How to turn on a OPPO R9 without the Power button

It may possibly happen that the power button on your OPPO R9 will not function any longer. In fact, it is occasionally enough to fall or a little bit moisture for the button to break. Once this occurs, you don’t know how to turn on your OPPO R9 any longer. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a phone, nevertheless you’ll be happy to understand it is not impossible. In fact, we decided to draft this post to show you the different approaches. 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 recommend you an application to manage the ignition of the OPPO R9 without the Power button.

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Force the OPPO R9 boot without a power button

Also in the event that the power button on your OPPO R9 will not work any longer, it’s still likely to turn on the phone. For this you need to perform the following steps:

  • Keep the 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
  • Press the volume down button
  • < The OPPO R9 will start

When the OPPO R9 starts, we recommend you to go to the section below which is to install an application to manage the start of the OPPO R9 without power button.

Start by pressing the buttons of the power button

If you are more of a manual type, you can start the OPPO R9 by unmounting it. We do not necessarily recommend you to do this, nevertheless know that it can occasionally work. If you unmount the OPPO R9 and remove the Power button, you will need to see a little section from the Power button. It is actually sometimes likely to tie the start of OPPO R9 by touching with two metal ends part of the section.

Install an application to manage OPPO R9 power without the power button

When you’ve successfully started your OPPO R9 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 application which enables to configure for example a double tap to wake the OPPO R9. So, even without your power button, you can continue to utilise your OPPO R9.