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Hi! I just replaced the screen on my wife’s phone after it was cracked. Everything’s working OK now except for the Home button. It’s totally unresponsive right now. I disconnected and reconnected all the cables on the front plate and I’m still getting the problem. Enabling Assistive touch as a workaround works, but I’d like to have a functioning Touch ID and Home button. I’m wondering what I could have done wrong that could be fixed I’ve seen plenty of issues that refer to Touch ID not working after this operation, but nothing that covers the whole Home button being dead. Any ideas?
I replaced a screen on my 6+ and the Home button stopped working, I also replaced the shield/ribbon as well but still no Home button, TouchID works fine though….
This happened to me once. My issue was that I damaged the cable under the lcd shield that ran to the home button. I could not restore my iphone since it gave me an error 53. I would suggest you to read this as it was helpful on the topic: http://vkrepair.com/iphone-6-error-53/
Did you yank the home button off the old display by the flex cable like people do in youtube videos? If so you probably tore it. Another common failure point is that flex that runs behind the plate will get torn where it attaches to the back of the screen with adhesive
It is likely that the bridging cable under the display shield is damaged. Replace the cable. If the home button unit itself is damaged, you’re in trouble.
For future reference, use some heat to remove the prox/front camera cable, the home button cable connected to the plate, and the home button cable itself. These are usually the results of not doing it
I replaced my screen and used the original home button with the new screen. The touch id and the home button were working just fine for three months. Then one day I woke up to the iphone’s touch id not working and the battery draining rapidly. Something mysterious happened from the time I went to bed to the time I woke up that caused a fault with the phone. So I don’t believe I damaged the ribbon cable. I can’t remember if I had done a SW update. I have a suspicion that a replacement screen can be incompatible and cause the problem. If you read the apple support page for error 53 it says… “For example, an unauthorized or faulty screen replacement could cause … error 53” I find the wording very interesting… So and unauthorized screen replacement in itself can cause the problem! interesting….
My iPhone 6 home button and touch I’d aren’t working after I got a new cable for it. I believe the problem is on the actual logic board where you plug the cable into from the screen to the little plug chip on the phone. It seems to be damaged. How the !&&* dies one fix that problem smh
If you have damaged the small chip section that plugs into the cable that runs up the back of the screen then, you are most probably screwed, you can get a new home button but will lose any “Touch” features of the phone as any new home button wont come with a touch sensor. At least Apple have updated the iOS so it doesnt brick the phones anymore but just disabled the “Touch” side…
There is a tiny plate behind the touch connector on the original screen, just move it to the new screen and enjoy your life ;)
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Well I’m just gonna be straight… You probably broke it by accident, you can’t do a whole lot about it, it happends sometimes when you don’t know about your super powers and then you just destroy the cable. I’m not gonna go so much in detail (according to some wizzkids it is possible to repair I guess but that’s way too hard), I think you just need to buy a new one and tell your wife it was just an accident. Hope you can do something with my awnser :-)
Hi! I’ve just encountered the same problem. I bought the full assembly kit with all the pieces exept the home button (this one: https://eustore.ifixit.com/en/Parts/iPho… ), and after replacing the home button, this not wants to know of work. So I repleaced the full shield and the cable, without separating him from the shield, and put it on the new screen, and everythings works fine now :D. I followed this guide iPhone 6 LCD and Digitizer Replacement , you can avoid the part where the guy remove the front camera, i’ve just removed the camera shield. Hope this will help you!
If you damaged the ribbon, just buy a new one on Ebay, they’re very cheap… Update (03/20/2019) I replaced the screen on my iphone 7 only for the home button not to work after; I went on ebay and bought a new one, was like $7, working to specs.
