Taking screen shots on Android devices

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From	Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com>
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Subject	Taking screen shots on Android devices
Date	Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:11:41 +0100
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AIUI, you're supposed to be able to capture a shot of the current screen 
on an Android device by pressing the power and volume buttons 
simultaneously.

However, I've had very limited success when trying to do this - both 
with my Nexus 10 tablet and my Moto G phone. It seems to work very 
occasionally - less than 10% of the time - so it's impossible to be able 
to rely on taking a screen shot when you want one.

This has been the case throughout the period of my ownership of these 
devices, and seems to have little to do with the flavour of Android 
(which has been upgraded several times).

I've tried one or two third-party apps - but these all seem to rely on 
the built-in (in)ability to initiate screen shots by pressing the buttons.

Am I missing something, or can't anyone else make screen shots work 
reliably either?
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Cheers,
Roger
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Taking screen shots on Android devices Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 11:11 +0100
  Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices Leviatan <alberto.feSINESTO@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 16:06 +0200
    Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 17:00 +0100
      Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices "SC Tom" <sc@tom.net> - 2015-07-30 14:45 -0400
      Re: SOLVED: Taking screen shots on Android devices Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 20:00 +0100
        Re: SOLVED: Taking screen shots on Android devices "Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid@ivan.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-07-30 22:23 +0000
        Re: SOLVED: Taking screen shots on Android devices tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-08-03 20:28 -0400
  Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-07-30 17:39 +0200
  Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2015-07-30 14:26 -0500
    Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 22:46 +0100
  Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2015-08-01 00:15 +1200
    Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-07-31 14:06 +0100

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