How to turn on an Android phone without a working power button Grab your computer, phone, and a USB-C cable Your options are limited if you want to turn your phone on without a working power button.

To turn on an Android phone without Power button, put the phone in fastbooot mode using Volume Up+Volume Down and connect the phone to a computer.

Now, if you, like countless others have been using an Android phone for quite some time, you know that long-pressing the power button on your smartphone pops up the shutdown or restart options.

The power button is a basic accessibility feature, but we need consistency in the Android world to define what it can and cannot do.