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Originally Posted by mdp
I tried Button Remapper on the Max2, it works (tried long press of Back as Home), but the only way I see to grab a screenshot would be to call an app that does it.
It should probably be an app that opens a blank, transparent Activity, and calls `screencap`.
If you do not find any app already public to do it, it should not be long to code, and I may provide (though I am not able to telly exactly when).
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Thanks for the suggestions. Button Remapper works well and I found a screenshot app, Screenshot Touch, that I can actually use without having to use a button. So, as it turns out, I don't really need to use Button Remapper to take screenshots.
That said, I have used it to call up the Screenshot Touch app as you suggested. It saves me having to go into the apps folder to specifically start it or having to leave it running in the background all the time when I seldom need it.
I had tried Button Remapper before when you first mentioned it. But because it didn't list "screenshot" in its standard list of options, I had mistakenly assumed that I would need to root the device to get it to work.
Hadn't realized that I could use Button Remapper to call up another app. Although that probably wouldn't have helped me at the time because all the screenshot apps I tried didn't work well for one reason or another. Most seemed to require the use of a combination of physical buttons the Note doesn't have or required that you shake the device.
Although I now have a suitable workaround, I do hope they enable the screenshot function at the long press of one of the buttons. That would be by far the easiest. I'm not really so keen on having to have other apps running in the background when I seldom need them.