I have a simple question, I'm currently on CM 7 nighty 7 and was wondering if it’s possible to back up your Home screen with all your Widgets and shortcuts with either an app or a software setting somewhere? With CM7 I normally just flash over on previous builds, but as many of you know, that sometimes problems happen for whatever reason and a full wipe is required or recommended. So with that being said, it can be a pain to have to always start from scratch on setting up your home screen shortcuts and widgets. Not sure if it matters but I have both ADW Ex and Launcher Pro, which both have backup settings but do not allow Widgets to be backup. Just trying to make it little easier if at all possible, Thanks.
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It needs to be saved to the SD Card and widgets cannot be saved, which is why only the applications are able to be restored. In short, no there is no way. But even still, having all the applications atleast restored back to where you want them is a huge help.
Yes there is a way. There is an app called MyBackUp Pro. I use it to restore my homescreen. Everything is restored with the exception of the widgets. The widgets will be on the screen but "broke" so to say. I just remove the "broken" widget and replace it again.
This can be done though default ADW as you can backup and restore but as stated the widget has to be replaced. You don't need any special apps for it work normally its saved on root of your sdcard when you save it.
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I was just wondering if there is any way of backing up everything that I have placed on my homescreen? I hate when I flash a new ROM and I have to put everything back on my homescreen the way I had it. I know u can do that with launcherpro, but I don't want to. I actually love the espresso UI, I'm tired of stock UI (came from the MT3G). So is there any way to backup my homescreen without having to change my launcher? Thanks
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Nope.......
I have only done this once, but it worked fine. I think as long as you are on the same ROM it shouldn't hurt...
Restore the cache from a previous backup with ROM Manager. All my home screen settings were restored.
Titanium backup? I dont know if it will do UI settings for the espresso UI (which I hate) but it worked great for launcher pro (and every other piece of data on my phone lol)
Hopefully i don't get flammed for this but i did search and couldn't find any answers.
I have a couple of issues/how-to's for Titanium backup pro:
How do i backup alarms/clocks? I select country/timezone option in green but it never backs it up after a new ROM install.
how do i backup home screens? I remember a desktop option but i dont see it in pro or current version. Is it possible?
Thanks in advance for your help.
1. tb can backup the alarm.apk, but it won't backup saved alarms. such as 8:30a.m. mon,wed,fri and alarm tone.
2. tb cannot backup home screens. I don't know of any that will back up the native launchers. But laucher pro, adw, adw ex, etc do have an option to backup/restore home screen.
MadNosf said:
Hopefully i don't get flammed for this but i did search and couldn't find any answers.
I have a couple of issues/how-to's for Titanium backup pro:
How do i backup alarms/clocks? I select country/timezone option in green but it never backs it up after a new ROM install.
how do i backup home screens? I remember a desktop option but i dont see it in pro or current version. Is it possible?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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when i just want to back up only certain items, i go to the Backup/Restore tab and select the item i need to back up. a popup should appear onscreen with the first set of options being "Backup!", "Freeze!" or "Un-Install!". hit backup and you'll be on your way.
alternately (and i find this way the easiest), you can just set up a schedule to have your phone do an automatic backup at certain times of the week. this is done by selecting the schedules tab and either adding a new schedule (or editing a current one) to meet your needs. for example; my current backup schedule is "Backup all user apps + system data". i have set to occur twice a week and at 2a my time.
da_dragon2k3 said:
1. tb can backup the alarm.apk, but it won't backup saved alarms. such as 8:30a.m. mon,wed,fri and alarm tone.
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that's incorrect. you can restore your saved alarms but it's usually not recommended to restore the red items in TiBU (those are the system files and it can cause stability issues not that i've ever experienced issues with alarms).
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2. tb cannot backup home screens. I don't know of any that will back up the native launchers. But laucher pro, adw, adw ex, etc do have an option to backup/restore home screen.
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i can vouch for launcher pro; it does backup and restore your homescreen settings.
da_dragon2k3 said:
2. tb cannot backup home screens. I don't know of any that will back up the native launchers. But laucher pro, adw, adw ex, etc do have an option to backup/restore home screen.
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If you use LauncherPro and back it up / restore it using TiB it will restore your settings as well with the exception of widgets.
