Android : Why Do Screenshot Utilities Require Rooting?
Oct 18, 2009
Why do Android screenshot utilities only work on rooted devices? Linux distributions and desktop environments provide user-space screen capture tools. Why can't Android? I wonder what are the technical issues, if any, that prevent this. The only user-space procedure I am aware of, i.e. installing about 1 GB worth of development tools on a PC, hooking it to an Android device via USB, and disabling some of its funzionality (e.g. SD card access), is not user-friendly.
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Apr 4, 2010
All I keep seeing is people asking for an app that allow screenshots without root. The only solution all have given is installing sdk which is a pain in the bum to do. I have another mini-solution until such an app is developed.
Both Open Home and Home++ have this feature built in. Only negative to it is, you won't be able to take a screenshot of your HTC Sense UI home screen or Android stock home screen only the open home or home++ screen. But for many who are like me and could not run the SDK correctly, this works just fine.
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Aug 8, 2010
Is there anyway you can take a screenshot without rooting the phone? And without having it connected to your computer while you take the screenshot?
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Oct 28, 2013
I wonder whether there is a way to screen shot android programmatically without rooting the phone?
On Google play, there are numbers of screen shot apps saying "no need to root the phone". But actually, most of them do need to root the phone even they said no need.I can only do it by rooting the phone and pushing my app as system app.
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Dec 31, 2009
Is there any way to get the stock Android Messaging app on the Eris? I hate the HTC messaging app; it's so slow and leggy. I also hate Handcent and Chomp. Is there any way I could get the stock Android SMS app? Or does this require rooting or what?
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Apr 28, 2009
I just updated to SDK 1.5 and all of my projects are failing to build with the following error:
[2009-04-28 15:53:23 - Utilities] no classfiles specified [2009-04-28 15:53:23 - Utilities] Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1 ("Utilities" is the name of this specific project.)
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 x64. Before the update to 1.5 everything worked fine.
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Jul 27, 2010
Is there an equivalent Android class to the BlackBerry's DateTimeUtilities? What I really need is DateTimeUtilities.copyCal(source, dest), and I can write it myself, but I really hate writing functions like this only to find it already exists but I just didn't know. I am aware of clone(), but what I really need is to be able to easily change the timezone of a date without having to worry about DST etc myself.
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Oct 30, 2010
I was deleting some photos that my Droid X automatically uploaded from my laptop (does anyone know how to stop this?) and accidentally deleted photos that I had taken with my Droid camera. I'm still trying to figure out how to save photos from my droid to my laptop so they weren't backed up.
1. Are there any recovery utilities I can use to recover my pictures?
2. Is there a good manual (better than the one verison offers) that will tell my how to do things like sync to google and troubleshoot some other connection problems I'm having?
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Aug 7, 2009
i have a requirement to place 2 overlapping image view inside a web view.the upper image view can be moved using trackball and the lower image view is static.now i want to capture the whole screen programmatically and save it as an image.i have referred this link but unable to get the solution.
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Aug 4, 2009
How can I take a screenshot programmatically? So far I've learned that:
1) DDMS does it by sending "framebuffer:" to the adb service over a socket, which takes a screenshot in framebuffer_service.c that it sends back.
2) There are some proprietary screenshot apps out there that stipulate the user must have root access, I'm not sure why.
Would it be possible for an Android app to send "framebuffer:" to its own adb service and get the screenshot that way?
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May 10, 2010
My goal is to be able to type a one word command and get a screenshot from a rooted Nexus One attached by USB. So far, I can get the framebuffer which I believe is a 32bit xRGB888 raw image by pulling it like this: adb pull /dev/graphics/fb0 fb0 rom there though, I'm having a hard time getting it converted to a png. I'm trying with ffmpeg like this: ffmpeg -vframes 1 -vcodec rawvideo -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb8888 -s 480x800 -i fb0 -f image2 -vcodec png image.png That creates a lovely purple image that has parts that vaguely resemble the screen, but it's by no means a clean screenshot.
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Apr 30, 2009
I'd like to add widget support to my app, but I suppose that it'll take quite a while until 1.5 is globally rolled out. I assume that widget support means that I need to compile against 1.5 and set up the minSdkVersion to 3, so I'll effectively lock out anybody with 1.1. Other than adding a second version of the same app for 1.5, what's the best way to approach this? Wait a couple of months until 1.5 is globally spread? (Assuming that all carriers even decide to roll it out in the first place.)
