Screenshot of the Nexus One from adb?

Question

My goal is to be able to type a one word command and get a screenshot from a rooted Nexus One attached by USB.

So far, I can get the framebuffer which I believe is a 32bit xRGB888 raw image by pulling it like this:

adb pull /dev/graphics/fb0 fb0 

From there though, I'm having a hard time getting it converted to a png. I'm trying with ffmpeg like this:

ffmpeg -vframes 1 -vcodec rawvideo -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb8888 -s 480x800 -i fb0 -f image2 -vcodec png image.png 

That creates a lovely purple image that has parts that vaguely resemble the screen, but it's by no means a clean screenshot.

Answer 1

A vastly easier solution for ICS is to use the following from the command line

adb shell /system/bin/screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png screenshot.png 

This'll save the screenshot.png file in the current directory.

Tested on a Samsung Galaxy SII & SII running 4.0.3.

Answer 2

Actually, there is another very simple ability to grab screenshot from your android device: write simple script 1.script like this:

# Imports the monkeyrunner modules used by this program from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice  # Connects to the current device, returning a MonkeyDevice object device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection()  # Takes a screenshot result = device.takeSnapshot()  # Writes the screenshot to a file result.writeToFile('1.png','png') 

and call monkeyrunner 1.script.