Thanks for the tutorial! I thought I did everything correctly, but this is what I get when I click on "capture"... any ideas?
It seems to get stuck on "capturing", and when I paste it in to an image editor, I just get the white box with an X in it. Hmm..
Thanks for the tutorial! I thought I did everything correctly, but this is what I get when I click on "capture"... any ideas?
It seems to get stuck on "capturing", and when I paste it in to an image editor, I just get the white box with an X in it. Hmm..
You have to select your device from the left column and then do a screen capture.
The right side of the screen shot you sent says "no client selected."
Last edited by jeepguy_1980; November 20th, 2009 at 09:36 PM.
According to the link provided, the Motorola SDK comes in Windows, MacOS, and *nix flavors. However, the JAVA site does not list the JAVA SDK for MacOS, listing only Solaris, *nix, and Windows operating systems ( I just checked for both the regular JDK as well as the JDK w/ EE).
I did some searching, and found that according to Java MacOS X 10.4+ should already have the JDK installed, so that step you can most likely skip, as long as you're running Tiger or above.
You should probably read that site a lot more to be 100% this will work - however, the original link provided by dugdathug shows the author stating that he, too, selected the JDK 6 Update 17 with Java EE, whereas the rest of his screen shots show that he in fact selected JAVA EE 5 SDK, which, by reading at the link that I provided, is what seems to be pre-installed on Tiger and above.
If you're unsure, I'd register a login at the developer site I linked to and ask there.
HTH
EDIT: Added the following
@everyone else: I already have the regular JDK (without EE) installed on my system (along with NetBeans 6.7.1, which has most of the other stuff that comes with the EE, including the GlassFish server, etc.
Is there any real need for the JDK w/ EE or is the regular JDK without EE sufficient?
(I suppose I should join the forum for the droidbugs forum and ask there....)
Last edited by johnlgalt; November 30th, 2009 at 07:41 PM.
Reason: Added, spell checked
I was unable to get it to work with Netbeans. I had never even messed with Eclipse until this. However, I only have limited experience with Netbeans and Java programming in general.
I am a senior in Computer Science and Mathematics (dual major) at my university- Netbeans is something that I am somewhat familiar with.
However, according to the post from dugdathug, Eclipse itself is not necessary (unless you plan on also developing Android apps). I have NetBeans installed, but actually prefer to code using JCreatorPro (A much better IDE in the sense that it is exactly that - and IDE without all of the bloat the comes with NetBeans (up to a 200+ MB DL!)
I am a senior in Computer Science and Mathematics (dual major) at my university- Netbeans is something that I am somewhat familiar with.
However, according to the post from dugdathug, Eclipse itself is not necessary (unless you plan on also developing Android apps). I have NetBeans installed, but actually prefer to code using JCreatorPro (A much better IDE in the sense that it is exactly that - and IDE without all of the bloat the comes with NetBeans (up to a 200+ MB DL!)
Eclipse is not required, I wrote this more as a how to for someone not already familiar with Java IDEs and based it around Eclipse, as that seems to be the most popular for the Android SDK. There are a lot of guides on the internet, but they're written for people that are already familiar with this software and are very generic. Most of them consist of three or four lines on don't detail how to install the Android plugin.
While Eclipse is not required, you will need an IDE to run Android SDK plugins. I am sure that the plugins will work with Netbeans and other IDEs, I just found Eclipse to be the most popular for this application.
I messed stuff up with the Droid drivers when I first got my Droid.. and it doesn't show up in device manager anymore under "Other Devices" as "Motorola A855". All that installs is "Motorola A855 USB Device" and "USB Mass Storage Device". All of the other things are missing, as they have already been installed. Any idea on how to delete those drivers? Thanks..
I messed stuff up with the Droid drivers when I first got my Droid.. and it doesn't show up in device manager anymore under "Other Devices" as "Motorola A855". All that installs is "Motorola A855 USB Device" and "USB Mass Storage Device". All of the other things are missing, as they have already been installed. Any idea on how to delete those drivers? Thanks..
