Power & home button not working after battery replacement

Check if the two golden pins on your dock connector are nicely 'up'. They have to connect with the home button assembly on your screen. About the power button, you probably damaged the cable somehow with disassembly. The only way to fix this is to replace the cable.

Good luck,

Johan

Hi Jordan it's component damage on the motherboard from either prying on the motherboard side or you have knocked a componant off when unclipping battery there's a few just below that

I had the same problem that home button is not working after battery replacement. I thought it was damaged during the prying process. I even tried to reconnect the LED screen cable.

In the end, it was really caused by two bottom gold color pins not having a solid contact with home button metal contact. You can see the two pins at the bottom. I bent the metal pins so that it has solid contact.

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/ig.... If this image is not working, it's iPhone 5 Akku tauschen (step 15)

After I bent those pins and put it back, home button works perfectly !

Charles

Defiantly pry damage look to the right of the batter connecter you will have broken off components on the board there is a component there that controls the power button and home button

Here is what happened to me, and it may have happened to you as well. I replaced the battery in the iPhone 5s, which is a bit more difficult than the 5 or the 4s, but as I had read the instructions repeatedly, I knew to be very careful about the cable for the Home button. No prying damage, nothing. When I put the iPhone back together the Home/touch button stopped working. Similar to most complaints. I ordered and received a new Home button after disassembling and reassembling iPhone repeatedly. When I had put the new button in I wasn't certain about how the cable should lay in. I drew it across the button so that it was folded immediately after the connector, but then it layed flat across the metal Home button cover. It works fine now. I inspected the old (original) Home cable and found that it had another fold, one that I would not have recognized if I had not had to install a new button. I noticed that there is a small contact on one side of the Home button cable, and the cable had folded in such a way that the contact was not in contact with the metal Home button cover! Such an additional fold probably happened as the unit was closed because I didn't know to preclude the possibility of it folding at any particular point. There is no apparent damage to the cable. Try this, it is very likely the problem we encounter with the battery install.

Best always,

Drew

I changed the battery on my 5s and the first thing I noticed was the power and sound buttons became unresponsive. These buttons are connected via push type (lego style) connectors to main board. Not knowing which of the four or five connectors was not properly in place, I disconnects them all and carefully pushed them back in till heard snap sound and/ it was comfortable that they are in. That's it. Resolved the unresponsive power and sound buttons problem.

I know these replies/questions are year (s) old but i just replaced a battery in my Iphone 4 and got the same issue on/off button no longer worked. Took back off again and theres a little tab (hooked upward tab) that is under one of the 2 screws you remove to detach the battery cable/connector. Just rebend that curved end upwards so when you close the back to gether again it will touch its grounded location. Now my issue is trying to replace the screen, all videos on YouTube are of a 4S and the parts are not the same i went as far as the speaker removal and the videos got different so i closed it back together. I know my simple 4 is OLD but it works for me. Hope this helps someone.

Today, After I replaced my iPhone 5 screen the power button stop working. Could it be I did not push enough the connectors? I am so afraid of trying to disassemble the screen without breaking it... :(