Help Newbie having big problems with S3 and Kies Air

[six_h]

Hi guys, Just joined in the hope that someone can enlighten me!
First Android phone, first smartphone.
Feeling very dumb!

I've installed and formatted a new 64GB SanDisk Ultra SDHC class 10 card.
Now I want to communicate with it!
Just learned of the "Kies Air" app and installed it on my phone.
It first asked to make a shortcut on my desktop, but it looks odd: It's icon is the same as a notepad file but the paper is plain not lined!
It is just named "sd" and when double clicked, it asks every time what to use to open it. specifying IE, it opens a browser window with just this code:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<jnlp codebase="http://192.168.1.71:8080/www" spec="1.0"> -<information> <title>Kies Air Discovery Service</title> <vendor>Samsung</vendor> <description kind="one-line">Discover and connect to Kies Air devices</description> -<shortcut online="false"> <desktop/> </shortcut> <icon href="http://192.168.1.71:8080/www/kies_air_logo_128x128.gif"/> <icon kind="splash" href="http://192.168.1.71:8080/www/kies_air_logo_128x128.gif"/> <offline-allowed/> </information> -<security> <all-permissions/> </security> <update check="background"/> -<resources> <j2se version="1.5+"/> <jar href="ServiceDiscovery.jar" main="true"/> <property value="true" name="jlnp.versionEnabled"/> </resources> <application-desc main-class="com.samsung.swift.servicediscovery.Main"/> </jnlp

I eventually found out how to access my PC's files (not exactly intuitive is it?) and was told that without the dratted gluepot that is Java, I can only transfer files of 100mb or less!
It's going to be a long, long night!

I have succumbed to the blackmail and installed Java, the shortcut still takes me to the code printed above, so what on earth is wrong?
Can anyone help?

 

[ocnbrze]

welcome to AF!!!!!

so looks like your threads got merged. i also merged your post into one as well.

is the code you are getting on your phone?

 

[Mikestony]

Welcome six_h!!

Have you tried to use Firefox or Chrome instead of IE?

 

[Metroid Prime]

Hi six I merged your threads BTW.

You could try a different browser such as firefox as Mikestony suggested or maybe even Dolphin Perhaps.

 

[six_h]

Thanks Mikestoney, yes, that is what Im having severe trouble posting!
since installing Java, I've tried again to use Kies Air, whilst it worked fine before aside from limiting me to 100mb files, now it is totally unresponsive in either FF or IE, in fact in IE, it freezes and has to be "END PROGRAM"'d
I've been trying to post a screen shot but keep getting returned to administrator!
Given up with that!
Edit, after two emails from Admin, I'll try again with the screenshot....probably not too helpful, but here goes:
Thanks to Metroid Prime for image upload instructions!
Couldn't see the tags, but the thumbnail will do fine!

 

[Metroid Prime]

My bad. Since you're a new member you have restrictions on your profile that wont allow that. You'll need a post count of 25 if you want to post images.

 

[six_h]

My bad. Since you're a new member you have restrictions on your profile that wont allow that. You'll need a post count of 25 if you want to post images.

lol, and for my next trick I'll walk on water!

 

[funkylogik]

Lol

 

[six_h]

Just an update to my trials and tribulations with KIES software in its various forms!
I eventually gave up and phoned Samsung's helpline....they agreed that "Kies Air" was indeed "digital doggy-doo" and I should scrape it off my Phone at the kerbside!

They recommended the Full-Fat version downloaded to my PC.

Mistake, huge mistake!
Downloaded from Samsung's site and on installation which took for ever, it disconnected my wireless card, and I later found that it had corrupted some registry keys stopping the installation of any future Microsoft updates.
I phoned Microsoft who offered to fix the problem for