I have the Galaxy Note II (sprint SPH-900C) and it is rooted. I wanted to stop the bloatware from running so I took some advice here and froze all the apps I did not want to run and some that were listed as safe.
When I attempt to connect to Kies wifi it will not connect or discover my laptop. So I went back in and unfroze the Allshare Cast, Allshare Dongle and Allshare service. Now it will locate my laptop and the Note says connected, the laptop says connected and downloading but does not ever populate and eventually disconnects, So it does not seem to fully connect and load the data like it does on USB, I want to connect to Kies WIFI again. My question is are all 3 of these necessary for it to connect or more importantly, exactly what services are required for the Kies WIFI to connect so it will work again and I can still have unnecessary services frozen.
This does not impact connecting to Kies using the usb, that works fine regardless which of them are frozen. So did I miss one that I need for it to fully connect?
A little more information, Kies air, using the wifi and the browser will connect and load fine with the 3 allshare services unfrozen, it is the kies and kies lite that will not load, but they say they are connected.
Any ideas? I am thinking maybe I froze a 4th service that it needs and I am not aware of it. And kies is not frozen, I did not touch it.lol
I hope I provided enough information for a decent idea of the situation.
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I have the Samsung Kies application installed on my Win7 x64 laptop. Using USB works fine, but Ive been trying to get the WiFi sync option working and I can never get the Laptop running Kies to see any of my 3 Samsung Galaxy S2s (two skyrockets and one T989).
I followed the guide to make sure I setup network discovery, enabled the right services, etc.
However what do I have to do on the phone to make it "activate" or anything to show up on the laptop? What am I missing?
Again this is Kies over Wifi, Im not talking about using Kies Air application on the phone and going to the URL the phone shows, that works just fine.
I saw a few guides searching on Google, but problem is they all seem to show this option of "Kies via Wifi" under the Network/Wireless menu, I have nothing like thatin all 3 of my phones which are 2.3.6, or 4.0.3 or even the 4.0.4.
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You dont need to run a program on your PC. Turn on your wifi on your phone and run kies air. When it starts it will give you the IP address of your phone. Open up your browser on your computer and type "IPADDRESS:8080"
8080 stands for the port number. or it may be 80 but im sure its 8080.
Theres a program on the market that does the exact same thing. WiFi explorer im thinking is the name.
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You dont need to run a program on your PC. Turn on your wifi on your phone and run kies air. When it starts it will give you the IP address of your phone. Open up your browser on your computer and type "IPADDRESS:8080"
8080 stands for the port number. or it may be 80 but im sure its 8080.
Theres a program on the market that does the exact same thing. WiFi explorer im thinking is the name.
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Yea Im familiar with that, my 2nd to last paragraph mentioned that I have no problem with Kies Air.
But I was just trying to figure out how to get Kies to sync via Wifi as it claims it can directly with the phone. But i can never get it to work. Thats what Im talking about. Kies Air is different and like I said works fine, but Im talking about the Desktop thick client application that is called Kies and supposedly connects via wifi to the phone and allows it to sync wirelessly like the iPhones can now do.
Dixit
Forgot to mention that your computer and your phone MUST be connected to the same network. You can even activate wifi tether on your phone and connect that way.
I have the same problem. Want to use wi-fi connection to sync my Samsung Galaxy Y Duos via Kies via Wi-Fi automatically. The problem is that I can't connect my phone to Kies via Wi-Fi. Via USB it works fine, but I want it via Wi-Fi.
It looks like my Win 7 haven't accepted the driver for the phone form Kies at a time of Kies installation.
Have any one solved this issue?
Sorry... maybe a stupid question... (I've searched the net and XDA before posting it, but didn't find any valid solution, just some trace of this same problem referred to other Samsung devices)
The question is:
How can I make the option "Kies via Wi-Fi - Connect to Kies via Wi-Fi" work?
I've downloaded the last version of Kies from Samsung support and installed it on my Win7 PC. I also followed the "Wi-Fi Connection Setup Guide".
I start Kies on the PC and press the "Kies via Wi-Fi button on the GNote but my PC doesn't recognize my Note 10.1 and the scanning on the GNote gives no result.
When, in the GNote, I go to Settings-More settings-Kies via Wi-Fi I just get an Attention message ("Please use caution when transmitting information on an unsecured Wi-Fi network...."). I click OK, then there's a second message window on the bottom of which for a couple of seconds there's a Scan button that, when pressed, quickly changes to a Cancel button. After a while the Scan button reappears and, when pressed, is again changed on the Cancel button.
I can't make any headway from this stupid loop
In the meantime the Kies window on the PC shows the message "Please connect a device".
I'm not interested on Kies Air (that I think is another thing).
I just would like to quickly access my GNote from the PC (and maybe transfer some small file) without having to connect it with the USB cable (no problem with the USB cable connection: the GNote is recognized and I can access it).
The Note is usually connected to a Wi-Fi router on my PC, that is connected to Internet (that's how I can access the Internet at home with the GNote).
Probably I'm missing some setting? Or is Kies not working with this option? Anyone has successfully used this kind of connection?
Any link, advice, possible solution?
Thanks
Could be a Win7 problem: maybe connection is simply rejected since You can´t register and assign an Android device to a "home-network-group" which would allow every connection.
On my laptop I have an Intel-App called "MyWiFi" thus creating a peer-to-peer connection with Android devices. With this I don´t have problems to connect, BUT: when connected via MyWiFi I have to switch off the WiFi of my router otherwise GNote does not connect to MyWiFi .............
Better use the cable .......
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troed said:
Could be a Win7 problem: maybe connection is simply rejected since You can´t register and assign an Android device to a "home-network-group" which would allow every connection.
