How to turn on a Huawei P9 without the Power button

It can happen that the power button on your Huawei P9 does not function any longer. Certainly, it is in some cases enough to fall or a little moisture for the button to break. When ever this occurs, you don’t know how to turn on your Huawei P9 any longer. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a cellphone, but you’ll be happy to understand it can be not impossible. Certainly, we decided to write this content to display you the different ways. We’ll learn about first ways to force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time ways to do it manually. Finally, we will recommend you an app to manage the ignition of the Huawei P9 without the Power button.

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Force the Huawei P9 boot without a power button

Even in the event that the power button on your Huawei P9 does not work any longer, it’s still likely to turn on the cellphone. For this you need to 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
  • Press the volume down button
  • < The Huawei P9 will start

When the Huawei P9 starts, we recommend you to go to the section below which is to install an app to manage the start of the Huawei P9 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 P9 by unmounting it. We do not necessarily recommend you to get this done, but know that it can in some cases work. In case you unmount the Huawei P9 and remove the Power button, you have to learn about a tiny section from the Power button. It is sometimes likely to tie the start of Huawei P9 by touching with two metal ends part of the section.

Install an application to manage Huawei P9 power without the power button

When you have successfully started your Huawei P9 without utilizing the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more very easily next time. That’s why we recommend you to download the Gravity Screen app which permits to configure for example a double tap to wake the Huawei P9. So, also without your power button, you can continue to use your Huawei P9.