iPod touch Loose home button

It's a button... it's what they do?

Yikes thats weird. Dont have that problem here, but I can see the button becoming loose after extensive use.

As far as I can tell, that's normal.

Zwhaler said:

...Another case of the iPod Touch being lower quality than its bigger brother...

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Actually, my coworker has an iPhone and he always complements me on my iPod Touch screen quality and how it seems to be much cleaner and crisper.
I've not heard about loose home buttons being an issue, but the sleep/wake button up top on my iPod seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes hitting the button wont work at all, other times, clicking it the same way turns the iPod off and on with great ease.

mines a little loose like you say, I'm not worried about it.

no lose button on my ipod touch .. as flush as a plastic button in a glass hole can get.

thinking about it .. you do need a little bit of play between the two surfaces else the plastic will just wear off, so don't worry its probably a good thing.

I was playing with my friends iphone and noticed his home button was more solid immediately. It's a minor annoyance when you compare them side to side but, separately, you'll get use to it.

I have felt from the beginning (my week 36 which was replaced by a week 39) that the iPod touch needed a "soft" Home button. Since so much of the functionality of the touch is screen based, why not have a Home button on each screen that can be tapped. There would be no wear and tear issue for the hard Home button.

DocVT said:

I have felt from the beginning (my week 36 which was replaced by a week 39) that the iPod touch needed a "soft" Home button. Since so much of the functionality of the touch is screen based, why not have a Home button on each screen that can be tapped. There would be no wear and tear issue for the hard Home button.

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Man you must be kidding... there is famine in 3rd world contries.. children dying all over and you are worried about a little play in the home button of your $300 excessive device. This world sucks...

zepharus said:

Man you must be kidding... there is famine in 3rd world contries.. children dying all over and you are worried about a little play in the home button of your $300 excessive device. This world sucks...

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and yet you bother to post online about it. what was the point of your reply again?

Why the button is loose

The Home Button on the iPhone/iPod Touch is actually sandwiched between the frame of the device and the screen assembly. There is a strong layer of glue holding the screen to the frame however if that layer loosens it will cause play in the button... I know it's not a solution but I thought it might be interesting to know how it works...

iboyindigo said:

The Home Button on the iPhone/iPod Touch is actually sandwiched between the frame of the device and the screen assembly. There is a strong layer of glue holding the screen to the frame however if that layer loosens it will cause play in the button... I know it's not a solution but I thought it might be interesting to know how it works...

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Actually, you should probably read this:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/confirme...has-no-bluetooth-so-enough-already-300227.php

"Display is attached to the iPod with 16 screws (iPhone uses adhesive)"

That seems to imply that the structure of the iPod touch would be more secure than the iPhone, but this definitely isn't the case.

zepharus said:

Man you must be kidding... there is famine in 3rd world contries.. children dying all over and you are worried about a little play in the home button of your $300 excessive device. This world sucks...

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And you are a regular poster on a site purely dedicated to first-world gadgets....

Hmmmmmm.

If you feel so strongly that the world sucks, go do something about it.

i have the exact same issue with the ipod touch i purchased today. well, it annoyed me a bit and i thought about returning it to see if there was anything wrong but i've got the impression that it is pretty common and doesn't really matter.

jacktiernan said:

And you are a regular poster on a site purely dedicated to first-world gadgets....

Hmmmmmm.

If you feel so strongly that the world sucks, go do something about it.

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lol, agreed. +1

Take the iPt to the Apple Store.