Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Mills Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Taking screen shots on Android devices Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:06:13 +0100 Organization: Association of Revolting Peasants Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net z4akEXQt8NJQSr3/Io67iwokWjvpUvhLqYIbHZcCHO+kKCk97b Cancel-Lock: sha1:yf1IHJLMu12qKBWrA5PFbmJhcy4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: aioe.org comp.mobile.android:21583 On 31/07/2015 13:15, Ralph Fox wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:11:41 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: > >> 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? > > > On my Android device I go to "Settings>> ScreenshotSetting" where there > is an option to show a screen-shot button at the bottom of the screen > next to the soft navigation buttons. Tapping the screen-shot button > takes a screen shot of the Android device's screen. > > Screen-shot of setting and button ---> http://i59.tinypic.com/2wmg8s7.gif > > > I don't have that option on my settings menu. Here's a screenshot of the equivalent bit of the menu on my phone: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rorclj9y4aluadw/Screenshot_2015-07-31-13-54-03.png?dl=0 *However*, as reported in another post, I have now managed to find a way of making screenshots fairly consistently by using the power and volume down buttons - just as it's supposed to work. [Previously, I hadn't been doing it quite right.] -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.