Home Button Not Working After Battery Replacement

Did you touch the two pins that are situated on the lighting port?

Same issue here. Thought I pushed the two pins back out enough but no luck. Then I applied pressure on the screen where the pins are and it worked so I went back and pushed the pins out more. Works fine now.

how do i do this?

agh. i was sweating bullets for a bit with this problem. ultimately, I touched the two gold prongs down by the lightning port, as stated above. i was touching only one, like a dummy, with the screwdriver. then, i got my head straight and realized i'm supposed to touch them simultaneously with the screwdriver. once I did this, the home button activated on the screen. i can't believe my phone is still operating.. the screen had become unglued from the screen assembly, and overall my battery replacement was a messy sweaty nervous affair. thank goodness i stumbled on this fix.. which would be obvious for an electrician, but not for me.

"This question is a bit old, but in my experience fixing the classic iPhone 5 battery replacement pry damage every day, I've seen one or two phones that don't have the classic iPhone 5 pry damage, but do have pry damage *just* to the tiny resistor next to the U3 chip. This little guy is required for home button function only. In those cases, replacement of that resistor solved the home button problem. Of course this is very unusual---only a possibility if shorting of the two gold contacts on the lightning connector does not activate the home button.

jessa"