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home button not working anymore

When I m eg in the Market or running Internet and press the Home Button I don t return to the home screen anymore. I must have changed something but don t now what.....

no ideas anyone?

Ideas about what?! You're not describing your problem. What happens when you press Home?

I only see the screen 'flicker' 1 time

Have you tried rebooting the phone? Is your phone rooted? Is it unlocked or branded? C'mon, give some more details if you want help!
You might try installing "Home Switcher" from the Market and see if it helps.

Rebooting does not help. Original 2.1 rom, installing home switcher does not help either. Did I clean install last night, home button worked fine for some hours and after this there s again the same problem => no returning to the home screen and only a short 'screen flicker' when pressing the home button.

I would speak to HTC if that did not work. They should repair it for free because its under warranty.

It's unlikely to be a hardware issue if it sometimes works.
When using Home Switcher, what apps show up in the list? (might be a rogue app that is stealing the home button function by registering itself as a launcher application).
Do you have any apps installed? (you said you have done a clean install but it's not clear if you installed any apps after that; please note that you might have enabled backup to your sd card [Settings -> Privacy] and that even after a clean install some of your settings will he restored from that backup).

sanderh said:
Rebooting does not help. Original 2.1 rom, installing home switcher does not help either. Did I clean install last night, home button worked fine for some hours and after this there s again the same problem => no returning to the home screen and only a short 'screen flicker' when pressing the home button.
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I'd suggest booting into safe mode as this will stop all 3rd party applications from running. If it works from there, it seems pretty likely that the issue is related to an application you have installed.
To get into safe mode, power off your device, and then power back up again whilst holding down the menu button, and keep it held down until the phone has completely booted. Once booted, you should find it says "safe mode" in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Note that if you do this, all your 3rd party widgets on the home screens will stop functioning - even when you have exited safe mode. You will need to delete and re-add them.
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
I'd suggest booting into safe mode as this will stop all 3rd party applications from running. If it works from there, it seems pretty likely that the issue is related to an application you have installed.
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Very good idea/advise.

This worked for me
Reading through this thread made me wonder whether the fact my Home and Search buttons suddenly weren't working could have been caused by an app I installed the day before (No Lock).
Before uninstalling it I decided to give it a test. It was on "Locking Disabled". I set to "Locking Enabled" and tested the Home button - voilà, it worked. Tested the Search button, it worked too.
Set the app back to "Locking Disabled" - Home and Search buttons still working.

My buttons, home and both volume buttons are dying. I think it's just wear and tear really which is bad because I've had it less than a year.

Navigator jacked home button....please help!!!

Hello, thanks in AdVance for any help.
I searched the net and only a few people have had this problem, but both mine and my wife's phone got the problem within 2 days
The problem started when you push the home button it would go to the navigator program instead home with sense ui. It loads that page with icons such as: footprint, navigation, voice search etc instead of going to the home screen.
I tried fixing the problem by deleting defaults in the sense ui and cleared the cache and data. Now it no longer loads home page or the navigator program.
I tried installing an alternate home page such as launcherpro but that is not able to take over use of the home button.
What happens now when I push the home button when in a program it seems to just reload the screen with the same program that's running. The only way that I can get to the home page is by continually pushing the back screen. Please help, because this is making the phone very difficult to use.
Thanks

htcman12 said:
Hello, thanks in AdVance for any help.
I searched the net and only a few people have had this problem, but both mine and my wife's phone got the problem within 2 days
The problem started when you push the home button it would go to the navigator program instead home with sense ui. It loads that page with icons such as: footprint, navigation, voice search etc instead of going to the home screen.
I tried fixing the problem by deleting defaults in the sense ui and cleared the cache and data. Now it no longer loads home page or the navigator program.
I tried installing an alternate home page such as launcherpro but that is not able to take over use of the home button.
What happens now when I push the home button when in a program it seems to just reload the screen with the same program that's running. The only way that I can get to the home page is by continually pushing the back screen. Please help, because this is making the phone very difficult to use.
Thanks
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Odd. I think you can fix it like this:
Go to Settings.
Go to Applications.
Open up Manage Applications.
Look for the navigation program in question and select it.
Now there should be a section labeled "Launch by default" or something similar. Hit the "Clear defaults" button.
I hope this works.

