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Tempermental iPhone 4 home button 4.1
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That's fine. There are worse things to be called. So I've got my 2nd replacement and all is well. Very satisfied with the service. 
My 16GB was doing the same thing. Took it into Apple Store yesterday and they tried the DFU restore, but the problem still occurred. They swapped it out for a refurb and so far so good. The genius mentioned she hasn't seen this problem before, but I have a feeling this is going to happen to more and more people.
Happened to me 4 times but only when I had the Otter Box case on and right after it's been in my pocket for awhile. Never went on for more than about 10 seconds before everything goes back to normal. Maybe it's not the same problem you guys are having.
Same here. It's not a hardware problem because a respring cures it. It happens seemingly randomly, sometimes right after I unplug from the charger in the morning. Other times in the middle of heavy use. The home button won't return to home screen, but all other activation methods using home button work. For example, double click still activates task switcher, short hold on home still activates Multiflow, long hold still does voice control, etc.
I had a phone 1 month ago that would bring up multitasking every now and then with 1 press of home button. It was swapped out and the replacement was perfect for a month. Now, twice or so a day the same thing happens... so the argument remains, software or hardware?
Same problem here. Never had any issue whatsoever with my iPhone 3 and 3GS. I'm gonna probably wait until the update before taking it in, as the phone works fine, with the exception of the Home button. Sad, to say the least.
UPDATE
I did a DFU restore and all seems to be fine on the home front (pun completely intended). I'll go another update in a few hours and then a few days. HUZZAH!
I probably just jinxed myself, though.
UPDATE 2
Still functioning as it should. Happy camper over here. Though I probably really did just jinx myself this time. Fingers crossed.
UPDATE
I did a DFU restore and all seems to be fine on the home front (pun completely intended). I'll go another update in a few hours and then a few days. HUZZAH!
I probably just jinxed myself, though.
UPDATE 2
Still functioning as it should. Happy camper over here. Though I probably really did just jinx myself this time. Fingers crossed.
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Yeah, if its not the big of a problem I'd say just hang on to it. I went through to other phones with problems, one with a yellow screen, and the other with some bugs. The one now works great though.
It's only 1 year of this. The iPhone 5 wont have any of the problems that the iPhone 4 has... It will have totally different problems.
That's good to hear, I have this problem too. Sometimes I press it and nothing happens at all. Other times I press it once and the multi-tasking bar comes up.
Only seems to be happening ever since 4.1 for me though.
Yeah... I have an appointment for Friday. I'm hoping 4.2 will release before then, though, because the phone performs like it should, besides the finicky home button.
Have you tried blowing compressed air into the dock connector yet? I finally did this with mine and so far so good. Other than the button issue, the phone is great so I really did not want to have to get a refurb with other potential issues. Like I said, so far it is working very well now after the compressed air.
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For me, the phone sometimes does not wake up on the first click of the sleep or home button. If I press the home button again, sometimes it will wake. Other times it needs one or two more pushes. If I push the sleep button again, the screen turns on, then instantly off. Does anyone have this problem? It's kinda annoying.
For me, the phone sometimes does not wake up on the first click of the sleep or home button. If I press the home button again, sometimes it will wake. Other times it needs one or two more pushes. If I push the sleep button again, the screen turns on, then instantly off. Does anyone have this problem? It's kinda annoying.
Count me in as an iPhone 4 owner who have the same issue - pressing the Home button once, sometimes bring up the multitasking bar.
Week 43 iPhone 4, iOS 4.1, 32GB, non-jailbreak.
Let's all report back once 4.2 is released. Let's see if that fixes it.
It might be a hardware issue but it doesn't bother me enough to exchange for a possibly refurb phone. *That* would bother me!
Week 43 iPhone 4, iOS 4.1, 32GB, non-jailbreak.
Let's all report back once 4.2 is released. Let's see if that fixes it.
It might be a hardware issue but it doesn't bother me enough to exchange for a possibly refurb phone. *That* would bother me!
Ok so scratch that. I thought it helped for about one day, then today it got terrible again. Sometimes having to press the home button 5-6 times to close an app. RIDICULOUS. Going to Apple tomorrow first thing in the AM.
fishmd - I think you button is screwed. You better change it. What you are facing is an obvious flaw. What this topic and many of us faced here are non-reproducible-with-certainty-and-occurs-occasionally-temperamental button which when clicking once produces the multitask tray instead of showing the home screen.
Well, what you describe is what usually occurs, sometimes more often than others, and sometimes not at all. Recently however, I had a few episodes like I mentioned above where it seemed like the phone was just totally non-responsive and would not even close an app. Now though it is back to working perfectly normal again. I don't know.
In my opinion if this issue would be hardware related it would have some kind of logic in it or at least it would be constant. I mean if you have ********d up button it would do it all the time. But if it's a soft bug then it happens randomly. By pressing button once you give a command to your phone to exit app, phone informs you with clicking sound that command was accepted, but when it tells this command to software it probably sometimes thinks that there was two presses on button. It's not so difficult logic in home button but it is much more difficult in software so there is more space for mistakes and bugs. And as noticed that home button is same as on all previous iPhones and iPods, I think Apple could not screw up with building it right now and only on ip4s. If the problem would be in button it would show up on 3G or 3Gs but it poped up on ip4 with 4.something OS.
I have same problem with button but in other ways it works as it should and does not make any other stuff except this multitask-bar-opening-thing so I think that there is some kind of bug with this new multitasking command.
That is ofcourse my personal opinion. Tell what do you think? Does my point of view make any sence?
I have same problem with button but in other ways it works as it should and does not make any other stuff except this multitask-bar-opening-thing so I think that there is some kind of bug with this new multitasking command.
That is ofcourse my personal opinion. Tell what do you think? Does my point of view make any sence?
The home button on my iPhone 4 has been driving me absolutely crazy. If they just changed the variable that tells the iPhone how long to wait between clicks before a double click is detected, they could solve this problem right away. You see, it's registering two impossibly fast clicks instead of a single click when the home button misfires. If they lengthened the that the iPhone requires between 2 clicks, it would then only do recognise one click for two impossibly fast clicks. Think about the mouse double click speed settings on a computer. There is only so fast a human can press down twice and right now I think the OS is recognizing any 2 clicks no matter how fast it is.
Maybe it's software, maybe it's hardware, but no matter what's causing it, it should be fixable with only software.
This has definitely soured my opinion on the iPhone. And I've been a huge proponent of the device. I drive my friends nuts with my talk/facebooking/playing with the phone.
But this is something that happens almost every time I touch the button. And since it's critical to phone function and in my face every time I use the device, it's taking it's tole.
I'm sure I'll stick with the device, but it's made me take another look at the Droid phones.
But this is something that happens almost every time I touch the button. And since it's critical to phone function and in my face every time I use the device, it's taking it's tole.
I'm sure I'll stick with the device, but it's made me take another look at the Droid phones.