How hard is to to take a screen shot on your device? iOS - feature is built in, painless process. Android - you have to root your device and then use shady app (via @sunnychl although it it built in some devices(!) and finally Windows Phone- there is no way. When there's XDA, nothing is impossible. Star Windows Phone hacker and XDA user fiinix has developed a homebrew solution to capture screen shots directly from the device.
The application requires you to enable the dehydration hack and then follow a simple procedure :
Download the latest version and read more about it on XDA.
The application requires you to enable the dehydration hack and then follow a simple procedure :
- Enter this app- Navigate to the app you want to capture (no more than 2 apps in between (this app will be killed by "Watchdog"))
- Hold "focus" (not click, >focus), for at least 500ms
- Wait for messagebox to verify capture
- (SUCCESS) > Located under "Pictures > All > Saved Pictures"I can see developers and fellow bloggers befitting from this immensely. Strange that Microsoft still hasn't figured out the utility of this feature, hence they are avoiding implementation of this feature to be built in.
Download the latest version and read more about it on XDA.