Im not sure if this works for other launchers but i hiave noticed that when i backup launcher pro with titanium back up it does back up the homescreens, however if you have made back ups with launcher pro it seems to cause a glitch and not allow you to restore the LP backup through LP but does restore the backup from titanium. I hope that made sense .
shreddintyres said:
Im not sure if this works for other launchers but i hiave noticed that when i backup launcher pro with titanium back up it does back up the homescreens, however if you have made back ups with launcher pro it seems to cause a glitch and not allow you to restore the LP backup through LP but does restore the backup from titanium. I hope that made sense .
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I've never ran into that issue before. I've always been able restore my homescreens through launcher pro just fine.
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For me it's less effort to try and backup these things Although Oniyuni is correct backing up some of the alarms setting do cause issues. Seems to me just as fast just re-input them.
Thanks for the help folks
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Can't you ****ing search? Sorry just kidding, use MyBackup that will save all ur home,system,calendar,alarm etc. Settings.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
I have tried home switcher and the likes to try to set go launcher, launcher pro and adw launcher. Tried to clear default manually. (Basically the same thing home switcher does).
But whenever i exit apps or even preferences. My phone prompts me to choose what launcher to use. I choose ex launcher pro. Tick of the default theme. And it still prompts me 2 minutes later.
I am not rooted. On froyo 2.2.1
Can anyone help choose and keep another launcher than htc sense?
Don't know, but for me after geting a new launcher(launcher pro), had hard time to move from sense, it's great.
But I just once selected the launcher pro as default, and phone has ever since asked to choose.
If i want to switch back to sense, how to do it? Only way i see is to instal another launcher to get the phone to ask what to use.
And haven't rooted my phone.
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Whippler said:
Don't know, but for me after geting a new launcher(launcher pro), had hard time to move from sense, it's great.
But I just once selected the launcher pro as default, and phone has ever since asked to choose.
If i want to switch back to sense, how to do it? Only way i see is to instal another launcher to get the phone to ask what to use.
And haven't rooted my phone.
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Uninstall launcherpro. Then Sense will take over.
getting back to sense is easy..
install yet another launcher to get to choose default. thats the hard and stupid way.
else.. settings/programs/ go set sense as the default
homeswitcher. which is the same. just takes a few steps off the process..
but how do i set another launcher as default for good, without home button sending me to choose default launcher all the time?
is it possible that an app has changed some settings?
can i freeze out sense or any other workaround, without rooting ?
I had this problem when I had Launcher 7 and ADW installed. I chose L7 to be my default and couldn't get ADW back. Then found out by going to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Application -> All and then choose Launcher Pro. Scroll down and you should see a section call Launch Default and click Clear Default. That should fix it.
I'm on CM7 so how you get to Application list may vary. Hope this helps.
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I had the same problem, of the phone constantly asking what launcher to use when pressing the home button. I would pick my preferred launcher, check the box to use my selection as default. Then it would stay as default for a while, but "lose" the default fairly soon. This happened frequently, many times a day.
I tried clearing the default (both manually and using home switcher), uninstalling all but the stock Sense launcher (this was on Virtuous), and the problem just came back even after just installing one launcher (and it didn't matter which, I tried installing/uninstalling different ones). Something definitely "changed" to cause this problem (although I don't know what). It was fine for a while when I was on Virtuous, and then one day it wasn't. I was playing around with various launchers at the time. So I all can think is one of them somehow messed up the ability to keep the default.
The problem persisted until I flashed back to the stock ROM. Only other thing I can think of to try, is to clear dalvik and cache. Clearing those seems to fix some random problems, once in a while.
krankdroid said:
I have tried home switcher and the likes to try to set go launcher, launcher pro and adw launcher. Tried to clear default manually. (Basically the same thing home switcher does).
But whenever i exit apps or even preferences. My phone prompts me to choose what launcher to use. I choose ex launcher pro. Tick of the default theme. And it still prompts me 2 minutes later.
I am not rooted. On froyo 2.2.1
Can anyone help choose and keep another launcher than htc sense?
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I had the same problem, and after reading tons about it online, it seems the only explanation is that one of your apps is interfering with the choice, it can be any app you have, even if it has nothing to do with a Launcher function.
