Taking screenshots on Nokia phones

This guide shows how to take screenshots on various Nokia devices.

Series 40
Gammu, Nokia Screen Dumper, or Phoenix service software can be used to take screenshots on S40 devices. To do this, you'll need a data cable for the phone and a PC with one of these programs installed.

Gammu
Gammu is a free tool for interfacing with various mobile phones, including Nokia phones. It can do tasks such as managing calls, messages, the file system, but it can also take screenshots.

Gammu can have compatibility issues with certain devices (see their compatibility list), but it is the best choice for Linux users.


 * 1) Read Kahvibreak's tutorial for connecting Gammu with your phone. Note: you must use USB, the phone will just reboot itself if a screenshot is attempted via Bluetooth.
 * 2) From the command line, you can type  . This will create a   file in the current directory.
 * 3) If the screenshot's colors are messed up (for example 6230 and 6230i), fix them with Image Search Editor or GIMP.

Fixing with Image Search Editor
TODO

Fixing with GIMP

 * 1)   →   →   →   and.
 * 2) Select your BMP file.
 * 3) Find the image format that matches your phone's screen (for 6230 it's  ), use offset 122, and width and height same as the phone's screen resolution.
 * 4) Export the image with   →

Nokia Screen Dumper


Nokia Screen Dumper is an screenshot utility that allows you to capture screenshots on Series 40 phones.

Prerequisites

 * A computer
 * An data cable for the phone you want to get screenshots from
 * Nokia Screen Dumper 1.2 or Nokia Screen Dumper 2.0

Tutorial
Make sure Nokia PC Suite not running in the background.
 * 1) Download Nokia Screen Dumper, NSD 2.0 is recommended.
 * 2) Extract the zip file.
 * 3) Open the NSD.exe program.
 * 4) Connect your S40 phone to your computer.
 * 5) When prompted to select the USB mode, select PC Suite
 * 6) On the NSD window, select File, then Connect
 * 7) If your phone was detected successfully, an window "Connection OK! should pop up.
 * 8) Press Dump and it should take an capture of your phone's screen.
 * 9) To save the screenshot, press Dump and select the directory where to save it.

Series 60
There is a freeware screenshot utility for Symbian S60v1/v2 and v3 simply named Screenshot. This is an app that you install directly on the phone, so no computer is needed. This tool has a similar UI to the Screen Grabber tool used by the S60 Internal Development team.

For S60v5 and later, you can use ScreenSnap. The upside of this app is that you can program almost any key to be used for screenshotting, but it can only save in BMP or JPG format.

Series 80
Series 80 has a built-in screenshot function, which can be activated with  +   +   +.