How to screen record on HP Slate 17

How to record the screen on a HP Slate 17

Recording the screen of your mobile/cell phone HP Slate 17 in a video with sound can be very useful to perform a tutorial or show an acquaintance how to perform certain tasks in a HP Slate 17, save in a video file and then send it or upload it to a platform like YouTube or social networks.

Sometimes you would like to record on video with sound a story that you have seen on Instagram of an acquaintance, a phone call or video call with a family member to keep it as a souvenir or to use it as evidence or a TikTok video.

If, on the contrary, what you want is to take a screenshot of your HP Slate 17 in a still image instead of video, click on the following link and follow the indicated steps capture screen on HP Slate 17.

To make this recording in your HP Slate 17 follow these steps:

Table of Contents:

Estimated time: 5 minutes.

1- First step:

First of all, you are going to check that you have the screen recording icon in the quick access panel of your HP Slate 17. (If you already have it, you can go to point 4).

To check it, unlock your Slate 17 and slide a finger from the top edge of the screen down a few centimeters to display the quick panel in which the quick settings will appear such as connecting to a Wi-Fi network, connecting Bluetooth, mute, airplane mode, etc.

Slide down again with one finger to display the full panel, check if it has the screen recording icon shown below:

2- Second step:

If you do not see the screen recording icon on the quick panel of your HP Slate 17 click on the edit icon of the quick panel, which is normally the symbol of a pencil.

3- Third step:

The icons of the settings that you have already defined in the HP Slate 17 quick panel will appear above and below, separated by a horizontal line, the settings icons that you can add to the panel.

look for the screen recording icon, click on the icon and without releasing it, drag to the top to add it to the quick panel.

If you do not see the screen recording icon on your Slate 17 device, it may be disabled by the manufacturer or not available on HP Slate 17, in which case you go to the point “If you do not have the option to record screen natively”.

4- Fourth step:

You already have the screen recording icon on the HP Slate 17 quick panel, now to start recording you have two options: simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons of the Slate 17 or a simpler and less likely to fail which is to unfold the panel fast by sliding a finger from the top of the screen and pressing the screen recording icon that you have seen in the previous steps.

5- Fifth step:

In this step you can choose if you want the video to be saved with or without sound and if you want to show the touches you make on the screen. Select the options that interest you.

6- Sixth step:

By clicking on the "Record audio" drop-down icon you can choose if you want only the sound of the microphone to be recorded in the video (this is useful, for example, to explain how an app works to an acquaintance or to record a message while recording HP Slate 17 screen video), device audio only, or microphone sound and device audio at the same time.

If you do not want the video to have external sounds, you must record it in a noise-free environment.

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7- Seventh step:

3-second countdown will be displayed at the top of the HP Slate 17 screen, from which the video of everything that happens on the screen will begin to be recorded.

8- Eighth step:

To stop recording, simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons again on your HP Slate 17 or click on "Stop" at the top left or right of the screen.

It may appear as a red square or circle or the word "Stop".

9- Ninth step:

The video will be automatically saved in the photo gallery of your HP Slate 17. You can find the image gallery on the home screen, it should have a photo icon, an instant photo or depending on the version of the software installed, it is possible that your image gallery application is Google Photos, in this case look for the icon of a four-pointed star made of paper with four colors, one for each point.