Kies crashes, appears to start then dissappears..

[Brandon Willis1]

Anyone else having this issue? on my work computer it starts appears to be about to go to the main screen of kies then it dissappears.

On my home computer it downloads the file then everything closes out??

I want JB but neither of my computers are working...

Anyone have any suggestions?

I am almost desperate enough to go and see if they can do it in a store...

Please help

Thanks.

 

[thedigitalghost]

This happened to me as well on three PCs. I would launch Kies to update and it would dissappear or just go blank. On my third attempt it did the same thing but I just let it run for a while and it worked. It's seems that it just takes a while for some reason.

 

[Brandon Willis1]

i have tried restarting it several times to no avail? did it just start ??

UPDATE:

I killed all the kies processes....restarted again it came on .... not sure what i did .... but i am staring at a Downloading.... do not turn off target !! lol....so we will see.....

:-X:-X

 

[Reggie]

i have tried restarting it several times to no avail? did it just start ??

UPDATE:

I killed all the kies processes....restarted again it came on .... not sure what i did .... but i am staring at a Downloading.... do not turn off target !! lol....so we will see.....

:-X:-X

I have seen several posts that recommend removing the SD card. Hope yours download works. I had the same issue like you did but it finally worked for me.

 

[anon(809729)]

i have done everything you guys have said...still Kies disappears.....THIS IS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tkong]

Same thing here. I just gave up. I'll wait until my upgrade and get something with 4.3 JB or 5.0 KLP. Actually, my Note is fine with 4.0 ICS.

 

[dorrien12]

Well I updated my phone to JB, and restored all my data from Kies and everything went smooth. Then I had issues and had to wipe my phone and tried to do another restore and all of a sudden there was NO backup files and I had backed it up on at least six different days. I don't know WHERE my data is.

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[ebulldog]

After 2 or 3 attempts at this download, I believe you need to remove the SD card as someone said. I kept getting memory errors and just took a chance on removing it.
It was able to download fine. That being said Kies is HORRIBLE!!!. Who ever came up with this program at Samsung needs to be fired. The absolute worst sync program I have ever dealt with. When itunes works better, then you know you have issues!!!! I don't see an improvement in performance, but all I was looking for was the multi-window like everyone else, so I am pretty aggravated at ATT & Samsung on this when it appeared we would get that all along. How were phones older than the OG Note able to get it and not this phone. Pretty weak. Good luck all with the download and Kies.

 

[delcastilloe]

I had the same problem, Kies crashed after downloading the firmware upgrade. I tried changing the compatibility mode of the kiesagent.exe to XP. This time the application didn't crash but looked like it was hung, I noticed that there was still high cpu and disk activity going on. So after checking in the task manager I found that msseces.exe (Microsoft Security Essentials) was using it. I just disabled real time protection on the MSE control panel and Kies resumed the process. Make sure you are running Kies with an Admin account if not the process will also be stopped later, at least this time it pops-up a message indicating the issue. Hope that this helps.

 

[James Burden]

If you are running Windows 8 (like i am) with Microsoft Essentials, i can confirm that Kies will seem like it has frozen after the firmware download has reached 100%. The box will disappear and then ...... nothing.

This happens in both the Kies Lite and the full version. Here's what i did to fix it.

Press your START Key on you keyboard.
Type DEFENDER
Click on the SETTINGS tab across the top.
Now UNTICK Turn on Real Time Protection
Click SAVE CHANGES

I know this worked as i made this change whilst my Kies seemed to be frozen. As soon as i unticked it and clicked save, the firmware upgrade continued.

 

[Paco Castro Garcia]

This was the good method for me...


Ram's Pensieve: Fix : Samsung Kies crashes on startup

 

[Ribojr]

...turn off debugging mode (settings-application) on phone...

 

[Shona Thorn]

Why does kies open connect to my phone then as it starts to sync or back up the whole programme crashes!