Any tricks for taking screenshots that you're not supposed to take?
(without resorting to a 2FC (two factor camera), of course)
My Android is always mirrored on Windows (because that makes it 2 feet tall and Irfanview is much easier to snap screenshots of the Android screen).
I have some free cartoonify apps on Android that allow me to snap screenshots, so that I can save them BEFORE the watermark is added.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vicman.toonmeapp>
But I have a specific Android free cartoonify program that shows the resulting cartooned image on the Android phone without a watermark,
but only saves it with the watermark. So I want to screenshot it 1st.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wemagineai.voila>
While I can always edit out the watermark using the free PhotoShop alternative app on Windows (i.e., Paint.NET), I'd rather screenshot it.
Hence my question...
Is there a trick you know of which will allow you to mirror an Android
screen that itself is designed (on Android) not to be screenshotted?
Note: This problem only started with Android 11. Before that, I could screenshot anything on Windows even if Android didn't want me to do it.
Any tricks for taking screenshots that you're not supposed to take?
(without resorting to a 2FC (two factor camera), of course)
My Android is always mirrored on Windows (because that makes it 2 feet tall and Irfanview is much easier to snap screenshots of the Android screen).
I have some free cartoonify apps on Android that allow me to snap screenshots, so that I can save them BEFORE the watermark is added.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vicman.toonmeapp>
But I have a specific Android free cartoonify program that shows the resulting cartooned image on the Android phone without a watermark,
but only saves it with the watermark. So I want to screenshot it 1st.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wemagineai.voila>
While I can always edit out the watermark using the free PhotoShop alternative app on Windows (i.e., Paint.NET), I'd rather screenshot it.
Hence my question...
Is there a trick you know of which will allow you to mirror an Android
screen that itself is designed (on Android) not to be screenshotted?
Note: This problem only started with Android 11. Before that, I could screenshot anything on Windows even if Android didn't want me to do it.
On 2025-04-04 15:01, Marion wrote:
Any tricks for taking screenshots that you're not supposed to take?
(without resorting to a 2FC (two factor camera), of course)
My Android is always mirrored on Windows (because that makes it 2 feet
tall
and Irfanview is much easier to snap screenshots of the Android screen).
I have some free cartoonify apps on Android that allow me to snap
screenshots, so that I can save them BEFORE the watermark is added.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vicman.toonmeapp>
But I have a specific Android free cartoonify program that shows the
resulting cartooned image on the Android phone without a watermark,
but only saves it with the watermark. So I want to screenshot it 1st.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wemagineai.voila>
While I can always edit out the watermark using the free PhotoShop
alternative app on Windows (i.e., Paint.NET), I'd rather screenshot it.
Hence my question...
Is there a trick you know of which will allow you to mirror an Android
screen that itself is designed (on Android) not to be screenshotted?
Note: This problem only started with Android 11. Before that, I could
screenshot anything on Windows even if Android didn't want me to do it.
Imagine that:
You want to steal!
Any tricks for taking screenshots that you're not supposed to take?
(without resorting to a 2FC (two factor camera), of course)
My Android is always mirrored on Windows (because that makes it 2 feet tall and Irfanview is much easier to snap screenshots of the Android screen).
I have some free cartoonify apps on Android that allow me to snap screenshots, so that I can save them BEFORE the watermark is added.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vicman.toonmeapp>
But I have a specific Android free cartoonify program that shows the resulting cartooned image on the Android phone without a watermark,
but only saves it with the watermark. So I want to screenshot it 1st.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wemagineai.voila>
While I can always edit out the watermark using the free PhotoShop alternative app on Windows (i.e., Paint.NET), I'd rather screenshot it.
Hence my question...
Is there a trick you know of which will allow you to mirror an Android
screen that itself is designed (on Android) not to be screenshotted?
Note: This problem only started with Android 11. Before that, I could screenshot anything on Windows even if Android didn't want me to do it.
Here's the answer given:-
https://chatgpt.com/share/67f06002-92c0-8013-a73b-15b87b5f9a23
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png
adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png .
You can see here, that as a mechanism is discovered, it is blocked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/rsuh5b/anyone_know_a_working_bypass_for_cant_screenshot/?rdt=36016
It's no different than the protections that Windows has for certain things. Anything that Microsoft wants... isn't protected :-)
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-celebrates-its-50th-anniversary-by-letting-copilot-see-what-you-see
And it's not even called "Recall" either.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 23:42:43 +0100, David wrote :
Here's the answer given:-
https://chatgpt.com/share/67f06002-92c0-8013-a73b-15b87b5f9a23
Thanks for that direct link to "Using adb to take screenshots on Android
when it's blocked" which is the same issue I'm having with FLAG_SECURE
since scrcpy mirrors Android two-feet tall onto Windows using ADB.
