FIX for iPod Touch Home Button

Hey non chemistry dudes. Use isopropyl 90% and you'll be fine. Military uses this to remove water instead of all the rice and dessicant crap. I soak my old mouses and small electronics in glasses of it for a few days then dry out and use them again. Just pull out batteries or use sparingly on home button. Waters affinity to alcohol is very high and together they have a much higher evaporation rate. They days and days faster than straight water.

THE ALCOHOL TRICK WORKED AMAZINGLY, I NO LONGER HAVE TO PUSH SO HARD ON MY HOME BUTTON. I RECOMMENT THIS TRICK TO EVERYONE. DIP A QTIP IN A LITTLE BIT OF ALCOHOL AND RUB IT AROUND THE HOME BUTTON AND KEEP PRESSING IT.

Could someone give clear steps on the blowing method? Is it basically just blowing in dock? And keep pressing home button? Because now when i press it once it goes to the end application menu which is annoying. Thanks guys.

It definetly worked! I blew on it with pressure (careful not to get any moistre in it) and it really did work. Like someone else said, I kept my ipod touch 4gen in my pocket a lot, and some lint must have found its way to the inside of the switch. Give it a try! it realy worked for me.

Use 99% Isopropanol, I've done it plenty times and there has been no damage so far.

On a side note, does anyone know how I can make the home button easier to press? It has the new type of hardness to it.

I was ready to take my iPod touch 4th gen apart and came across this. I used a alcohol pad and squeezed the access liquid as I pressed the home button constantly. Then I blew in the dock port for the **** of it and it's smoother than even!! I've had this thing since its release and it started having home button issues about a month ago. Thanks!!!

I tried this, and it worked for a minute, and then the button fell out! And it also made pieces of glass fall out. This method completely ruined my chances of having a fixed ipod. For everyone reading this, DO NOT TRY THIS!😠

You must have also dissolved the adhesive that keeps the glass to the iPod, along side the dust stuck underneath it. As for the home button, you must have broken it - either the spring, or the part that the circle holds the spring.

Oh god I'm replying in a thread that was made back in 2009....

hi, this was my solution without fixing the home buttom

First: go to SETTINGS

Second: go to GENERAL and open up ACCESSIBILITY

Third: in PHYSICAL & MOTOR click ASSISTIVE TOUCH and turn it ON

Now you will have a home button in the left side on the top of your touch screen.

Hi I've been reading through the posts as I'm having same problem recently with my iPod touch 4 and the home button. I went to settings then scrolled down to notifications and pretty much shut off almost all of them and it helped a great deal. My home button is now responding again. I had added an app from Comcast called " what's on " and I think that was the one in the notifications that was causing the real problem. This is what I found helped me so just thought someone else might find it helpful. I got the idea by looking at the diagnostic info in the settings menu.

I just wanted to add that you can find the diagnostic info by going to settings, general, about, and then scroll down to bottom of page and on my itouch it says diagnostics and usage. There you can see all the problems that have occurred on your device. At least I could, I have opted out of sending this info to apple so not sure if that makes a difference on what shows up there. Anyway that's how I got the idea of seeing which applications were listed the most in the problems and when they started to show up. Before I tried uninstalling them I first tried disabling them in the notifications and this made a huge improvement for me with the home button responding again.

Much better alternative to rubbing alcohol is CONTACT CLEANER. My iPhone 4's home button was stuck, and 2 months after using contact cleaner it still works perfectly fine.

This is a video I made about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixnVNhTFYfk

Contact cleaner (somehow) breaks down the dust and other crap underneath the home button. I posted a link to the contact cleaner I bought in the description of the video.

there is a way to quit an application without using the homebutton ofcourse... and i have the same problem with my home button as well.

now if u go to settings > general > accessibility > (scroll down) and you'll find assisstive touch > (Turn On)

This will make a little circle appear on the side of the screen that can help u do all sorts of stuff with out using buttons including the volume, locking the screen, roatating screen, closing windows and all sorts of stuff....

Hope it helps like it helped me... 🙂

Thanks so much tony I finally fix it no its better than ever you theory was the only the only that's works i tried others but the eraser was the key to success other said to smack you ipod. I first i didn't want to do it but there was nothing to lose.

Pizza98704 wrote:

So, I own an Ipod Touch 4th gen, if the home button is ever stuck, just blow or suck frrom the charger port?

My waranty expires August 14th,2013

You should take it in to an Apple Store Genius Bar.