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samsung galaxy music duos unsolvable problem

I'm desperate about this already...

Problem: my samsung (title and: GT-S6012) turns off WIFI... I know it connects to router, because I managed to upload some photos to dropbox while WIFI is still on. But it stays on for around 1-5 seconds, then WIFI is turned off, when I try to do something what requires WIFI it turns on and again, off...

That's not all. I thought, well... I'll just reinstall OS, funny thing is: USB connection don't work properly (tested on windows 7 64bit AND windows xp 32bit). Sometimes it connects perfectly (on win7 64bit), I can use even KIES, but when I started to reinstall OS, well... KIES (my suspicions) during reinstallation disconnected my device and windows failed to reinstall driver, so it wasn't connected and reinstallation failed. Now I have 'missing ID' error.

So, what options do I have? Because I don't see any way how I could reinstall OS, even If my device will get new android version (4.1, I'm with 4.0.4). Unless there's a way to do this without KIES (restarting my computer fix USB problem, but I can't reconnect it to USB because it fails to connect second time).

I know one thing, I hate samsung, my next smartphone will be googles android only because they're developing OS and I hope they can make it work with their devices.
 
Hello there! Is that the Galaxy Y duos or the Galaxy S Duos? I will be happy to move it for you :)

Edit: I saw the Galaxy music forum, but not alot of threads in there.

Edit again: have you tried a different usb cable or a factory reset?

It's galaxy music duos (GT-S6012). I guess it's galaxy music (GT-S6010) and galaxy Y duos (GT-6102) hybrid...

I'm not quite sure where should my thread be, I saw samsung only forum, though. I just need any advice or help for these two questions: is there other way rather than KIES and WiFi to upgrade/reinstall OS? Maybe something like: moving OS files to phone via USB and then use device only to upgrade/reinstall?

I did factory reset and I doubt that this is something to do with USB cable. As I said: it works perfectly, I can move files to and from device, BUT, if I disconnect device and connect it again it won't reconnect most likely. And even sometimes it fails to connect first time, so when I reconnect device it don't fail to install drivers...

So, sometimes it fails, sometimes it doesn't.

Looking for solution I found something interesting what might be problem: you have to disable windows USB updates and disconnect internet connection while reinstalling drivers with KIES, because windows downloads old driver version? Can someone confirm this?

Edit: other unconfirmed possible explanation I found: there is no windows 7 64bit android 4.0.4 USB drivers?
 
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