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Hi I noticed that some galaxy devices have the ability to screen capture just by pressing buttons. I was wondering if you could do this with the US 5.0 version? The stock rom comes with a screen capture program with it but I still find no way to do it. does anyone know how?
I know the US 5.0 version does not do it. "Screen Capture Shortcut" work fine.
That is what I use! ha but it's weird it has the system app. Why would they put it in if you cant lol? Oh well, thanks though
What system app? I don't see one on my 5.0.
I could be mistaking it or could be something else but it shows as com.sec. android.app.screencapture
On several occasions, I some how triggered the screenshot, but unfortunately I still cannot figure out what I did to take the screenshot. So the feature is probably functional.
For now, I use the screenshot app on the market.
See I knew there was a way of it was there hmm have to figure it. try all possible combinations!
I found this post in the captivate forum talking about it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475988
The information seems to be correct. I took a look at the code and might spend some time implementing an notification area button that does screen capture.
Try screenshot ux trial... It is really good! You can crop and edit.
Just figured it out how to do it on my way home. This is how I trigger the screen capture on YP-G70 (international)
1. Press and hold home button using your left thumb.
2. Then press and hold back button using your right thumb.
3. Release both thumbs.
4. This is the hard part. Do step 1 to 3 in less than half second. It doesn't work if you do it too fast or too slow.
If it works, it will save the screenshot under the folder "ScreenCapture" in your internal SD card.
I don't blame you if you cannot reproduce it. It requires a fast finger .
It works also on the Galaxy Player 4.0, but i don't know, where it saves the pics.
Edit: The location where it saves the pics is: /sdcard/ScreenCapture
I've tried this several times with several different timings on my ROM and it does not appear to work. This could be because of the ROM, it doesn't work on U.S., or it's another key combo. If anyone gets this to work on U.S. 5.0 please let us know...
I am agree with you. I have a Samsung Galaxy S Wifi 5.0 (spain), and with quick fingers using home button and back button, you get a screencapture
WT Ho said:
Just figured it out how to do it on my way home. This is how I trigger the screen capture on YP-G70 (international)
1. Press and hold home button using your left thumb.
2. Then press and hold back button using your right thumb.
3. Release both thumbs.
4. This is the hard part. Do step 1 to 3 in less than half second. It doesn't work if you do it too fast or too slow.
If it works, it will save the screenshot under the folder "ScreenCapture" in your internal SD card.
I don't blame you if you cannot reproduce it. It requires a fast finger .
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Works for me though a bit tricky. Thanks!
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It works! Great stuff, thank you!
So, I double checked, and several reviews out on the webs noted the ability to use the camera button to activate the camera (even while locked?) and start taking pictures instantly without the need to use the power button. Since unboxing and setting up my phone I have been unable to duplicate this, and I must say it was a feature I was strongly looking forward to.
Anyone attempted this and have success? Is there an option somewhere to enable the ability to do this?
Thanks in advance! Happy unboxing day!
lc3necro said:
So, I double checked, and several reviews out on the webs noted the ability to use the camera button to activate the camera (even while locked?) and start taking pictures instantly without the need to use the power button. Since unboxing and setting up my phone I have been unable to duplicate this, and I must say it was a feature I was strongly looking forward to.
Anyone attempted this and have success? Is there an option somewhere to enable the ability to do this?
Thanks in advance! Happy unboxing day!
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From what I read, you have to unlock it first. D:
If you have the camera on the shortcuts bar then sliding that to the unlock circle will bring up the camera. To access the gallery or home screen it will require you to unlock(face, pattern, pin, ect..)
backedc4 is right, if you have it on the lock screen shortcuts, just slide it open directly. anything else will require an unlock first.
from whatever you are doing with it once unlocked though, just long-press the camera button (all the way down) and it'll bring up the camera.
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i thought it would be a gimmicky thing, but that long camera-button press rapid-shot photo capture is freaking awesome. i dont know how i ever took decent pictures before!!
Yeah, I knew about that, but I am sad to find out that the claims reviewed online are not holding true. Namely "For starters, that dedicated button lets you access the camera functionality with the phone switched off." (http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/04/htc-evo-4g-lte-preview-video/)
However, upon further research Cnet had the issue as well (http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/htc-evo-4g-lte/4505-6452_7-35182267.html) so it would appear moot. Blah! This is most certainly a feature I would like to show up in rooted versions tho, hah
Are we talking screen or security lock here? I'd say if you have a security lock you would not want to be able to bypass it for the camera. Once in the camera all of the photos you have taken are visible. As for screen lock I agree you should be able to bypass it.
hey, it does that if you take off locking
I remember tech blogs complaining about the amount of time they had to hold down the button to activate the camera, but I like it. I find myself accidentally pressing it a bit whenever I try to stretch my right hand up the screen. If it activated on every little press, that'd be really annoying. I haven't gotten to open from the lockscreen though (I have a pattern unlock)... But I don't mind that at all either.