On my laptop I have an Intel-App called "MyWiFi" thus creating a peer-to-peer connection with Android devices. With this I don´t have problems to connect, BUT: when connected via MyWiFi I have to switch off the WiFi of my router otherwise GNote does not connect to MyWiFi .............
Better use the cable .......
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Thanks troed.
I see that my problem (with win7) is one of those of difficult solution (I had nightmares in the past to configure my Wi-Fi network and make it work).
In the meantime (following the tip received in an italian forum) I've found an other app, called MyPhoneExplorer, that works exactly as I intended.
It's not just for Samsung devices but for any Android device.
It consists of a client app to be installed on the tablet (small size: 564 Kb)
and a program to be installed on the PC (installer is 6.45 Mb and the portable program folder is about 17 Mb).
With this app files can be easily exchanged between the PC and the GNote through Wi-Fi.
BTW Samsung Kies installer (90.5 Mb) is huge comparing to that and, at least for me and for many other Win7 users, doesn't work on Wi-Fi in spite of what is promised and advertised.
For the second time I can't understand why a big company like Samsung can't produce a simple good and working app whilst single developers can easily do that!
(the first case is with S Note that, IMHO, is lacking some essential feature that other apps have and that prevents me form using it as my primary note taking app)
Maybe Samsung's developers don't use their company's devices?
Or maybe they have no interest in producing good working apps and prefer to put out incomplete ones to better sell their next line of products?
Forgot in my post: You also might try "Shynx"
I installed Verizon's latest firmware update when it popped up the other night. 4.1.2. I think that means I have Jelly Bean. Hooray.
Plugged my phone in to delete some songs and add some more and nothing happens. Phone just sits there. It beeps and starts charging, but doesn't pop up the USB Connection options I've been used to.
Traditionally when I plug my phone in it pops up and tells me it's plugged in as an "Installer". I hate this "feature" and wish it would default to MDP or whatever stupid new-fangled option that ICS forced (as opposed to good old "mass storage device" which is how these phones ought to connect, but I digress). However, now nothing happens.
I'm reasonably sure it's not Windows because my girlfriend's Razr and an un-updated Galaxy Nexus connect just fine. Furthermore I tried this on 2 Windows 8 and one Windows 7 machines.
Is there something I have to do to turn "on" USB connections? Kies crashes every time I try to enter the connection code so that's out and AirDroid is alright, but I'd rather this worked. Any suggestions?
Try uninstalling the drivers, reboot the laptop, then reinstall the drivers either from Samsung's website or from Kies if that doesn't work.
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Hello, so I am on XtreStoLite 2.4 with my S6. Never any issues the whole time Ive ran it. However now that I have my Galaxy S8 which cant be rooted... trying to get the Smart Switch with USB connection to work.
It will NOT read up when I connect them directly, also will not connect via PC for smart switch to start its thing. (Smart Switch via wifi works, but that doesnt transfer any of my non play store apps)
Now I did try Smart switch on 2 different PCs. Both PCs DO read my S6 and I could transfer files just fine with explorer. So drivers and so are working fine. Even tried 3 USB cables and togged between usb debugging and off. I am in MTP mode as well.
Even in Smart Switch it will say "Connecting" because it detected the phone. Just never gets past that on the PC or the Galaxy S8. Just says the connection timed out and couldnt connect.
So just checking here if anyone may have any insight that may solve this. Thanks.
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Hello, so I am on XtreStoLite 2.4 with my S6. Never any issues the whole time Ive ran it. However now that I have my Galaxy S8 which cant be rooted... trying to get the Smart Switch with USB connection to work.
It will NOT read up when I connect them directly, also will not connect via PC for smart switch to start its thing. (Smart Switch via wifi works, but that doesnt transfer any of my non play store apps)
Now I did try Smart switch on 2 different PCs. Both PCs DO read my S6 and I could transfer files just fine with explorer. So drivers and so are working fine. Even tried 3 USB cables and togged between usb debugging and off. I am in MTP mode as well.
Even in Smart Switch it will say "Connecting" because it detected the phone. Just never gets past that on the PC or the Galaxy S8. Just says the connection timed out and couldnt connect.
So just checking here if anyone may have any insight that may solve this. Thanks.
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may be there is error on driver you installed , try remove old driver and install latest Samsung driver you can get it from :
http://samsungusbdriver.com/wp-content/uploads/Samsung-Usb-Driver-v1.5.63.0.zip
Just "fixed" it by upgrading the to the Marshmallow version of XtreStolite. Seems it solved all the issues.
Hello this question is only for users who are familiar with PDAnet and usb tethering.
Problem #1: The latest version of PDAnet flat out does not work. After installing the latest version (version 4.19) on both my phone and computer, connecting the phone via USB to my Windows PC, and clicking the PDAnet icon in the taskbar and clicking connect to internet, the connection appears to connect momentarily and then immediately disconnects. I have tried reinstalling legacy network drivers, reinstalling PDA to phone from the PC, restarting the PC and the phone etc etc. Nothing worked.
My workaround was to install the older 4.12 version to the phone (a Samsung Galaxy S4) and PC. Using this older version worked somewhat ok, but did occasionally drop the connection when downloading large files. Speeds averaged around 15-25 mbps.
Problem #2: My workaround is no longer working after I upgraded to a new phone, a Galaxy S7. (Yes I did try using version 4.19 of the App with the new phone; same problem still). Using 4.12 barely works at all. If I use a speedtest on my phone separately, unplugged, I get 60 mbps using the fast.com speed test. As soon as I plug it into my PC and enable USB mode, the speed test goes down to <<1mbps. Something has happened.
I need your help. Please tell me how I can get the full speed that I was getting before.
Please be aware that due to my carrier (Verizon) I cannot use the wifi hotspot. It must be USB.