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Re: Join my lynch mob to Samsung Town!

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Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> wrote:
> When we ride into Samsung Town our first target will be those
> responsible for the Samsung Android connection software on MS Windows.
> 
> I had to upgrade from Kies to Kies3 to talk to my Galaxy S5 phone and
> was appalled to discovered that they had removed the ability to update
> my phone contacts.
> 
> Then I connected Kies3 to my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and it refused to talk to
> it. I reinstalled the old Kies version and I was told the tablet
> needed a firmware upgrade. The upgrade was flawless so I assume that
> Samsung had nothing to do with it. When I reconnected the tablet Kies
> did not recognise it and I had to use the retarded Kies3. I then
> discovered that Kies3, unlike Kies, could only deal with one connected
> device at a time.

  Which version of Kies3 do you have?
  
  When I switched from Vista to 8.1, I got the latest version -
3.2.15072_2 - and that looks quite a bit different (and I don't think
that's because of 8.1).

  When you start that Kies3 version, you get a popup about something
called 'Smart Switch', which seems sort of a (partial?) replacement for
Kies[3]. Smart Switch' main purpose seems to be to move stuff from one
Android device to another, where the destination probably always is a
Samsung device, but (AFAICT) the from device can be a non-Samsung or
Samsung device.

  Anyway, this is the page for Smart Switch:

<http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch>

  BTW, I use Kies3 for my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and it works fine (FSVSVO
'fine', because AFAIC, *all* this kind of stuff sucks big time, i.e. the
HiSuite crap for Huawei devices is even worse, if that's at all
possible).

[...]

  And yes, let's go there and leave no survivors!

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Join my lynch mob to Samsung Town! Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2015-07-31 00:10 +1000
  Re: Join my lynch mob to Samsung Town! Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-07-30 20:22 +0000

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