Home Button

keni0902 · Oct 13, 2012

Hi guys, heard rumors that in the long run, the home button of the iphone due to wear and tear, submerges? Anybody experienced this? Thanks.

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tintbob · Oct 13, 2012

No, I heard of it stop working , normally due to water damage ...
My first iPhone was a 3G jailbroken as the first iPhones in the uk were O2 only and I was on orange ... Had that for 18 months and apart from a new screen and a battery ( but really not needed as I didn't appreciate how power hungry iPhones are )
Phone was perfect and resold on eBay a year ago for £80 ....

willerz2 · Oct 13, 2012

It does after a while, much like a lot of buttons, after usage, especially if you press it a lot. It's easily fixable. My old 3GS' home button stopped working. Had to open it up and fix the contacts.

hookbill · Oct 13, 2012

Quite honestly I'm surprised at the amount of people I see in here with 3G iPhones. My point is I go about a new phone a year. This is the first time I shelled out full price, my upgrade time isn't until 8/13. I'll hold on to see what Apple does next so I don't see that much wear and tare on my iPhone.

But this is my first iPhone. Guess I'll find out.

willerz2 · Oct 13, 2012

The 3GS does not support multigestures so you'll have to jailbreak to basically get a work around for a broken home button. Or just smash your home button until it works.

tintbob · Oct 14, 2012

Don't think that's true. Friend had a (has) 3GS and she had minor water damage and lost her home button, she went into apple and they put a "virtual" home button on the screen, it was accessed from settings, sure someone can tell you how

willerz2 · Oct 14, 2012

tintbob said:
Don't think that's true. Friend had a (has) 3GS and she had minor water damage and lost her home button, she went into apple and they put a "virtual" home button on the screen, it was accessed from settings, sure someone can tell you how

Found it. Assistive Touch in settings. It places a trigger on your screen to open up a menu of buttons. Learned something new. I always thought it required a plugin device to use

keni0902 · Oct 14, 2012

willerz2 said:
Found it. Assistive Touch in settings. It places a trigger on your screen to open up a menu of buttons. Learned something new. I always thought it required a plugin device to use

Tried this on my iphone and ipad... but I noticed that sometimes they did not turned off to standby after enabling it... ate 10% of the battery that time... so I turned it off.

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eddieg · Oct 14, 2012

keni0902 said:
Tried this on my iphone and ipad... but I noticed that sometimes they did not turned off to standby after enabling it... ate 10% of the battery that time... so I turned it off.

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Yeah its a bug in IOS6 if assistive touch is the last thing you touch then your phone wont go to sleep but if you touch something other than assistive touch your phone will go to sleep.

willerz2 · Oct 15, 2012

iOS 6. The bag of bugs. Then again I don't actually press my home button unless I'm waking it up and that's only sometimes. Most of the time, I close apps by double tapping the status bar, and if it's an app without a status bar, I just use Zephyr single finger slide up gesture.