My Samsung sdh-r631 phone still works but I no longer have a carrier. how can I upload my vids & pics to my laptop?

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If you want to transfer your files from your phone to your laptop you have 3 options.

A. Via Bluetooth
B. Via SD card
C. Via Samsung mobile phone software.

A. Via bluetooth
1. Open your phone bluetooth as well as your laptop
2. Pair them.
??how to pair.
???open your laptop bluetooth
???right click the bluetooth icon in the tray and select add a device.
???select your phone. And select ok.
3. From your laptop bluetooth, right click the icon in the tray and select receive file transfer
4. From your phone, open gallery and select your photos and videos and select share, select bluetooth
5. From your laptop, select accept file transfer

B. Via Sd Card
1. Turn off your phone
2. Remove your sd card
3. Insert it in a adapter
4. Insert the adapter in your sd memory card reader
5. Open my computer, select sd card
6. Select the files and start the copying.

C. Samsung mobile phone softwarem
1. Download the apps to your laptop
2. Install it.
3. Connect your phone via usb cable
4. Once recognized, select back up
5. On settings backup, uncheck everything except videos and photos
6. Start the backup else if you want to backup everything then make sure to check everything.
7. Select apply
8. Start backing up.

There are also some alternatives for samsung syncing software, if you want to check them out, i posted the link below.

I hope the above process will be able to help you.
Good luck.

http://www.apowersoft.com/samsung-kies-alternative.html