I see so many threads where people say "I had to pull the battery".
This is not necessary just hold down the power button for over 10 seconds and your phone will reboot.
Hope this helps some of you.
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I Tried it earlier also but I think I didn't pressed the button for 10 secs. Now when I read your post I re tried and waited long and phone rebooted. Thankxx man.
Power + Home always works for me, seems to take less than 10 seconds too.
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Sometime, u really need to pull the battery out , let say, for example, when ur phone boot in a loop and just showing the samsung bootscreen....
But I agree with u, most problem that people share here doesnt require to pull the battery out
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Actually you can usually enter download or recovery mode while the phone is looping without even touching power button. The power button part of the sequence is just to turn on the phone. Just hold home and vol up/down and the phone will enter recovery/download the next time it reboots. I have only had to pull the battery once it was when something goofed in download mode.
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Didn't know this trick actually. Will come in handy. Thanks
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You made my day, I was pulling the battery once in a while when my phone froze and I'm happy to know I don't have to.
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Surprisingly, not many people know this. It certainly saves some wear and tear on your battery cover. I didn't know it for a good few months of owning my device. I hope a ton of people read this!
upichie said:
Surprisingly, not many people know this. It certainly saves some wear and tear on your battery cover. I didn't know it for a good few months of owning my device. I hope a ton of people read this!
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Apparently when I applied a bit of Brain then I discovered that u don't need to switch your phone off compeltely for going into recovery mode.
Just try this- press and hold power button for 5 secs or so and then press volume up and home button. Keep all of them pressed and you will enter into recovery . It isn't such a gr8 find, its the same as what u do when u turn your phone off and go to recovery but its more easy.
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Apparently when I applied a bit of Brain then I discovered that u don't need to switch your phone off compeltely for going into recovery mode.
Just try this- press and hold power button for 5 secs or so and then press volume up and home button. Keep all of them pressed and you will enter into recovery . It isn't such a gr8 find, its the same as what u do when u turn your phone off and go to recovery but its more easy.
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Yep, I've been doing that for awhile now. Both are extremely helpful. Everyone should know about this!
Holding down the power button for a long time doesn't always work.
Useless thread.
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Holding down the power button for a long time doesn't always work.
Useless thread.
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Really? Or are your little fingers are too weak to press the power button for even 10 secs.
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Holding down the power button for a long time doesn't always work.
Useless thread.
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I beg to differ. Rebooting to fix issues doesn't work all the time either, is it useless to suggest that too?
I've had my galaxy s since launch, and it has never failed to reboot by holding the power button. So for whatever special cases where it may not work, there are literally hundreds that will. This fact alone makes this thread anything but useless. Besides, the battery cover is not very durable, anything that helps to avoid removing it is good, even if just occasionally.
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it is a life saver
Power + Home works great
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Power + Home works great
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Does the home button actually make a difference or is it equal to holding the power button while quoting Shakespeare?
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mickeko said:
Does the home button actually make a difference or is it equal to holding the power button while quoting Shakespeare?
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turn off the Tapatalk and then try it using your GT-i9000 - will be faster than quoting LOL
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Really? Or are your little fingers are too weak to press the power button for even 10 secs.
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as far as I may look, no one suggested that you have too small hands to pull out the cover and remove battery... yet
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turn off the Tapatalk and then try it using your GT-i9000 - will be faster than quoting LOL
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as far as I may look, no one suggested that you have too small hands to pull out the cover and remove battery... yet
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Well for those who have a hard cover on the back of their phone, power button option is better, Battery pull option is always their.
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CORRECTION. Proper post should look like: as far as I may look, no one suggested that you have too small hands to pull out the hard cover, then back cover and remove battery... yet
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CORRECTION. Proper post should look like: as far as I may look, no one suggested that you have too small hands to pull out the hard cover, then back cover and remove battery... yet
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You are impossible, just keep living in your own virtual world where you are the king of the world and every stupid thought from your stinking brain is awesome.
