Hi, I don't really have an iPhone but I have an iPod touch. I wanted to share my experience with others because it is just so hard to work with an idevice that has bothe the home and sleep button broken.
I will show some facts and guide on this post.
Well, you might ask me why not just get your iPod repaired? And the answer would be that it's now worth it in my country. With the money to get it repaired, you can actually buy a second hand/used iPod. So lets just jump to the guides.
The most important thing is that you will need to jailbreak your device. Don't ask me how, there are many tutorials on YouTube and other sites.
Now the most important part is for the device to be able to unlockable (not the carrier thing, I mean the screen). But the problem is that you can't unlock your device without any home or power button.
So you have two options respectively;
For iOS 5 you'll need to install a tweak from Cydia called 'shaketounlock' no space when typing.
For iOS 6 you'll need a tweak called 'keepawake' because shaketounlock is not compatible with iOS 6.
(These tweaks are the most important tweaks you'll need so don't miss them as they keep the device from going to deep sleep mode)
Then you'll need two other free tweaks too,
Activator
Sbsettings(for iOS 6)
You'll need to keep keepawake toggle ON everytime in iOS 6. And if you don't want the shaketoawake to unlock your device from accidental shakes, you can turn it off as it will still keep your device from going to deep sleep mode. Use activator to use the volume keys to unlock your device.
Now after you have been able to unlock your device, you will have many options like assigning custom gestures in Activator like home buttons, appswitcher, sleep button, etc. you can also install the two tweaks, Auxo and Zephyr to enhance your experience without home button.
Your problem is solved now but there is one problem that your battery will drain because the tweaks shaketounlock and keepawake keeps your device from power saving mode.
