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Add an action for an extra-long Power Button

Tasker has actions for pressing physical buttons and for Long-pressing the Power button , and apparently (but not on my phone with Tasker 5.7.2)) double-tapping the power button and long-pressing the volume control buttons.  What about extra-long pressing the Power button?  On my phone (Droid Turbo 2, Android 7.0), tapping the power button blackens the screen/locks the phone, long-pressing the power button brings up the Power Off screen with only one option, and if you press the power button even longer, the Power Off screen disappears and the phone reboots.  Can this be done without rooting the phone?

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Not sure how that happens, sorry. It doesn't seem to be a regular Android function but something added on by the vendor...

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Thanks, I've subsequently read online that this is a commonly added functionality to cell phones (enabling reboot when the OS is completely frozen, without having to wait until the battery is drained), but is below the OS level.  Rats.

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This provides no information on how to do this despite the heading.

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