It can happen that the power button on your Sony Xperia X will not work any longer. Certainly, it is occasionally enough to fall or a bit moisture for the button to break. When ever this happens, you don’t know how to switch on your Sony Xperia X any longer. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a smartphone, nevertheless you’ll be happy to find out it’s not impossible. Certainly, we decided to draft this post to show you the diverse methods. We’ll discover first how to force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time how to do it manually. Finally, we will advise you an app to manage the ignition of the Sony Xperia X without the Power button.
Force the Sony Xperia X boot without a power button
Even in cases where the power button on your Sony Xperia X will not work any longer, it’s still likely to turn on the smartphone. For this you will need 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
- Just click the volume down button
< The Sony Xperia X will start
When the Sony Xperia X starts, we advise you to go to the step below which is to install an app to manage the start of the Sony Xperia 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 Sony Xperia X by unmounting it. We do not necessarily advise you to accomplish this, nevertheless know that it may occasionally work. If you unmount the Sony Xperia X and remove the Power button, you have to discover a tiny step from the Power button. It is actually sometimes likely to tie the start of Sony Xperia X by touching with two metal ends part of the step.
Install an application to manage Sony Xperia X power without the power button
When you have successfully started your Sony Xperia X without utilizing the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more easily next time. That is why we advise you to download the Gravity Screen app which allows to set up for example a double tap to wake the Sony Xperia X. So, even without your power button, you can continue to use your Sony Xperia X.