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so was trying to load stock back onto my phone to send it back to sprint ( busted mic and speakerphone.... no matter the rom/kernel). had it connected to ODIN and everything looked like it was working. then it just spazzed out and failed. now the phone doesn't have download mode, 3 button dance or even any indication of charging plugged into usb. Any ideas??
Try sticking a needle in the hole under the camera with the back off. Don't know for sure but its worth a shot I read it might be diferent on some phones. Its like a hardware reset button it might bring download mode back
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Try taking the battery and letting it sit for like 5 minutes , then connect to computer without battery being replaced try
Getting into download mode then
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Try taking the battery and letting it sit for like 5 minutes , then connect to computer without battery being replaced try
Getting into download mode then
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+1 u can still get into download mode.
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battery was out for over 2 hours... no dice that way.... but the button to the left and down of the camera worked like a charm!! now lets try this again... lol
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battery was out for over 2 hours... no dice that way.... but the button to the left and down of the camera worked like a charm!! now lets try this again... lol
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Voodoo magic.
absurd... Rip your epic open and share the community with some pics of your infamous button. we are dying too see one on an epic =/
What button are you talking about im dying to see it just in case it happens to me lol
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Actually if you whisper into the magic hole ..."reset'' 3 times the voice recognition picks it up and un-bricks itself. Most people dont know about this trick, but works every time for me.
Actually, I'm pretty certain that this is the real explanation of the magic reset button.
Wow. There IS a button back there! *makes mental note*
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Voodoo magic.
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+1... must be magic, because that button is a myth... its gonna start being sighted with bigfoot and elvis...
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Wow. There IS a button back there! *makes mental note*
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No, but really there is NO button and already has been proved in another thread. I took mine apart and posted pictures, but people still believe...
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042746
meh there has to be something.... i tried about 20 times taking the battery out for a while and then trying again.... and all other variations of things. 2 seconds after hitting that button thing.... or whatever it is, was able to put it into download mode. wish i would have read this before i shipped the old phone back... lol maybe when this one bites the big one ill bust it apart and take a look
Let's start the button debate again. I find it ridiculously entertaining.
k0nane said:
Let's start the button debate again. I find it ridiculously entertaining.
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It's very apparent there IS a button. When I hard bricked my first one I tore it apart. Theres a little thin piece of plastic behind the magic cornhole that protects the board when you try and shove pointy objects in it.
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SAShady said:
It's very apparent there IS a button. When I hard bricked my first one I tore it apart. Theres a little thin piece of plastic behind the magic cornhole that protects the board when you try and shove pointy objects in it.
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Your right, I just took mine apart and now I see the button!!
Nothing there on th 4 or 5 I've broken down, not even a place on the board for one... but I never had a sasquatch epic...
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Hypnotic2010 said:
Your right, I just took mine apart and now I see the button!!
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lmao....
10char
thank you for this!
With the n4 just getting root I'm sure there's some kernels/ROMs on the way does anybody have any insight on how we'll be able to get out of freezes of course cause no removable battery? That was the only way I knew before. Thanks
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With the n4 just getting root I'm sure there's some kernels/ROMs on the way does anybody have any insight on how we'll be able to get out of freezes of course cause no removable battery? That was the only way I knew before. Thanks
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Hold down power button
We really need a sticky thread about this...
BravoMotorola said:
Hold down power button
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Wow the only way I ever knew was to pull the battery you're telling me no matter how bad the phone freezes the power button shuts the phone down?
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DJ "suMo* said:
Wow the only way I ever knew was to pull the battery you're telling me no matter how bad the phone freezes the power button shuts the phone down?
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Just like any PC would, yes.
jacklebott said:
Just like any PC would, yes.
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Wow it's a simple little thing like that you never knew that just blows your mind I've never even tried it that way before
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man how could u not know this already?
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With the n4 just getting root I'm sure there's some kernels/ROMs on the way does anybody have any insight on how we'll be able to get out of freezes of course cause no removable battery? That was the only way I knew before. Thanks
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Yea because tablets for the past 3 years with non-removable batteries have been bricked after freezes?
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According to Nexus4 guide, which comes with the phone, you have to hold down the power button for 10 seconds to reboot the phone.
I guess that can takes you out of a freeze.
