Tuesday, March 20, 2012

How to take screen shots on nexus s phone.

There are dozens of free applications on the android market for take screen shots. But they are not supported for Nexus S phone. Because it is a unrooted  phone. [I'll talk more about this later.. ;) ] However, after trying several ways i found a successful method. But it need a computer which has android sdk.

Simply you have to follow these 5 steps.  [mm... I tried on windows 7] 

1) Install Android SDK.
2) Enable your phone for USB debugging.
         Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging
3) Connect the phone to the computer through USB.
4) Start DDM.
       You can find an application called DDM inside tools in "android sdk" folder. Start it.
5) Select the phone and go to "Device -> Screen capture" [or press Ctrl+S]

1 comment:

Hansaka said...

Nice...

Here are some more ways to do it...
* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edwardkim.android.screenshotitfree&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5lZHdhcmRraW0uYW5kcm9pZC5zY3JlZW5zaG90aXRmcmVlIl0.

* There are some versions which allows you to take screenshots by default.
Ex: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DG3JlHfNJjDE&ei=ykhsT-_CNM7qrQfHx62oAg&usg=AFQjCNGdswTuctQFjV0r_NIH-hkzrGrQiQ

*Check this too : http://androidscreenshotapp.com/