- Do you crave to capture screenshots of your s40 java phone? This post shows you how to go about it in a sneaky way.
Do you by any means recognise any of the above applications?
Absolutely correct! They’re KD player and the famous Opera Mini 4.2, captured right from the small screen of my small Nokia 7210 supernova j2me phone. Relax, you’d learn to do more by the time you’re done with reading this post.
Ok, I can see that I’m done now done with wetting your appetite. Alright, Let’s dig in!
How we’d be capturing screenshots of our java s40 mobile phones
Now, since s40 java phones are built without embedded functionality for capturing screen shots, we’d have to go take another route to bypass our problem – Use the computers!
Yeah, that’s the only option we have here. If taking a screen capture of that phone is important to you, then boot up your PC now and let’s ride.
The way this is done is by using some java/j2me emulator on our computer to enable us run .jar applications meant for java phones right on our computer. Then you can use the “print screen” button, “snipping tool”, or whatever screen capture facility your computer has to grab a shot of the running application.
Sounds easy right? Yes it is, but not without the use of these tools that we’d be using:
* Java Runtime Environment - grab it here
* JAD Maker – grab it here
* J2me Microemulator – grab it here
Note: Click the “grab it here” links at the end of the program names above to download them if you don’t already installed on your PC.
Now let’s explore the magical powers of these tools
When you’re done with downloading the programs you’d need to unzip the files and install the Java Runtime – JAD maker and (j2me) Microemulator don’t need an installation.
JAD maker is basically used for creating jad files (files with .jad extensions) from java (.jar) applications – those apps that we normally install on our phones. It’s the jad file our computers recognise (and are able to be ran), hence we’d have to convert the java application we want to use in taking the screen capture into jad files.
First-off, get the application you want to use for the screen capture from your phone to your computer – using your USB chord. Create a folder on your desktop, name it anything, and put the application in there.
To create our jad file: click on the JADMaker.zip folder (you downloaded) and click on the jadmaker.exe from the list of files which shows up. When that is done, a small square shaped window pops up. Open the folder on your computers desktop in which your phone’s application is, then drag the app (by clicking on the icon and moving the mouse - with the mouse click still pressed down) and place on the small window that the JAD maker opened. Wait a few seconds and the .jad version of your phone’s java app would be produced and placed in the same folder as the the app. See illustration in the pic. below:
Now It’s time to run your jad application on your computer while we prepare to take our screen shot.
Unzip the microemulator you downloaded, look for the microemulator file (which is 617 KB in size), right click the icon, move to “open with” option, then choose “Java (TM) platform SE binary” from the list. The screen shot below says more on that:
When the microemulator opens (which looks like a simulated phone), click on “File”, select “Open JAD file” then browse through your PC for the folder you stored the phone application to be ran, then choose on the version with .jad at the end.
Yippee! You now have your application running on your computer. You can now go ahead to make a computer screen capture of the running application on the microemulator and present to the world! That’s it.
Note that you can only control the running application with the arrow keys on your computer keyboard, and by clicking on the commands presented on the emulator. That’s the restriction.
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