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iPhone 5 home key making strange clicking :(

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Heresiarch

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Jun 17, 2012
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Netherlands
After 5 days of usage, since yesterday, my iPhone 5 home key is making strange clicking noises. It happens when I put even the faintest pressure on it and then move my finger away. It feels like that the resisting mechanism in it becomes hyper sensitive to pressure. If I push it a little more harder or just push it for several times it will go away, but after a bit of time "cooling down" it'll come back. The home key otherwise is actually perfect in function and feels much more robust than my old 4/4s.

Now I'm really tempted to open up the screen just to check out what's wrong with the home key :(.

Sending it back is pretty much out of question because I'm in Netherlands and the return policy seems to be very strange compared to the US...
 
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Heresiarch

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 17, 2012
77
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Netherlands
The clicking sound is there even if I'm pushing it with a 0.1 Newton of pressure...

I''m living in Maastricht which means a trip to Amsterdam is 6-7 hours of traveling time in a day and €47 for a return ticket, which is not exactly an economic way for me to get rid of a "annoying" issue. And there's no assurance that worse things won't happen for a new phone like getting scuffgated or a worse home key. :(

I guess I need to live with it...
 
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blaake

macrumors regular
Nov 3, 2012
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Florida
Heresiarch said:
After 5 days of usage, since yesterday, my iPhone 5 home key is making strange clicking noises. It happens when I put even the faintest pressure on it and then move my finger away. It feels like that the resisting mechanism in it becomes hyper sensitive to pressure. If I push it a little more harder or just push it for several times it will go away, but after a bit of time "cooling down" it'll come back. The home key otherwise is actually perfect in function and feels much more robust than my old 4/4s.

Now I'm really tempted to open up the screen just to check out what's wrong with the home key :(.

Sending it back is pretty much out of question because I'm in Netherlands and the return policy seems to be very strange compared to the US...
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Try pressing really hard and hold it down for a period of time
Wiggle your thumb in a circular motion and it may remove whatever's between your button and sensor.
Or you could open her up
 
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Heresiarch

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 17, 2012
77
0
Netherlands
blaake said:
Try pressing really hard and hold it down for a period of time
Wiggle your thumb in a circular motion and it may remove whatever's between your button and sensor.
Or you could open her up
Click to expand...

I was pushing it hard this morning in the library...which was very quiet...

"SIRI NOT AVAILABLE. CONNECT TO THE INTERNET."

Man that was so embarassing.
 
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