Screenshot in Huawei MatePad 10.8

How to take a screenshot or screen capture on a MatePad 10.8

One essential feature of modern tablets is the ability to take screenshots, capturing an image of what is currently displayed on your Huawei MatePad 10.8's screen.

Although there are apps for this function, you don’t need to install any additional ones, as it’s already built into the Android 10, EMUI 10.1, no Google Play Services operating system.

Taking a screenshot allows you to save a WhatsApp conversation, a Tinder message, an Instagram story, a Facebook photo, or a video frame directly to your Huawei device's memory.

If, on the other hand, you want to record a video of your MatePad 10.8's screen, such as a video call, a story, a web page, or part of an internet video, you can follow the next tutorial: Record screen on MatePad 10.8

Table of Contents:

First method:

If you want to make a screenshot to your Huawei MatePad 10.8 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 MatePad 10.8, whether it's a web page, chat, or application.

2- Second step:

Simultaneously press the power key and the volume down key of your Huawei MatePad 10.8. If you want to capture a video the procedure is the same but pressing the power key and the volume key up.

3- Third step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your tablet Huawei SCMR-W09, SCMR-AL00.

You can find the image gallery on the home screen. It typically has a photo or instant photo icon. Depending on the software version installed, your image gallery application might be Google Photos. If that's the case, look for an icon resembling a four-pointed star made of paper, with each point in a different color.

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 MatePad 10.8, and you will be able to edit it, trim it or send it to your contacts or through your preferred social network.

Video instructions

Screenshot without using the buttons on MatePad 10.8

If you cannot use the physical buttons of the Huawei MatePad 10.8 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 MatePad 10.8. To do this, slide your finger down from the top of the screen, the shortcuts to device settings will be displayed.

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.

4- Fourth step:

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

You can find the image gallery on the home screen. It typically has a photo or instant photo icon. Depending on the software version installed, your image gallery application might be Google Photos. If that's the case, look for an icon resembling a four-pointed star made of paper, with each point in a different color.

How to capture a full page in Huawei MatePad 10.8?

If you want to capture a complete web page in your Huawei MatePad 10.8 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 MatePad 10.8, 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 screenshot is complete, it will be saved in the MatePad 10.8's image gallery, where you can edit and share it on social networks.

About the device:

Huawei MatePad 10.8 is a tablet with dimensions of 257 x 170 x 7.2 mm (10.12 x 6.69 x 0.28 in), a weight of 500 grams, a screen size of 10.8 inches, 338.2 cm2 (~77.4% screen-to-body ratio) and a screen resolution of 1600 x 2560 pixels, 16:10 ratio (~280 ppi density).

It has a processor Octa-core (2x2.86 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2x2.09 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4x1.86 GHz Cortex-A55), a graphics card Mali-G76 MP16, a RAM memory 6 GB and an internal memory of 64 GB / 128 GB.

The Huawei MatePad 10.8 comes from the factory with the Android 10, EMUI 10.1, no Google Play Services operating system.

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