Let’s quickly understand the role and importance of a screenshot feature on smartphone:

Most of us are aware why this feature plays an important role in our lives; however, its requirement varies from person to person. Some users use this function to share their social identity instead of typing it every time and some take screen shot of important information from the websites to store it on their phone.

Xiaomi is one of the most demanded phones by users due to its customizable options and user friendly screen. We have gathered 4 smart ways for you to take screenshot from your favorite model Xiaomi MIUI on 7 and 8.

4 Tricks to take screenshots on Xiaomi MIUI Phone

Pressing the volume + main function key together

1. Go to your mobile screen
2. Press the down arrow of your volume button and menu key together
3. Another alternative is to press the down arrow of your volume button and power button together

Status bar and screenshot toggle

1. The phone has a special screenshot toggle button.
2. Swipe down the status bar
3. Hit the screenshot toggle button.
4. You will see the screenshot clicked of your respective screen

Take support of quick ball

Quick ball is an excellent new feature for the Xiaomi users that bring you phone updates. You need to enable the quick ball from the settings options.

1. Enable the quick ball feature from settings
2. Create a shortcut in the menu section
3. Set screenshot toggle option
4. With the help of enabled quick ball, you can quickly take the screenshot

Finger swiping option

1. The feature is restricted to Xiaomi MIUI 8. If you have a good MIUI 8 ROM, you can comfortably use this feature.
2. Swipe your three fingers on the screen
3. It will activate the screenshot option to capture the screen

Apart from the above simple methods of taking screenshots from MIUI, you need to also learn how to take long screenshots.

Methods to take long screenshots from Xiaomi Redmi 4X

The method of capturing screenshot on Xiaomi MIUI 8 phone is really simple to follow.

1. Open the website or page whose screenshot you wish to take
2. Press the volume down arrow button and power button together
3. Tap the animated icon which is usually displayed on the top
4. Scroll through the screen for the screenshot pic you desire
5. Viola! It’s done!

All the above methods and tricks are only valid on Xiaomi MIUI phones. Many users have successfully tried the fingers’ swiping method of taking the screen shot from their Xiaomi MIUI 8 phone, for example Redmi Note 4X. If you have any favorite method of doing this, you can always share with us.

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As for me, my previous device was LG P9 & Samsung, and I’m really enjoying my new phone, it just seems may be a little small

Device is made pretty damn good, the camera is quite good and battery lives long enough for me. MIUI seems very pleasing, everything works. Device actually works really fast, everything runs without any lags. But if you want to make it perfect, you’ll have to do some work.

Fortunately everything is fine and new firmware is released almost every day ….)

It all started like this: I ordered Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 from online store, waited for 14 days and finally device was in my hands. And like regular user, who used to buy working devices from store, I was a little bit confused. Normally you just need put sim card and you’re done. Not this time. I saw unknown firmware 66.66, which really does not work.

So I started searching for appropriate firmware while sweating at every manipulation with phone. In the end, it turns out everything is quite simple, the main thing is not to hurry.

Grab a pack of beer and let’s begin.

Before you did any manipulations with your phone it is very important to make NVRAM (!!!) backup. It will come in handy if something goes wrong.

NVRAM is the IMEI, and it is customized for each phone. This can be done by using custom recovery (TWRP), or by using script from this guide.

I did it with TWRP 2.8.7.0 bilingual edition for Redmi Note 2.

1. TWRP Installation (Custom Recovery)

Here I will show you how to install custom TWRP Recovery for Redmi Note 2 without root or any other special methods.

