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3GS home button

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Hi, I have a 3GS that is 13 months old, suddenly the home button has stopped working, I looked at apple support site, said update should fix it, updated it to 6.0.1, didn't fix it, tried a restore, didn't work either, any ideas?

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Step 1: Navigate to, and launch one of the stock applications on your iPhone. If you don’t already know, the stock apps are things like weather, YouTube, stocks, settings etc (any that come as part of iOS).

Step 2: When the app is launched, press and hold the Power button located at the top of the device until the ‘Slide to power off’ appears.

Step 3: Press and hold the iPhone home button. Keep the button depressed until the Slide to power off slider disappears and the application quits back to Springboard.

Step 4: Voila! Your home button is now re-calibrated and should be more responsive for you.

Just did it on mine brilliant:)
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there was a recalibration trick I think it may be in my useful links thread in my signature if that is no use then apple genius for out of warranty replacement

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Ok cheers

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Step 1: Navigate to, and launch one of the stock applications on your iPhone. If you don’t already know, the stock apps are things like weather, YouTube, stocks, settings etc (any that come as part of iOS).

Step 2: When the app is launched, press and hold the Power button located at the top of the device until the ‘Slide to power off’ appears.

Step 3: Press and hold the iPhone home button. Keep the button depressed until the Slide to power off slider disappears and the application quits back to Springboard.

Step 4: Voila! Your home button is now re-calibrated and should be more responsive for you.

Just did it on mine brilliant:)
Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. So Ive been told wink
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Cheers mate, worked a treat

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It's adamtemp to thank I hadn't heard of it before. So thanks Adam:) sorted my phone out as well:)
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@liquid it is when people just post a solution without reference to the source that confusion like this takes place see it in many threads.

 

I always post an acknowledgement or just post a link to where the solution can be found. Even I did not come up with it but linked in my useful links post to the source on these forums.

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