The latest update of Android to my Fire tablet appears to have turned Kindle on permanently. Of course I can’t delete it, but now I have to go and Force Stop it every time I turn the tablet on, or it drains the battery a lot faster than before.
Anyone have a good solution to this?
God, I hate Android 11 right now.
I really need to take a screenshot from my phone to send to my boss. That used to be really easy, you just hold down the power button and choose screenshot. But apparently switching to Android 11 changed that.
According to this, and other pages on the internet, there should be an option to do it in the multi-task window screen, but it’s not there on my Pixel 3:
Other pages on the internet claim it can be done on Pixel 3 by holding down the volume down button and the power button at the same time, but I’ve tried many times now, it doesn’t do anything.
Some people on Google’s help page suggested saying “OK Google. Take a screenshot”. But it looks like OK Google no longer works after the Android 11 update. I have to bring up Google Assistant first, and then say “OK Google, Take a screenshot”, and then it says “OK, Taking a Screenshot”, and puts a big old tickmark on the screen, but I think it just took a screenshot of Google Assistant? Anyway, I can’t find any way to look at or share this screenshot.
Then on Google’s page some people said they went to accessability features and switched to 3 button navigation. And that finally worked for me. Apparently I have to be in 3 button navigation now to be able to take screenshots.
Here’s the Google page that helped me out a lot:
https://support.google.com/fi/thread/69922306?hl=en
That sounds maddening, alongside the media player fuckery
It does suck, but why would you not be in 3 button anyway? It’s obviously superior.
I think Android 10 somehow switched me away from it at some point without asking. Or maybe I tried 2 button navigation because someone here recommended it. I can’t remember now.
Exactly, more buttons = better.
mono
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I’m on Android 11. I’ve always taken screenshots w volume down/power and that still works fine for me. Asking Google assistant to take a screenshot works for me w Hey Google. I’m on a OnePlus 8 Pro.
Also, 3 button nav is wack. Touch gestures all the way.
Timex
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Default mechanism in Android for this is to hold the power button and down volume together. Still works on Android 11.
I’ve tried that a million times, it doesn’t work. Not on my Pixel 3 anyway.
If I hold them together, it lowers the volume, if I do the power button first for a bit, it goes into the credit card screen and then the volume button down still lowers the volume.
Perhaps it’s a shortcut setting that can be turned on or off in your Settings somewhere? Don’t have stock Android, so can’t check myself, apologies.
On the Pixel 4a, screenshot is at the bottom of the view where you change between running apps after you swipe up from the bottom of the phone.
edit: ah, I see you talked about that already, dang
Hmm, I don’t see that on my Pixel 3aXL either. What’s the other way to do it? Swiping up from the pill shows me nothing.
The other way is apparently holding down the power button and volume down buttons at the same time. It never worked for me.
If you switch to 3 button navigation, then it shows up in the multi-task screen.
Actually I got the “simultaneous button presses” method to work, but maybe the timing window is too tight.
Damn, apparently no meme of South Park’s Chef singing “Simultaneous Lovin’ Baby” I am disappoint.
I swiped up to get the screenshot option to appear and then pressed Power + Vol Down to take this shot on my 3XL.
Interesting that there’s a screenshot option on the left there in that screenshot. That’s what the android 11 interface is supposed to have even in the 2-button interface, from that article I linked. But it doesn’t on my Pixel 3. You swipe up, and instead of screenshot and select, there’s the normal rows of apps down there instead, like on the Google help page I linked upthread.
The Google help page says you only get the screenshot button if you’re in 3-button mode. Those of us who like the 2-button mode they touted have to pull off a weird hand thing to hold down power and volume down instead.
Braindead decision to remove the option from the Power-button menu.
So my mom got a new tablet. Is there a way to get her texts from her Android phone to appear on her Android tablet in more or less real time?
Not really, as far as I know. Oddly, though, I have an app called My Phone from Microsoft that gets all my notifications from my Pixel 3a onto my Windows Surface 5 (and can respond to texts, etc). Somehow MS can make it work cross-OS, but Android cant do it within their own ecosystem?
