Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) finally brings screenshots natively to the mobile platform, to a lot of users of custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod or Darkys ROM it may seem like this has been a feature for a while but that isn’t the case.
To take a screenshot:
- Simply hold down the Volume Down button and Power button for about a second.
You’ll see a flash and the screen will be framed which shows the screenshot was taken (I’ve tried grabbing a screenshot of this screen, but it’s pretty tricky and no luck yet!). The screenshot will be saved in a folder /Pictures/Screenshots on your phones internal SD card.
You’ll also get a new notification in the notification bar saying “Saving Screenshot…” and once it’s done there’ll be a “Screenshot captured.” notification in the pull down menu which will take you directly the screenshot in the Gallery.
For more screenshots, check out my first look and impressions post about ICS!
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Doesn’t work on the Galaxy Exhilarate. Any suggestions?
Same as what Sandra said. Took me forever to figure it out before ice cream sandwich and now it’s no where to be found again.
Thank you very much :) pressed togather volume down and power and hold it for about sec and WOALA there it goes :) Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanksss!!
It does not work either on Samsung Galaxy S Blaze.
Thanks. It worked effortlessly on my Sony Xperia Tipo but it’s not the most easy to utilize invention by Google. Nevertheless, thanks for saving me the trouble of searching for a screenshot app on Google play.
oh…its wonderful…once i upgraded from android 2.3 to 4.1, i couldn’t find the screenshot…i thought they forgot to bring that option on upgraded version….but now i see its still there but a little bit complexity has come… :p
I have a Samsung Galaxy Exhilerate,, and I cannot get the screenshot to work ever since I upgraded to ICS,, it worked perfectly before icecream,, any suggestions please.
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I just went an updated to Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.x) on my Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate an it’s still the same as Gingerbread only you have to hole the home an power key down a bit longer :)
It worked on Sony Xperia Pro!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
Doesnt work for my galaxy s2 ics…. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!