iPhone Screenshot Utility released

[inferno10]

Someone over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog created a little iPhone utility to take snapshots of the iPhone's display in other applications. There isn't much information yet, but it appears to need the command line on the iPhone and outputs the screenshot to a PNG file.

EDIT: Not sure what differences this utility has compared to the one in mobileTerminal.
EDIT 2: I don't know how I posted the wrong link, but now the right one is up.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/03/iphon...nshot-utility/

[itchy11jr]

this could be very helpful for showing us newbies how to follow step by step

[inferno10]

I installed and got it to work. You don't need mobileTerminal installed. In fact, if you want to take screenshots of anything but mobileTerminal, then don't bother getting mobileTerminal installed.

All you really need is ssh access into your iPhone. You'll need chmod as well (but that should already be on the iPhone if you got ssh working). Just use iPHUC or iPhoneInterface to putfile the screenshot binary into /bin, ssh into the iPhone and chmod +x the file. If you want to take a screenshot of the current display on your iPhone, ssh into the iPhone and type in /bin/screenshot, and it'll save the screenshot to /tmp with a name like 'foo_1.png' which you can retrieve by iPHUC, iPhoneInterface, or sftp (if you have that installed).

Here's a screenshot of my ugly home screen that I took with screenshot:

[r00t4rd3d]

Very cool app !

My locked screen

[itb165]

i cant figure out how to get this working...i have manzana and i can use cmd

[SiLeNtKiLLa]

My only problem is figuring out how to SSH to the iphoe....I have searched and searched and searched...and cant find how to do it.... I have it installed, but dunno how to access it.

I installed using this..... http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/howt...on-your-iphone

Im Using Windows Vista

[inferno10]

My only problem is figuring out how to SSH to the iphoe....I have searched and searched and searched...and cant find how to do it.... I have it installed, but dunno how to access it.

I installed using this..... http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/howt...on-your-iphone

Im Using Windows Vista

Use putty to ssh into the iPhone. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

[SiLeNtKiLLa]

Good deal...got it working

[mgregor]

I am all the way to putty. But how do I use putty?

[SiLeNtKiLLa]

I am all the way to putty. But how do I use putty?

Type in ip address of your iphones wifi connection
type in root as login
type in dottie as password
type in chmod +x /bin/screenshot
your done

to get the screenshot
load up putty if its not still loaded
type in /bin/screenshot

[mgregor]

Thanks alot, I finally got it working.

[plmars]

Does anyone have this file? Download links dont work anymore.

[JewKarma]

It Worked!

[EmoRebellion]

Here is a direct download link: http://www.iphone-downloads.info/dlo...ams/screenshot

Download the file and put it in /bin. CHMOD +x it, and your set!

[s2kpdx]

Can anyone tell me how to use this utility with a mac??? I know with windows you use winscp, right click the file and go to execute or whatever, but how can I do this with fugu or cyberduck (or terminal??)??? Is there a way?

[EmoRebellion]

How do you run commands from a mac on the iphone? Any type of terminal interface should work..

[billchase2]

i finally got around to installing this. works great!

[Berserker]

SiLeNtKiLLa,

Where did you get your slider image? That rocks...

-Berserker

[aaa]

how do I install this using iBrickr?

[hannibal]

please help! i can't seem to get past the step in which you type cd /bin in terminal. whenever i type chmod or cd /bin, the error message says, "connection to [IP address] closed."

what could be the problem? i already followed the step-by-step instruction. i used Fugu to transfer the screenshot file into my iPhone's bin folder. i am using Mac OS X Tiger by the way.

thanks in advance.