It may happen that the power button on your ALCATEL 1X doesn’t work any longer. Certainly, it is in some cases enough to fall or a little moisture for the button to break. When ever this happens, you don’t know how to turn on your ALCATEL 1X any longer. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a smartphone, however you’ll be happy to find out it truly is not impossible. Certainly, we decided to write this content to display you the diverse solutions. We’ll see 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 advise you an app to manage the ignition of the ALCATEL 1X without the Power button.
Force the ALCATEL 1X boot without a power button
Also whenever the power button on your ALCATEL 1X doesn’t work any longer, it’s still possible to turn on the smartphone. For this you should perform the following steps:
- Keep the 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
- Select the volume down button
< The ALCATEL 1X will start
When the ALCATEL 1X starts, we advise you to go to the step below which is to install an app to manage the start of the ALCATEL 1X without power button.
Start by pressing the buttons of the power button
If you are more of a manual type, you can start the ALCATEL 1X by unmounting it. We do not necessarily advise you to do this, however know that it may in some cases work. In case you unmount the ALCATEL 1X and remove the Power button, it is necessary to see a little step from the Power button. It is actually sometimes possible to tie the start of ALCATEL 1X by touching with two metal ends part of the step.
Install an application to manage ALCATEL 1X power without the power button
When you’ve successfully started your ALCATEL 1X without using the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more quickly next time. That’s why we advise you to download the Gravity Screen app which allows to configure for example a double tap to wake the ALCATEL 1X. So, also without your power button, you can continue to use your ALCATEL 1X.
