broken home button? stuck on open iboot

[plays2]

my phone is stuck on the iboot screen and i cannot press the home button and therefore am unable to restore or restart
any ideas?

[ddominator]

Aside: Why do people try installing iDroid with broken Power and Home buttons...

I was going to suggest going into OpeniBoot Console to set the nvram flags but I realized you couldn't boot into it with a broken Home button.

The best way to fix this is to fix your Home button first.  So that means hardware repair.

[plays2]

Aside: Why do people try installing iDroid with broken Power and Home buttons...

I was going to suggest going into OpeniBoot Console to set the nvram flags but I realized you couldn't boot into it with a broken Home button.

The best way to fix this is to fix your Home button first.  So that means hardware repair.

well first i want to try restoring it so im sure that its hardware and when i first installed idroid my home button worked fine but it broke and yea is there any other way besides using the home button to select something?

[ddominator]

Using a different button? Nope, it's hard coded into OpeniBoot. Someone could compile an OpeniBoot that uses a different button but the problem there is you won't be able to install it if you can't go into recovery mode (broken Home button).

Although this is rare, I once went into DFU mode automatically when I just let the battery ran out when running iDroid.  You can try leaving it on the iBoot selection and letting the power drain (takes ~3 hrs).  Then after 3 hours, plug in your USB and see if iBoot, Recovery or DFU (blank) screen is displayed.