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Amino Man said:
Multitasking isn't perfect. I believe there are some kinks with it.
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It's all enforced by the sandbox each application is run in. Pretty difficult for an app to try to throw kinks into the system. Again, if none of the icons are present then there is no multi-tasking going on. Those are done by the OS. Not the app. An app can't be multi-tasking and not show the relevant icons.

Plus those are the only ways you can multi-task. It's not like a developer can go and create their own way of doing it.

Sorry you're wrong, I don't see there being any bugs to this. It's a perception thing.
 
I've been having htis problem recently (and maybe occasionally before, but noticed it a little more this past week).

But, I got a question, does it only do it for your guys when the iphone is on (like you are trying to go back to home screen)? Cause mine has done it when I want to use the home button to wake it up (I don't know how often it does it otherwise cause I don't notice it as much.. I think I vaguely before have noticed this problem just using it to go back to the home screen. But I've had a few times recently where I wonderd if my phone crashed or is broken, but then realized the power button turns it on and the home button is being very unresponsive, feels like a hardware problem to me. I don't think I've noticed it making any acknowledging clicks when I press it, it just does nothing like it doesn't sense the button is pressed).
 
gks said:
It's all enforced by the sandbox each application is run in. Pretty difficult for an app to try to throw kinks into the system. Again, if none of the icons are present then there is no multi-tasking going on. Those are done by the OS. Not the app. An app can't be multi-tasking and not show the relevant icons.

Plus those are the only ways you can multi-task. It's not like a developer can go and create their own way of doing it.

Sorry you're wrong, I don't see there being any bugs to this. It's a perception thing.
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I'm sorry. I didn't specify. I think the multitasking FEEATURE is a little buggy. I'm not saying that the apps are implementing it wrong.

I think the SYSTEM multitasking has some flaws that need to be worked on and that's why I said that it's not perfect.

I've seen certain apps that are left in the multitasking bar (switcher) use up a large amount of battery power. I'm talking about apps that aren't streaming audio or using GPS. Multitasking is somewhat buggy.

I know that you want to believe that Apple has coded the OS perfectly and it's working exactly the way it should, but I don't think so.

What are the apps doing when my battery starts to drain rapidly and why does it stop draining when I close the apps from the task bar? Nothing is actually running right? Maybe the entire app isn't physically running but there may be processes from that app that are running in the background.

Then again, all this is based on my own experiences. I do not have the tools to see exactly what's going on behind the scenes and I'm not a programmer.

I see what I see and then I try to explain it. That's all.
 
I have been having home button issues for a while now. Im on 4.1 JB. My home button has had issues when it is in sleep mode. I press the home button to wake it up so i can slide to unlock, and sometimes it takes up to 5 pushes before it registers. I also have problems exiting almost every application at certain times.

I was wandering if Apple will replace this? I cannot mimic this on spot, as it only happens certain times. Any advice would be helpful.
 
I have a 3GS and I had the same problems.

I figured out the reason for my problems. It was because I had Facebook and my contacts synced.
 
I'm also going to chime in, I'm also getting sporatic unresponsiveness from my home button as well. It looks like another manufacturer defect. :rolleyes:
 
wiestlingjr said:
I have been having home button issues for a while now. Im on 4.1 JB. My home button has had issues when it is in sleep mode. I press the home button to wake it up so i can slide to unlock, and sometimes it takes up to 5 pushes before it registers. I also have problems exiting almost every application at certain times.

I was wandering if Apple will replace this? I cannot mimic this on spot, as it only happens certain times. Any advice would be helpful.
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Yes, they will: call Apple Care and explain your situation, say you cannot go to an Apple store due to the lack of time. They have different options: one of them is to send you a new phone first by charging your credit card and then releasing the hold when they receive your defected phone.
 
It took two trips to the Genius Bar for me, but I got mine replaced. My home button is now working as expected.
 
Okay, I like the idea of calling applecare. What if I send my phone back and they cannot replicate this issue? Will that change anything?
 
wiestlingjr said:
Okay, I like the idea of calling applecare. What if I send my phone back and they cannot replicate this issue? Will that change anything?
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I had the exact same issue! I couldn't replicate it in the store. Don't worry: if the problem exists, it's there no matter how many times a day it becomes apparent. So mine was exchanged with no extra fees, even though they warn you that in case they cannot replicate an issue, you'll be charged (I wasn't).

P.S. If you have an AppleCare plan, the whole procedure is free, otherwise it's $30.
 
My home button was screwed up. It was exactly like yours. Went to Apple and they took care of me, no questions asked (although the dock water sensor was a bit pink). She told me that she saw the phone had experienced water damage and I was like "umm. hell naw. yall..."

Just kidding,

but I told her if she would kindly check the other 3 sensors on the phone to ensure that it hasn't contacted water and that slight pink was probably due to excessive humidity.
 
Even if this is a hardware problem, I believe Apple can easily fix this in a software update. Here's how.

Change the speed required to double-click the home button. If the home button is registering 2 very fast presses as one press, then Apple could make it so you have to double-click a little slower.

I'm pretty sure instead of a double click like this: clickclick
They could make it like this click-click

It would still be a fast double click, but not impossibly fast (the type of double-click that feels like a single click to the user).
 
Amino Man said:
Even if this is a hardware problem, I believe Apple can easily fix this in a software update. Here's how.

