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Hi:

I just came across Air Droid and installed it on my Droid Bionic, I was able to access the home screen of my phone on my desktop but was not able to access a screen shot of my phone on my computer screen, it requires root management permission app, it recommended Superuser. I installed Superuser but it did not give me access to the screen shot on the Air Droid app. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get this feature to work on Air Droid?

Thanks,

PhdGirl2015
 
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Hi:

I just came across Air Droid and installed it on my Droid Bionic, I was able to access the home screen of my phone on my desktop but was not able to access a screen shot of my phone on my computer screen, it requires root management permission app, it recommended Superuser. I installed Superuser but it did not give me access to the screen shot on the Air Droid app. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get this feature to work on Air Droid?

Thanks,

PhdGirl2015

Hey PhdGirl2015 :).

Well, the Superuser app works in conjunction with another program called su which gives you the "root" privileges / access you a referring to. The Superuser app without the su binary won't get you root access--you have to go through a rooting process to get the su binary installed (that's always the tricky part to rooting).

I'm guessing the Airdroid is using a root exploit to do the screen capture for your Bionic. More recent versions of Android allow you to do these captures without having to have root access.

There is a non-root alternative for taking a screenshot that involves using the Android SDK (software development kit) via the ddms.bat utility [but that wasn't really your question ;)].

So, you'll have a little more work to do if you want to get this feature to work on Airdroid for the Bionic.

Hope that helps! :)
 
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