home button not responding?

Try:

fix for Home button

iPhone Home Button Not Working or Unresponsive? Try This Fix

- If you have iOS 5 and later you can turn on Assistive Touch it add the Home and other buttons to the iPods screen. Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch

- If not under warranty Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for:

Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing

You can do it an an Apple store by:

Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

or sent it in to Apple. See:

Apple - Support - iPod - Service FAQ

- There are third-party places like the following that will repair the Home button. Google for more.

iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens

Open the apple clock app then hold power until slide to power off comes up. Let go of power button and hold home button until it goes to home screen

you could go into setiings-general-accessibility-Assistive touch. turn that on, and whenever you need to go to your home screen, tap the icon, and press "home"

frapees the post is about 1 1/2 years old and your suggestion was malready made 1 1/2 years ago.

- If you have iOS 5 and later you can turn on Assistive Touch it add the Home and other buttons to the iPods screen. Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch

frapees wrote:

you could go into setiings-general-accessibility-Assistive touch. turn that on, and whenever you need to go to your home screen, tap the icon, and press "home"