iPhone 5 lock button breaking after few weeks of usage, some users report

9. Topcat488 (Posts: 1396; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)

I'm not an official Apple spokesperson, but I already know the unofficial response from Apple... "You're pushing the lock button wrong".

20. PhenomFaz (Posts: 1236; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)

Apple never ceases to amaze me....with its extraordinary and revolutionary flaws which dont even appear on basic feature phones!

30. hiBreed (Posts: 90; Member since: 29 May 2012)

+1 from me

40. bayusuputra (Posts: 963; Member since: 12 Feb 2012)

I'm an unofficial so-called genius at apple..
and I say: "It's a feature.."

41. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)

"Lock button sensitivity varies from time to time and may degrade after prolonged usage. This is completely normal."

11. MeoCao (unregistered)

This is Halloween iPhone you know so it works to scare the owners.

iPhone "just works" TM.

17. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)

Meh. Hardware failures happen. Even Android phones have hardware failures. My first RAZR had a bad LTE radio (it wouldn't connect to LTE right in the VZW store). A new RAZR 15 minutes later and I am walking out of the store enjoying the hauling-ass LTE data speed.

A year-ish ago, Apple had problems with light eakage on some of their displays. Owners would get a brand spanking new replacement. When new orders were having to wait 3 weeks for delivery.

The bigger story would have been if Apple had refused to replace the failed phones. They aren't, so this is much ado about nothing.

18. wendygarett (unregistered)

Well I hope you still satisfy yours, I also has some android devices recently so far no problem yet :) same goes to my new iPhone 5 from my parents lol

21. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)

No further failures for my RAZR. Just waiting for the VZW Note II. Zzzz.

22. amozhi (Posts: 130; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)

So you are admitting that Apple devices are not anymore shiny niche device. Right ah?

24. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)

Not quite sure what you are asking. I never said the iP toys were shiny or niche. I was commenting about how hardware failures were handled.

33. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)

iDisagree completely. So far this year I have had a RAZR, DROID CHARGE, REZOUND and RAZR MAXX and none of my Lock Buttons have or Hardware have been iDefective. Even that Single-Core DROID DISCHARGE didn't iMplode like an iPhone.

iToo, am waiting on my G-Note II; November 29th can't come any sooner.

35. dsmboost (Posts: 46; Member since: 01 Nov 2011)

Not every single phone will have hardware problems..You just happened to be one of the many that don't have a faulty unit. Hardware failures happen on all electronic devices, I don't care what brand it is. I'm a happy android user, and even I will admit our phones come with their share of problems occasionally. And all these "ijokes" are seriously getting lame.

42. akishakoi (Posts: 65; Member since: 06 Dec 2011)

have you tried nokia phones? they just won't break, and I don't know if we can call that a feature? Lols

39. metalpoet (unregistered)

light leakage, unusaully easy to scratch, touchscreen unresponsive for gaming, and phones coming out of the box already scratched. Now the lock button is breaking. and couple this witt Foxconn employees complaining that the phone is too hard to make and meet up with demands, makes me wonder why so many people want this particular model. why not settle for an iPhone 4S, they are basically the same phone excluding the 4G LTE and slightly bigger screen. I sell more iPhone 4S's and iPhone 4's now than i ever did before the iPhone 5.

28. Oxygen (Posts: 125; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)

Man this is the worst iphone ever.

31. hiBreed (Posts: 90; Member since: 29 May 2012)

next: world domination

32. hiBreed (Posts: 90; Member since: 29 May 2012)

well said, man

15. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)

moral story: buy iphones with the "s" version