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man how could u not know this already?
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Bro I just never knew nor tried it that way ever always a custom to just pulling the battery
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Knock the phone 3 times and then say "Potatoes eat there". The phone would automatically switch off.
Power and volume down works for me
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I don't trust that method to be 100% reliable, though. Just from experience with my G2x and it freezing. My phone has a button combo that restarts the phone, but sometimes it fails when my phone is frozen and I still have to pull the battery.
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I don't trust that method to be 100% reliable, though. Just from experience with my G2x and it freezing. My phone has a button combo that restarts the phone, but sometimes it fails when my phone is frozen and I still have to pull the battery.
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On the nexus 4 the 10sec power button reboot is programmed on the hardware layer(pre-boot) and not the software layer. No matter how bad you freeze your phone in the o/s the power button hold will always reboot it plain and simple.
If you have a hardware issue though then your in trouble no matter what.
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My nexus 4 just froze 2 min ago after trying to quit a game. I waited for it to do something but nothing happened. Holding power button down did NOT help.
I held the power button and the volume button down at the same time and it worked. Just sharing it with you guys! :good:
I'm running stock, haven't changed a thing since getting it from Google play.
Need HELP!!
Thank you!
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Are you doing it simultaneously? Give it like a second or two before releasing
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press the power button first and the the volume down button...and then wait for your INSTANT WIN!!
need to press them the same time. its a little tricky at the start but you'll get used to it.
or you can just get an app that will do it for you
like THESE
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or you can just get an app that will do it for you
like THESE
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no point in installing useless apps that consume memory when its in the OS natively. its not that difficult to press two buttons at the same time and getting it right. once you do it once or twice, you'd get the hang of it and all is good.
either that or flash a custom rom and u can add the screenshot button on your long press power button menu.
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no point in installing useless apps that consume memory when its in the OS natively. its not that difficult to press two buttons at the same time and getting it right. once you do it once or twice, you'd get the hang of it and all is good.
either that or flash a custom rom and u can add the screenshot button on your long press power button menu.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure its not working for me either
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It works for everyone. All you have to do is push them at the same time. Power + volume down. Hold for like three seconds. If it doesn't work hold for five seconds.
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thanks guys, it is indeed tricky. especially doing it with my diztronic case.
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strobex said:
Yeah I'm pretty sure its not working for me either
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It's very tricky. I said the same thing when I was doing it on my galaxy Nexus but got the hang of it.
Place your hand on the volume down and power button before pressing them and then hold them both at the same time until your phone makes a screen shot animation.
I will give Samsung this though the slide to screen shot is very intuitive on the touch wiz platform.
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thanks guys, it is indeed tricky. especially doing it with my diztronic case.
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Oh so that's why. Since the new diztronics cover the buttons, it's probably not being pressed correctly.
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It works for everyone. All you have to do is push them at the same time. Power + volume down. Hold for like three seconds. If it doesn't work hold for five seconds.
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I was about to start *****in hard ..but got it to work
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It's actually not lol.
cloud1111 said:
It's actually not lol.
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Tell that to the people who had difficulties
It is tricky at the beginning but like I said over again and again, once you know how to do it. It's not tricky and is very easy to do. I understand depending what case they have on it may be trickier because the case covers the buttons that all of us overlooked
Screen shot working on Nexus 4 after trying this!!!!
Press Volume down button and power button until phone get restarted. then you able to take screen shots.
It worked for me.
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Press Volume down button and power button until phone get restarted. then you able to take screen shots.
It worked for me.
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Try first powering off your phone. I had a little issue and i could not get the shutting down menu after several attempts, the phone restarted it self and after it was up, I was able to take screenshots without any difficulties.
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Try first powering off your phone. I had a little issue and i could not get the shutting down menu after several attempts, the phone restarted it self and after it was up, I was able to take screenshots without any difficulties.
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My nexus had the same problem... and yes, I know how to take screenshots...
