A few years ago when the home button on my iPhone broke, I ended up enabling the button on-screen instead. It wasn’t the optimal way to use the phone, but I was traveling a lot at the time and didn’t ...

One of the perks of writing for Hackaday is that we often find hacks that we’ve been meaning to do ourselves. Here’s one that will let us fix our borked ASUS computer monitor buttons. [Silviu] has the ...

Anbernic has launched a replacement parts program, allowing you to purchase new parts for your broken handheld.

My iPhone’s Home button doesn’t work any more. I have to press the Home button really hard to get it to respond, and sometimes even that doesn’t work. Is it permanently broken? Is there a fix? iPhone ...

Smartphone buttons have a way of breaking, but DIY all star tool Sugru can save the day. All you need is a little bit of the stuff and q-tip to get the job done. The folks over at Sugru share a quick ...

My brother-in-law came over the other night because the Sleep/Wake button on his iPhone 4S was jammed. There wasn’t much I could do other than help him set up a Genius Bar appointment, but he had ...

Like most things you rely on — your coffee mug, your headphones, your heart — iPhones have a tendency to break. You drop one on the sidewalk and pick it up to find a spiderweb of cracks running ...

Whether you want to conserve battery life or need to turn off your iPhone for another reason, read on for how to turn off iPhone with a broken power button. We’ll also look at how to turn on an iPhone ...

Nothing’s worse than when your iPhone’s home button breaks, but here’s how you can use your iPhone with a broken home button until you get to the Apple Store to get it fixed. The iPhone’s home button ...