Home button unresponsive?

Run across this problem occasionally, i just reboot the phone. I have no clue what causes it. I can bring up the multi tasking bar and use voice control, but clicking the home button once does nothing, totally unresponsive. This has only happened twice in the past 3 weeks.

 

It's been happening to me also. I thought it might have be a hardware problem. Maybe it's not.....

 

This is exactly what happens to me. I usually just bring down SBSettings and respring, which fixes it. Faster than a full reboot but still annoying to have to do. Also unsure what causes it.

 

I'm seeing some inconsistencies too with the task switcher. Sometimes it switches with one click, sometimes two, sometimes not at all and have to retry. No logic to it.

 

For me, I've noticed that the timing of the home button is off. If I double click really fast then it'll work fine everytime. If I hit it slowly then it usually doesn't work. I got a ton of JB apps running so I'm guessing all of them (combined) have something to do with this issue. Not a huge thing for me though since the double tap only brings up the multitasker...which I hate.

 

Yeah I sometimes have this. It's almost like it's asleep and one tap of the home button doesn't cut it. But if I've just swiped-to-unlock and am in a folder or on a different page, one tap will work just like it normally does. It's if the phone has been idle for a while that it appears to take place.

I think there is enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that it is indeed happening, so I'll list my JB apps. Maybe there's some commonality amongst us.

Cydia
Rock
SBSettings
LockInfo
3G Unrestrictor
MyWi 4.0
XDrive

 

This exact same thing has been happening to me. A few people have believed that activator is the source of this problem but i unfortunately haven't been able to test it. But thought I'd put it out there

 

Not jailbroken, but happens to mine as well....

The same thing is happening to my iP4, yet mine is not jailbroken. But the behavior of the Home Button (in terms of unresponsiveness) seems to be exactly as you guys would describe it. This wasn't always the case. After I installed more apps, and added music to my iPod library, I started noticing it. Not sure if its a particular app that is causing this. But bit strange.... All the apps I download are off the "top 25" list typically, so no untested apps that I can see.

 

does anyone have any insight on this problem because this problem unfortunately still persists on 4.1 with a fresh restore/jailbreak

 

Happens to me with or without being JB'en.

 

This come up from time to time. I know with me I can never tell if I didn't just hit the button square enough. It's never seemed like a software problem.

 

I'm actually kind of glad to see this thread as I am having the same problem. Sometimes when I try to close an app, it will take 2-3 presses to register. Doesn't happen all the time, but I would say in the ballpark of 35%- 40%. I can hear the "click" sound of me depressing the button but it remains unresponsive.

I was figuring it was a hardware problem, but after reading this I'm thinking otherwise.

Just for the sake of maybe someone linking 2 and 2 together, here are my JB apps.

Activator (I saw someone a couple posts up say this could be the issue)
Cydia
Installous
Makeitmine
Respring
MxTube

 

Wow this is weird I thought I was the only one. Weird thing is, it never happened until I jailbroke using Jailbreakme. Once I restored I started noticing that my home button wouldn't work all the time, but my phone is jailbroken with Limera1n and I haven't had the issue since...

 

It didn't happen to me either until i jb with jailbreakme. So thinking i possibly had the bug still in my backup files...i figured i'd start fresh and jb with limera1n and it'd all go away which it did for a couple days but think it came back when i installed something from cydia

 

That's weird, I'm the exact opposite. JailbreakMe had zero issues, but limera1n is when the home button started having issues.

 

Take a look at these two threads
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1003521&page=2
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1028691

I've seen several others floating around but no official verdict. I'm leaning towards a software issue. Even if it isn't, I can't replicate the issue in order to get a replacement either.....anyone?

 

yes...ALL OF THE TIME! happens unjailbroken as well.

 

hmm thats strange, because i was sure that when i was on 3.1.2, i had no problem with the home button. it just seems like such a coincidence that once 4.0 came out, the home button became unresponsive and so did a couple of people that posted up about this when the 4.0 came out.

 

Since mine is out of warranty, I've just decided to use activator and replace the home button with a shake

I don't care for multi-tasking , so a shake can close the apps just fine or bring me to the first page etc

 

I also had this on 4.0.1, got so annoying I upgraded to 4.0.2 (no SHSH..)
now on 4.1 jailbroken it never happens, I think it had to do with activator/switcherplus... tried everything but couldnt restore as I got the phone, when 4.0.2 was signed

my cydias:
activator
afc2add
five icon dock
winterboard
mobile terminal
nospot
openssh
pkgbackup
sbsettings
switcherplus.. and all patches needed for them to run

 

Im getting this on my ip4 with 4.1
It dont recall it doing this before the jb

 

it could be hardware, but in my case it was something with activator