Simplify, sync and keep life up to date with Samsung Kies. Yes, manage music, movies and photos. Backup precious contacts and calendars. Or download apps and podcasts and automatically upgrade device firmware. Samsung Kies conveniently syncs your life across all your devices including Samsung Galaxy Note II. Samsung Kies is the essential tool for Samsung devices. And it is available on Windows PC and Mac.
If you have Samsung Kies installed, whenever you plug in USB cable between Samsung Galaxy S II and PC, Samsung Galaxy S2 will be detected as GT-I9100 in Computer. And Samsung Kies will be loaded. You can disable Samsung Kies from loaded automatically by turn off Auto-run ~ Run Samsung Kies automatically when device is connected at Samsung Kies Tools – Preferences. You can read / write your Samsung Galaxy S2 files in this MTP Application mode. However, certain operation like unzip file to SGS2 directly is not possible in this mode.
Upgrade Samsung Galaxy S II firmware with Samsung Kies is a very simple task. Basically, you just need to open up Samsung Kies. Then plug in USB cable to your Samsung Galaxy S2. Continue the firmware upgrade by following the onscreen instructions. Anyway, I have a picture step by step guide for those new beginners to firmware upgrade. No worry, it is really as simple as ABC…