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wlpywd said:
from whatever you are doing with it once unlocked though, just long-press the camera button (all the way down) and it'll bring up the camera.
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Thanks for the tip. Now I can get into the camera app from where ever I'm at by just holding down the camera button for a few seconds. I love having a dedicated camera button.
I saw it in the reviews, too. Also I saw another thread where it's mentioned. Have you guys tried (while screen off/locked) just holding the button down for about 5sec?
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scottspa74 said:
I saw it in the reviews, too. Also I saw another thread where it's mentioned. Have you guys tried (while screen off/locked) just holding the button down for about 5sec?
sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS
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Yeah, no go sadly. It's not that big of an issue to use the shortcut bar from the lockscreen, it really only adds a slight extra motion / time frame, but hey, I had to ask to see if anyone knew different!
I was able to access the camera via the dedicated button while the screen was locked for the first day or two, but at some point it has ceased to work. I have gone through every settings menu I could find to see if I made a change somewhere but have yet to find a reason. It was an awesome feature and I want it back.
I've also noticed various small things different from the first day or two, and I haven't rooted or made significant changes. I get the gut feeling this thing is getting secret silent background updates from either htc or sprint. not happy and worried about rooting because of ths...
anyone know how to check or monitor this??
Whoa the above 2 posts are pretty nuts! Completely silent updates could be quite annoying for people running rooted devices.
exactly, has me worried. I'll start another post about it later
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I've also noticed various small things different from the first day or two, and I haven't rooted or made significant changes. I get the gut feeling this thing is getting secret silent background updates from either htc or sprint. not happy and worried about rooting because of ths...
anyone know how to check or monitor this??
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Care to expand on what "small things" you have found that have changed from the first day or two?
I have searched xda and Google but haven't found an answer. Does anyone know how to disable or remove screen capture? I tried freezing screen capture.apk in TB but that didn't help. I'm really tired of my pocket taking screen shots of my lock screen whenever I get a text. :-/
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Maybe your pants are too tight.
Never heard of this issue before...
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Is that your Note taking a screen shot or are you just glad to see me?
Well it definitely wasn't my Note. Lol.
redman9 said:
Is that your Note taking a screen shot or are you just glad to see me?
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Uh, you could flash an aosp Rom...they don't have swipe screen shot feature, which is what iimagine is happening right?
On aosp it's volume down and power only, no swipe, or s-pen shot at all.
Not sure how to remove it though
Yeah that's what's happening. It didn't start doing that until I flashed the last ics leak and now it's doing it on the official release. It only does it if I'm walking around with my phone in my pocket and I get a text and only about 75% of the time then. I would use an aosp rom but I like having the spen functionality.
studacris said:
Uh, you could flash an aosp Rom...they don't have swipe screen shot feature, which is what iimagine is happening right?
On aosp it's volume down and power only, no swipe, or s-pen shot at all.
Not sure how to remove it though
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DHorrors said:
Yeah that's what's happening. It didn't start doing that until I flashed the last ics leak and now it's doing it on the official release. It only does it if I'm walking around with my phone in my pocket and I get a text and only about 75% of the time then. I would use an aosp rom but I like having the spen functionality.
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Do you want screenshots completely disabled or just the swipe screenshot disabled?
Completely disabled is much easier, as I just did a quick test and completely disabled screenshots.
What ROM are you using?
EDIT: Spoke too soon. I'm partially there...it doesn't take screenshots anymore, but it crashes SystemUI when you try to. I'll keep looking into it.
Since it happens on screen wake with texts, why not use SMS pop up from the market and disable notifications in the native messaging app. At least it won't wake in your pocket.
Honestly either way is fine with me, I don't ever take screen shots so I really wouldn't miss the feature.
I'm on the official att ics stock rom rooted and cwm.
lactardjosh said:
Do you want screenshots completely disabled or just the swipe screenshot disabled?
Completely disabled is much easier, as I just did a quick test and completely disabled screenshots.
What ROM are you using?
EDIT: Spoke too soon. I'm partially there...it doesn't take screenshots anymore, but it crashes SystemUI when you try to. I'll keep looking into it.
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I would try that but I do like the screen wake when my phone's not in my pocket.
froidroid said:
Since it happens on screen wake with texts, why not use SMS pop up from the market and disable notifications in the native messaging app. At least it won't wake in your pocket.
