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All mobiles wear out over time. It is quite normal that with use and time our devices are lagging behind in performance. The problem begins when the first failures appear, and the most common is that our terminal freezes and does not allow us to perform another action than restart it. This is not a problem, since we only have to press and hold the mobile power button for a few seconds to restart. But what happens when the power button doesn't work? Either by wear or by a blow that our phone has suffered, this can happen. Therefore, today we propose 3 simple methods to restart your device without using the power button.
What to do if the phone is off
The first thing that occurs to us when we have no way to restart our mobile is to let it turn itself off. We leave it without charging until the battery is completely drained. This is when the first trick can help us.
Charging the device seems like a simple idea but it can work, due to the age of some terminals with these kinds of problems, it can work. This is because certain older terminals were designed so that if they were plugged into the charger while they were off, they would turn on during or at the end of charging. This method is more likely to work if the phone in question is an older Samsung.
Another method to try is to restart from the recovery mode while our device is off. This menu of the phone itself gives us access to functions such as restoring the device to its factory version or checking that the entire terminal works correctly. But the function that really interests us is to restart our phone.
This menu can be accessed in different ways. Some devices need the power button, so in that case this trick will not work for us. However, there are other button combinations, such as pressing the Volume Down, Volume Up, and Menu keys at the same time. Once we can access this menu, we will scroll through it using the volume keys and select an option with the menu key. The option we need to restart our mobile is called 'reboot system now' and it will automatically restart the device.
What to do if our device is on
With our device on, frozen, and without the functional power button, the chances of restarting the terminal go down. But there are a couple of methods to unfreeze the mobile, in addition to an application that can help us in the next few occasions that we have this problem.
One of the methods to defrost our mobile on is to connect it to the power. Although we have already commented that being off can help us, there is also the possibility that it reacts and thaws if we connect our device on to the charger. The other method is to use a second mobile to call the frozen mobile. With this method, there is the possibility that, when receiving a call, the mobile will react and activate the call screen.
As the last method to prevent this problem in the future, there is the Power Button to Volume Button application. As its name suggests, this app passes the functions of the power button to either of the two volume buttons. Its use is very simple and we can configure it in two simple steps:
The first thing when opening the app is to activate the gear and check the boxes that appear in the image.
When you do this, a screen like the one in the following image will appear. What we must do here is click on the marked option.
With these two simple steps, the function becomes activated and the app should look like this:
With this application, we will have all the functions of the power button on the volume keys. This includes both blocking the mobile and turning it off or restarting it.
We hope that some of these simple tricks will help you extend the life of your mobiles a little longer.
