With great difficulties.. I was using another camera phone to capture
my k530i screen..
and only managed to get up to this level only..
It was bad.. i know..
then I saw my friend showing screenshot captured from his
Android .. really jealous.. so sharp..so clear.. like the real one.
as captured directly from the phone screen..
Then I did a “Google” search for “Screen Reader for Sony Ericsson”
first few result was rubbish.. pointing to some sort of malware marketing..
then eventually bumped to here ..
execute it..
will have screen like this..
then only realized.. need to connect the USB to phone cable.. to get the serial port..
Hmm.. plugged USB cable to phone cable.. DCU-110 if not mistaken..
need USB driver.. download from here
.. after installed all driver..
check the port .. at “Device Manager”
then.. I know the serial port emulated for my K530i is at COM10 & COM7..
Just set the screen Reader accordingly.. .. Press “Connect”..
there will be screen size reported from the drop down menu..
play with the phone a bit.. (in case it is sleeping.. no screen can be captured..)
press “Read” button.. it will have something like this..
yes..!
then just press save.. to save it.. only bitmap filetype is available at the moment…
and the final result.. is something like this..
hehehe.. now can start documenting.. some nice feature..
A known failed way to do it (without USB-to-phone cable):
previous attempt was trying with
1. VMWare running windows XP.
2. on/off bluetooth swith to attach laptop’s built-in bluetooth into Windows XP guest..
3. tried to install bluetooth driver..
Failed..and its complain the chips id is different..
p/s : this software is running on windows XP… .
either it work or not in vmware via USB cable.. have yet to try ..
there are few mistakes there.
1)the notebook is Macbook not Macbook Pro
2)the LCD is 22-inch. Couldn’t afford to buy 32″.
3)last but not least, iPhone first generation ppl called iPhone 2G (EDGE) instead of G1 coz the term G1 led to confusion with HTC/Google Android G1
:p . Just my 2 cent.
No need to compare lah … if you do that forever you will not be satisfied with what you have, especially when it comes to material things. There will always be someone with a faster car, bigger house, cooler gadgets. You can spend forever in the rat race trying to keep up … or try to find happiness in the life that we already have.
Attaining all those things come with more challenges attached as well. I believe God will grant us these once we are really ready for them.
Life is like playing Lode Runner … need all sorts of strategies and tactics to survive and cope, and make it through the day. Once you have mastered them … what do you get? Next level, with more challenges! And is like that all the way … 😎