DINC Safe Mode Problem

Hello. So I got into a problem this morning while updating Golauncher EX. I updated it and when I pressed home, I accidentally chose to have GoTo (a lockscreen application) the default app for that. Now my phone can't return to launcher at all.
When I reboot I just get a blank screen and can't do anything besides bring the notification bar down.
I know I can easily fix this by going into settings, but I can't get to that without launcher. So I tried to get into safe mode (boot holding vol down, track pad, and menu) and I can get there after the phone vibrates (it says safe mode in bottom corner), but before I can do anything the phone reboots. I don't really want to resort to a factory reset yet, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
Also I haven't rooted my phone yet.
Thanks for any help you can offer!

The only thing i can think of is press the search button, and see if that brings up the search screen. I would navigate my way to market or something, install adw, then hit home. The pop up for default should come up again, then you can make golauncher ex default?
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Delete it from phone with computer. I think all the files pertaining to the app should be in sdcard/data and data/data...

Thanks for the tips guys. btw I tried using search, but nothing would pop up, but for some reason hitting menu would make a keyboard appear.
Anyways, something weird happened where when I tried booting into safe mode, my phone seemed to wipe all my settings and went into the normal launcher. It didn't delete all my apps, but made the majority of them strangely force close whenever I opened them.
In the end I just rooted my phone and everything is perfect now!

Good to hear.
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Best way to 'close' apps + folder problem

Hi, first thing, this is my first Android phone and I understand I should press the back button to close out of apps rather than press the home button. So this means if I have been surfing for a while, I have to press back, say 20 times, going backward through all the pages I've visited, until I reach the first page opened and the browser will close.
I know I can press home to close, then press the right menu button to bring up the recent apps and swipe the browser away, but isn't there a better way to close out of programs? I thought maybe holding the 'back' button would force close it but it just brings up the browsing history.
2nd: I'm finding that some programs do not go into certain 'folders' while it goes into other folders, what is causing this?
Thanks.

On cm10 or any custom rom actually has the option in developers options to "long press back to kill app" if you don't have that option the only way is it press the home button hit the recent apps button not the menu button and swipe it away. How is that hard? Its much harder to do the same task on iOS.
Also I'm not too sure what you mean by the folder deal can you take a screenshot and upload it here. ( hold power + volume down.)
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The browser is a unique case where you don't have to back out. The best way is just close the current tab, or all tabs you have open, to close the browser. You don't go 20 pages back for browser closing. But for all apps yes back button is the best way to close apps when you're done.

Lol wow... I do that all the time and completely forgot thanks.
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stupid "select home" problem

if I long press the home button I get the google now page, if I then press home again it always prompts me to select a launcher.
I've just done a full cse flash of 10i, it happened immediately afterwards.
I tried a full reset of the phone, and it did the same.
any clues how to get rid of this annoying problem ? I seem to be always getting prompted to select my home launcher.

sorry to answer my own question, but it might help someone.
I installed Nova launcher as per a recommendation in another forum, it found that an app I had installed called "apps" had caused an android bug to appear, so I uninstalled it, and all is back to normal now.
:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

mjb152 said:
sorry to answer my own question, but it might help someone.
I installed Nova launcher as per a recommendation in another forum, it found that an app I had installed called "apps" had caused an android bug to appear, so I uninstalled it, and all is back to normal now.
:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
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maybe a other solution is go into Settings>Home Screen>Select Home and reselect Home.
But I am not sure because I never had this problem

I had this problem with Nova Launcher today, every time I pressed HOME button it would ask me which Launcher to use even with a tick in the remember my choice box. So I selected a different Launcher EASYHome in my case and then back to Nova Launcher and it was fine.

I tried resetting the defaults but it kept asking time and time again , but it was definitely a corrupt app causing the problem..and nova helped me find which one.

I have a similar problem and cant get it to stop, i have a quickcircle case and everytime i open the case to unlock it shows me the screen to select the launcher but disapears right after, im using v10i with Nova on D855 no root.

how to get nova launcher to tell you which app is the issue.
Excuse my ignorance, but how does nova launcher show you which app is the issue. When I click the multitask button and then the home button, every time the select home option comes up.

I had same problem with an LG Escape2 (and replacement one) and now a 3rd cell LG G Vista. Home Select screen keeps popping up when I click to go back to home page! Keeps asking for default home Screen or easy home screen Driving me nuts. Any fixes? This has been a problem mentioned by some Samsung owners