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How do I capture screenshots from the Nexus 10 emulator. I need these high resolution screenshots to submit to Google Play Store.

I get "Screen not available" when I try using the screen capture tool in the Eclipse tools. Someone suggested unchecking "Use Host GPU" in the Android Virutal Device Manager but if I do that the emulator will not start.

I think it might be a hardware limitation? Because Nexus 10 uses very high resolution 2560 x 1600. I can capture Nexus 7 screenshots fine.

user1159819
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You could try taking the screenshot using adb. First run this to take the screenshot:

adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png

Then this to copy it onto your computer:

adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png

Edit: I just tried and ran into an issue saying that the emulators file system is read only, so I had to run the following, which did indeed work:

adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount rootfs /
exit
screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png
exit
adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png
Noob
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    does not work, it creates a png with a file size of 0 bytes. maybe it works for you because you check "use host gpu"? – user1159819 Mar 13 '14 at 04:53
  • An alternative would be to use Genymotion to emulate the nexus 10 resolution and take the screenshot from there. – Noob Mar 13 '14 at 04:59
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In Windows, use the snipping tool to take a screenshot of that part of your screen.

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