See http://www.pixelraves.com for full step by step guide with picture.


After we got our iPhones unlocked, we are so busy exploring additional software. I have seen so many guide with the screen capture of iPhone screen so i wonder how they did that.

So i was starting to search from Google on how to do that, but so far I didn't see any complete guide on how to install the screen capture tool, capture, and get the captured picture file in iPhone to PC desktop.

I got some tips from peeInMyPantz and continue my research from Internet. Finally, I got it.

Step 1: Add http://repo.smxy.org/iphone-apps to your iPhone's Installer Sources and let your iPhone refresh the sources. Go to: Installer -> Sources.

Step 2: Once the refresh done, go back to Install to Erica's Utlities from Utilities category and wait for the installation complete.

Step 3: Download and install the below 2 software:

* PuTTY (for SSH connection to execute the snap command)
* WinSCP (for copying, moving and deleting your iPhone files from Windows PC)

Step 4: Run and configure PuTTY. Type in Host Name: Your iPhon's IP address, Port: 22, Connection type: SSH then click Open.

Login as: root / Password: alpine. If you see can see the screen below, you are done for PuTTY.

Step 5: Next, you need to run and configure WinSCP. Type in Host Name: Your iPhon's IP address, Port: 22, User name: root, Password: alpine, File protocol: SCP then click Login.

Now you are exploring your iPhone file system and browse to /var/root which your captured screen shot will store here.

Step 6: Now you are ready to screen capture your iPhone. Go back to PuTTY, type snap <filename> eg: snap sciphone-08. PuTTY will display a message: "About to capture screen" and you will hear a shutter sound from your iPhone. Your iPhone screen has been captured.

Step 7: After the screen captured, you need to download to your PC. Go back to WinSCP and click refresh button, you will see <filename>.png (eg: sciphone-08.png) stored in /var/root. So now you can download to your PC

Or u can just use ScreenShot app from robota software. Its in the community source. No need to PuTTY and run any command. Then u can use erica's sendfile to send the image thru email or WinSCP.

This is easier.

thanks for sharing another possible method but can it be used for 1.1.4?

I saw the website, only tested on 1.1.1, 1.1.2.

Can you advise?

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Added on March 11, 2008, 12:09 pmI have tested ScreenShot on 1.1.4, working. but not sure why the picture is dark at corner. see the sample:

Left = ScreenShot Right = Erica's Ultilities - Snap via PuTTY



This post has been edited by philipcs: Mar 11 2008, 02:36 PM

Screenshot works perfectly on my Firmware 1.1.3