How to Fix iPhone 4 Home Button Problem
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Here is a quick tutorial to recalibrate your iPhone , iPad and iPod Touch home button and make it more responsive. This will also fix any home button related issues like Home Button Not Working after Jailbreak . The problem of Home button not working may be due to a software of hardware problem with the button . If restoring/updating the device doesn’t fix the problem , follow the methods explained below .
Method 1 : This is 3 simple steps to increase the responsiveness of iPhone Home button .
Steps to Recalibrate iPhone 4 Home Button :
- Open any native application on your iPhone 4 (phone ,mail,weather,contacts etc)
- Now press and hold the Power button at the top of the device so that “Slide to Power Off” appears
- Leave the Power button and press and hold the Home button and keep it pressed until the “Slide to Power Off” button disappears and the device goes back to the HomeScreen
Thats it . You home button is now recalibrated and should be more responsive from now on . This is the same method use by Apple Store employees to fix any home button problem related to responsiveness while pressing it .
Method 2 : Activate assistive touch on iOS 5 and later firmware . Those with a broken physical home button can try this method instead for going in for an expensive repair bill for replacing the home button.
Steps to Activate TouchScreen Home button ( Assistive Touch Feature ) :
- Go to homescreen and navigate to Settings > General > Accessibility > Assistive Touch and turn it on .
Now you will se a home button being displayed in the right hand corner . Tap on it to choose the input
If you have any problem with your Home Button not working , Feel free to leave your question in the Jailbreak Forum .
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Awesome , thats something very useful .. Merry Christmas to you guys
I was having issues with my home button an somebody told me to take the hose to my vacum and turn on the vacum and hold it against the home button. Worked very well for me, from what I was told it is small particles of dirt that get behind the home button and stops it from working very good.
I live in Ohio and was visiting in Chicago when mine stopped working, lol I stopped a housekeeper on the floor and asked could I use her vacum real quick, she laughed at what I did, but it worked like a charm
nice trick
Merry Christmas all
If your home button don’t work…
Install SBSettings, it comes with Activator which you can assign a slide gesture at the status bar to activate as home button. Or set “shake device” to exit back to home screen
Good luck
Thanks Allan . That works to
Awesome! fixed my problem! Thanks!
Been dealing with a semi stuck home button …tried method 1 and it actually solved my problem 100% thanks
great
Awesome tutorial never seen before even google-ing! Congrats, guys!
thank you very much for the tutorial.
really…really…thank you, bcoz i ve some issues with my HOME button for a long time.some time it doesnot work properly but now i no need to worry…..thank you…..thank you…..
@Sam : great to hear it solved your problem . Please share so that we can also help others having same problem
what if i want to fix my faulty home button which is a hardware problem? if i want to replace it how much would the cost be roughly in INR?
Avesome!!! Nice!!! Wonderful!!! Magnificent!!! Amazing!!! Marvelous!!!
Now, when are you going to solve the problem of hundreds of thousands 04:11:08 owners?
Just got a Touch with a home button that took two pushes instead of one. . Your article couldn’t have had better timing – thanks.
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JIM:
ur absolutely wrong. once u stuck with home button, you will come to know what is the seriousness of the tutorial.
im not from USA and in my country i dont have a good technical support/service for iphone. Just think if ur in that situation.
İt didnt worked. Its still unresponsive. Tried twenty Times’. Is there any software solution ? (for versiyon 4.x)