DDMS Question

[froyoYum]

I have a macbook pro and recently downloaded the Sdk to try take screenshots on my X. I got through all of that and had the phone connected as USB mass storage, I then went to launch DDMS and it went through the terminal set up but then says process failed. Can somebody please help me out I want to take a screenshot already haha.

 

[salanester]

This doesn't really answer your question, but you could just root and have a screen shot very quickly.

 

[froyoYum]

That's true lol this is still going to bug me though :/

 

[jdbower]

Are you sure Mass Storage is the right mode? I would imagine PC mode would be more appropriate but I haven't done it myself. Also make sure you've got USB debugging enabled on the X. If you want to install Ubuntu there's plenty of online support The link below may help with some of the phone settings.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AndroidScreenshots

 

[froyoYum]

Are you sure Mass Storage is the right mode? I would imagine PC mode would be more appropriate but I haven't done it myself. Also make sure you've got USB debugging enabled on the X. If you want to install Ubuntu there's plenty of online support The link below may help with some of the phone settings.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AndroidScreenshots

Ya dude its there and it's also on usb debugging. Do you think the pc connection would work with mac os? Thanks for the link I'll check it out real fast .

 

[jdbower]

A Mac is a personal computer, as well PC Mode just means to treat it as a phone, USB Storage means treat it as a flash drive.

 

[froyoYum]

A Mac is a personal computer, as well PC Mode just means to treat it as a phone, USB Storage means treat it as a flash drive.

Alright I'm going to give this a shot real quick

EDIT: Just gave it a shot and terminal still says that there was an error loading preferences

 

[froyoYum]

Anyone?

 

[jdbower]

I got bored and set up a development VM. PC Mode seems to work just fine for this and the only problem that I ran into was a permissions thing. There's a step in the Ubuntu setup that needs to open up the permissions on the USB device (there's an outstanding Ubuntu issue on this, I don't know if similar things affect BSD-based systems like OSX). A method around this is to run DDMS as root, open up a terminal window and run "sudo ddms" and it will prompt you for your password.

I got sick of OSX on my Macbook so I wiped it and installed Linux, if you like I can walk you through setting up a Ubuntu virtual machine that won't change your existing installation but will allow you to get your screenshots - but that may be outside the scope of what you want to work with.