Kies woes again

In my last blog post I talked about my unsuccessful experience with Kies. Since then I bought a cheap hard drive and put it into my work machine and installed Windows on it. Kies installed fine on that windows installation but much to my disappointment I did not get an Android update to 2.3.x last time I checked.

Today I booted that windows install again. I launched Kies and was surprised to be offered an update to Gingerbread. That warm, fuzzy feeling only lasted for about an hour - the time it took to realize that the software update via Kies just won’t work.

The download process starts and Kies says it’s preparing for update now. But then nothing happens - the progress bar animation runs but even waiting for an hour does not show any progress.

Oh well - I guess it’s time to start looking into custom flashing tools like Odin and friends.