Home Button Unresponsive After Water Damage?

Anthony, there is no rice trick. It is absolute rubbish and does not work. stop the rice. Rubbing alcohol does not contain enough alcohol content. It has mostly 70% which leaves 30% to be desired. You do want to obtain 90% (or higher) isopropyl alcohol. "accidental drop into the pool." will require you to open your phone. Dabbing it with a cotton ball will not clean it properly. Use these guides to disassemble your phone. Then clean every part with the alcohol and a soft brush. Of course you can also have an ultrasonic cleaner take care of that. Once it is properly cleaned, replace the battery and re-assemble. Then evaluate for any potential damage. Right now you will continue to have corrosion setting in. Every time you turn your phone on, sync it, or try to charge it, you are increasing the risk of shortcircuiting the logic board.

I dropped my phone in the lake and unbelievably we found it within a couple of minutes, and it worked for a few hours after. However later that night it stopped and wouldn't charge. The next morning the screen was completely red. However yes after putting it in a container of rice over night it worked again. So for those saying the rice trick doesn't work it surely got mine working again within 9 hours. The only thing that won't work is my home button. I've dropped another iPhone out of my jacket pocket into the toilet before(I know yuck) I was going to flush for my 3 year old and it fell out. I put it in rice and voila it worked perfectly fine for another year until it was time to upgrade, so rice has worked for me twice.

best thing is to open up the phone and clean out the water. if its doing random thing, most likely water is shorting something there.

Please avoid putting your phone in rice. It does absolutely nothing to help. Why people think it does is over a few days water dries out by itself and sometimes the phone comes back to life. The problem is when water sits on these connections it causes corrosion and rust. Corrosion damages these connections and if left untreated can cause irreversible damage to the device. Rice does not remove corrosion or rust. All you're doing by "using the rice trick" is letting water and corrosion sit on your motherboard for longer than it should. Best thing to do is immediately get it to a professional who can properly disassemble it and treat it. The quicker the better. Also if it's a later model iPhone you'll need to desolder the metal emi shields to check for any corrosion under those. Hope this helps.

Definitely a true about the rice trick it doesn't work water residue is left inside the phone over time will crode the board and will not work forever you will have to get the liquid damage cleaned out and then hope for the best !!!apart from that Apple will probably charge you a bomb arm and a leg rather

A simple thing got me here: The home button isn't actually electrically connected until you have the case fully closed. Note the contacts on the motherboard side of the phone. So check that first... Whoops!