TWRP 2.8.7.0 Bilingual Edition changelog:

• Based on the latest build
• Added “bilingual display function”, default language – Chinese. (Can be switched to English.)
• Fast recovery load
• SD Card Support
• OTG Support
• Ability to make screenshots (volume button down + power button), default path for screens – / sdcard / Pictures / down snapshots
• OTA Official Updated Support
• Backup and Restore Support
• SuperSU integrated permissions, automatic Root and much more…

How to install recovery

1. Make sure you’ve installed vcom drivers – MT6577 USB VCOM drivers.rar
2. Download SP-Flash tool – SP_Flash_Tool_exe_Windows_v5.1452.00.000.zip
3. Unzip SP-Flash tool on C:/
4. Run the tool with administrator privileges (Right mouse click & “Run as administrator”)
5. Press button #1 (watch the screen shot)
6. Open folder with TWRP in SP-flash tool folder
7. Select MT6795_Android_scatter.txt and press “Open” (or “Ok”)
8. Make sure you’ve checked the mark as on screen shot (Step #2)
9. Press Download (Step #3). Remove battery (!) and connect your phone to your PC. Driver installation should start.
10. If all drivers was installed correctly, you will see red bar (step #4) which shows the progress of firmware update.
11. If everything was right you will see the green success mark.

Congratulations! You’re awesome! Now remove device from PC, insert battery, reset your device and enter recovery mode (volume button up + power button) and voila!

Nothing complicated here. Most important part is to install drivers and everything will be fine.

Some Windows 10 users are experiencing problems with vcom drivers. You can try to install this pack MTK_USB_Al_0.9.7.zip

Here’s is another proven method on how to install custom recovery on Xiaomi Redmi Note 2.

If you want to return your device to stock recovery – find the tutorial here.

How to Remove NVRAM with TWRP 2.8.7.0 – bilingual edition

Enter “Recovery mode” using one of the methods below:

1. First method: Press & hold power button and volume up at the same time. As soon as you’ll see logo, remove your finger from power button and keep holding volume up. Your recovery should start.
2. Second method: Update > Press the three dots at the top bar (…) > Select “Reboot in Recovery”
3. Third method: Only for MiuPro firmware. Hold power button > Reboot > You’ll see “Recovery” button.

Now enter the “Backup” menu > Put a checkmark near “NVRAM”, while other checkmarks maybe removed move the slider to the right. After this, find the “TWRP” folder on your device and save a copy somewhere.

Firmware setup using custom recovery

Attention! Before doing any updates make a backup of your data! This method will remove all installed software and files.

I’m using this method when I change MiuPro to AOSP or Xiaomi.eu and back.

If you just bought your device and decide to install firmware updates, you can immediately start the process. If you’re already using your device (some apps are installed, custom settings, e.t.c.) make sure you’ve made a backup. You can use Titanium Backup or default Miui tools. Don’t forget to copy backup files to SD card or PC.

1. Copy firmware files to SD card or USB flash. Storage must be formatted in FAT32.
2. Enter the recovery using one of the method below. Method 1: Hold power button + volume up button at the same time. As soon as you logo, release the power button while keep holding volume up button. Recovery tool should start. Method 2: Update > Press the three dots at the top bar (…) > Select “Reboot in Recovery”.
3. Select “Wipe” > “Advanced Wipe” and put checkmarks near “Dalvik Cache”, “System”, “Cache”, “Data” and “Internal Storage”. After you’ve put all checkmarks, swipe to the right. P.S. If you put a checkmark near “System”, some devices may show installation error. In order to avoid this you just need to reboot recovery. And then go to step 4.
4. Return to main menu and enter the “Install”. In the top row, select the folder where firmware files are located.
5. We found firmare files, select it and swipe to the right to confirm.
6. After firmware installation is completed, you’ll see a screen where you can make “Wipe” and “Reboot” after.
7. Wait until firmware installation is completed.

That’s all!

Firmware for FDD & TDD, as well as for Prime are absolutely identical. At least for this moment.

Attention!

Starting from 5.10.15 Xiaomi started to sign their firmwares with PRIVATE key. This means that: using STOCK (native, mi) recovery you can install only STOCK English – Chinese firmware. If you try to install custom firmware you’ll see “signature verification failed” error. Custom firmware can be installed only using Custom (TWRP) recovery.

Read more : Install SuperSU to use Titanium Backup and other applications.

Also check out Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 MIUI сommon problems and solutions.

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