Methods to auto-control home folders - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

I would like to know some way to automatically setup folders on a phone. In this case I am concerned with the E4GT running stock FL24. Unrooted methods are preferred, but beggers can't be choosers.
As an example I may get a second phone or flash a new ROM and want to restore my meticulously crafted home screen folders containing apps.
If there is a file I can copy and then paste into my new phone/ROM that is great. A script that takes care of things is good. An app that I am unaware of to manage things works too. I am wide open and can root IF need be but prefer not to.

Are you using a stock browser? Because most 3rd party browsers like nova and adw will have a backup option. No need for root to use those. Juat need to install it from market
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patrao_n said:
Are you using a stock browser? Because most 3rd party browsers like nova and adw will have a backup option. No need for root to use those. Juat need to install it from market
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Thanks! I am using a stock browser but can try this. I am still happy to accept other solutions from others but so far this is helpful!

Just tried it with folders. It keeps placement of the folder aa well as whats inside them. The only thing is when you install that launcher you must set up your screen like its new. Then push menu while you are at your home screen. Go to your launcher settings for instance I use adw. So I would choose adw setting. Then backup and restore. Then backup. This is a better solution for you. You asked if you can switch it between phones. Well if you move from samsung to say htc well the stock launchers will change. So you may be able to save the touchwiz settings. But wouldnt be able to restore those on the sense launcher. Good luck. And if you are new to launchers I would suggest nova or adw. And rhe paid for versions are even better:beer:
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You can try doing a data and app backup using mybackup pro. That should reinstall all your apps and then put everything on your home screen how it should be. I use nova launcher so I restore through there automatically when I restore all my apps and app data with mybackup pro.
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[Q] What is safe to restore after flashing a _new_ rom?

Pretty new to flashing roms and trying to get it right...
So I'm going from MikFroyo4.5 to Vaelpak 3.2. Is it safe to try to restore my "home" pages using MyBackupRoot? I am going to use it to restore my texts, call log, etc. I know not to do system settings... Also, I backed up only the user apps with Titanium Pro. Advice appreciated!
You can backup all your apps and data, and then restore them. Also you launcher settings. When you restore on you new rom, restore apps and data, but NOT system settings, may get FCs. You're good to go.
I read something about only restoring user apps, not system apps. So I only backed up the user apps. So launcher settings is OK to restore? Is it a problem if I try to do that when I am going to an AOSP rom and my backup was from a sense based rom?
You can't restore launcher settings from sense, since that's not your launcher anymore.
No one said he wasn't using a launcher. I said it just in case.
teh roxxorz said:
No one said he wasn't using a launcher. I said it just in case.
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Yeah, I wasn't going against anything you said, just saying in case he wasn't using a launcher and was trying to switch to aosp from sense, can't restore homescreen setups.
Well in that case, that's correct. But I hope he was using a launcher.
Well, in this case I'm going from one sense based rom MikFroyo to another Vaelpak. But I'm not sure what launcher Vaelpak comes with, and not sure if I should try to restore my home screens or not. I think Vaelpak comes with LauncherPro and ADW. So is that "instead of" the sense launcher? And does that mean I should not try to restore my home/launcher/widgets? Sorry about being confused but I'm just not quite speaking the language yet...
You're fine. Just do everything I said earlier, but no need to worry about the restoring launcher settings, since you didn't have one, and you'll be set, and no, don't restore home screen settings.
VaelPak is awesome. You will enjoy it.
teh roxxorz said:
You're fine. Just do everything I said earlier, but no need to worry about the restoring launcher settings, since you didn't have one, and you'll be set, and no, don't restore home screen settings.
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OK, so here's are some really basic questions...
Does sense come with it's own launcher? and are the "home pages" part of the "launcher"?
I guess when I use ADW or LauncherPro I'm not sure what I'm replacing / not using from the original Sense software... lol
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OK, so here's are some really basic questions...
Does sense come with it's own launcher? and are the "home pages" part of the "launcher"?
I guess when I use ADW or LauncherPro I'm not sure what I'm replacing / not using from the original Sense software... lol
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Well, sense is basically its own launcher, the plain stock htc sense. You get the number of panels, and the 2 buttons at the bottom. With ADW, launcher pro, ect, you can customize your docks, icons, backgrounds for the launcher, gives you more customization.
I uploaded a pick of my home screen so you can see the launcher, with custom icons. I'm using launcher pro. The second is using the cube transition.
So what would happen if I tried to restore my "home screens" using MyBackupRoot? Would it hose the phone up?
Not really, you just may get some force closes, and to the worse extent a bootloop.
Well, I hate to set it all up from scratch again, major PITA but I guess I'll do that. I could do a nandroid then restore the home screens and if it's bad, go back to the nandroid...
This is the first I've used Titanium Pro, worked great and was fast.
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Well, I hate to set it all up from scratch again, major PITA but I guess I'll do that. I could do a nandroid then restore the home screens and if it's bad, go back to the nandroid...
This is the first I've used Titanium Pro, worked great and was fast.
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True, but you need to do it to get more comfortable, and yea, the pro version is a lot faster, and you won't have to restore apps one by one when you restore.

