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I am facing the same problem and really disappointed i was hoping NFC will work after the update. I think sony should remove the wifi direct and NFC feature from the tablet. Funny thing is NFC on the tablet will only gives you sound and nuthing happens i am using s3. You will not get get any support from sony i tried many apps from playstore and i failed to make them work.
Like you said sending from tablet works fine but when i try to send from s3 it opens playstore in tablet i wonder if you are getting the same.
when i tried to send photos from s4 i was facing this problem too. i can send photos from my tablet to s4 but i can't transfer photos from s4 to tablet, it opens google play store and says element is not found(translated from turkish). hopefully i found the solution, i turned off the s-beam and turned on only nfc in s4 and tablet received the photo correctly. i hope this works in your case too.