Home Button Not Responsive

Hello folks,

THE PROBLEM:
I could be in an app and press the home button to go to home screen or another app and it won't respond. When I doubletap the home button it does not respond. Please note, if I am persistent it will do something.

TROUBLESHOOTING:
I reset everything and restored the last backup. After that I plugged my iPad to iTunes on my PC. The bar that says what is on the iPad was doing something weird. Everything was gone except for "other" being 9GB. So I sync'd it with my PC. But other stayed at 9G and only had 2G space left on a 32G iPad. (I went back and removed some music.) I don't remember what it was before but 9GB really seems high. Is this high? What's in there?

I thought "other" was rather large and thought perhaps I messed up the restore so I did another reset this time as a new ipad and not a restore at all. Still "other" is large. And I still have intermittent problem with the home button not responding.

KINDLE APP
It seems like ever since I downloaded a kindle book (or one of 3 that I downloaded) I've had this problem. Could it have to do with the Kindle App? I'm thinking of deleting the app but haven't done so at this point. What do you think?

Please advise as to what I can do about this. Thank you. And Thanks for listening.

Mindy

jessica. said:

What iPad is it? My iPad 1 sometimes needs more than one press of the home button. Although it is not app specific, I think if it would make you feel better to delete the Kindle app and see if the problem persists then you can. I just don't think it has anything to do with the app.

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I have iPad 2 32GB 3G.

When you look in iTunes on your computer, how big is your "other"? Mine is 9GB. Should that be about right?

Thanks for your response.

Mindy

jessica. said:

Well, I have only 4.4 GB of video and 0.01 of audio (I stream). I have 1.15 gb of "other."

Check out this site: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/43763/how-do-i-reclaim-the-other-space-on-my-ipad

It may help you. But it is not home-button related.

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I guess then I have two issues: 1) home button issue, and 2) the size of "other" being 9GB. I looked at that site above and looked at the data each of my apps are using, and it is not as significant as 9GB so don't know what is going on.

Thanks a bunch.

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Rodster said:

Have you tried using the 'Assistive Touch' on screen HOME button?

via Settings -> Accessibility ->

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I have just tried it! Wonderful! Thank you.

Mindy60 said:

I guess then I have two issues: 1) home button issue, and 2) the size of "other" being 9GB. I looked at that site above and looked at the data each of my apps are using, and it is not as significant as 9GB so don't know what is going on.

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These two issues are still unresolved. There is a workaround for the home button issue (accessability, etc.). But nothing has been resolved. Anybody?

TY,
Mindy

adamlautner2012 said:

Hope this may help:

Step 1: Open a stock app, like Weather or Stocks.

Step 2: Press and hold your power button until “slide to power off” appears and release.

Step 3: Press and hold your Home button until the “slide to power off” goes away, and the app force quits. Your iPhone’s Home button should now be more responsive, because it has been recalibrated.

It's common solution for the unresponsive Home button.

Here is a youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cujErKjh85o

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Thank you for that.

taipan61 said:

if i'm reading this correctly you did a restore from a backup, then you did a restore from the ipad (set up as new), have you tried a restore from itunes then set up as new?
i had this issue on my ipad2 went through basically the same steps as you did then restored from itunes as new and it took care of it. then i just redownloaded the stuff i really wanted from my account

Kurwenal, thanks for air tip, tried it and it works wonders for a little wonky home button

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Yes I did actually! The problem appears to be resolved. I set up as new but not going to restore data cuz I do not want to run into the problem of corrupt data files. Stuff like Purchased and kindle books I am downloading. I will eventually sync more from my PC as soon as I am sure the problem is indeed fixed. Just testing at this point.

Cheers,
Mindy