What I did was backup all my apps (130+) to Titanium (I am rooted), then uninstall them all. I then proceeded to reinstall them by batches of 3-5. Until I pinned down the problem to Photoid Pro. I dumped it and ever since my Z has been working flawlessly on Zeam launcher.
I have read that there are several other apps that interfere as well, so you might have to do as me, uninstall, and reinstall until you can spot the culprit.
Is there anyway app/way to back up home launchers (adw, go, lp) screens and switc,h them from launcher to launcher? I tried backing up from one launcher and restorin with another (renaming and putting them in the correct directories) but that doesn't work. Othr than replacing all my icons and widgets, is there a way to backup and restore from launcher to launcher?
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Not sure what you mean about backup/restore. Many launchers include a backup option. If you are worried about a launcher loosing its settings when you switch to a different one, then don't. As long as you don't go into applications and clear the launcher's data it should retain everything fine. Otherwise just use your favorite backup app (MyBackup Root, Titanium, etc).
As for easily switching them, checkout Home Switcher.
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Nvm - I get it now. No, none that I know of - they are all different as far as source goes, so I'm guessing you're out of luck.
yeah i dont think this is possible dude.
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Alright...I was jw because it was bugging me. Maybe someone can develop a app of some sort, but untl then o well.
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You can, if you were able to find the actual apk's you could throw them in the backup folder if you ever use sdxappremover, then you could always restore from there, but these files go into system not data, but I havnt seen this being a problem since they all still get updated from what I've seen...
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If I'm reading what you're asking correctly you want to be able to back up your GoLauncher settings for example and then switch those settings to your ADW launcher? That wouldnt work because several things for the launchers are specific to them. Go themes for example that will not work on ADW or LP icons that wont work with Zeam etc... But check out CrazyHome. You can theme 3 different 5 screen desktops basically all different.
I could care less about the settings, I just want to be able to have all the icons and widgets. Lets say I have a music widget and a facebook icon in adw (main launcher) I want to be able to transfer the widget and shortcut to a different launcher (say go launcher) without doing it by hand. Having 7 home screens full of icons and widgets is not easy to switch over to a different launcher.
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I could care less about the settings, I just want to be able to have all the icons and widgets. Lets say I have a music widget and a facebook icon in adw (main launcher) I want to be able to transfer the widget and shortcut to a different launcher (say go launcher) without doing it by hand. Having 7 home screens full of icons and widgets is not easy to switch over to a different launcher.
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the only possible way that I can think of (if you regularly switch between launchers) is to set one up, then switch to another, set it up, then switch.. lather rinse, repeat..
once set up, it will remain the same as long as it's installed on your phone.
There's no way to (easily) save a configuration setup/style/whatever and have it transfer seamlessly from one launcher to another that I'm aware of.
Yep, I get it and no it cant be done. (And I doubt someone ever could do it in the future for the reasons MikeyLee mentioned.) I totally agree it would be nice though...
Ok, thanks for all the help. I was going to try to check out some different launchers but I can't switch all the home screens by hand.
Hi all,
my question is: how can I backup my folders/icons/shortcuts/widgets of my home screen or of other screens (I usually have 5 screens used) ?
What I mean is, after a factory reset, I usually restore accounts and programs (Titanium Backup) but my folders/shortcuts/icons are gone. I usually create a lot of Direct Call shortcuts on one of my screens, organized in folders.
So: can I backup at least my direct call shortcuts, or all of my shortcuts ?
Thanks.
laszlobilibok said:
Hi all,
my question is: how can I backup my folders/icons/shortcuts/widgets of my home screen or of other screens (I usually have 5 screens used) ?
What I mean is, after a factory reset, I usually restore accounts and programs (Titanium Backup) but my folders/shortcuts/icons are gone. I usually create a lot of Direct Call shortcuts on one of my screens, organized in folders.
So: can I backup at least my direct call shortcuts, or all of my shortcuts ?
Thanks.
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Are you using Touchwizz? AFAIK you can't back up widgets on it. Haven't used TW myself for a long time, but once I backed it up with Titanium and restored "data only", and the icons and layout - sans widgets - were restored as before.
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Are you using Touchwizz? AFAIK you can't back up widgets on it. Haven't used TW myself for a long time, but once I backed it up with Titanium and restored "data only", and the icons and layout - sans widgets - were restored as before.
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Yes, I'm using TW. Ok, thanks, I'll give it a try ...