Huawei Ascend Mate7

Huawei Ascend Mate7

How to take screenshot or screen capture in a Ascend Mate7

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 Ascend Mate7.

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 Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)| upgradable to 5.1.1 (Lollipop)| planned upgrade to 6.0 (Marshmallow) 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.

On the contrary, if you want to record a video of what is shown on the screen of your Huawei Ascend Mate7, for example to record a video call, a story or a web page or piece of an internet video, you can follow the next tutorial: Record screen from Huawei Ascend Mate7

Table of Contents:

First method:

If you want to make a screenshot to your Huawei Ascend Mate7 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 Ascend Mate7, whether it's a web page, chat, or application.

Home screen

2- Second step:

Press the power key simultaneously and the volume key down. If you want to capture a video the procedure is the same but pressing the power key and the volume key up. In EMUI (customization of Huawei to the Android operating system) drag three fingers from the top of the screen down to perform the screenshot.

Screenshot in Huawei Ascend Mate7

3- Third step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your mobile/cell phone Huawei Ascend Mate7.

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 Ascend Mate7, and you will be able to edit it, trim it or send it to your contacts or through your preferred social network.

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Video instructions

Screenshot without using the buttons on Ascend Mate7

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 Ascend Mate7. 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.

Ascend Mate7 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 Ascend Mate7?

If you want to capture a complete web page in your Huawei Ascend Mate7 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 Ascend Mate7, 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 Ascend Mate7 image gallery and you can edit and share it on social networks.

Scrollshot in Ascend Mate7

How to capture a full page in Huawei Ascend Mate7?

To take a screenshot with scrolling on a web page, a WhatsApp conversation or any other application of your Huawei Ascend Mate7 take the screenshot with the method indicated above, when taking the screenshot the capture will appear and the screenshot menu for a few seconds at the bottom.

Before it disappears, click on the "Capture more" icon and an editing menu will appear where you can select up to what point on the screen you want to capture.

Once the capture is made, it will be saved in the Ascend Mate7 image gallery and you can edit and share it on social networks.

Scrollshot in Ascend Mate7

About the device:

Huawei Ascend Mate7 is a mobile/cell phone with dimensions of 157 x 81 x 7.9 mm (6.18 x 3.19 x 0.31 in), a weight of 185 grams, a screen size of 6.0 inches (~77.6% screen-to-body ratio) and a screen resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels (~368 ppi pixel density).

It has a processor Octa-core (4x1.8 GHz Cortex-A15 & 4x1.3 GHz Cortex-A7), a graphics card Mali-T628MP4, a RAM memory 2 GB RAM/ 32 GB and an internal memory of 16 GB.

The Huawei Ascend Mate7 comes from the factory with the Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)| upgradable to 5.1.1 (Lollipop)| planned upgrade to 6.0 (Marshmallow) operating system.

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