![]() This little program, armed with the firmware I’d grabbed from Kies’ temp folder, was thankfully able to bring my phone back to life.Īs a further bonus, and unlike those who go down the rooting process proper, Kies will still happily talk to my phone for synchronisation and backups. Since Kies couldn’t do the job I finally resorted to the rooter’s favourite: Odin. Once it gets to 100% these files are removed sharpish – grab a copy while you can! Putting ‘%TEMP%’ into the ‘run’ dialogue box makes this easier to find. tmp.zipfolder’ and almost immediately afterwards begins the firmware upgrading process. Kies decompresses the file into a folder called ‘tmp. I found that Kies downloads its firmware updates into the TEMP folder. Even if Kies can’t do the upgrade it can at least download the correct firmware for you. Rather than assume my half-upgraded phone was now a brick I considered my options. But even this option didn’t resurrect my slumbering Galaxy S2. My only hope seemed to be ’emergency firmware recovery’ via a recovery code that Kies presented to me. My phone was stuck in limbo and Kies couldn’t get the process to finish. ![]() To cut a long story short, this time the update didn’t work. Having done similar upgrades through Kies before I didn’t think twice: new equals shiny equals better, right? ![]() I recently opened up Samsung’s Kies software, to synchronise some of the content that doesn’t get updated over the air, and was given a popup notification of a new firmware version. ![]()
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