The hope is that adb operates at a lower level than does Android screencap. Hence, the suggestion is to try the command below on my Windows PC.
C:\> adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png
I didn't need the next line of the suggestion but others might need it:
C:\> adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png .
Since my entire Android phone is already a Windows drive letter, that puts the screenshot onto Windows (effectively from the Windows command line).
I just used it to answer my sister (who texts a LOT!!!!!!!!) such that I could see her looooooooong text in an Irfanview window while I typed up a response in the Android text window using the Windows keyboard & mouse.
You can open multiple Android mirror on Windows but they're all the same so you need to open a few historically to read these "three pages of text".
But then I hit upon a solution using the screen capture command above!
I just kept hitting the Windows keyboard "F3" key to capture the next
scroll (people shouldn't abuse texting by figuring out how to type well!).
Since the phone is on Windows in every way, the main issue is just keeping the mouse focus on the correct window when going back & forth between them.
OK. I'm done with my three-page text back to my sister, and I'm ready to
test the adb screenshot feature against the toonify app that restricts it.
Hmm. That's interesting. Three things to note about what happened.
1. The phone screen shows the toonified image (of course)
2. The two-foot-tall scrcpy mirror of the phone on Android showed black
3. The ADB command did not cause an error - but it didn't create an image
On a FLAG_SECURE, it just did nothing. No error. But no screenshot. Drat. Apparently ADB's screencap command is blocked by the FLAG_SECURE setting.
When screencap tries to read the frame buffer of a secure window, the
system is apparently returning successfully a completely blank buffer.
So adb doesn't complain. It got nothing. It saved nothing.
There must be a way around this though. There always is. But what?
as of February 5, 2025, you can access the
ChatGPT browser interface without needing to log in to an account.
Please ask that question directly of ChatGPT - it's FREE! (And really good!)
https://chatgpt.com/
On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 09:18:28 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote :
as of February 5, 2025, you can access the
ChatGPT browser interface without needing to log in to an account.
Well, like anything said but empirically tested, that's only partly true.
<https://chatgpt.com/auth/error?error=OAuthSignin>
I tried the https://chatgpt.com URL on my ungoogled chromium browser and it did not require a login but then I switched to a privacy browser, it did.
In my test, that URL doesn't work without a login when you use Epic.
<https://auth.openai.com/authorize?audience=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.openai.com>
Nor can it work without a login when you use the Windows Opera VPN Browser.
<https://chatgpt.com/auth/error?error=OAuthSignin>
When I switched back to Ungoogled Chromium but on a VPN, it worked for some (mostly USA) variants, but I have thousands of free VPN servers to test on.
In summary, up until about a month ago, chatgpt required a login account, which negated its usefulness to me; but thanks for letting me know that
they have removed that login requirement. It works OK when on VPN now.
Much appreciated your helpful advice!
https://chatgpt.com/share/67f06002-92c0-8013-a73b-15b87b5f9a23
Ironically, iOS doesn't have the capability for apps to restrict
screenshots. I've used an iPhone, on at least two occasions, to do a screenshot of a virtual ID card that I wanted to add to my Google
Wallet. Transferred the image from the iPhone to my Android phone.
Luckily I have plenty of iOS devices to test Steve's suggestion upon. Although I generally do not create an account on either iOS or Android.
<https://i.postimg.cc/TY9fbqJP/ios18-4-update.jpg>
Which doesn't hurt Android at all but which turns iOS into an even
dumber terminal than iOS normally is (since iOS needs the net to work).
I will use this information that Steve kindly provided to try it out!
1. Install Feem on your Windows PC
<https://feem.io/#downloads>
<https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrdsfg0?hl=en-US&gl=US>
<blob:https://apps.microsoft.com/453fdad6-d2cd-4104-8669-ab0fa758fc2f>
Name: Feem Installer.exe
Size: 1096224 bytes (1070 KiB)
SHA256: 027F10EAD2BF3084F4B5F82E4792A86AEDA553A633A7B054EF95AC8032715210
On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 05:22:43 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote :
1. Install Feem on your Windows PC
<https://feem.io/#downloads>
<https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrdsfg0?hl=en-US&gl=US>
<blob:https://apps.microsoft.com/453fdad6-d2cd-4104-8669-ab0fa758fc2f>
Name: Feem Installer.exe
Size: 1096224 bytes (1070 KiB)
SHA256: 027F10EAD2BF3084F4B5F82E4792A86AEDA553A633A7B054EF95AC8032715210
Drat. Feem won't install without a Microsoft Account.
