Screen Capture for Samsung Galaxy Mini SGH-T499Y

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I had some trouble finding a procedure for how to do a screen capture on my phone.

I have a Galaxy Mini running Froyo 2.2.2.

I found various descriptions of pressing the power button and then the back or home or whatever, but none of these seemed to work for me.

I knew I was able to do it because I would do it by accident now and then.  I had dozens of images of my locked screen in the folder called "ScreenCapture"

So after lots of trial and error what I finally worked out was the following:

1. Make sure you have an SD card installed and that there's room on it (Duh!)
2. Press and hold the back button 
3. Then about half a second later, press the home button while still holding the back button
4. Wait for the phone to make a camera shutter sound (or vibrate if in silent mode)
5. Release both buttons
6. A message should be displayed briefly saying, "Screen Captured. Saved as image file"
7. Go look in MyFiles under ScreenCapture

I had a little trouble sometimes because the buttons are fairly close together.  I found it more reliable to use my two index fingers instead of trying to do it all with one hand.

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