Home button errors continue after a home button replacement
I recently purchased an iPhone 7 which required a battery change due to its age. I had changed the battery on my previous phone (iPhone 6s) and proceeded to do the same with the new phone.
After changing the battery, the home button doesn’t work at all, including 3D touch and touch ID. Reading online, it said that the most likely issue was due to ripping the home button flex cable, therefore, I ordered a replacement home button to return the functions (apart from Touch ID).
After replacing the home button purchased from Amazon, no functions had returned and it was still unusable. This has got me thinking that the issue is not with the home button itself but a different connector within the phone?
I have put the original home button back in and my next step is to replace the LCD with the hope that I can use the original button.
What cable controls the home button functions? - I wanted to double-check, is it the LCD that should be replaced, or a different flex cable? What do you think?
Thanks in advance.