Taking a screenshot on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 really couldn’t be easier. Most devices require you to hit a button combination of some kind, but on the new Galaxy Tab 2, they’ve put this feature right into the main button menu.
This process should work for both the 7 inch model (version 7.0) and the ten inch model (version 10.1) of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.
If you look at the bottom left in your main buttons, you’ll see an odd looking square button on the right. That’s the screenshot button.
When you take a screenshot, after a moment it will even bring up a basic editor where you can draw on the screenshot, or write a note, etc. When you’re done, just press the check mark at the top of the page.
All screenshots will be saved to your Gallery under a Screenshots folder.
Update: After the ICS update for this device, the process for taking a screenshot has changed. The button has been removed. Now you will have to Power and Volume Down at the same time.
Last modified January 24, 2013
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Update was pointless in my opinion. It took away the screenshot button on the main menu and now I have extra apps I don’t need taking up space. Very disappointing.
I really hate that they did this… I don’t see the need for the upgrade yet anyway…. Why change something that was so accessable?
i think that this is really stupid y would they change it it was sooooooooooooooooooooo easy like wtf
I disliked the update too, but thanks to Hyemin comments I AM ABLE TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS again. Press the power button AND down volume button at the same time for a couple of seconds and I will take the screenshot. Not as easy as it once was though
@amanda ortiz thank you for telling how to do it, I just did it the way you said, but I still would have preferred it to have been kept like the earlier one, cos it was much easier.
Had I known that they were going to do away with the screen shot at the bottom of the tablet I would not have upgraded at all, it was so easy and cool to take a screen shot this way, now I can’t do it at all and it is a complicating mess, pl. give back the earlier screen shot at the bottom.
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