6s home button help

[Marc1980]

Hi guys,
My daughter has a 6s and while replacing the screen, gorilla fingers here broke the home button ribbon cable. I have done quite a lot if reading around the issue of touch ID failure when replacing the home button but my daughter does not really need the touch ID feature so I bought a standard home button off of Amazon. Fitted it and I was not expecting touch ID to work but the whole home button does not work. For now I have enabled the onscreen home button. Before I get another button or take it in for repair I was wondering if anybody had any ideas? Would a reset or even a DFU restore do anything.
Many thanks in advance
Marc

 

[Lekro]

Two possibilities:
- Faulty (new) home button
- Faulty (new) screen. The extension ribbon for the home button that goes just above the backlight layer of the screen is faulty.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Sounds like you may have damaged the connection to the board. It's possible that the replacement is defective or you didn't plug it in right so I'd check the connection/try another home button. If that doesn't work you may have to continue using the virtual home button or pay for a repair from a 3rd party service as Apple doesn't do board level repairs.