I'll try another method, but the fact that something as trivial as copying
a photo from Windows to iOS without using the Internet, shows that the subterranean caves known as the "Apple Ecosystem" are hard to break out of.
*How to copy a photo from Windows to iOS without needing Internet servers*
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=4785&group=comp.mobile.ipad#4785>
I'm sure there's a way, perhaps not over USB cable but over a local LAN
wi-fi server, much like VLC copies videos from the PC to iOS for playing.
I'll write back when/if I'm successful doing something as trivial as
copying a photo from Windows to iOS without using the insecure Apple iTunes bloatware abomination or an Internet server account.
In the meantime, if anyone on these newsgroups has been successful, copying
a photo from Windows to iOS without putting that photo on the net, let me know how you accomplished that task as I'm having trouble breaking out of
the subterranean caverns that are the Apple Ecosystem for that simple task.
Some of the advertising material is just hilarious.
It's going to be 75KB/sec, which is hectic, isn't it :-)
I think hectic means, the writer did not get to sell you something.
Any protocol ("Feem") which is only available for Apps, and a win32
does not exist, makes me immediately suspicious.
Fsquirt by the way, is pretty clunky. You have to enable Receive on the receiving end, before starting the transmit end. I've used it a few times, where I needed to keep a Win machine isolated from Ethernet, and I was sending over a 3KB config file. Worked fine for that.
This is all done via Bluetooth menus (maybe in the taskbar lower right).
I only know it as fsquirt.exe , by seeing it in Task Manager or
seeing it in Linux "top" or the like. I don't know what the actual
profile name for that transfer mode is.
He needs to dump android and get apple.
While Bluetooth file transfers are likely blocked by Apple (on purpose),
what may work is SMB, HTTPS, WebDav, or USB file transfers though.
Right now, I'm gonna try that hfs solution, where I'll let you all know
what works as it behooves us to be able to copy a file from Windows to iOS.
While Bluetooth file transfers are likely blocked by Apple (on purpose),
what may work is SMB, HTTPS, WebDav, or USB file transfers though.
Pair the iPhone and the Windows box.
In the Windows box, use the Bluetooth menu in the Task Bar, to enable Receive.
On the iPhone, open an image gallery, and select the file and see
what send options are offered. It's possible the named PC will appear in
the menu, as a Send tart. Or, it will give some indication it is going
to use Bluetooth. At some point, a target host needs to be selected.
I think iPhone to PC stands the best chance of working, with a
protocol like that (which is not AirDrop).
Any tricks for taking screenshots that you're not supposed to take?[...]
(without resorting to a 2FC (two factor camera), of course)
My Android is always mirrored on Windows (because that makes it 2 feet tall and Irfanview is much easier to snap screenshots of the Android screen).
Is there a trick you know of which will allow you to mirror an Android
screen that itself is designed (on Android) not to be screenshotted?
Note: This problem only started with Android 11. Before that, I could screenshot anything on Windows even if Android didn't want me to do it.
When screencap tries to read the frame buffer of a secure window, the
system is apparently returning successfully a completely blank buffer.
Will the app you wish to screenshot run in an android emulator? If so,
you could presumably screenshot from the host?
On 4/9/2025 1:15 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Will the app you wish to screenshot run in an android emulator? If so,
you could presumably screenshot from the host?
Yes, I just tried this with the Costco App and it does work on Windows
with the Bluestacks Android emulator. No black screen! Good advice!
Any tricks for taking screenshots that you're not supposed to take?You want people to help you steal.
(without resorting to a 2FC (two factor camera), of course)
My Android is always mirrored on Windows (because that makes it 2 feet tall and Irfanview is much easier to snap screenshots of the Android screen).
I have some free cartoonify apps on Android that allow me to snap screenshots, so that I can save them BEFORE the watermark is added.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vicman.toonmeapp>
But I have a specific Android free cartoonify program that shows the resulting cartooned image on the Android phone without a watermark,
but only saves it with the watermark. So I want to screenshot it 1st.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wemagineai.voila>
While I can always edit out the watermark using the free PhotoShop alternative app on Windows (i.e., Paint.NET), I'd rather screenshot it.
Hence my question...
Is there a trick you know of which will allow you to mirror an Android
screen that itself is designed (on Android) not to be screenshotted?
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