How to turn on a OPPO A16 without the Power button

It may happen that the power button on your OPPO A16 will not function anymore. Indeed, it is oftentimes enough to fall or a little moisture for the button to break. Once this occurs, you do not know how to turn on your OPPO A16 anymore. Without the Power button it seems hard to turn on a cellphone, however you’ll be happy to know it truly is not impossible. Indeed, we decided to write this article to show you the diverse techniques. We’ll find out first how you can force a boot without Power button. We will see in a second time how you can do it manually. At last, we will recommend you an application to manage the ignition of the OPPO A16 without the Power button.

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Force the OPPO A16 boot without a power button

Even if the power button on your OPPO A16 will not work anymore, 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 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 OPPO A16 will start

When the OPPO A16 starts, we recommend you to go to the section below which is to install an application to manage the start of the OPPO A16 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 A16 by unmounting it. We do not necessarily recommend you to do this, however know that it can oftentimes work. In case you unmount the OPPO A16 and remove the Power button, you should find out a tiny section from the Power button. It can be sometimes likely to tie the start of OPPO A16 by touching with two metal ends part of the section.

Install an application to manage OPPO A16 power without the power button

When you’ve successfully started your OPPO A16 without utilizing the power button, you’ll have to think of finding a way to do it more quickly next time. That’s why we recommend you to download the Gravity Screen application which permits to configure for example a double tap to wake the OPPO A16. So, also without your power button, you may continue to use your OPPO A16.