Samsung provide their customers with Kies to manage Samsung phones or tablets. If you are a Samsung user, you should use this free Samsung phone manager. It can update software on your phone, transfer photos and videos from Samsung to PC, manage your music library on the phone, backup your Samsung phone to computer and restore your content from computer to Samsung device. In this guide we will talk about how you can use this free Samsung manager to backup and restore Samsung smartphones. Kies comes with both Windows and Mac versions. You can download Kies here. Samsung has launched Smart Switch to replace Kies. You can download the Smart Switch desktop version to export data backup from phone to PC or Mac. Here we recommend another great Kies alternative which makes it easy to transfer contacts, photos, messages and more from your Samsung phone to computer. Check out this guide to back up Samsung phone to computer.
This Samsung apps management software download is currently available as version 3.2.160842. Compatibility may vary, but generally runs on a Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7 desktop and laptop PC. Samsung Kies has been tested for viruses, please refer to the tests on the 'Virus Tests' page. It is published by Samsung. Samsung Kies 3 Windows Software Download (39.9 MB) Samsung Kies 3 for Mac Software Download (29.7 MB) Firmware upgrade. Connect your device to your computer using the USB cable. Firmware upgrades are available only when you connect your device via the USB port.
Backup Samsung to computer with Kies
You should backup your Samsung smartphone from regularly, as there are so many important data on it. Samsung Kies can help you backup Samsung phones easily. You can use Kies to back up important content including contacts, text messages, photos, videos, music, memo, schedules, call logs, and more from Samsung phone on to your computer. With a backup saved in an external storage, you can easily restore your content to mobile phone.
Step 1. Connect Samsung to computer Samsung Kies allows you to connect Samsung phone to computer through USB cable or connect Samsung to PC via Wi-Fi. We recommend you to connect your Samsung cell phone to computer through USB which is easier for novice. Since the wireless connection requires additional configuration, not all Samsung devices are supported, and some functions of the phone manager will also be restricted under the wireless connection mode. Step 2. Backup Samsung to computer Once the USB connection between Samsung phone and computer established, run Samsung Kies program on your PC or Mac, go to Back up/Restore tab, click Data backup from the left menu. You will see a window like below.
Here you have the chance to select any or all files types to backup. You can backup a lot of personal information and content on Samsung smartphones to computer, like Contacts, Memo, S Planner (schedules and To Do), Call log, Message, Videos, Music, Photos, miscellaneous content files, email account information and settings, etc. When you selected the content, click the Backup button on the top right corner to backup data from Samsung to computer.
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The backup file or the directory where your Samsung backup files are saved can be found at the bottom of above screen. You need to scroll down to the bottom to find it out as Kies has a very long bakup item list.
Contacts from the SIM card, SNS (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), and company email accounts will not be backed up. If you like to copy these contacts from Samsung to computer as well, you can import the contacts from SIM card to phone before you backup your Samsung phone.
Kies can only help you backup videos, music songs, photos and miscellaneous content files that are saved in the internal memory of your Samsung mobile phone. If they are saved in external memory or the SD card, you can simply connect your phone to computer through USB, then open the SD card in the Windows Explorer, if you are on PC, to browse to the photos, videos, or music folder and copy the files from SD card to computer hard drive. You can also use a third party transfer to export all photos, videos, music and other files from both Samsung phone and its Micro SD card at the same time.
Restore Samsung from Kies backups on Computer
When you have backed up content and data on Samsung phones to computer, you can recover your phone any time you have to. To import Kies backup from computer to Samsung, click the Restore data from the left menu, you will be taken to a new screen like this:
If you have multiple backups made before, you can select the backup file to restore to Samsung phone connected. You can select any or all items or files in a backup to restore to Samsung. You can restore contacts, text messages, photos, videos, music, memo, schedules, call logs and more from computer to Samsung through Kies. Once you have selected the Kies backup and items included in the backup file on computer, click the Restore button on the top right corner to restore data from computer to Samsung.
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When you restore phone backups from computer to Samsung, Kies will automatically detect any duplicate content, you have the option to exclude duplicate content from transfer.
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The backup & restore of Samsung phones through Kies is very intuitive. The Kies backup tool can only help you restore Samsung backup files to Samsung phones and tablets. If you like to restore the backup to other phones, you will need to use another tool. Check out this guide to restore Samsung Kies backup to iPhone or other phones.
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If you like to restore iPhone backups to Samsung phone, you can download and use Samsung Smart Switch which can help import iTunes backup to Samsung phone or follow this guide to restore iCloud backup to Samsung and Android phones.
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