Screenshot in Huawei Mate X5

How to take a screenshot or screen capture on a Mate X5

An essential feature of modern mobile phones and tablets is the ability to take screenshots, or capture an image of what is currently displayed on the screen of your Huawei Mate X5.

While there are apps that can perform this function, you don't need to install any additional apps as it is already included in the HarmonyOS 4.0 (China), EMUI (Europe), no Google Play Services operating system.

When you take a screenshot, you can save a WhatsApp conversation, Tinder message, Instagram story, Facebook photo, or video frame in the memory of your Huawei device.

Table of Contents:

First method:

If you want to make a screenshot to your Huawei Mate X5 you have to follow these simple steps:

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

1- First step:

First, go to the screen that you want to capture a screenshot of on your Huawei Mate X5, whether it's a web page, chat, or application.

Home screen

2- Second step:

Simultaneously press the power key and the volume down key of your Huawei Mate X5.

At the beginning it may be difficult to press both buttons at the same time, usually the Mate X5 turns off or turns down the volume if you do not press both buttons at the same time, if after several attempts you find it too difficult you can try the option of capturing the screen without using the buttons described below.

Screenshot in Huawei Mate X5

3- Third step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your mobile/cell phone Huawei ALT-AL10.

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, your image gallery application may be Google Photos, in which case look for the icon of a four-pointed star made of paper with four colors, one for each point.

%s Photo Gallery

4- Fourth step:

Open the image gallery, the images and photos will appear sorted by date, click on the capture that you just made on your Mate X5, and you will be able to edit it, trim it or send it to your contacts or through your preferred social network.

%s Photo Gallery

Video instructions

Screenshot without using the buttons on Mate X5

If you cannot use the physical buttons of the Huawei Mate X5 because they are broken or you do not want to use them because it is a problem for you to press both buttons at the same time to take the screenshot, there is an alternative so you can continue taking screenshots without the power and volume buttons that we tell you about below:

1- First step:

Go to the screen or application you want to capture the screen on your Huawei.

2- Second step:

Display the quick access or settings bar of your Huawei Mate X5. To do this, slide your finger down from the top of the screen, the shortcuts to device settings will be displayed.

Open Android quick panel

3- Third step:

Press the screenshot icon, if you don't see the icon, swipe down again to display the full panel.
If you can't see this icon, you may need to add it to the shortcuts panel.

Mate X5 screenshot icon

4- Fourth step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your phone or tablet Huawei.

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, your image gallery application may be Google Photos, in which case look for the icon of a four-pointed star made of paper with four colors, one for each point.

How to capture a full page in Huawei Mate X5?

If you want to capture a complete web page in your Huawei Mate X5 first of all you should know that this method is not available natively on Android for the moment however Huawei has incorporated it into its EMUI customization layer.

To make a scroll screenshot of a web page, a WhatsApp conversation, or any other application on your Huawei Mate X5, follow these steps:

1- Take a screenshot using the method indicated above. When taking the screenshot, the capture and screen capture menu will appear for a few seconds before disappearing.

2- Click on “Scrollshot” and wait while the screen scrolls, capturing all the content.

3- When you want to stop the screenshot, click on the screen. If the web page or application has a very long or infinite scroll, it can generate a very large image and block the system.

Once the capture is made, it will be saved in the Mate X5 image gallery and you can edit and share it on social networks.

Scrollshot in Mate X5

About the device:

Huawei Mate X5 is a mobile/cell phone with dimensions of Unfolded: 156.9 x 141.5 x 5.3 mmFolded: 156.9 x 72.4 x 11.1 mm, a weight of 243 grams, a screen size of 7.85 inches, 197.5 cm2 (~88.9% screen-to-body ratio) and a screen resolution of 2224 x 2496 pixels (~426 ppi density).

It has a processor Octa-core (1x2.62 GHz Cortex-A720 & 3x2.15 GHz Cortex-A720 & 4x1.53GHz Cortex-A510), a graphics card Maleoon 910 GPU, a RAM memory 12/16 GB and an internal memory of 512 GB 12 GB RAM, 512 GB 16 GB RAM, 1TB 16 GB RAM.

The Huawei Mate X5 comes from the factory with the HarmonyOS 4.0 (China), EMUI (Europe), no Google Play Services operating system.

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