How to turn on a Huawei P8 without the Power button

It might happen that the power button on your Huawei P8 doesn’t work any longer. Certainly, it is sometimes enough to fall or a little moisture for the button to break. When ever this happens, you may not know how to turn on your Huawei P8 any longer. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a mobile phone, however you’ll be happy to know it truly is not impossible. Certainly, we decided to draft this article to show you the different techniques. We will see first ways to force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time ways to do it manually. At last, we will advise you an app to manage the ignition of the Huawei P8 without the Power button.

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Force the Huawei P8 boot without a power button

Even if perhaps the power button on your Huawei P8 doesn’t work any longer, it’s still possible to turn on the mobile phone. For this you must perform the following steps:

  • Maintain 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
  • Just click the volume down button
  • < The Huawei P8 will start

When the Huawei P8 starts, we advise you to go to the section below which is to install an app to manage the start of the Huawei P8 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 P8 by unmounting it. We do not necessarily advise you to accomplish this, however know that it may sometimes work. In case you unmount the Huawei P8 and remove the Power button, it is necessary to see a tiny section from the Power button. It is actually sometimes possible to tie the start of Huawei P8 by touching with two metal ends part of the section.

Install an application to manage Huawei P8 power without the power button

When you have successfully started your Huawei P8 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 allows to configure for example a double tap to wake the Huawei P8. So, also without your power button, you can continue to utilise your Huawei P8.