According to a reports, more and more iPhone 4 users are claiming some problems of their iPhone 4 home buttons. They said was confused as the button sometimes work and sometime okay. Meanwhile they claimed have not found the reason and thus till now have been unable to fix the home button problem.

However fortunately the major problems come with the bugs from some applications, rather than hardware. So this kind of home button problem can be easily fixed rahter than waiting it to restor.

Firstly open any one application and sametime press and hold on the power button for seconds till "slid to power off" apprears on the screen. But please do not slid to shut down your iPhone. Second what you should do is to press & hold on home button for seconds till the screen is directed to Springboard. Now the home button is re-set and fixed, and it should works well. However if you still have same problem after doing this, then probably the key problem come with your hardware. You can send your iPhone 4 to you local Apple after-serice shops for repair.

if you feel that it is time costing or very expensive to send your iPhone 4 to your local repair shops, you can repair the home button yourself. Pleas do not worry as in fact it is very easy. You can check the iPhone 4 repair guide telling you how to replace your home button flex cable and you can buy the iPhone 4 home butotn flex cable and iPhone open tools easily, which is convenient and cheap.

Did you try? Have you fixed your iPhone 4 home button now?

Edit by Peter from Aviso - iPhone spare parts