Change the speed required to double-click the home button. If the home button is registering 2 very fast presses as one press, then Apple could make it so you have to double-click a little slower.

I'm pretty sure instead of a double click like this: clickclick
They could make it like this click-click

It would still be a fast double click, but not impossibly fast (the type of double-click that feels like a single click to the user).
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But not everyone is facing the problem. If they released that patch for everyone, some people would have their 'broken' home buttons working fine, and other people who originally had working home buttons would experience different problems.
 
wordoflife said:
But not everyone is facing the problem. If they released that patch for everyone, some people would have their 'broken' home buttons working fine, and other people who originally had working home buttons would experience different problems.
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How would they experience different problems?

Slowing down the double-click speed by a millisecond isn't going to cause anyone problems.

Exactly how fast do you need to double tap?

Maybe right now the double-click gap is .001 of a second

If Apple changed it to .05 of a second, people could still double-click as fast as they can and they won't click fast enough for it to NOT register the double-click.

However, perhaps a single press is registering 2 impossibly fast double-clicks that nobody would ever be able to achieve if they were trying their hardest. So slowing it down by a fraction of a second, could make EVERYONE'S iPhone work.

I never had the proximity sensor issue, and now with 4.1, I still don't. That's how Apple solved that hardware problem that only SOME were experiencing without having to replace their iPhones.
 
Amino Man said:
Even if this is a hardware problem, I believe Apple can easily fix this in a software update. Here's how.

Change the speed required to double-click the home button. If the home button is registering 2 very fast presses as one press, then Apple could make it so you have to double-click a little slower.
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You don't know what the problem with any one particular phone is though. The home button could be physically stuck on something rather than registering two clicks.

The simplest thing is to ensure that the button works on every phone!
 
mine does this so few times. and i do think it has to do with how many apps are multi tasking. i think 4.1 did it since if this was hardware a lot more people would complain
 
anyone been sending this as a bug report to apple? i am convinced its 4.1, because i don't remember it happening before 4.1 and it seems to happen more if i have lots of apps running in multitask bar.
 
michael31986 said:
anyone been sending this as a bug report to apple? i am convinced its 4.1, because i don't remember it happening before 4.1 and it seems to happen more if i have lots of apps running in multitask bar.
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I don't know if it's like this for everyone but my home button does this when I find a certain spot on it to click down on. I can make this happen almost every time once I find the spot. So I'm convinced that I have a hardware problem and that I must accidentally click the magic spot a few times a day.
 
i cant find a certain spot that does it but quick question.

if i press my home button with my finger nail as close to the edge should it still go through or no? cause it doesnt. by edge i mean as close to the edges of the button as i can get. i mean i am probably grasping for straws cause no button works when pressing the side to closely right?
 
I'm usually on the iPad forum but came back to this one today specifically to search for this thread. I've been having the same issue -- been on 4.1 since it came out, so it's hard to say if that was the cause or not. I'm not jailbroken, and my iPhone is handled with kid gloves. I do have a Zagg on front & back, and bumper on the sides (or sometimes a Boxwave case) .

Most of the time when it happens, it seems to be registering a single press as a double and instead of exiting the app, I get the multitasking. On some occasions, it registers a triple with one press and I get the reverse screen mode -- pretty irritating.

I can't seem to figure out a pattern to it, but I'm one of those who likes to frequently close out the suspended multitasking apps just because I like to keep the multitasking bar clean. I'll try to note what it does the next time it happens (which is at least half a dozen times a day), but most of the time I'm just trying to exit to home screen when it registers it as a double-click and pulls up multitasking.

Irritating!
 
tekchic said:
I'm usually on the iPad forum but came back to this one today specifically to search for this thread. I've been having the same issue -- been on 4.1 since it came out, so it's hard to say if that was the cause or not. I'm not jailbroken, and my iPhone is handled with kid gloves. I do have a Zagg on front & back, and bumper on the sides (or sometimes a Boxwave case) .

Most of the time when it happens, it seems to be registering a single press as a double and instead of exiting the app, I get the multitasking. On some occasions, it registers a triple with one press and I get the reverse screen mode -- pretty irritating.

I can't seem to figure out a pattern to it, but I'm one of those who likes to frequently close out the suspended multitasking apps just because I like to keep the multitasking bar clean. I'll try to note what it does the next time it happens (which is at least half a dozen times a day), but most of the time I'm just trying to exit to home screen when it registers it as a double-click and pulls up multitasking.

Irritating!
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Same exact thing. Always seem to be going to multitasking tool bar rather than exiting the app. Again while I am not positive, I really think this is something I have only been experiencing since upgrading to 4.1. Very likely it is a software related issue.
 
michael31986 said:
i cant find a certain spot that does it but quick question.

if i press my home button with my finger nail as close to the edge should it still go through or no? cause it doesnt. by edge i mean as close to the edges of the button as i can get. i mean i am probably grasping for straws cause no button works when pressing the side to closely right?
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A good home button registers no matter where or how you press it!
My replacement has a perfect home button and I have never ever experienced anything like that. I know what I'm talking about as I had my previous iPhone 4 replaced due to the faulty home button. To me it's fascinating how some folks here are trying to persuade themselves that it's a software issue while it's not! The truth is there are some phones with faulty buttons. I also used to think it was a software related problem until I got the phone with a normal button.
 
My iPhone has done this since day one. I'm think it is time to take it in for a replacement.
 
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