Screen Capture for Windows Mobile and Samsung Omnia i910
I plan to post several screen captures of software available and compatible with the Samsung Omnia i910 so I thought I would start by first telling you about a good screen capture application, how it works and a few sample screen shots. This is a handy tool for anyone looking to take screen captures of apps they want to share and discuss or of problems and error messages. Also, if you’re planning to talk about features of the phone as I plan to it can be of great use to show people pictures of exactly what you’re talking about.
The problem I’ve found with some screen capture software for the Windows Mobile platform is that they are not meant to be used with touch screen devices. The problem is caused by the lack of buttons on the Omnia but alas I found a great and free app.
Ilium Software Screen Capture for Windows Mobile
On the left side you will notice a sample of how the Ilium screen capture software works. The software is completely free and works well with the Samsung Omnia i910. In order to download the software you will need to scroll to the bottom of the page and check off the “I have read and understood all the documentation on this page.” box and click on download. Once you do this you will be taken to another page that gives you 3 download options. The first option extracts the package and uses the Sync Center to install the application from your computer to your phone when connected via USB. I prefer the second option which is labeled “Pocket PC (touchscreen device) .cab file” .
This is the .CAB file that you can copy to your Omnia storage and then install from within your mobile device by using the “File Explorer”. When installing you can choose the “location to install” between “Device”, “\My Storage” and “\Storage Card”. I prefer to use “\My Storage” as this is the non-removable 8 gig storage provided with your Omnia. If you install something in the “\Storage Card” you will always need to have that same Micro SD card inside your device or copy it to a new one if you upgrade size. I never install anything on the “Device” simply because it doesn’t have a lot of space and I fear that the free space in this drive is also used by the system to cache memory for other running applications.
Once the application is installed you can use it right away without needing to configure anything. The App1 key is the main menu key located on the top right corner of the phone:
Once the application is running you can “X” out of it and go about running any other program. When you want to capture a screen simply press the App1 key. The capture files are stored your \Device\My Documents\ folder by default. The default file name is “sshot000.bmp” and continues in ascending order as you take more screen shots (sshot001, sshot002, etc). From what I can see there is no way to change this default, has anyone succeeded in changing the default directories or file names?
Here are some sample screen schots which are the same size of the screen resolution (240×400):
The only problem I’ve ran into is being unable to capture screen shots when I’m in camera mode. Does anyone have a workaround for this?
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tengo un omnia i910, al instalar un os juegos y configurar las teclas, me di cuenta que no funcionaba y los borre , pero luego de borrarlos todas las aplicaciones del telefono no funcionan ; ni la camara
¿que debo hacer?