My iPhone 4 Home button is also unresponsive occasionally. I'd have to press several times or very hard to get a response. Anyway I won't claim warranty from Maxis until the problem gets very bad. Most of the time the Home button works fine so the problem is very hard to reproduce.

Maybe I will. But I still need to find a Micro-SIM adapter to use in my ordinary SIM phones.

The comments on this article are interesting: iPhone Help: Fixing an Unresponsive Home Button. Several comments say that you can try fixing the problem by pressing hard on the screen near the left/top-left of the Home button. That may be where the Home button flex is located.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Mar 28 2011, 01:56 AM

Just want to clarify that I meant pressing the screen near the button. 2cm top-left from the Home button.

This morning my iPhone 4 Home button started acting wonky again. Apply pressure and massaged as shown in the picture below and it triggered the unlock screen even though I didn't actually press the Home button. After that the Home button started responding again.


This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Mar 28 2011, 10:05 AM

Although the massage technique I suggested works for me and some of you, it's not a permanent solution. I'm quite disappointed with Apple's QA.

Try intentionally breaking the Home button to claim warranty.

By the way, my Home button has been behaving surprisingly well for the past few days. I'm not sure if it's because I've changed the way I press the button. Previously I just pressed one part of the button with my thumb or finger tip. Now I cover the whole button with my thumb and press gently.

The Maxis @ Gardens seem more easier to deal with. They don't need 100% failure rate. They didn't even check properly. Just say send in anytime.

But for now seems to be working so won't send in.

Home button emulation software?
Would that would require jailbreaking?

I think jailbreaking is a lot to be discussed now, but we cannot talk about pirated software.

Jailbreak is allowed with strict moderation!, Suspension on piracy discussion!

Refer to the first post of the topic.

Very very common with iPhone 4, because they modified the design.

Funny enough my Home button no longer has any problems. May be because I changed the way I press it. I cover the whole button with avthumb and press it evenly and not just at one corner. Been about 2 months without problem.