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Proving a little more difficult than expected. I'm still working on it, but won't be able to do any more on it tonight probably.
I appreciate the effort. I tried a couple of things that I thought might work but none did.
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Proving a little more difficult than expected. I'm still working on it, but won't be able to do any more on it tonight probably.
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I've been digging around in SystemUI and can disable just the swipe screenshot, but it crashes SystemUI most of the time.
This may be a dumb question but did you freeze or remove screen capture.apk when you were trying that?
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I've been digging around in SystemUI and can disable just the swipe screenshot, but it crashes SystemUI most of the time.
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Not a dumb question at all. Freezing the screen capture apk doesn't stop the screen shot from being taken, which is a little bizarre.
I should get some more time to work on this tomorrow. Might take someone better than me though.
Yeah I thought it was weird that freezing it didn't do anything. I was thinking maybe that apk is what is causing the crashes when fooling with the system UI.
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I worked on this some more today and its still crashing when I try to prevent the screenshot from being taken. I think another way would be to stop the phone from using the palm sweep gesture. That might be easier to figure out and I think is in framework.
That would work too. :thumbup:
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As you may know, all ICS stock based roms for Samgung Galaxy 2 have one common and very unpleasant feature - a home button delay. This delay is noticeable every time you press home button to exit an application, return back from settings to dashboard or if you want to return to your home screen. As a result you may have a feeling that your phone response after clicking a home button is delayed app. 1s and it will degrade overall phone responsivness.
For demonstration of a problem see this video.
Finally the fix is here and you may enjoy it on your Galaxy S2 with the newest miuiandroid 2.8.17 rom with integrated 3-way Reboot options from kong. It is not tested on another miui releases, but probably could work.
Installation:
Just install the zip in cwm recovery and you are good to go.
If you enjoy my work you may consider a small donation to support my further development.
Note: This will NOT fix lockscreen lag, it is present because your cpu is in powersaving mode and takes some time to utilize again.
Please do not copy this patch to another hosts, always use a link to this forum instead.
I'm not responsible for any problems or data corruption you may have using this patch. For your safety always backup your rom before doing any modifications.
I'm keen to try this but scared it messes something up Any lab rats willing to test it first?
DarkNiz said:
I'm keen to try this but scared it messes something up Any lab rats willing to test it first?
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Hehe, don't wory. If you have this version from miuiandroid (miuiandroid_GT-I9100-2.8.17.zip) you are safe Just try it out and share your experience. You won't regret Those disclaimer is just in case... And for your safety you can always back up your rom in cwm recovery
mizuuu said:
Hehe, don't wory. If you have this version from miuiandroid (miuiandroid_GT-I9100-2.8.17.zip) you are safe Just try it out and share your experience. You won't regret Those disclaimer is just in case... And for your safety you can always back up your rom in cwm recovery
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Hehe, okay, cool, I will try it and report back
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Hmmm... I can't really see any difference in the time it takes when I press the home button to get back to home screen :-/
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Hehe, okay, cool, I will try it and report back
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Hmmm... I can't really see any difference in the time it takes when I press the home button to get back to home screen :-/
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Did you patch it correctly in cwm recovery? This is the problem, see video here
If you apply it correctly it will remove this delay completely and if you press home button the phone reacts immediately. Check if you have 3 way reboot option. If not a patch has not been applied...
mizuuu said:
Did you patch it correctly in cwm recovery? This is the problem, see video here
If you apply it correctly it will remove this delay completely and if you press home button the phone reacts immediately. Check if you have 3 way reboot option. If not a patch has not been applied...
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Trust me, I flash things at least once a week. The 3-way-reboot is there.
DarkNiz said:
Trust me, I flash things at least once a week. The 3-way-reboot is there.
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Check the video and let me know. For me it works perfectly. Or you can flash original rom and you see the difference.
The updater script is faulty.. tried to push the policy my own and it did the job.
thnak you =]
amitmiz said:
The updater script is faulty.. tried to push the policy my own and it did the job.
thnak you =]
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Faulty? It should be ok, maybe it is kernel problem. What kernel do you use? I use syiah and no problems. Does the updater throws any error during flash?
Edit: I have double checked and reverted back changes and apply this fix again and it works just fine.
Delay is gone since I deleted Vlingo Voice Command app, stock 4.0.4
SASMareSRB said:
Delay is gone since I deleted Vlingo Voice Command app, stock 4.0.4
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This fix is for miui based on 4.0.3 not for cm9 or stock roms based on 4.0.4.
mizuuu said:
Check the video and let me know. For me it works perfectly. Or you can flash original rom and you see the difference.
