It can happen that the power button on your HTC One doesn’t work any longer. Certainly, it is sometimes enough to fall or a little bit moisture for the button to break. When this occurs, you do not know how to turn on your HTC One any longer. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a phone, but you’ll be happy to find out it can be not impossible. Certainly, we decided to draft this article to show you the different approaches. We’ll find out first how you can force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time how you can do it manually. Finally, we will recommend you an app to manage the ignition of the HTC One without the Power button.
Force the HTC One boot without a power button
Even in cases where the power button on your HTC One doesn’t work any longer, it’s still possible to turn on the phone. For this you must perform the following steps:
- Keep your main button and volume down
- Keeping the two prior buttons in place, plug in the charger
- The screen should light up with a special menu
- Unplug the charger
- Select the volume down button
< The HTC One will start
When the HTC One starts, we recommend you to go to the step below which is to install an app to manage the start of the HTC One without power button.
Start by pressing the buttons of the power button
If you are more of a manual type, you can start the HTC One by unmounting it. We do not necessarily recommend you to get this done, but know that it may sometimes work. If you unmount the HTC One and remove the Power button, you will need to find out a small step from the Power button. It’s sometimes possible to tie the start of HTC One by touching with two metal ends part of the step.
Install an application to manage HTC One power without the power button
When you have successfully started your HTC One without utilizing the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more easily next time. That’s why we recommend you to download the Gravity Screen app which will allow to configure for example a double tap to wake the HTC One. So, even without your power button, you may continue to utilise your HTC One.
