Saturday, February 4, 2012
These days I have got a new Samsung Galaxy Gio (S5660) and decided to connect to my PC, to synchronize my pictures. As you can already imagine, I couldn't do it, from the first time. Next I will explain, my history what have I met and the silly things I have met till I connected my Samsung.
Input: Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660, Micrososft Windows XP SP2.
1. Installed Kies - downloaded it from Samsung official site. Connected the device, it was not recognized.
Checked the software requirements of Kies application: .
Net Framework 3.5 SP1 or above, Windows Media Player 10 or above, DirectX 9.0C
* For Windows Mobile, ActiveSync (Windows XP) or Device Center (Windows Vista/7)
2.Updated my Windows XP - installed all the updates offered by the Windows Update program.
3. Installed Windows Media Player 11
After all the updates above Kies still didn't work. I decided to install ActiveSync 4.5 even if it was specified it is necessary only for Windows Mobile devices. I have also met some problems here:
Downloaded the setup.msi from Microsoft official site. At the begin of the installation process, I have got the following error: "Error reading from file "setup.msi" verify that the file exists and you can access it". For several days I couldn't find a solution for this issue, till I came up with a forum where they said it was some problem with user access rights. So I copied the setup.msi into another folder, in my case it was the Desktop and BINGO! I managed to install ActiveSync 4.5. even if it did not helped me finally to connect the device. Well at this point I was totally desperate.
Analyzing all the provided solutions on the internet I could not resolve my problem. So as I was staying in front of my PC, staring at my device, my device USB cable, which was connected through an USB extension, I thought maybe I connect the USB cable directly to my PC. And my eyes couldn't believe it, the Device connected to Kies and YES I could synchronize my data.
Solution: Never connect your device USB cable through any extensions, instead connect it directly to your PC/Laptop.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Some time before, I found a message on Youtube, which said that my browser sooner or later should not be supported by the site itself, because it is outdated. As I checked Mozilla site, for Firefox updates, I found that my browser is really up to date. I use Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 as it is the last version of the browser. It appeared to me some kind of strange, but thought in some time it would be fixed.
It really, everything was fine, except the annoying message above and for example MySpace and some other sites no access at all. As I searched through this case, on web, I found some clues for this.
This was something about user agent of Firefox; it is messed by some other addon installed.
Solutions I found for this:
1. Install some additional addon which is not being installed, but which should change the name of the user agent and fix the problem, anyway it did not work;
2. This one consists of 2 solutions:
a. In Firefox address bar, type: "about:config";
b. Agree with the error message if any;
c. Filter: "general.useragent.extra.firefox";
d. It might be a mess in the value column of this field, should be (Firefox/3.6.3); Right click the row and press Reset; Restart Firefox, it should work fine now (As written in web). In my case it was written as should be, but I still got the same problem;
e.I looked in About Mozilla Firefox and searched in about:config the last string from the dialog, which was found under "general.useragent.override". I reseted the key, restarted Firefox, and BINGO, it helped me.
Hope I helped you with this tip.
Hello, my dear friend.
Be my guest on this blog and I hope all the tips and tweaks brought here, will help you and finally solve all your problems. Remember that if you get here, this is because you have Windows or some software which is not working properly, as would you like. So I will try to help you, as I managed to get some experience working in this environment.
Well, I was thinking about writing a blog looong time ago, but only now I decided to do it. I will share my knowledge with you, as I find it useful to everyone.
