :

1- if Kies already installed:

- Uninstall it but keep the driver (dont check the box)
- Connect your phone via usb
- Normally a "removable disk" icon appears on your computer panel but when clicking on it , it says "please insert a disk in removable disk...
- Dont panic, normally your phone taskbar should show an usb icon
- Scroll down the bar, now you should see under ongoing, "usb connected - select to copy files to/from your computer"
- Tap on it
- The Android logo appears with "connect storage to pc" button, tap on it
- A popup will appear, tap ok
- Your phone will connect then a window will open showing your phone files and in your computer panel the icon of "removable disk" will show the phone disk space.
- Done

2- if Kies not installed

- Just Download and install the usb driver (not kies): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961956
- then do the step above.


Thanks

 

[ElectricSheep]

And Kies apparently has some form of Malware lurking on it.
I honestly cannot remember exactly what it was, but I won't touch it now, un-installed it ages ago, etc.