But by doing this the problem was solved... thanx man!
so my brother dropped his phone is water, we did the rice trick. about 5 days later we went to see it and it turned on. but it wont get pass the Samsung
Galaxy S4.
so i used odin to try and like restore the original os.
everything worked fine but the same thing happen.
i tried going into recovery mode but it wont load recovery .
now i'm just letting it sit there on the Samsung screen maybe its gonna take a while to start up idk.
So my question is what can i do to fix this. maybe you guys know something that can to make get passed this screen. or at least go into recovery because i think its not loading because i couldn't wipe the data and cache eta..... i think that why it wont boot up.
or maybe the phone is just messed up forever.
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so my brother dropped his phone is water, we did the rice trick. about 5 days later we went to see it and it turned on. but it wont get pass the Samsung
Galaxy S4.
so i used odin to try and like restore the original os.
everything worked fine but the same thing happen.
i tried going into recovery mode but it wont load recovery .
now i'm just letting it sit there on the Samsung screen maybe its gonna take a while to start up idk.
So my question is what can i do to fix this. maybe you guys know something that can to make get passed this screen. or at least go into recovery because i think its not loading because i couldn't wipe the data and cache eta..... i think that why it wont boot up.
or maybe the phone is just messed up forever.
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How are you trying to go into recovery?
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How are you trying to go into recovery?
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By Taking out the battery putting it back in and then holding the volume up button and the power button. It goes to the samsung galaxy s4 screen to say that the right booting recovery but then it just stays there doesn't do anything.
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Your suppose to hold volume up and power button and home button at the same time. When the small blue writing appears in the upper left corner let go of the power button only. Then when it enters recovery let the other two go.
Try that method.
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Your suppose to hold volume up and power button and home button at the same time. When the small blue writing appears in the upper left corner let go of the power button only. Then when it enters recovery let the other two go.
Try that method.
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Funny how people really believe that the home button needs to be pressed.
Well if you know better help the guy out. We are all here to help each other out not quote stupid comments. If I recall on xda rules if you have nothing good to say then keep it to yourself.
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Well if you know better help the guy out. We are all here to help each other out not quote stupid comments. If I recall on xda rules if you have nothing good to say then keep it to yourself.
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Well I tried what you said still didnt work... idk maybe ill just take it apart and see if theres still water inside
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bry2872 said:
Well I tried what you said still didnt work... idk maybe ill just take it apart and see if theres still water inside
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If you dont mind waiting instead of taking it apart place phone in rice for about 24 to 48 hours. Rice sucks moisture out of the phone. If thst dont help then you can consider taking apart.
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If you dont mind waiting instead of taking it apart place phone in rice for about 24 to 48 hours. Rice sucks moisture out of the phone. If thst dont help then you can consider taking apart.
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I put in rice already. But I'll put in rice agian when I get home. If it still dosent work then ill just take it apart.
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Well if you know better help the guy out. We are all here to help each other out not quote stupid comments. If I recall on xda rules if you have nothing good to say then keep it to yourself.
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You posted incorrect info. Its hold pwrand volume til it turns on, release pwr, keep holding volume until the blue words appear.
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Anyone found a way to take screenshot with this phone ?
probably power and volume down
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Vol Down + Pwr but its a bit awkward to do that on this phone lol
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Vol Down + Pwr but its a bit awkward to do that on this phone lol
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hahaha damn i didn't even think about that
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Deal breaker!
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Tried that already, forgot to mention.
Also Power + Home, Vol + Home.
Nothing...
i'm surprised it's crazy dropdown bar full of shiz doesn't have a screenshot option....that's the one thing that could've been useful in there lol
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i'm surprised it's crazy dropdown bar full of shiz doesn't have a screenshot option....that's the one thing that could've been useful in there lol
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Actually if you just save a quickmemo without scribbling something you get a screenshot.
Above poster is right... Its power + vol down and very awkward.
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Actually if you just save a quickmemo without scribbling something you get a screenshot.
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ah duh! good tip!!
right, taught of that.
But i've needed to take screenshot of the notifications and pressing the quickmemo/home slide exit the notification
bummer
I took a screenshot using Quick Memo and it DID include the notification bar. Did I understand the issue correctly?
I used the Home-button-drag (to the right).