How to turn on a HTC U Play without the Power button

It might happen that the power button on your HTC U Play doesn’t function anymore. Indeed, 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 U Play anymore. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a phone, nevertheless you’ll be happy to know it’s not impossible. Indeed, we decided to draft this post to show you the diverse methods. We will observe first the method to force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time the method to do it manually. Finally, we will recommend you an application to manage the ignition of the HTC U Play without the Power button.

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Force the HTC U Play boot without a power button

Even if perhaps the power button on your HTC U Play doesn’t work anymore, it’s still likely to turn on the phone. For this you will have to perform the following steps:

  • Maintain your main button and volume down
  • Keeping the two previous buttons in place, plug in the charger
  • The screen should light up with a special menu
  • Unplug the charger
  • Click on the volume down button
  • < The HTC U Play will start

When the HTC U Play starts, we recommend you to go to the step below which is to install an application to manage the start of the HTC U Play 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 U Play by unmounting it. We do not necessarily recommend you to get this done, nevertheless know that it can sometimes work. If you unmount the HTC U Play and remove the Power button, you have to observe a tiny step from the Power button. It is sometimes likely to tie the start of HTC U Play by touching with two metal ends paragraph of the step.

Install an application to manage HTC U Play power without the power button

When you have successfully started your HTC U Play without using the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more very easily next time. That’s why we recommend you to download the Gravity Screen application which permits to set up for example a double tap to wake the HTC U Play. So, also without your power button, you may continue to use your HTC U Play.