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It was never that slow for me. Maybe it did work but I just can't notice it :-/ I never use the home button anyway. I always press the back button.
I'm on Siyah 4.0.1 (if it matters).
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It was never that slow for me. Maybe it did work but I just can't notice it :-/ I never use the home button anyway. I always press the back button.
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Ah, then it's clear Back buton is not affected because phone doesn't wait for second click. I'm use home button pretty often ant it was very anoying for me
Edit: a question came into my mind - let's say you have on third or fourth tab in MIUI Launcher, how do you return back to home tab ??? For me the only way is to press the home button and here you can clearly see the difference.
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Ah, then it's clear Back buton is not affected because phone doesn't wait for second click. I'm use home button pretty often ant it was very anoying for me
Edit: a question came into my mind - let's say you have on third or fourth tab in MIUI Launcher, how do you return back to home tab ??? For me the only way is to press the home button and here you can clearly see the difference.
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I know it won't work for back button, but I did try using the home button to see. Perhaps it is faster, but I just can't see it. It's probably because I use the back button so often.
I don't use MIUILauncher, so I can't help you out with your question but I do know you mean Thanks for this mod, though. I'll keep it on
hey man, nice job will try it out now.. will give you results soon
Work perfectly! Nice job
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DarkNiz said:
I know it won't work for back button, but I did try using the home button to see. Perhaps it is faster, but I just can't see it. It's probably because I use the back button so often.
I don't use MIUILauncher, so I can't help you out with your question but I do know you mean Thanks for this mod, though. I'll keep it on
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Strange because it is really obvious, maybe if you would return back to original you'd start to notice
mizuuu said:
Strange because it is really obvious, maybe if you would return back to original you'd start to notice
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Lol I'm probably just used to the quick speed of the back button, so when I click home now, even though it is faster, I can't see it. Maybe that's why I can't notice it
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Lol I'm probably just used to the quick speed of the back button, so when I click home now, even though it is faster, I can't see it. Maybe that's why I can't notice it
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If you have the patch applied there is no difference in speed between back and home button - and that's it! Now if you would flash unmodified rom you would see the difference between these two buttons very quickly
what is the process to remove this patch because I applied it and now my phone will not turn on passed the samsung logo?
Hi Guys,
is there any other shortcut than knuckle for doing a screenshot? i hate knuckle screenshot it feels so unnatural!!
Is it possible to do something like press and hold home button or something like that?
thank you!
guztavo1 said:
Hi Guys,
is there any other shortcut than knuckle for doing a screenshot? i hate knuckle screenshot it feels so unnatural!!
Is it possible to do something like press and hold home button or something like that?
thank you!
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power off + volume down at the same time
OMG dude you saved my life!!! i was looking for this for so long! how did you find this shortcut? i couldnt find it in any documentation.
thank you so much!
It's also in the quick tiles settings
guztavo1 said:
OMG dude you saved my life!!! i was looking for this for so long! how did you find this shortcut? i couldnt find it in any documentation.
thank you so much!
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u r welcome press the hand for thanks hhhjh
Does anyone know is there any way to disable the power off + volume down shortcut feature? I got my mate 10 for one week so far, and in general, I accidentally take a screenshot at least 5 times a day while I tried to pick up my phone. Am I the only one having this problem? Does anyone have this problem like me?
Beside rooting my phone, I was thinking if I could get into "developer" mode to disable anything?
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Does anyone know is there any way to disable the power off + volume down shortcut feature? I got my mate 10 for one week so far, and in general, I accidentally take a screenshot at least 5 times a day while I tried to pick up my phone. Am I the only one having this problem? Does anyone have this problem like me?
Beside rooting my phone, I was thinking if I could get into "developer" mode to disable anything?
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Are you using the built-in cover? doesn't happen without it.
eric3ho said:
Does anyone know is there any way to disable the power off + volume down shortcut feature? I got my mate 10 for one week so far, and in general, I accidentally take a screenshot at least 5 times a day while I tried to pick up my phone. Am I the only one having this problem? Does anyone have this problem like me?
Beside rooting my phone, I was thinking if I could get into "developer" mode to disable anything?
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Have you got giant fingers?
I haven't done this yet
gm007 said:
Are you using the built-in cover? doesn't happen without it.
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The Pro doesn't even seem to have the volume down + power shortcut
False alarm
ante0 said:
The Pro doesn't even seem to have the volume down + power shortcut
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What do you mean? It does have the screenshot 2 keys combo.
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What do you mean? It does have the screenshot 2 keys combo.
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I didn't push them at the same time apparently. I rebooted twice xD