home button may be broken, what do i do?

[tyler314]

my home button may be broken. i am eligible for apple repairs, but i am jailbroken. my freind "borrowed" my ipod and messed through my settings. ever since my home button dosent work ( or at least not very well). sometimes it does eventually other times it dosent. he may have messed with my activator. i cheacked to make sure it was assigned to work as a home button, and it wasnt so i set it too. then whenever i wuld open the app would close af if the home button was jammed down. so i disabled it and switched it to tapping both volume buttons simultaniously. but i dont know what he did. could be button be just fine? if not, i can restore and take it to apple. but i dont want to have to restore to find out. if it is broken, i wont be able to rejailbreak to switch it back to my volume buttons, because i cant go into dfu mode. also, right now, since my home button is pressing both volume buttons simultaniously, if when i go to restore it and put it in pwned dfu, do i use the volume buttons of home button? will volume buttons work if the device is turned off? what should i do. itouch 4g 5.0.1

[AkAdeMicKs]

Solution #1
1. Turn your iPod on.
2. Hold the on/off button until the "slide to power off" pops up.
3. Hold the Home Button until the "slide to power off" goes away.
Problem solved?

Solution #2
A restore may be your only way out; but before you restore, backup all of your Cydia packages using pkgbackup in Cydia.

Solution#3
Open Settings>Activator>Reset Settings
That will set all activator settings to default values.

Solution #4
Unistall and Reinstall activator.

[tyler314]

tried all but solution 2. no luck. i think the button is physically broken.

[AkAdeMicKs]

Yea, it's probably broken. Tell your friend he's owes you another iPod. If you don't want to take it to an Apple Store, then use Google for stores that fixes electronic devices.

[iPod]

Just restore, take it to apple, update to iOS 5.1.1, and wait like 2 weeks for the untethered jailbreak.