How do I turn on my Windows Phone with a broken power button?

[Windows Central Question]

It ran out of battery so when I plug it into the charger it just shows the "charger" icon and won't actually boot the phone on...and I can't boot the phone on with the power button since it is broken. Is there any other option I can do to turn it on?

 

[JoaoCSM]

Wait a few minutes with it connected to the power source. It'll boot up.

 

[bozza72]

what phone is it ???

 

[RumoredNow]

If you ran your battery down to zero... It will take awhile, but the phone will boot. Windows Phones boot when plugged in, so far as I know that is universal. However, flat battery will delay that until the chip in the battery fully wakes.

You may benefit from the shim trick.

 

[ratsttam]

Very good info about that shim trick. It does take a while to start booting up (it waits until 5-10% if I recall correctly) before it kicks the phone over.
Not ALL Windows phones will boot up with power. Some HTC WP devices (for example the Sprint HTC 8XT) will allow power-off charge.

 

[someone2639]

If you ran your battery down to zero... It will take awhile, but the phone will boot. Windows Phones boot when plugged in, so far as I know that is universal. However, flat battery will delay that until the chip in the battery fully wakes.

You may benefit from the shim trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpmEPqE668

This might certainly help my friend.