Huawei Y5 Prime (2018)

Huawei Y5 Prime (2018)

How to record the screen of a Huawei Y5 Prime (2018)

Recording the screen of your mobile/cell phone Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) in a video with sound can be very useful to perform a tutorial or show an acquaintance how to perform certain tasks in a Huawei Y5 Prime (2018), save in a video file and then send it or upload it to a platform like YouTube or social networks.

Sometimes we would like to record on video with sound a story that we 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.

To make this recording in your Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) follow these steps:

If, on the contrary, what you want is to take a screenshot of your Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) in a still image instead of video, click on the following link and follow the indicated steps capture screen on Huawei Y5 Prime (2018).

Table of Contents:

Estimated time: 5 minutes.

1- First step:

First of all, we are going to check that we have the screen recording icon in the quick access panel of our Huawei Y5 Prime (2018). (If we already have it, we can go to point 5).

To check it, we unlock our Y5 Prime (2018) 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:

Record screen icon Y5 Prime (2018)

2- Second step:

If we do not see the screen recording icon on the quick panel of our Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) click on the edit icon of the quick panel, which is normally the symbol of a pencil.

Edit quick panel icon Y5 Prime (2018)

3- Third step:

The icons of the settings that we have already defined in the Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) quick panel will appear above and below, separated by a horizontal line, the settings icons that we can add to the panel.

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

If you do not see the screen recording icon on your Y5 Prime (2018) device, it may be disabled by the manufacturer or not available on Huawei Y5 Prime (2018), in which case we go to the point “If we do not have the option to record screen natively”.

Edit quick panel Y5 Prime (2018)

4- Fourth step:

We already have the screen recording icon on the Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) quick panel, press "Done" to close the Y5 Prime (2018) quick panel editing screen.

Record screen icon Y5 Prime (2018)

5- Fifth step:

To start the recording we have two options: simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons of the Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) or a simpler and less likely to fail which is to display the quick panel by sliding a finger from the top of the screen and pressing the screen recording icon that we added in the previous steps.

Record screen icon Y5 Prime (2018)

6- Sixth step:

If it is the first time that we record the screen on the Huawei Y5 Prime (2018), several messages will appear asking for permissions. The first will ask us for permission to access photos, media files, videos, etc. Click on "allow" since it is necessary to grant this permission so that the video of the screen recording is stored in the internal memory of the Y5 Prime (2018).

Screen recording message Y5 Prime (2018)

7- Seventh step:

The next permission that you must grant on your Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) is to allow audio files to be recorded, this permission allows you to record internal sounds, that is, the sounds that the Y5 Prime (2018) itself emits, for example in videos.

Record audio permission message Huawei Y5 Prime (2018)

8- Eighth step:

The following message that will appear when recording the screen of the Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) is a warning that all operations that occur from that moment will be recorded, that includes the recording of personal information and passwords, it will also ask for permission to access the microphone to record ambient sound, this is useful for example if you want to record your voice at the same time as the screen.

MRecord permission message Huawei microphone

9- Ninth step:

Finally, an information message will appear on how to mute the microphone and how to stop screen recording on your Huawei Y5 Prime (2018). Press "Got it" to start screen recording.

Final message record screen Huawei

10- Tenth step

To stop recording, simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons on your Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) again or click on "Stop" at the top left of the screen. You can also swipe from the top of the screen to open the notification list and stop recording from there by pressing the square button.

Stop screen recording Y5 Prime (2018)

11- Step eleven

The captured video is saved in the photo and video gallery of your Huawei Y5 Prime (2018). Open the gallery and click on the last element that appears, you can edit the video and send it or upload it to a social network.

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If the Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) does not have the option to record screen

In the event that the screen recording icon is not available and that simultaneously pressing the volume up and power buttons on the Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) does not start the video recording, we will have to download an application from the application store to perform this action.

To do this we go to our application store either Play Store, Galaxy Store or any other that we use on our Huawei Y5 Prime (2018) and search for “screen recorder”, we must bear in mind that any free application that we download will contain advertising, and we must not download any application that ask us for excessive permissions such as access to Bluetooth, contacts or the camera.

The permissions that will be required for any screen recording application are “Access to multimedia content and files”, the permission to “Record video and audio” and the “Show above” permission is optional if you want to have a floating window with the controls of record, microphone, stop, etc.

Screen record app

Once installed we can return to the first step of this tutorial.

In your Y5 Prime (2018) you can store the screen recordings in video thanks to its internal 16 GB, 2 GB RAM memory.

You will be able to see the video of the screen recording in the photo gallery of your Huawei Y5 Prime (2018).

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