Create screenshots with Android: How to

Sometimes it's just handy to quickly create a screenshot. Be it whether you want to explain an important detail or a function of an app, or because you want to hold a funny scene in a game. With the right key combination that is fast and uncomplicated. We show you what's on different devices for different ways to create a screenshot. 

It works on most devices

With Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has finally become easy to capture the current screen contents. For most devices, the following key combination works: Pressing the power button and the volume key to decrease the volume at the same time and hold both buttons until you hear a recording sound or animation indicates that the screen content was recorded. Often short to see a white frame and a preview of the captured image.
The screenshots can be found in the gallery below screenshots. When accessing via USB it can be found in the folder / Pictures / screenshots of the internal memory or the SD card.
A second method works depends on the manufacturer not on all devices, but it is easy to try: Pressing the power button and keep it pressed until the menu for turning on and off appears. If the menu item "Screenshot" are, you can also make such a recording. The menu automatically disappears when taking a screenshot, and is no longer visible.
On older versions of Android, it is not so easy, here it does not go without help further. Either a custom ROM or root is required with the application No Root Screenshot It but it's possible without root. 

Samsung

Samsung has opted for a different key combination. On the Galaxy S4, S3, grade 3 and most other Samsung devices, the home button has to be pressed instead of the volume button, which can sometimes be a little more complicated. Keep pressed simultaneously power and home button until the screen shot was taken.

Take a screenshot with S Pen: Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Note 8.0

On the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 edition), there are two methods by which you can make a screenshot. Opens the Air Command menu, where you pull out the pin or hold on the screen and presses the button.

• Scrapbook: This feature is available in the circular Air Command menu to choose from and lets you drag, the you would like to include a circle around the screen back. Then you can add and sort the images by category your notes. The screenshot will be stored in the Scrapbook app.
• Screenshot Note: This feature already existed on the score 2, but not all of the current screen display is held from the Air Comand menu heraus.Mit the memo function, then you can label them - in colors, if you be creative want.
• S-Pen button: For all Galaxy devices with S Pen you can hold down and press with the stylus so long on the screen until a screenshot is created and the button on the pen.

The S Pen provides access to many useful functions, including screenshots.

Samsung Galaxy S4, S3, Grade 3 and Grade: recording by wiping

• In the settings you selected under My Device from the point movements and gestures.
• Under movements of the palm the function Recording by wiping with the edge of the hand must be enabled.
• Now you can wipe horizontally across the screen to take a picture of the screen with the side of his hand. The direction does not matter, but the hand must touch the screen. Have you performed the gesture correctly, you should hear the camera sound and receive a notification that the shot was saved in the gallery.