A rapid search on google surprised me with a strange result: you need to root (droidian word for jailbreak) if you want to take screenshots!
Fortunately, a droidian friend told me this was only true until few months ago (and not on all droid devices), but by now android has evolved (?) and you're allowed to take snapshots with a simple key press combination (as long as ICS, the latest droid incarnation, can be installed on your device).
So, to take snapshots, you just keep pressed the power button and the volume down button for more than a second! Wow! Amazing! :)
Unfortunately, while this shortcut works fine (according to this droidian friend of mine) on an Asus tablet, this can just kill my HTC One S (and yours if you have one) in some cases!!! :(
Yes! Taking snapshots in this way (that's the official Android ICS way) can hang your brand new super cool device! Wanna know how? Are you sure? Ok! I'll tell you! But please don't do this at home and don't blame me if you lose some precious work while trying it! ;)
So, open the browser, load any page and take a snapshot. Now, rotate your device, wait for the UI (User Interface) to rotate with it and then take another snapshot. Voila! Your device will hang for a few seconds and then declare default and reboot! Ain't that amazing?! :D
I've experimented something like 3 or 4 forced reboots on my iPhones over the last 4 years, and just one day was sufficient to experiment one on my brand new aDevice!
Anyway, a few google searches later, I discovered another (maybe HTC only, I'm not sure) way to take snapshots that doesn't have this issue. Let's see if you can guess what's the combined key press shortcut that allows you to take snapshots without any fear? A little hint: think iOS...
Yeah! You got it! Press the power button and then the (touch-only) home button! That's it! How couldn't I think this before??? :)
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