"Home" button does not return home

[froggersloth]

A strange problem that I've had twice now in 2 weeks with the Evo 3D: If I am in an app and I press the "home" button, it does not take me home; rather, it simply remains in the app or screen that I'm currently in. For example, this morning when I first turned on the phone, it was in the browser. I hit "home". The haptic buzz occurred, but it remained in the browser. I stabbed incoherently at it a few more times with the same results. Then I explored a little... I found that I could drag down the notifications and go to the utilities or apps shown there-- no problems. But, from the notifications or from those other apps, I still couldn't go "home" with the button. Eventually, I restarted the phone; problem solved.

Is this a common thing? Any suggestions?

 

[NxTech3]

havent seen the issues in a service center yet

 

[arghy]

A strange problem that I've had twice now in 2 weeks with the Evo 3D: If I am in an app and I press the "home" button, it does not take me home; rather, it simply remains in the app or screen that I'm currently in. For example, this morning when I first turned on the phone, it was in the browser. I hit "home". The haptic buzz occurred, but it remained in the browser. I stabbed incoherently at it a few more times with the same results. Then I explored a little... I found that I could drag down the notifications and go to the utilities or apps shown there-- no problems. But, from the notifications or from those other apps, I still couldn't go "home" with the button. Eventually, I restarted the phone; problem solved.

Is this a common thing? Any suggestions?

Did you ever figure this out? Mine started doing this today.

 

[cgardnervt]

I would pull your battery out and reconnect it. Believe it or not this will fix many many funny issues such as this one.

If that does not work I would follow up with a hard reset. (Reinstall the OS!)

 

[froggersloth]

arghy, it seemed that my problem was not specific to the Evo 3D, so I reposted:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/114420-home-search-keys-not-working.html

and the post with the answer in my case:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...home-search-keys-not-working.html#post1208220

That has a pretty complete explanation of what I found, but please feel free to update that thread with any questions or comments. Best of luck.

 

[vaelyan]

I had it happen once, hasn't happened since I rebooted

 

[jimoshea]

Happened to me a couple of times Have to restart to get back to normal.
I use GO Launcher EX but I've read elsewhere of the same problem from peeps using Launcher Pro.

 

[cgardnervt]

I have been playing with ADW Launcher and I have not seen this issue...YET!

i am sure I will at some point and time. Glad a simple reboot seems to fix it.