Home button acting up

[trlyka]

iPhone 4....Am I looking at an early demise? The last few days, I sometimes can't get the Home button to react. I have to press it 5 or more times. Not always though. Sometimes just once works too. I got the phone when it first came out. I am pretty sure I have Apple care.

[Underlyingsound]

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trlyka wrote:

iPhone 4....Am I looking at an early demise? The last few days, I sometimes can't get the Home button to react. I have to press it 5 or more times. Not always though. Sometimes just once works too. I got the phone when it first came out. I am pretty sure I have Apple care.

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Bring it to Apple for repair...

[trlyka]

Yeah. I will have to. I wasn't going to worry about rushing to fix it since I plan on getting the 5, but I will be handing my 4 off to my Mom, so I want it to be working properly.  

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Underlyingsound wrote:

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trlyka wrote:

iPhone 4....Am I looking at an early demise? The last few days, I sometimes can't get the Home button to react. I have to press it 5 or more times. Not always though. Sometimes just once works too. I got the phone when it first came out. I am pretty sure I have Apple care.

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Bring it to Apple for repair...

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[johninsj ACE - Wizard]

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Underlyingsound wrote:

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trlyka wrote:

iPhone 4....Am I looking at an early demise? The last few days, I sometimes can't get the Home button to react. I have to press it 5 or more times. Not always though. Sometimes just once works too. I got the phone when it first came out. I am pretty sure I have Apple care.

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Bring it to Apple for repair...

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http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=United_States&product=iphone

$149 for a swap to a refurb iPhone4 out of warranty

[sandblaster]

My iphone 4 has been doing that also off and on the last few months. It seems to have started with one of the ios 5 updates. Since it is intermittent, I do not think there is anything wrong with the home button but rather at times the iphone cpu is just too busy with other tasks to respond to the home button. I found that turning bluetooth off has helped or if left on, make sure you are able to connect to a bluetooth device. Someone else I know had the same problem and did take it to the Apple store. The Apple genius told them the cause was the phone constantly searching for a bluetooth device. For them, turning bluetooth off was the fix and they have not had a problem since. You might also want to make sure you don't leave too many apps running in the background.

[DonSchwarz]

My iphone4 had the same problem. Genius bar ask me to restore it as a new phone, I did and within a week it was doing it again. The they gave me a new iPhone and after restoring all apps etc it has been ok now for a couple of months. So far it appears to have been fixed which suggests that there was some type of hardware error.

[youngjm ACE - Professor]

I had my iPhone checked out at the Genius bar.  They cleaned out some dust under the button.  I am also finding that my home key is better since upgrading to 5.1.

[tinagallo379]

I had the same problem with my iPhone 4. Took it to genius bar and of course it didn't happen for them. I've since got an iPhone 4s.

[good00]

iPhone 4....Am I looking at an early demise? The last few days, I sometimes can't get the Home button to react. I have to press it 5 or more times. Not always though. Sometimes just once works too. I got the phone when it first came out. I am pretty sure I have Apple care.

[richarddyer89]

My home button has also been acting up. Someone told me they would replace your iPhone for free when this happens, however I haven't gone to the Apple store to give it a shot. I love my phone however it's a bit frustrating having to hit the home button several times for it to work. 

[trlyka]

It's just making the appointment. I never do it because I don't want to commit to going at a certian time. So I usually just go when I can and wait to be helped. My Macbook Pro needs to get looked at too. It has a flexing on the bottom shell on the left side. I hear it's not uncommon, so I am not rushing to get it fixed and it certainly doesn't hinder it's performance. One day I will go.....

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richarddyer89 wrote:

My home button has also been acting up. Someone told me they would replace your iPhone for free when this happens, however I haven't gone to the Apple store to give it a shot. I love my phone however it's a bit frustrating having to hit the home button several times for it to work. 

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