Here's a nifty trick to recalibrate your iPhone's home button if you're finding it little unresponsive or laggy. You don't need to take it apart for it.
All you need to do is follow these simple instructions:
1. Launch any app such as Stocks, Weather etc that comes pre-installed with your iPhone.
2. Press and hold the power button until you “slide to power off” appears on the screen.
3. Release the power button and now press and hold the Home button until the "slide to power off" goes away.
That's it. You will notice that it kills the app. You will also notice that the home button is a lot more responsive.
We didn't know that there was a way to recalibrate the home button. Kudos to Jeff Benjamin of iDB for the tip!
Interestingly, this tip can also be used if you want to force kill an app or clear resource used by an app (we're not sure what's the significance of using a pre-installed app).
Let us know if it works for you.
Update:
Updated the title of the post as recalibrate was a more appropriate word to use rather than fix.
Wow, was about to take my iphone to the shop to get it fixed. Would of paid $150 to change the home button. Then came across this site and WOALA home button is back to normal! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO WHO EVER SHARED THIS TRICK! bravo!!!!!
I just told my Dad yesterday! “I need to ship this back and have the home button replaced..” But nope! Not anymore! My iPod Touch 4G button is working great! Thank you so much! (I was extremely surprised it worked too)
tried it on my iPod Touch 4G and it works just like described for the iPhone too! thanks
Как произвести калибровку кнопки возврата, которая стала работать медленно, Вашего iPhone?
Здесь приведена отличная хитрая идея, для того чтобы произвести калибровку кнопки возврата вашего iPhone, если вы считаете, что она медленно работает либо зависает. Вы не нуждаетесь в том, чтобы разобрать свой iPhone.
Все, что вам нужно сделать, это следовать этим простым инструкциям, которые перечислены последовательно ниже:
1. Запустите сначала любое приложение, такие как акции, погода и так далее, которые изначально установлены на вашем iPhone.
2. Нажмите и удерживайте “кнопку питания/выключения”, пока «слайд для выключения питания» не появится на экране Вашего iPhone.
3. Отпустите “кнопку питания/выключения”, и затем нажмите и удерживайте кнопку возврата, пока “слайд, для выключения питания” не исчезнет с экрана Вашего iPhone.
Вот и все. Калибровка произведена успешно. Вы заметите, что нажатие кнопки стало помогать в закрытии приложений. Вы также заметите, что кнопка возврата стала намного более отзывчивой и чувствительной. В случае, того, если калибровка не произошла, повторите данную процедуру!
Мы, если честно, не знали, что существует способ калибровки кнопки возврата. Но благодаря Джеффу Бенджамин, мы смогли произвести калибровку. Спасибо ему за совет!
Интересно, что этот совет также может быть использован, если вы хотите заставить закрывать или очищать ресурсы используя приложения (мы не уверены, какая важность использования приложений, установленных первоначально).
Дайте нам знать, если все эти советы помогли Вам.
Did not work for me.
I press the home button for 10-15 seconds, and it eventually goes back to the application (stock), so i am thinking i may actually have a hardware issue.
hahahaha. how fool are you? this is no “Recalibrate tick”. the phone “thinks” you are going to turn it off so it starts to kill apps and, by doing that, freeing memory and resources. when you cancel the shutdown you notice it’s more responsive. big surprise, huh? how dumb can all these people be? oh, they still believe in gods and stuff. hahaha
Wow it worked good as new n i thought i damn near wore out my button
So this works for an ipod touch 4, right? The pic had an iphone 3g/3gs it appears so im wondering if its a variable between the two devices.
Hey guys,
This trick did NOT worl for me so I went into activator and assigned down,up to simulate a press of the home button. Then, suprisingly, my home button started working for me again. Try it, it may work for you
seems to be working for me at this point…that is the first time in weeks where pressing the home button once has worked
Omg I tried this a couple of times… It didn’t work to start off with.. But then I tried it again & pressed the home button with all the force I had.. Surprisingly it worked.. Thanks to whoever put this out there.. Amazing!
Knock on wood (and pray that this fix ‘lasts’) but it has fixed my home button issue on my iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1.1). I’ve been dealing with an intermittent home bottom for 3 months! Thank you.
It works on mine as long as I put a banana peel on the screen while doing it.
What you talking about ‘your’ not ‘you’?
Oh wait, I see it now lol. I /was/ good at reading until I took an arrow to the knee.
What?
Lol skyrim joke on iphonehacks