How to turn on a HUAWEI Mate X without the Power button

It might happen that the power button on your HUAWEI Mate X doesn’t work ever again. In fact, it is occasionally enough to fall or a little moisture for the button to break. Once this occurs, you don’t know how to switch on your HUAWEI Mate X ever again. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a phone, however you’ll be happy to find out it can be not impossible. In fact, we decided to write this article to show you the different approaches. We’ll see first the right way to force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time the right way to do it manually. At last, we will advise you an app to manage the ignition of the HUAWEI Mate X without the Power button.

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Force the HUAWEI Mate X boot without a power button

Also if perhaps the power button on your HUAWEI Mate X doesn’t work ever again, it’s still possible to turn on the phone. For this you must 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 HUAWEI Mate X will start

Once the HUAWEI Mate X starts, we advise you to go to the step below which is to install an app to manage the start of the HUAWEI Mate X without power button.

Start by pressing the buttons of the power button

If you are more of a manual type, you can start the HUAWEI Mate X by unmounting it. We do not necessarily advise you to achieve this, however know that it can occasionally work. If you unmount the HUAWEI Mate X and remove the Power button, it is necessary to see a small step from the Power button. It is actually sometimes possible to tie the start of HUAWEI Mate X by touching with two metal ends paragraph of the step.

Install an application to manage HUAWEI Mate X power without the power button

Once you have successfully started your HUAWEI Mate X without utilizing the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more very easily next time. That is why we advise you to download the Gravity Screen app which will allow to configure for example a double tap to wake the HUAWEI Mate X. So, also without your power button, you may continue to utilise your HUAWEI Mate X.