Skip to main content

What To Do When The Power Button Of Your Android Phone Is Broken?

By Ashwin Ananthapadmanabhan
android power button
Adamaged power button seems to be the end of the line for your device. But don’t worry, there are plenty of alternatives to keep your device in a working state even with a damaged power button. Not every method works for all devices. In this article, we have compiled a number of ways to deal with a broken power button and you can choose the one that works for you.
If you feel that your power button is acting up, the most important things you need to do in order to ensure that you don’t lose access to your device is to turn ON USB debugging and Scheduled Power ON.
How To Turn ON USB  debugging on Android?
  • Open your Settings app.
  • Tap on Developer Options. If you don’t see Developer Options in Settings, you can turn it ON by going to About phone and then tap on Build number a few times till you see a pop-up message that reads “You are now a developer”.
  • Toggle Developer options ON.
  • Find USB debugging and tap on it to toggle it ON.
Fixing Broken Power Button

How To Turn ON Scheduled Power ON?

If your device supports Scheduled power ON/OFF, you can turn it ON in Settings to automate power ON and power OFF. If you have a damaged power button and your device shuts down, then you can rest assured that it will boot up at a pre-set time.
  • Go to Settings. Search for “Scheduled power ON/OFF” in the search button shown in the upper right corner.
  • Toggle Power ON and set the time you want it to power ON every day.
Fixing Broken Power Button power on

How To Unlock Your Android Device When Power Button Doesn’t Work

We can consider two scenarios where you can be stuck with a damaged power button. Your device may be in the ON state or it may be switched OFF. Try not to let your device shut down as the steps to gain control of your device without a power button are much easier when the device is ON.

Ways to restart your device with a damaged power button when the device is OFF.

  • Once all your charge is depleted, simply connecting your device to the charger may restart your device. You can also try to press your volume buttons in different combinations to boot into recovery menu. There you can select “reboot system now” by tapping on the Power button.
  • Try connecting to a PC or a laptop via USB cable. This action might reboot the device too.
  • If you have USB debugging enabled, then you can restart your device using ADB commands. You can find ADB drivers here or here. Install your device drivers and then you can reboot your device by typing the “adb reboot” command. Follow online tutorials for your specific device.

How to unlock your device with a broken power button when your device is in the switched-ON state

It is relatively easier to wake your screen when the device is in the switched-ON state. You can try calling your device from another number to light up the screen. Connecting the charger or a USB cable may also turn ON the screen. Devices with fingerprint sensor will wake up with the touch of a fingertip.
You can use apps to compensate for the power button. These apps can turn OFF your screen, wake up the display or, perform the most necessary task of booting up your device.

Apps to replace your power button

Note: Apps of this kind generally use device administrator rights. Before uninstalling them, you have to go to Settings>>Device Administrators and untick the app from the list.
It is a lightweight app that does exactly what the name suggests. A gentle shake can wake up your display and can also turn it OFF.
Gravity Screen is a highly useful app if you have a broken power button. It can automatically turn your screen OFF when you put it in your pocket or on a flat surface. You can choose to keep the screen ON while the device is in motion. Gravity screen allows you to set your own parameters to calibrate its various sensitivities to your preference.
This app can make your volume button act like a power button to wake up your screen from sleep. But you cannot use it to restart your device. It can also show a persistent notification in your notification panel which can turn your screen off when you tap on it.
Although these apps are helpful, they can be heavy on your battery and can damage your battery life in the long term. Consider these apps and techniques as a temporary solution and get your device fixed permanently by visiting some nearby store.
Did you find these ways to deal with a broken power button helpful? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

LOADING TIME OF YOUR WEBSITE

By Ashwin Ananthapadmanabhan
Image
CHECK LOADING TIME OF YOUR WEBSITE Now a day’s everyone is using Google to search their information. There are millions of websites are available in Google, each websites is with its own content.  When you search any information in Google, it will list the links, which is related to your topic. Each link is directed to some websites. While searching, the  user always  wants to load the websites very fast. Because now a days, in this  busy world no one has the patience. If the sites are loading slowly then the user may get tensed. So it may lead the people to get bore while using your website. If you are the blogger you should focus on your web page loading time. Loading time is very important goal to run a successful website.  So if you want to attract the visitors to your site you have to reduce the loading time of your website. Here are some websites to check your site loading speed freely. S...
Read more

Run ChatGPT-Like LLM Models offline on your PC

By Ashwin Ananthapadmanabhan
       Ever since ChatGPT hyped the use of AI, everyone wanted to try similar AI models on their devices for daily queries. These are powerful AI models capable of executing high-level tasks. Now with the help of customized tools, users can install various Large Language Models (LLMs) on their computers for offline use. If you want to make your computer an AI chat tool that you can access anytime you want, then the answer is the tool that allows users to install various AI models such as Llama 3, Phi 3, Falcon, Gemma, Replit, and more. Let’s now see the steps to get these tools and setup AI Models. M inimum Requirements: Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3) with macOS 13.6 or newer Windows / Linux PC with a processor that supports AVX2 (typically newer PCs) 16GB+ of RAM is recommended. For PCs, 6GB+ of VRAM is recommended NVIDIA/AMD GPUs supported Note: You can follow this guide for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. AI Models use a high amount of RAM, CPU, and GPU. I...
Read more

How To Watch Time-lapse In Google Earth: Largest Video On The Planet!

By Ashwin Ananthapadmanabhan
Image
It’s a good way to see the world. Representative image. Image by Greg Rakozy on Unsplashed      In the ‘biggest update to Google Earth since 2017,’ Google has added the new Time-lapse feature. Time-lapse in Google Earth combines 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years to make a 4D interactive model. As the name suggests, the Google Earth Time-lapse feature lets you go through a time-lapse of how things have changed over the years.      Time-lapse in Google Earth consists of photos taken from 1984 to 2020, which equals 20 petabytes (1 Petabyte is one million gigabytes) of satellite images. Google took these pictures and stitched them into a 4.4 terapixel video. The company says that this entire video is equivalent to over 5 million 4K resolution videos. That said, Google is also calling Time-lapse on Google Earth the largest video on the planet.  In its blog  post , the company has also promised annual updates to Google Earth for the nex...
Read more