How To Turn On Phone Without Power Button And Volume Button

Using the Fastboot option can help

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How to turn android on without power button

Many users want to know how to turn on the phone without a Power button and Volume button, and in this guide, we’re going to show you a few tricks that might work for you.

How can I turn on the phone without a Power button and volume button?

Before trying anything else, try pressing the Power button several times, you might need to use a bit more pressure.

1. Connect a charger to your Android phone

  1. Connect the phone to the charger.
  2. Leave it charging.
  3. If the battery is empty, charging the phone might boot it.

2. Use the Volume keys

  1. Press and hold the Volume up and Volume down buttons.
    volume buttons samsung
  2. While holding the buttons, connect the phone to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. It will now start in Fastboot mode.
  4. Use the volume keys to select the restart option.

3. Use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

  1. Connect your Android smartphone to your computer.
  2. Visit the download page for Android Debug Bridge.
  3. Download the files you need from the SDK Platform-Tools for Windows link.
  4. Extract the downloaded ZIP file to the Android root folder.
  5. From the Start menu, search CMD and open the Windows Command Prompt.
    CMD and Open cscript.exe
  6. Type in the following commands and hit Enter after each one:cd C:/platform-tools
    adb devices
  7. You should see your phone’s device ID on the screen.
  8. Run the following command:adb -s DEVICE_ID reboot
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For this solution to work, you need to have enabled USB debugging before the phone went off.

Further, if your device ID doesn’t show up in Step 7, it either means that USB debugging is disabled on your smartphone or you don’t have the required drivers.

How can I restart the Android phone using the Volume and Power buttons?

  1. Press the key combination to access the smartphone’s boot menu.
  2. In the boot menu, select the Reboot system now option.

The key combinations to enter the boot menu varies between Android models.

To navigate options in the boot menu, use your up and down volume keys, and select them using the power button.

On hitting the power button with the Reboot system now option highlighted, your Android will automatically restart.

We hope that you succeeded in turning on your Android phone by reading our article. Before you leave, you might be interested in our guide on how to recharge the phone while the laptop is in Sleep Mode. Let us know in the comments section below if you have any questions.

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