• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Help Kies Air not working over wifi

When I first got the phone I could connect using my router. Since then whenever I your in the IP address into my browser the laptop won't recognize the address. I've checked that the laptop address is similar via ipconfig in the command window and it's fine. I've also turned off the Norton firewall but that didn't help. Any ideas anyone? Thanks
 
Upvote 0
Your ip address for your gs2 is probably different to when you first managed to connect. Go into your wireless settings and select your router. It will report what ip address your router has allocated to your gs2. Eg. 192.168.1.102 The url you originally connected with is probably something like 192.168.1.101:8080 ie the 101 has changed to 102 for example. Change the address in the browsers url to match and bob's your uncle.
 
Upvote 0
When I first got the phone I could connect using my router. Since then whenever I your in the IP address into my browser the laptop won't recognize the address. I've checked that the laptop address is similar via ipconfig in the command window and it's fine. I've also turned off the Norton firewall but that didn't help. Any ideas anyone? Thanks
make sure there's no other device on the network using the same ip
 
Upvote 0
If i may add my input (found through trial and error), hopefully it'll clear up some of these points.

1. KIES Air DOES NOT work properly in Chrome browser (come on Samsung, its a Google device for goodness sake!), for example it may not do anything when you try and download a file from the phone to the PC. Use IE instead.

2. In IE, when typing the URL you have to put a / after the 8080, or it won't work.

Hope this helps!
 
Upvote 0
Hi, I had the same problem I only have my fone about a month and it connected to the wifi a couple of times. then stopped. I tried some of the fixes listed above but notn worked.

I no this is a bit obvious but I disconnected from my wifi and switched it off and on again and then reconnected. then i restarted kies and there was a new address shown. ie the 102 had changed to 103 so i entered that in the browser and it worked for me.

hope it helps.

Marese
 
Upvote 0
Hi, I had the same problem I only have my fone about a month and it connected to the wifi a couple of times. then stopped. I tried some of the fixes listed above but notn worked.

I no this is a bit obvious but I disconnected from my wifi and switched it off and on again and then reconnected. then i restarted kies and there was a new address shown. ie the 102 had changed to 103 so i entered that in the browser and it worked for me.

hope it helps.

Marese

Hello all,

I registered with this forum only for the sole purpose of confirming the fact that the above poster named Marese's solution worked perfectly, and since I had tried anything and everything to fix this pesky problem before trying out Marese's solution, I can confidently say that this is the ultimate fix we are looking for. Your experience may vary depending on which phone you got. Mine is samsung galaxy S 2.

Anyways, in my case what I did was to disconnect the phone from wifi. then I shut down my wifi router for good for 10 seconds and replugged it on. then i turned on wifi on the phone and 5 seconds later clicked on Keis Air icon and boom! it worked!
 
Upvote 0
I have had phone for 2 weeks. I tried using Kies air a few times, and it worked, though once or twice I got the "page can't load/can't connect" on my PC (using Firefox). Now it won't open at all. I can't do a damn thing. I tried all the suggestions above to no avail. Now what?! When I connect via usb it's total crap- won't show small icons of my pics, though oddly the first time I connected via usb it DID show the pics for a minute, then they turned into icons with numbers that are unviewable unless I look at them individually in Windows picture viewer, but doing so I am unable to even rotate them. WTF?!

HOW do I get kies air to work?? I just tried downloading Kies softward, and that's not working either!
 
Upvote 0
I had this same problem, watched Kies connect once, but never connected again, kept stalling. Tried Mozilla, Chrome and Explorer, all with the same result. Then I noticed lots of Java icons stacked up in the taskbar, and under closer inspection, lots of instances of java started in the task manager.
Turns out the problem is the Java cache on your PC, it doesn't clear after you drop the connection, and prevents further re-connection attempts. Uninstall the Java on your PC and it all works fine. Not sure what you need to do if Java is essential to you.
 
Upvote 0
Hi to all! Unfortunately, I don't still have a solution to this problem, but I narrowed our search a little. I concluded it is definately a network/router problem. I tried it on diferent networks, somewhere it works perfectly, but at my home network it doesn't work at all. I tried forwarding 8080 port in my router - doesn't work, opened the port in windows firewall, tried turning off WF and Kaspersky - doesn't work. My final final argumen for the conclusion that is a network/router problem is that I tried two more similar apps for this purpose, and had the identical problem with both of them like with the Kies air.

Hopes this interests someone enough to try fixing it on the router or in windows, I searched all over google results on different seraches and still nothing. Tahnx in advance.
 
  • Like
Reactions: beeniemac
Upvote 0
1. Determine your CURRENT ip address. This CAN CHANGE every time you connect, so do this before you want to use Kies Air. To do this, do the following:
menu>settings>wireless+network>wifi settings
then tap your router your connected into

this will then display your allocated ip address (eg. 192.168.1.101)

2. Open Kies Air
3. tap Start
4. In IE/Firefox/Chrome connect with (eg.) http://192.168.1.101
if this doesnt work then try (eg.) http://192.168.1.101:8080
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones