I dont know of this posted but I was searching for this for a very long time, I was told that i cannot take screenshots with my phone using stock rom, But I accidentally doscovered that you can do it, press and hold power button then press the left most button beside the menu button (dont know whats its called) and you will be able to capture a screenshot.
hope it helps.
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Very well known. It's standard feature of sense 3.0. Nothing special. Also the button is called the home button
khulay028 said:
I dont know of this posted but I was searching for this for a very long time, I was told that i cannot take screenshots with my phone using stock rom, But I accidentally doscovered that you can do it, press and hold power button then press the left most button beside the menu button (dont know whats its called) and you will be able to capture a screenshot.
hope it helps.
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LoL!! Not an early riser, I see! Like dan said, it's a very very well known feature on stock Sense 3+ ROMs. Sorry for pouring water over your enthusiasm, and the eureka feeling....
It's Ok man, all of us get over-excited some time or the other!
Hahaha, sorry mates, its just that ive searched all over the net and i cant find anything. I even chatted with someone from Htc and they dont have any clue at all
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I wasnt aware of that , lol
I can now get rid of my screen shot app
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So my power button won't wake the phone up and I'm about to warranty it. can anyone point me towards getting an oem tmo version of android on it so i dont get hammered with a huge fee. also i need a way to put it on that doesnt use CWM.... i cant use my power button so i cant select things in CWM
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So my power button won't wake the phone up and I'm about to warranty it. can anyone point me towards getting an oem tmo version of android on it so i dont get hammered with a huge fee. also i need a way to put it on that doesnt use CWM.... i cant use my power button so i cant select things in CWM
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power buttons totally dead so u cant get the phone on at all?
The search button acts like the power button.
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And have u tried a different back case
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chrisizzle492 said:
The search button acts like the power button.
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Huh??? Can u explain please?
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Freshly_Snipes said:
Huh??? Can u explain please?
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ignore chrisizzle492
is it dead where it doesnt work at all
Freshly_Snipes said:
Huh??? Can u explain please?
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Replace the battery cover, which is the entire back. It might be that the "button" isn't making contact properly.
Remove the entire back cover, and where the "button" should be, press down on it with your finger.
Do a battery pull and then try it.
I don't think it's anything to do with the phone, it was doing the same thing on mine. I had to pull the battery numerous times a day.
Until I flashed a rom with a stock kernel, and now it's fine again!
anarchyuk said:
ignore chrisizzle492
is it dead where it doesnt work at all
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First off, what chris is trying to say is, that when in Recovery menu, you can use the capacitive buttons infront of the phone to move down and up and also select items in recovery menu. The search button can be used to select items that you would select with the power button.
Ugh..nightmares of the problems I had with my n1's
the phone is gone... thank youu everyone for your advice. when the power button stopped working first thing i did was take the case off and try with my hand still to no avail. so back to tmo it went
Jut recently I am having this problem. Whenever I am in an app or on the home screen if I hit the home button it takes a picture of the screen. I can't get out of it unless I hit the power button to turn the screen off. Now I don't know if this might be a problem with the power button sticking because I haven't noticed it doing so. If anyone has any insight into this that would be great!
Thanks.
The issue is with your power button. To take a screenshot you have to hold down Power + Home buttons. But the power button on this device has issues and sometimes registers as being pressed when it's not, that's why it's taking a screenshot when you hit home. If you have root, try disabling the screenshot function or flashing another rom like CM7.
wow sorry i dont have this problem
There is fix for it under the General section here on XDA that requires some super glue and a steady hand. The power button basically sags after awhile, kinda sucks for such a high end device.
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Feel sorry for you.
I dont have this problem.
**keep crossing finger**
;P
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You may need to reboot it.
Discovered this by accident.
By coincidence I came to press the power on/off button quickly followed by pressing Home button and the phone took a screenshot of my screen.
It is a non rooted phone HTC Desire S, software version 2.10.401.8 with Sence 3.0, Andriod 2.3.5 ... thought I'd share it with you.
Do not know if it's a new thing, but I did not know that you could take screenshots without root?
/Blueyed1
Blueyed1 said:
Discovered this by accident.
By coincidence I came to press the power on/off button quickly followed by pressing Home button and the phone took a screenshot of my screen.
It is a non rooted phone HTC Desire S, software version 2.10.401.8 with Sence 3.0, Andriod 2.3.5 ... thought I'd share it with you.
Do not know if it's a new thing, but I did not know that you could take screenshots without root?
/Blueyed1
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dude, it's a stock function
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Yes, but it's still a secret
/Blueyed1
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:facepalm... oh wait, double facepalm:
Sigh...
No, I'm afraid we all already know it. It is worst kept secret around this parts I guess...
Have a good day anyway.
Amazing secret leaked: the power button turns on your phone If you press it long!!!
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Blueyed1 said:
Yes, but it's still a secret
/Blueyed1
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Don't take all this mocking to heart buddy... we're all just pulling your leg. I know you feel that this us a super secret that you discovered all by yourself... but this function is stock on HTC sense since version 3.0..... Sometimes its better to just accept such foot-in-mouth situations graciously rather than make unsuccessful attempts at justifying your inaccurate statement. We're all human and allowed to make mistakes...
Cheers.
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Well you do now.
Just asking because I see screen shot in most of the power options in the ROMs for the HOX and I don't understand why. XD
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on mine it's power plus home.
FZ1Darren said:
one mine it's power plus home.
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That blew my mind. Lol.
No but seriously, it's built into stock as power volume down, you have to hold them.
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jphilippon said:
That blew my mind. Lol.
No but seriously, it's built into stock as power volume down, you have to hold them.
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What rom are you on? It's doesn't work for everyone I have only seen it work on cleanrom.
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Pretty sure default has always been power+home. Power down doesn't do jack for me....well, it turns off my screen after my phone goes to vibrate.
Learn something new every day...
[POWER] + [HOME] on stock 1.85.
Power + down is the stock ICS way of doing it and it works...sorta. You have to get the timing right or else it'll just turn off your screen, bring your power menu up, or mess with your volume.
Power + Home is just so much easier though...
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What rom are you on? It's doesn't work for everyone I have only seen it work on cleanrom.
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It worked for me on stock and still does on CleanROM 4.0
Hit them at the same time and hold them. Home is dumb for me I don't like the path it saves to.
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Power + down is the stock ICS way of doing it and it works...sorta. You have to get the timing right or else it'll just turn off your screen, bring your power menu up, or mess with your volume.
Power + Home is just so much easier though...
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Once you get it you won't mess up anymore. It's very easy.
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FusionTechFTS said:
Pretty sure default has always been power+home.
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Yup, power+home has been how HTC has done it for some time now, since before ICS.
redpoint73 said:
Yup, power+home has been how HTC has done it for some time now, since before ICS.
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Well geeze guys! Just sharing my discovery! XD
Also, I wish it'd get taken out of the power menu. Don't need 3 ways to take a screen shot.
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Well I'll be damned. I don't think I could do the ics way while drinking though. simul button push while under the influence of scotch could prove troubling.
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Well geeze guys! Just sharing my discovery! XD
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And nobody says there is anything wrong with that!
I was just pointing out the fact that HTC has included this feature since before Google decided to incorporate it in ICS.
Also, its interesting that HTC decided to include both their own method, and the Google way. HTC typically seems to prefer their own way of doing things, and removing the more "AOSP-ish" components.
where is it saved to then?
mcmb03 said:
where is it saved to then?
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Power+vol down ==> DCIM
Power+Home ==> Pictures>Screenshots
mcmb03 said:
where is it saved to then?
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Holding power and volume down at the same time is native to ICS and will save the screenshot to
/mnt/sdcard/pictures/screenshots
if I'm not mistaken. The One X can also take screenshots via home and power button. This will save the screenshot into a new folder DCIM or just drop them into /camera. I cant remember.
chriscerv90 said:
Holding power and volume down at the same time is native to ICS and will save the screenshot to
/mnt/sdcard/pictures/screenshots
if I'm not mistaken. The One X can also take screenshots via home and power button. This will save the screenshot into a new folder DCIM or just drop them into /camera. I cant remember.
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Power home puts it in camera shots.
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I hate the volume down+home, lol. When I hold the phone in my left hand and go to press home with my thumb it sometimes takes a screenshot.
On a random note, I feel like the HOX and a lot of other phones are easy to use one handed. I have slightly larger than average hands, but people should just put their pinky right under the home key on the edge if they need to. ANYWAY
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I hate the volume down+home, lol. When I hold the phone in my left hand and go to press home with my thumb it sometimes takes a screenshot.
On a random note, I feel like the HOX and a lot of other phones are easy to use one handed. I have slightly larger than average hands, but people should just put their pinky right under the home key on the edge if they need to. ANYWAY
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Thats how I hold it too! And I agree it's easy to use with one hand, save texting.
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You have to hit power button and vol down at the same time and hold, it worked for me, I just wasn't waiting log enough before.
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Hello guys, I just want to know is there any way through which I can increase the sensitivity of the power button? My phone is now one year old and I've found that the power button is very annoying. If any new person happens to use my phone, he is to be taught to apply a bit more force to the power button to lock the phone.
Also, long press is difficult! It's very difficult to take screenshots (with CM ROM that has power button screen shot option).
When I long press to take a screenshot, after releasing the button, the phone sleeps and gets locked. It happens several times and to take one screenshot I have to face it almost five times. I think it is because of dust that gets collected below the plastic button, is there any suggestion from you that can make my finger's life easy??? :banghead:
Uhh, and do not suggest opening the phone body and clean it!!!
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Same problem. Isn't much you can do with the power button. It's mechanical so to fix the actual button you would have to open up the phone and fiddle in there. (don't try this if you don't know what you're doing)
I, for one, am using this mod. It works on the rom level, not the phone itself so it needs to be flashed every time you install a new rom (even when it's the same one but different version) and it won't work when the phone is completely shut down, you still have to use the power button.
Oh yeah! I knew that mod but forgot!
Well then, for now I use a screen locking widget... but still to unlock power button is required...
Will have to stay with it only.. :banghead:
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Oh, and yeah, that same widget allows to lock the phone by long pressing search button.
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krazzyvishal said:
Oh yeah! I knew that mod but forgot!
Well then, for now I use a screen locking widget... but still to unlock power button is required...
Will have to stay with it only.. :banghead:
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Can't you just press any other button, like menu or the back key, and slide to unlock?
same problem with volume keys also
thatnextdoorboy said:
Can't you just press any other button, like menu or the back key, and slide to unlock?
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Yes I know I can, but sometimes just to see notifications or time, I don't take out the phone from the cover, only its head...