Samsung Vibrant GPS fix available from Kies

It looks like Samsung kept up to its word and now the much-wanted GPS fix is online for Vibrant users. It’s available through Samsung’s Kies program, which allows you to sync files from your computer to your phone.

All you need to do is download the program, and once it’s installed, it should give you a notification that an update is available. It probably wouldn’t hurt to have the correct drivers installed, so make sure you have downloaded those first. Once the Kies program notifies you about the update, download it, and install. We have yet to test this out just yet, but the GPS fix should be tucked away somewhere in the update.

While trying to update the Vibrant, I ran into a few issues. Kies told me that it could not understand my connection mode, and that I needed to reconnect the phone. After several attempts, I just gave up on the entire deal. Hopefully, others have more success than I did.

Even though the update may be available online, we’re hoping that T-Mobile decides to send it out over the air. Not everyone wants another piece of software on the computer just to get an update, even if Samsung provides some useful features within said program. Many Android users are spoiled with the OTA updates and going back to the wired update method just seems a little lame. That said, OTA updates can be unreliable at times, as some CLIQ users have experienced.

Hopefully this will solves the GPS woes that the manual fix we posted a while back didn’t fix. I won’t try to update the vibrant again, I’ve got bigger and better things headed my way tomorrow.

So if you’ve updated your Vibrant successfully, how’s it working out for you?

You can grab the Kies program here to give it a go.

[Via: Phandroid]

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Blake Stimac

Blake was born in Beaumont, Texas, about 100 miles away from Houston. Even as a youngster, technology came to him very naturally, tinkering with anything he could. His passion of technology grew with mobile phones when he dreamed that the capabilities of phones would eventually make one's life much easier. Since then it's been his mission to advocate the push of mobile technology to anyone who will listen.

Jamel

I had the same connection problem. It has to do with the phone. Go into your settings on the phone as if you were changing them to mount it when attaching the USB. One of the connection settings will be mass storage. Another will actually be Samsung Kies. Choose that one and then connect and it should work fine.
- Ahhhat
  
  Mini Kies does not work either. I get the feeling that US customers cant use the effing software like the rest of the world can.
Stan

i’m having to problems connecting to the kies but i am not getting any prompts for an update… Any suggestions?
- Stan
  
  correction… im not having problems connecting to samsung kies
kilari

Also make sure you’re not running LauncherPro or anything, I was and kept getting an error. Then someone said “make sure you’re not running ADW launcher.” Tried it and finally Kies can see my Vibrant. But I got an error saying “cannot update your version.” so I’m trying out uninstalling kies and reinstalling and updating cus I’ve had to uninstall/reinstall like 5 times. Heres to tryin.
Dien

I tried it but found nothing to update when clicking on “Firmware Update” icon. I have Kies 1.5.3.10093_31 (why so many digits who can keep track?). My Vibrant was being recognized as SGH-T959 in Kies.
Andy

The version that samsung is pushing out through kies is the version that has bricked t mobile test phones (which is why tmobile hasn’t released an ota yet). Samsung only cares about being able to brag about keeping their promise to release an update on time rather than actually releasing a truly working update.
Bernie

This software is a worthless piece of sh**. 200 unwanted MB of data, drivers that took FOREVER to install, my Vibrant does not connect, none of my USB devices work now, and a “USB Device Not Recongized” error message that keeps popping up every 5 seconds…. WTF is Samsung doing. I’ve waited 3 months, all I wanted was for my GPS to be fixed…and this is what I get. F***** M0-Rons.
- Wilwest21
  
  go to setting, applications, usb mode and select kies and it will connect if you still want to connect to it.
Michaelpeterson

Kies does not work with the SGH-T959 phone. Dont buy a Samsung until they fix it