Sep

1

My iPhone 4, which I’ve had for 8 months, has suddenly got a damn irritating problem .. the home button doesn’t work properly. Over the last week or so it’s got so bad that about 1 in 5 presses were working and I was becoming dead frustrated with it. So much so that a trip to the Apple Store 50Kms away was in order to see if they could fix it or get a new one .. but that’s a real PITA.

Then I discovered a fix…

and here’s how I fixed it… it’s so simple that it defies belief.

That’s it .. it was probably a bit of dust in the sensor. And a bit of physical activity on it sorted it out!

Saved me a trip to the Apple Store.


5 days on now .. and it’s still 100% responsive!

PS .. I take no responsibility for any damage to anything. I was careful to use flesh rather than a hard knee for example. And be careful of damaging the glass side.

Jan

11

iPhone4 dead

January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Just went to make a coffee came back and iPhone 4 had a black screen. I pressed the home button – nothing. So I plugged it into charge thinking that the battery had drained – nothing. I tried the reset button at the top and still nothing.

I had the doom feeling washing over me, and went to look for the box so I could take the SIM out and go to the O2 store.

Then i found this thread over at Apple forums -> http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11985385

Basically it’s got a problem and needs a hard reset so hold the home button and reset button until the Apple logo comes up and then wait for it to reboot.

This resusitated my iPhone4 into full health and it’s back on. A big relief.

Jan

6

Are you getting ‘USB unrecognized device’ when plugging your iPhone into your PC?

Are you completely fed-up with your iPhone?

We were having the same trouble and after days spent searching the internet we have eventually found a solution … read on

iPhone 3G

About 2 weeks after we got our iPhone it stopped charging from the mains. It would just sit there with the battery message flashing. Thinking it might sort itself out after some time we left it on all night only to find that nothing had happened.

I plugged it into the PC and it began charging – yippeee some progress! But then disaster! An icon popped up in the system tray .. ‘USB device unrecognized’. That’s when I noticed iTunes hadn’t launched, and I couldn’t access it via Explorer either – it was in fact almost dead!

I tried uninstalling iTunes – and re-installing – that didn’t work either

That’s right we did some research on the internet and people were suggesting completely removing iTunes and then re-installing – so we did that. Result? – same problem ‘USB device unrecognized’

By this time I wanted to put it in the trash and blame Steve Jobs for a bad device

And then we found the problem -> The iPhone USB cable was broken

We tested the iPhone in 3 PCs and one Mac – nothing – dead as a frickin Dodo. Always the same error. It had to be the phone, or the cable. On a hunch we went back to the Apple Store and asked them to try it .. they indeed got the same error message. So I asked them to try a different USB cable …. and ta da (fanfare goes here) it worked!!!.

iPhone USB unrecognized device problem – try a new USB cable!!

let us know how you get on