Home button oddity

Sometimes when I double click the home button to switch to another app, if the mail app is open, it shows the contact info for someone I emailed once. I have gone through and deleted all of my temp contacts and emails one by one so I don't know where the info is coming from. Sometimes, if I have the camera app open in the background, when I double click the home button I see old pictures in the "preview" square of the camera app. I am not sure they are related, but since they both occur when I double click the hoe button I think they might be. I have deleted the email account and set it up again.

Joy_nayyar wrote:
This is happen when u changed it to 2.0.1 version, even my home-button stopped working if that's the case with you.
Last time I checked, a software update cannot physically break your home button. The software update, excluding 1.1.3, does not effect your home button because your iPod already has that installed to the most recent update to it and then no longer needs any software related to your home button.
What I am saying is that your home button doesn't just stop working, there has to be a reason and the 2.0.1 is not a valid reason.

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