It might happen that the power button on your Fairphone 4 does not function anymore. In fact, it is occasionally enough to fall or a little moisture for the button to break. When ever this happens, you will not know how to turn on your Fairphone 4 anymore. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a phone, but you’ll be happy to understand it can be not impossible. In fact, we decided to draft this post to show you the diverse solutions. We’ll observe first how to force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time how to do it manually. Finally, we will recommend you an app to manage the ignition of the Fairphone 4 without the Power button.
Force the Fairphone 4 boot without a power button
Even in cases where the power button on your Fairphone 4 does not work anymore, it’s still likely to turn on the phone. For this you will have to perform the following steps:
- Keep 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
- Select the volume down button
< The Fairphone 4 will start
Once the Fairphone 4 starts, we recommend you to go to the section below which is to install an app to manage the start of the Fairphone 4 without power button.
Start by pressing the buttons of the power button
If you are more of a manual type, you can start the Fairphone 4 by unmounting it. We do not necessarily recommend you to achieve this, but know that it can occasionally work. If you unmount the Fairphone 4 and remove the Power button, it is necessary to observe a tiny section from the Power button. It’s sometimes likely to tie the start of Fairphone 4 by touching with two metal ends paragraph of the section.
Install an application to manage Fairphone 4 power without the power button
Once you have successfully started your Fairphone 4 without using the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more very easily next time. That is why we recommend you to download the Gravity Screen app which enables to configure for example a double tap to wake the Fairphone 4. So, also without your power button, you may continue to use your Fairphone 4.
