How to Easily Capture Kindle Fire Screenshots

There’s been a lot of talk about how difficult Kindle Fire screenshots are to capture, but in reality, it really isn’t all that hard.

True, it’s a lot less simple than pressing the Home + Power button on an iOS device, but it’s not exactly rocket science either. Inside, I’ll show you how…

How to Capture Kindle Fire Screenshots

Note: You must have Android SDK installed, and have the Kindle Fire USB driver installed. See our rooting tutorial for more info. You don’t have to actually root, just install the drivers and SDK.

Step 1: Navigate to your Android SDK Directory via the CMD Prompt. (Start > Type ‘CMD’ press enter) My Android SDK directory is C:\Android, but yours may be different depending on where you installed the SDK.

Step 2: Once in the SDK directory, navigate to the tools directory (CD tools).

Step 3: Type: ddms to run the Dalvick Debug Monitor

Step 4: Make sure your Kindle Fire is plugged into your PC’s USB connection, and select your device.

Step 5: Go to the ‘Device’ menu and select ‘Screen capture…’ You can then rotate, refresh, and save screenshots from your Kindle Fire as PNG files.

Example of a Kindle Fire Screenshot:

What do you think? Still too difficult?

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Tagged as: Android, Android SDK, Dalvick Debug Monitor, Guide, How-to, Kindle Fire, Screenshot, Tutorial, Video, Windows

http://twitter.com/notyoutoo Darryl Lee

Camera phone pointed at screen. Ugly, but done.
http://burningbird.net Shelley Powers

Clean explanation.

You might want to modify your writing to say at which step in the rooting tutorial you can stop and still take screenshots without having to root the device.

Also, rooting the Kindle Fire does disable VOD (Video on Demand). May want to do an update in your tutorial, warning folks.
http://twitter.com/ImTannerC Tanner Covington

ORRRRRR… you could just go to the android market and install drocap2 and use the ‘notification trigger’ to take them. #JustSaying

Nope

you can’t get to the market from a kindle. #moron

http://twitter.com/ImTannerC Tanner Covington

LMAO! Yes you can #moron

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516252978 Corey D. Willis

Actually…you can’t…do you actually own a Kindle Fire dude? Without rooting the device, you cannot install apps from the regular market.

http://twitter.com/ImTannerC Tanner Covington

I did, yes. And i rooted mine, easily… and installed drocap… What’s so hard about that?
Michael Rodgers

Actually you can sideload all android apps without rooting. You just need the apk file. Email that to yourself and then click the apk in fire. It will install immediately. (Assuming in settings you checked “allow non-Amazon installs” or something like that.)

Ronald Montemayor

hahaha. what a Moron. you can of course. i use open market.

Jcope11

Great Post!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jake-Venm/100001755421363 Jake Venm

Hi. I really need some help getting this going please!

I am stuck at step 3. When using CMD i am in the tools folder, I type ‘DDMS’ I get the message that ‘DDMS is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.’
When i type ‘Start ddms’ I have a small open file window open, and it ask me to select which program to use to open the file. I don’t which program to use. Any help would be appreciated please.
Jason

How is this done using a Mac?
Netorocket

shit! need a pc for this?? wtf?? android is a crap!
Nope

This might as well be rocket science for all that effort. I’ll stick to taking photos of the device.
Anonymous

“in reality, it really isn’t all that hard.”
That would be a lie. In reality, it is a pain in the neck and many users have no business going this route. This is similar to fiddling with a pc registry which as a lot of people know, is computer suicide if you don’t know what you’re doing.
http://twitter.com/LiaLovesU09 Ashley Curtis

This is really cool and very helpful. But not really what I was looking for. I wanted to be able to take a screen shot (not attached to my laptop) save it on my kindle, then email it to myself or one of my sites. BUT this is still really awesome! Great job!