When opening uploaded video AVI file all I get is sound, no pic

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

Your video is stored on your phone's micro SD card already. Remove the micro SD card in your phone and mount it in your computer, Ipad or tablet. You may need an adapter. Once you have removed and stored the file you can transfer it to any other device or SD card or manipulate the video file in your computer. Or you can try a direct USB connection from your phone to a computer. May need an adapter cord for that.
All else fails - open a free account with Dropbox and upload your video file from the phone. Store it there and distribute as you see fit. Sometimes you can send a large file with a text message, also.

suggest downloading as many Android media players onto the TV from Google playstore and try them all. There will be some AVI files that just don't play on Android you might be able to convert avi to another video format with a file converter program.
Suggest VLC player but it is troublesome on android operating systems.
might work on your laptop or computer for the avi file.

Are you saving to the micro SD card or to the HDD? You need to go into your menu options to ensure that you are saving to the HDD automatically. Sometimes I used to save to the SD for pics and the HDD for video (set up in the menu). Maybe you are deleting the HDD files but automatically recording to the full SD card?! Check

You need a thrid party converter.
Wondershare Video Converter Platinum is the best HD video converter and AVCHD video converter which can convert HD video and AVCHD video to avi, convert m2ts to avi, convert mts to avi, convert ts to mp4 etc.. with excellent quality.

If I understand you correctly, you put pics onto the SD card using the computer, then put the card in the camera and now can't see the pics? Is that correct? The camera won't recognize the pics because it uses a different recording system than the computer. Now if you want to take more pictures using that card, you will need to format it in the camera first.

I have found that videos need to be in MPEG 4 and photos JPEG

SDHC cards need a special reader. A standard SD reader won't read a SDHC

tried to update nokia 500 and its stock showing updating

they are probably avi files. Do you have windows media player installed? That should work.