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[TUTORIAL] How to do a screen capture

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:20 pm
by joedeveloper
1. Make sure you have the Android SDK installed http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Once installed and have the various versions downloaded there should be a tool in the "Tools" folder.
3. C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools\DDMS.bat (on windows)

DDMS will pull up an app. As long as you are connected via ADB (either via USB or via adb connect IPaddress:5555 both work - Instructions on ADB here >>> http://forum.gtvhacker.com/revue/topic31.html).

DDMS will let you take a screen shot.

Screenshot of my phone showing up (not at home to test with my Revue)
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Screenshot of where to capture a screen shot
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Re: [TUTORIAL] How to do a screen capture

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:20 pm
by joedeveloper
View screen caps I took as reference:

http://imgur.com/a/KyiPC

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Re: [TUTORIAL] How to do a screen capture

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:12 am
by myshyak
If anyone interested, here are a lot of my screens:
https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/6044955 ... v?h=c36951

Re: [TUTORIAL] How to do a screen capture

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:40 am
by PuppyHacker
Great find, for those of us just starting out in android hacking, this is great info, in an understandably format. Thank you

Re: [TUTORIAL] How to do a screen capture

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:55 pm
by neveroffline
Running 3.1 userdebug on the Revue and when using DDMS to attempt a screen capture it says Capturing as usual then Screen not available.

I've tried rebooting the Revue, disconnecting and reconnecting adb.

Has anyone been able to take screenshots on the user debug version?

Is there a setting I'm missing?

adb and ddms are working correctly other than not being able to take a screenshot.

ddms after attempt at ss shows in the terminal:
06:48:10 W/ddms: Unable to get frame buffer: timeout

TIA!