My home button makes a clicking noise

My home button on my iPhone 4s makes a very annoying clicking noise whenever I click my home button. How do I stop this?

Sounds like your iPhone has a problem. You need to compare your iPhone to another iPhone 4 to see if there is a difference. A good place to do that is the Apple Store. If you notice a difference, you can make an appointment right there in the Apple Store and possibly see a Genius within an hour, or better yet make appointment before you go to Apple Store. Show the Genius the obvious difference in function and quality of the showroom model compared to your iPhone. Maybe the Genius will agree with you.

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The clicking is just the sudden motion sensor in the computer parking the heads on the HD to protect your data from damage. When moving a spinning HD, there is always the possibility that the reading head (like the needle on a record player) may contact the spinning surface, causing damage. That clicking is the head parking away from the spinning disk, preventing it from damage.
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Ha... "Cheers" is not convincing coming from an angry man like you.
In English PC stands for Personal Computer:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=personal%20computer
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
So a Mac and a Windows Machine can both be a PC. In fact I believe Apple coined the phrase PC, but I could be wrong.
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I'm sorry that you are having bad luck, or are you making this up? You are a apple rep? Do they know that you are posting on the Apple site and advising users to buy a PC, hmm George Lelapinou the French Apple hater?
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And when you want to reinstall them the same steps have to be repeated.
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