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Re: SOLVED: Taking screen shots on Android devices

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On 30/07/2015 17:00, Roger Mills wrote:
> On 30/07/2015 15:06, Leviatan wrote:
>> Roger Mills, pensando en voz alta, dice:
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Not all devices work on that way... I don't own any of those two
>> devices, but in my current HTC and in a Samsung I had previously, you
>> had to press simultaneously "Power" button and "Home" touch icon.
>>
>> Pressing both exactly at the same time may be challenging, but I have
>> discovered that if you press power and, holding it, you press home with
>> little delay, it always works. The inverse procedure, instead, never
>> worked... maybe you can try this on your device; press and hold power,
>> and press volume inmediately after.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestions - but sadly they don't work. Pressing the
> power and volume buttons in any order just brings up the volume slider
> and the option to set interrupt priority (which I hadn't noticed before
> but has probably always been there).
>
> I tried your combination of power button plus Home icon just in case it
> did anything - but zilch!

After doing a bit of Googling and a lot of experimenting, I appear to 
have cracked it!

The timing and exact means of pressing the 2 buttons is a lot more 
critical than I realised. It needs to be virtually simultaneous, it 
needs to be the *down*[1] end of the volume button, and you need to hold 
them for a couple of seconds until a screen grab rectangle appears. If 
the volume slider appears, (or if the bl**dy thing turns itself off!), 
you've done it wrong. I guess that on the odd occasion when I managed it 
in the past, I just got lucky. Now I seem to be able to do it 
consistently - yippee!

[1] Just for good measure, the volume buttons work the opposite way 
round on my 2 devices. On the Nexus 10, the left hand end is 'down' and 
the right hand end is 'up' - and vice versa on the Moto G.
-- 
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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