Just delete them from the Device Manager and then when you unplug and re-plug your phone back in to your PC. It should then detect them again. That, or you can click the device and press update drivers and find the folder that they're in.
On a side note, it really is less effort to root your phone and use the app drocap2 to take screen shots directly from your phone.
It doesn't show up in Device Manager... which is what's really making this difficult. And I'm not actually interested in the screetshots, I'm just trying to get the Android SDK to work and this is the only guide that I'm aware of..
*EDIT* I got it figured out, thanks.
Last edited by vonfeldt7; December 26th, 2009 at 03:41 AM.
It doesn't show up in Device Manager... which is what's really making this difficult. And I'm not actually interested in the screetshots, I'm just trying to get the Android SDK to work and this is the only guide that I'm aware of..
*EDIT* I got it figured out, thanks.
How did you fix it? I am having the same problem on my computer
x64 -- I had originally followed som other instruction but they were essentially the same just less detailed. The other instructions actually didnt even work for me and these helped me learn where the screenshot button was
I have 64 also, did your computer auto install the drivers? or did you have to do it for it? Mine auto installs and tells me they are "up to date" and wont let me over ride them.
Yep, it shows the same here. Also shows as A855 under portable devices. Make sure you have "usb debugging" enabled on the phone (menu>settings>applications>development) then try and install the driver.
Well, since it works in W7 x64 it *theoretically* should work in Vista x64 as well - but I had to try three different times before I found instructions that worked correctly....
Yep, it shows the same here. Also shows as A855 under portable devices. Make sure you have "usb debugging" enabled on the phone (menu>settings>applications>development) then try and install the driver.
yep I have that on but under portable devices it shows as G:\. hum......
Does anyone know how to delete it from windows so I can try and start it all over?
Last edited by tjbugs1; January 26th, 2010 at 11:19 PM.
If you mean delete the driver, you simply go into device manager and find the device, right click, and select Uninstall. If you get a popup dialog asking if you want to remove the files too, I'd check yes on that as well.
I don't get that as an option. I don't know what else to do. I have tried everything. If I uninstall the device windows just reinstalls it with the same drivers. I plugged it in to my friends laptop (also vista) and it prompts for me to install the drivers for it. I GIVE UP! Thanks for the help!
Device manager, it labels it as G:\ I right click on it uninstall it then plug it back in and the computer auto reinstalls the drivers it has that it thinks is right.
I have the same problem on mine.
I can click uninstall and remove drivers for the phone, but do not have the option of removing drivers for the "disk drive" entry in Device Manager.
I got the single entry for "Android phone" to switch drivers, but the "disk drive" entry reverts to the same old driver no matter what.
Last edited by Rafael; January 30th, 2010 at 04:23 PM.
Reason: spelling
Most likely that DiskDrive entry is a default M$ driver for disk drives - hence your inability to 'uninstall' it.
The only one you really need to worry about is the Motorola USB driver anyway - the disk drive is a default driver built into the OS - you really don't want to uninstall that one (as it would pretty much render all your drives inoperable to the OS)....
Device manager, it labels it as G:\ I right click on it uninstall it then plug it back in and the computer auto reinstalls the drivers it has that it thinks is right.
One last thing to try maybe: From the Device Manager you should have an option to add new hardware or add legacy hardware. Click through the wizard and when prompted select "have disk." You should then be able to browse to where you saved the driver file (it should be a .INF file).
Hope this helps, and let us know how it turns out.
Ok so here is where I am at now. I formatted my computer and reinstalled windows witch fixed the driver problem. So now It is labeled as A855 (yeah) but the SDK is still not working. I open Eclipse but my phone is not listed on the left and I do have debugging turned on. I swear if its not one thing its another!
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How to: Capture Screen Shots (with SDK)
