My Ipad's home button is no response

UPDATE: To my post from Aug...

After having mild success for a few days undocking Safari and removing various iPhone only apps from the iPad, my home button stopped working all together. None of the fixes or work-arounds worked any more. Luckily, I contacted Apple support and they looked up my warranty information. I was just inside the 1 year coverage for hardware related issues. I sent the iPad back to Apple and they replaced it for free.

I agree with some of the more realistic posts here, this issue is purely hardware related. If a work-around posted here works for you it will only be temporary. This button will eventually fail all together.

For those not within the 1yr replacement window, I would recommend upgrading to iOS 5 and turning on Multi-touch gestures. There is a five-finger pinch gesture that will get you back to the home screen.

Do not reset the iPad, recalibrate the Home button.

1. Open a stock iOS app, such as Contacts

2. Press & hold the sleep/wake button at the top of your device until the red slider control appears.

3. Immediately release the sleep/wake button and press & hold the Home button. Hold until the red slider disappears. Release the Home button.

You should now be on your home screen and your Home button should be recalibrated! Recalibrating your home button this way should work on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

PS - Sorry to disappiont Tommy London, but my iPad 2 is perfect. It even passes his dead pixel challenge.

try to recalibrate your ipad's home button , probably it will be the same method as the iphone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cujErKjh85o

sorry if my reply is repeated , bud i didn't read all the replies to your post , good luck

Been suffering the Home button problem on my iPad 2. Tried the Safari Undock - this worked. Have also recalibrated the Home button for good measure and it is still working fine. I'm not keen to agree this is a hardware fault and I don't think the occasional inconvenience warrants sending my iPad back for repair when there is every chance a replacement will do the same thing.🙂

Thanks for the advise. worked great ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Dude! you are genius...

You wrote a book, something? i would like to read if any :)

This just started to happen with me. Took a protective clear film off the screen that I had installed since new- so far everything is normal. (1 hour)

So weird, moved Safari out of dock, rebooted and came back to a working iPad. I'd like to note I'm jailbroken, might play a role.

Safari fixed worked for about 12 hours.

Did not work again.

Apple replaced the iPad yesterday.

I have my ipad for 3 days then the home button just stopped working. I have undocked Safari but no good results so I'm wondering what to do next.

Apply assesivetouch, its a quick easy fix!

The safari move out of the dock worked or me!