Kies is worse than Itunes

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To be honest the thing that lets my Galaxy S down is this awful Kies software...

is terribly hit and miss, 99% cant connect with my 64Bit windows 7 machine, luckily I have a 32 bit desktop and it seems better at connecting with this, but it crashes out, is clunky and slow....please tell me there is an alternative.

I thought I hated Itunes, but this it terrible

itunes is not that bad as you get used to it...


but KIES? well... KIES is just.. stupid.. I don't even install it, just the drivers.

Don't like it, dont use it.
I use Nokia's Ovi music player for music management.

How else can you sync with your outlook then ?

You can't really compare Kies with iTunes. I dislike iTunes, but applaud Apple in creating a program that just holds everything together. So much that none of their devices will work without connecting to it (imagine if Kies worked like that? The horror!).

Kies on the other hand is an annoying program. I actually liked it, well designed, it's got those nifty widgets, BUT it does not work most of the time.

I'm on Win7 64bit as well and it is so annoying.

Originally Posted by THUDUK

How else can you sync with your outlook then ?

sync over broadband

I use gsyncit on my PC to sync Outlook with Google calendar and contacts and let the phone sync via the cloud.

but the great thing is you don't need Kies,

you can easily drag and drop music/video files to your phone

and your email/contacts/calendar syncs wirelessly to & from Gmail

and if you need to flash the phone, there is always Odin and Heimdall

Originally Posted by THUDUK

To be honest the thing that lets my Galaxy S down is this awful Kies software...

is terribly hit and miss, 99% cant connect with my 64Bit windows 7 machine, luckily I have a 32 bit desktop and it seems better at connecting with this, but it crashes out, is clunky and slow....please tell me there is an alternative.

I thought I hated Itunes, but this it terrible

I don´t understand what the guys from Samsung where thinking about the development of Kies. For me it is completely useless. To sync my contacts and calender i have Gmail and never had any problem with it.

But with Kies... i have it installed on Windows 7 64Bit and to get it connected i have to restart the phone or the computer, otherwise it won´t do anything.
So yesterday i tried to set it up in Vista 32Bit and there it even wasn´t possible to install. No error or something showed up. Just hanged when it copied the files... Don´t remember any Setup that hanged on my computer. But well, i just don´t use it. Mass storage is all i need.

I don't think I've used Kies for anything so far, can't stand the thing. It used to start up whenever I plugged my phone in even when I told it not to, got it sorted eventually though.