SAMSUNG USB DRIVERS & ADB INTERFACE

Having problem get your Samsung Phone connected to your PC? Your PC did not recognised it? Tired of installing and un-installing KIES? How about try steps below.....suitable for WinXP, Win7 and Win8

Download and Install Samsung's latest USB drivers & ADB Interface: 

First Step

1. Download SAMSUNG USB Drivers for Mobile Phones v1.5.9.0 (x86 & x64) OR Updated version SAMSUNG_USB_Drivers_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.20.0.rar
2. Uninstall previous version & reboot
3. Install New Drivers & reboot system
4. Turn ON “USB debugging” mode on your Android device
5. Then Plugin your device and following second step

Second Step

1. Download SAMSUNG Android ADB Interface Driver v2.9.503.726 
2. Connect your Android device to PC true USB
3. Go to Device Manager on "My Computer", look for the phone and click on it.
4. Click Properties >Update Driver>Browse>Let me pick>Computer>Have Disk>Browse>Then select the driver you downloaded
5. Reboot system & enjoy

Note:
If you do not have DROPBOX FREE Drive cloud acct CLICK HERE to create it.

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How to backup android EFS

Advanced Backup and Restore of your Samsung Android Device '/efs' folder!

Recommended doing this with a Mobile just taken out of the box or with any Official ROM of its Service Provider. If you have already Flashed your phone with another ROM but its working fine, then you can use that /efs also.

Why the /efs folder?
This is a very sensitive system folder that contains Phone-specific information such as the IMEI (encrypted in the nv_data.bin), wireless devices MAC addresses, product code (also in the nv_data.bin), and much more. Often users trying to change product codes or trying to unlock the mobile will end up corrupting data in this location.

Even Lagfix (EXT4)  don't dare to touch these files :)


Why back it up?
Well, let’s resume it saying that backing-up this little folder will keep you away from Samsung service centers.

Requirements:

• ADB driver installed (Download here and support my dropbox storage)
• Make sure your device screen is on.
• Also make sure your device is NOT in Mass Storage Mode or Backup and Restore functions will fail.

• Make sure you have Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 installed on your PC.
• Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7.

Features:

• Supports Backup and Restore of Partition Image (*.img) and Compressed TAR Archive (*.tar) formats.
• Automatically detects saved EFS Backups on Device and PC for hassle free restoring.
• Re-Scan option to refresh Backup list for restoring Backups.
• Automatically Re-Mounts '/efs' folder with Read/Write permissions during restore for users 'stuck' with Read Only permissions.
• Automatic detection and prompting of Mass Storage Mode.
• Automatic detection and termination of SAMSUNG Kies application on startup.
• Supports Multiple Backup handling.
• Option to Format '/efs' partition before restoring an EFS Backup.
• Displays Device, ROM and BusyBox information on startup.

Download EFS Pro

Why I like this? You can save it to your PC. That's the idea...save it to your pc and not your phone. Off-side backup...

Tested on my windows 7 64 bits with ADB installed.

Now my EFS back-up safely for future use in-case....



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