iPad 2 home button fail

It worked!!

This actually worked for me, thanks!

After checking some performances in the "General", my home button doesn't work at all, so I couldn't back to the home screen. Please help

this website has a trick that so far seems to have worked for my homebutton malfunction problem:

http://thehowto.wikidot.com/ipad-home-button

Hopefully it's a long term fix. For a day it has worked like a charm...

Everything has a solution!! It happened to my iPad 2. No home button or power button worked. I tried this and it worked!!

General, then reset all network settings. It should then work perfectly again!!

So i've had the same issue with my iPad 2 for a while - a totally unresponsive Home button.

I tried the 'blowing' trick....didn't work 😟

After a bit of searching I finally found a solution that actually worked!

So apparently, from time to time, the Home button may need to be recalibrated. The following steps recalibrate the Home button to get things working again.

1. Launch one of the "stock apps” (such as Weather or Calendar),
2. Hold down the top power button until the “slide to power off” prompt appears,
3. Release the top power button, and then quickly press and hold the Home button down until both the power-off prompt and app disappear (this took about 10-15 seconds)
4. Violla! The Home button should now work!

I know this sounds too easy to be true - I didn't believe it at first, but I gave it a go, and unbelieveably it worked! Good luck guys 🙂

I tried all the solutions here which gave only temporary bettering. Now I found something which really helped (on my iPad 2 64GB iOS 6.13): Overwrite your free space! I have mostly about 15% free and a lot of apps, almost 200, and there is some coming and going. When I filled up the free space with big (1GB+) videos till I had only ca. 100-200 MB left and than erased the videos until I had my 10% free again, the problems vanished and my home button worked like a charm. Perhaps this will help you if everything else failed...

Mostly harware issue, check this youtube link for how to permanently fix it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbiRwLDM9sM