Across the Impression, Eternity, and (hopefully) Mythic forums, there are many threads which reference using TKFE for tasks such as editing and installing apps on Samsung phones. My goal here is to offer a guide to get you connected with TKFE, so that the average user will be able to use it to install applications.

Step 1: download TkFE. It does not need to be installed, but it will create a preferences file in whatever folder you place it, so you might as well give it a folder of its own on your PC.

Step 2: On your phone, hit menu > settings > connectivity > select usb mode > Samsung PC Studio

Step 3: Either install the Mythic version of New PC Studio, or install the standalone driver found attached to this post.

Step 4: Lets get connected! Attach the USB cable (see this thread for some links to cheap cables) and make sure that PC Studio is closed. Open TKFE and hit the settings icon (has a gear on it). If the drivers have installed successfully, you should see multiple com ports listed under the dropdown list for ports. Depending on many factors, the correct port could be any of these, so try them (by selecting them and trying to connect) until you get one that works. Select that port, make sure the baud rate is set to the highest setting, and hit OK.

Step 5: Hit the connect icon in TKFE (it has a picture of a PC and a phone on it). If all goes well, the file tree of your phone should appear. If so, thats it! You are successfully connected to TKFE.

For Windows 7 Users: If no com ports show up in TKFE, we can try a different communication setting. On your phone, open the dialer and hit *#197328640# . This opens one of the admin menus. From here, hit 9 >  6 > 2. It will ask you to disconnect and reconnect your cable. You can exit from this screen using the call or end buttons. You should then power your phone off and on. When it powers back on, Windows will try to install new drivers. If it fails, you should be able to force it to install them manually by hitting Start > Devices and Printers, and then selecting the unknown devices and going through the menus to update the drivers. At this point, you can open TKFE back up and try to connect again.    

It is possible but hard as hell. Best to wait for cable.

yes they are the same.

I am a real Newbie to all of this.   What is TKFE and what is it used for? 

When i try the trick for windows 7 i got the phone installing new drives but  when i went to update them manually it said they couldn't find anything and it didn't work  is there anything else i might be able to do

i figured it out the same day i made that post i just went into my device manger and found out which com it was from than on it worked thanks for the help anyways

Nice catch. But this forum was copied from the solstice forum to get it started. The owner for quickness just replaced 'solstice' with 'mythic' throughout the forum. So you will find a few errors throughout. I tried to delete many as I came to them. That was one I missed.

If your phone indeed was using COM2 then it sounds liek a driver issue.  Did you close out PC Studio prior to trying to connect with TKFE?