I don't think this is how you normally uninstall...
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How do you fuck up the standard actions in InstallShit?
Yeah Windows Installer has a duplicate files action but that shouldn't run during the uninstall sequence. On the other hand sometimes you have to do weird stuff like sacrifice a bag of baby goats to get IS/MSIs to work so can't say I'm surprised.
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How do you fuck up the standard actions in InstallShit?
Phone makers are horrible. You can't just get USB drivers for your Galaxy phone, oh heavens no. You have to install an 80MB package just so you can backup your phone. No idea why the install is so large.
HTC's the same way except even worse because there's more Engrish.
Also it looks like the uninstaller left a few droppings in c:\windows\syswow64.
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my uninstaller for that app is called "delete VDI"
no crapware has defeated that uninstaller yet!
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I don't use Kies - everything I want to backup is already backed up without needing it or any app on my PC.
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I only ever used the version of Kies on the phone, which is accessed via web browser on the PC.
Then again I do a lot of such stuff from linux, and for some reason while windows requires a specific driver for every type of phone, linux works fine with a generic one.
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Then again I do a lot of such stuff from linux, and for some reason while windows requires a specific driver for every type of phone, linux works fine with a generic one.
But that's not optimised for the device!!!
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There is a generic driver available that covers most Android phones for Windows, unless you meant generic across platforms so covers iPhone, Android, BB etc?
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Well, the only time I checked was when my internet was out (defective power adapter to the router). Linux featured a builtin driver that let me tether my mobile phone. Windows did not.
IIRC the linux driver implements MTP, which there's probably a windows driver for. However when connected windows only prompted to download the device-specific driver off the internet.
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There is a generic driver available that covers most Android phones for Windows
I've heard of such a mythical beast but I'm here to tell you I have had both Samsung and HTC Android phones and it didn't work with them.
And they won't make their own drivers available without the stupid sync software, which in both cases is a poorly-written, poorly-performing bloated mess.
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and this is why i run AOSP or Cyanogen.
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This is the one I use for anything ADB-related, worked with my S3 and works with my S5 and N5/7.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/universal-naked-driver-solves-your-adb-driver-problems-on-windows/For MTP (copying photos etc) Windows 8/8.1 seeme to cope but XDA have driver/ADB packages for most phones available sans propriety software.
S3:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/orig-development/samsung-galaxy-s3-unified-toolkit-v8-0-t1703488S5:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2719834Etc.
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Hey, I've seen this, too!
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and this is why i run AOSP or Cyanogen.
Doesn't help. I've tried. Even with one of those, an HTC phone won't be recognized when you plug it in--unless they've changed their evil ways.
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their evil ways.
hmmm. welp. that's another company to add to THE LIST
/me takes out a pen and an ominous black book
(for the record those drivers do work for the samsung phones i've used.)
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for the record those drivers do work for the samsung phones i've used
I'll give 'em a try on one of the other computers at work.
Hmm, actually, maybe Samsung DOES actually work without Kies. HTC absolutely didn't, although that was 4 years ago.
