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Solution for Broken Power Button in Android


We are living in a world where smartphones are one of the essential factors. Among all the devices, android phones have taken a special place as it is one of the user-friendly devices in the market. In the process of usage of the Android phone, the power button is very important to access the android phones. But what happens when the power button breaks?


As without the power button, we can’t open the phone to use it, we can’t lock or unlock the phone and also we will not be able to turn off or on the phone. So manually doing all these tasks will become difficult without the precious power button. This will become a huge problem as using the phone itself will become difficult.




So we have to find possible solutions to get this corrected and access the phone in a normal way without the power button. Though we can’t do anything manually, there are many other ways that can help you access phones in possible ways. So here today I am going to provide a few methods that will help you to use your phone properly even without the power button. All you have to do is patiently follow the below-given steps and start working on your phone like before without any difficulties.


Come now let’s take a look at all of the possible and easy steps that we can follow.



Steps to Follow When Power Button is Broken

#1 The first method is the debugging mode. You have to turn on the debugging mode in your phone by going to the settings. You should also turn on the ‘scheduled power on’ which will be available in the settings page. This will help define the automated turn on or off on your android smartphone.




#2 To follow the above steps you have to have your phone unlocked. If it’s unable for you enter in then you can plug your phone to the charger which will unlock the screen and then you can enter in. If that didn’t work too then you can press both the volume button combination to boot automatically into the recovery menu and you can easily turn on your phone from that option.








#3 You can try using the app ‘gravity screen’ which helps to switch on or off the screen depending on the light sensor and gravity sensor in it. This app can be used to power on the screen when in need.





Using 'Power button to volume button' app.

This is an amazing app that will help you to solve the problem when your power button is broken. This app will help turn the volume button into the power button, simple as that.

Firstly you have to get the app named ‘Power button to volume button’ from google playstore to your android smartphone.

Then, you have to grant a few permission for the app to work accurately by running the app in the startup and prevent from the app going to sleep.

Next, in the main interface of the app, you will have to turn on the options ‘boot’ and ‘screen off’.




Then the screen can be turned off from the notification shutter.




That’s it. Now this way you can give your power button control to the volume button and access your phone easily without any problems.

We have checked out on a few steps and procedures on how to access an android Smartphone when the power button is broken. You can analyze all the steps and follow the one that you prefer easy. Hope this will be very useful for all the android users.