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Jan 19, 2009
I set my application search to only show free applications, now I want to find the applications that cost money. How do I find these applications on my Google phone?
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Jul 16, 2009
this is a layout issue, now my app's layout is this screenshot...........
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Dec 13, 2009
If you miss CaptureIT from the BB days, or just wanting an easy way to take a screenshot and don't mind using Home++ well this afternoon the new release includes snapshot. It captures great and the colors are excellent.
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Jul 29, 2010
Is screenshoting coming on the 2.2 Froyo update? Sorry if this has been talked about before just haven't seen anything about it.
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Aug 27, 2009
Read through Couple of articles , Most of them point to the DDMS through that we could take the Screenshot. However i am trying to capture the Emulator screen from the Command Line. Not Sure how to tweak the framebuffer /Surface flinger to do the job. or is there any app that we could run in the background and get the job done.
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Sep 8, 2009
I am looking for an app that will take a screenshot of what's currently on my screen. Or maybe somebody knows a better way for me to capture a screenshot from the phone. Any thoughts?
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Sep 29, 2010
I know you need root access if you want to capture a screenshot by using a background application. However is it possible to just grab the screen content of your current visible activity owned by your process? This does not seem like a security constraint since the user has already installed your app is currently using your app. If so how does this work?
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Apr 11, 2012
Rooting phone and probably installing some APKs just to take screenshot of any screen on Android phone. How to take screenshot on an Android Phone?
Ans -> Press power button (mostly present on top of phone) and keeping it pressed, quickly press "Home" touch key on front screen. That's it. That's all you needed to take screenshot. Image is saved in Gallery folder of your phone. This pretty much works in Gingerbread and ICS, if not other versions of Android.
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Sep 3, 2010
What's the reason that a phone needs to be rooted in order to take screenshots? I'm almost in disbelief that something as simple as a screenshot app isn't available (or built-in!) for an unrooted phone. It just seems like such a normal thing to do.Is it possible that in the future an unrooted phone can have an app to do this, or is there something about Android itself that doesn't allow it?
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Jul 24, 2010
AS per the question, how many of the HTC apps require you to be online to do anything? Like are they all weather, sat nav, or use the internet to show you locations, and such? I'm just wondering how many apps will require me to use GPRS when outside of a WiFi zone, which would be quite a lot of places really!
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Feb 15, 2010
I was wondering if there are any poker (texas holdem hopefully) games out there that do not require you to be online and are not just heads up?
I want to have a game that I can play against various AI players offline. Mainly for traveling to work I use the underground tube a fair bit so no reception.
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Dec 30, 2013
want to import or sync notes in android mobile from ios-mac os x.
i tried to create label in gmail as notes but its show as mail , its unused.
trick to import that notes in samsung galaxy note 3.
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Sep 10, 2010
Is there a way to implement screenshot functionality in phone?
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Nov 13, 2009
I'm trying to make a screenshot of an Archos 5 IT using DDMS (SDK 1.5 and 2.0) without success. The screenshot is awful with a lot of yellow. Do you have the same issue ? I would like to know if possible if this issue is due ti an SDK problem or an Archos problem.
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Sep 11, 2010
(Root Users only of course, unless your using Home++)I think I have tested them all out and I like "drocap2 for root users" the best; "Screenshot It" is nice but I can't stand the icon. Here are both the "Screenshot It' and "drocap2 for root users" icons in the status bar: 1. "Screenshot It" uses a green Android botwhile 2. "drocap2 for root users" uses a camera image Which Screenshot App do you use?
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Jul 22, 2010
I'm fighting from some time with taking a screenshot of Android OpenGL.The code I found is as follows:In each case the result is a png file which is completely black. I found there is some problem with glReadPixels method but I don't know how to bypass it.
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Apr 25, 2010
Is there an app available to make a password required to make a call?
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Feb 22, 2009
Someone from WMWifiRouter had mentioned a couple months ago they were working on a product for Android but I haven't heard anymore. I was hoping they'd drop their product when paid apps went live. Any news? Any other Wifi tethering out there that doesn't require me to root my phone?
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