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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

#21544 — Taking screen shots on Android devices

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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#21556

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.

-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto

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#21561

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!
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Roger
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#21565

"Roger Mills" <watt.tyler@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d1v00oF2lf4U1@mid.individual.net...
> 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!

On my Galaxy Tab4, there are two methods listed; one as Roger posted with 
the Power and Home buttons, and the other if Palm Motion is enabled in 
settings:
Put edge of your hand on the edge of the screen and swipe left to right (or 
right to left, depending on which hand you like better, and where you 
start).
In both scenarios, a white border will appear around the outside of the 
screen to let you know it has captured the screen. Mine also makes the 
"camera click."
-- 
 SC Tom
 

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#21566 — Re: SOLVED: Taking screen shots on Android devices

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.
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Roger
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#21573 — Re: SOLVED: Taking screen shots on Android devices

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:00:39 +0100, Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com>
 wrote in <d1vahpF5dujU1@mid.individual.net>:

> [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.

	Interesting.  On my devices the lower end is down and the upper 
end is up[1].  Perhaps you're holding it wrong?  ;-)


[1] I.e., the up volume button is closest to the on/off button.  Whatever
orientation you're holding it...

-- 
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Brunel University.    Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch]    Room 40-1-B12, CERN
        KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

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#21638 — Re: SOLVED: Taking screen shots on Android devices

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:00:39 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:

> 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!
> 
So: is there any way to take screen shots on a Motorola Droid X2, which is
an older Android v. 2.3.5 device? None of the methods discussed here works.

I'd greatly appreciate a working approach :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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#21560

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.
...
> Am I missing something, or can't anyone else make screen shots work 
> reliably either?


On my Samsung I have to press Power and Start simultaneously. My nephew
has a Huawei and he has some sort of menu to create a screenshot.

-- 
s|b

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#21567

On 7/30/2015 5:11 AM, 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?

According to the screenshot app on my phone, Android 4.0 and up will 
only take screenshots using the power/volume simultaneous press. So 
much for the app.

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#21571

On 30/07/2015 20:26, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
> On 7/30/2015 5:11 AM, 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?
>
> According to the screenshot app on my phone, Android 4.0 and up will
> only take screenshots using the power/volume simultaneous press. So much
> for the app.

And it *does* if you do it right. See my subsequent post on the subject.
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Roger
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#21582

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



-- 
Kind regards
Ralph

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#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.]
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Roger
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