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How to display your Android screen on your desktop

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Tutorials

Wednesday July 14, 2010

We have been asked numerous times how we display the Android screen on a monitor. Well in this tutorial, we'll show you how to do just that. You'll need the

Android software development kit

(SDK) in order to

capture the screen of your Android

phone and get it to

display on your computer

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Show Notes

- First you'll need to download the Android SDK, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

- You can

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- Once downloaded, simply install it.

- Now use Windows Explorer or the file manager of your choice to find the folder the SDK was installed in.

- Double-click on the Tools subfolder.

- Make sure your Android phone is connected to your computer.

- In this folder, find DDMS.BAT and double-click on it.

- A DOS window will open on your desktop. Minimize it, but make sure that you don't close it.

- A program called Dalvik Debug Monitor will open up.

- It will detect your phone.

- Highlight the top line where it shows a phone and the word Online.

- Now click on Device and then on Screen capture.

- The device of your screen will appear on your desktop.

- If you do something on the device, you have to click Refresh in order for it to appear on the screen.

- You can rotate the display, copy it and indicate you're done.

- Doing a tutorial is a bit tricky because you have to navigate the phone with one hand while refreshing the screen with your mouse with the other hand.

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Android SDK

dalvik

debug monitor

display

mobile

monitor

screen capture

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By kylere about one year ago
(2011-01-06 09:35:42)

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(For Windows 7 and Vista Users having Command Prompt Issues) 1. Click on Start and type CMD in search bar 2. Now press Ctrl+Shift+Enter 3. This should bring elevated command prompt with full Administrators rights. 4. Type CHDIR (Location of the DDMS.BAT file that you ascertained earlier) e.g. CHDIR D:\DROID\SDK and hit enter 5. Type DDMS.BAT and hit enter

By texdig about one year ago
(2010-11-16 17:13:22)

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Besides the "it's just that simple" technique, I tried lots of web suggestions to run a bat file in windows including running it as administrator ... virus protection disabled ... from the cmd dos window with sytax to 'start' the destination file ... 'pause' it ... and yada yada, yada ...until I flat gave up. Murphy just gives some of us a double dose.

By texdig about one year ago
(2010-11-16 16:26:29)

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I get the quick'flash' appearance of a small dos window on my laptop too ... whenever I try to run dos in Win7. Will get back with a 'web-answer' if I find one.

By drfilefinder about one year ago
(2010-08-26 12:26:31)

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I'm not sure what you mean. I've never had the DOS window just go away, I always have to minimize it. You don't have to do anything with it actually, I just like getting it out of the way. You should see the "Dalvik Debug Monitor" and under Name you should see the image of a phone, some letters and numbers, and the message "Online". If you don't see that you can't capture. If you do just click Device and then Screen Capture. Get back to me if you have problems. ... Doc