[Q] Have any of you deleted the stock Launcher for whatever ROM and use another one?

Was using [ROM]DARKSIDE-Dewizzed-V2.5.2 [1/27/2012] and i got rid of the stock launcher in favor of GO Launcher and I deleted the stock SMS/MMS for GO SMS.
everything worked fine.....nice and smooth.
But I tried [ROM] Juggernaut v4.1 [Vultures Edition][Team Kang][12.27.2011] and did the same thing.....It runs slow and not smooth anymore...
oh yeah...I used root Explorer to delete the stock apps...
Have any of you done this type of thing???
You don't need to delete anything for future reference. Just hit the use as default.
I never deleted key stock apps like launcher, browser, contact, messaging, etc
Because I had a bad experience with my Old G1 that my 3rd party launcher (launcher pro, go launcher) keep fore closing and couldn't use my phone. In the end i had to flash another rom and lost all my data
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You don't need to delete anything for future reference. Just hit the use as default.
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-__- I knew that much......
peconaut said:
I never deleted key stock apps like launcher, browser, contact, messaging, etc
Because I had a bad experience with my Old G1 that my 3rd party launcher (launcher pro, go launcher) keep fore closing and couldn't use my phone. In the end i had to flash another rom and lost all my data
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Oh ok...thanks for the input.
A safer option is to freeze them thru titanium backup. They arent using up any battery in the backround and you can defrost them if you ever need them.
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A safer option is to freeze them thru titanium backup. They arent using up any battery in the backround and you can defrost them if you ever need them.
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THANKS!!! i didnt know about that option. I will try it most def.....
No problem!!

FC Launcher Pro Backup Notes?

Phone randomly got FC's on launcher pro whenever I try to go to the Homepage, so it is barely usable at the moment. Like a dummy I haven't done any nandroid backup in the last few months, but i want to save my notes from the NOTES app. I keep a little log of ideas and notes that I will lose the last few months worth if I can't figure out how to salvage it. ANyone have any clue? If anyone can recommend a way to save the SMS's and Shazam stuff as well it would be a bonus
My problem is I can't get to any of my programs since the homepage won't load up, but I can get into my SMS's if I go to my contacts and sms from there. I did do a SMS backup to my computer with some program called MobileGo. It seems pretty thorough, but I haven't tested since I'm waiting to restore my phone until after I get my notes. Thanks!
I can view my SD card files easily but I can't seem to get it to browse my internal storage...unless i'm forgetting something I assume that is where my notes would be?? Need help...
Pay version or free. Always found the pay version more stable
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Free Version...I assume since I never paid for it.
Yeah always had weird issues with free version
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I have learned my lesson, but I hope I can still save the notes...Any idea where I can backup the files or what directory they might be stored in?
Sent you my code I don't use it anymore since I'm on cm9. See if it helps
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Also try loading a different launcher like adw. All the home screen is a shortcut to your app drawer.
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Sent you my code I don't use it anymore since I'm on cm9. See if it helps
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How did you get my kindle fire I swear I took it off the market
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Also try loading a different launcher like adw. All the home screen is a shortcut to your app drawer.
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Good idea...any idea how I can install it if I can't get to programs or homepage or the market etc? I can use voice commands, make calls, text or look at my contacts and use some apps that come up by themselves like facebook, craigslist etc.
If any mod can move this to the Q and A forum...I thought I was posting there, but obviously not...
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Demianwulf said:
Good idea...any idea how I can install it if I can't get to programs or homepage or the market etc? I can use voice commands, make calls, text or look at my contacts and use some apps that come up by themselves like facebook, craigslist etc.
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do you have titanium back up?
if you do go into that fin luancher pro and clear the data
Can you walk me through the steps...I can't get to any homepage or open up programs so not sure how I would get into titanium backup or launcher pro. If we could just figure out where notes stores its data I could back that up then do a fresh install and drag and replace the new one with the old, I assume.
First do a nandroid back up from cwm assuming your rooted. That way nothing that is done to it can't be reversed. Second what actually happens when you reboot the phone?
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First do a nandroid back up from cwm assuming your rooted. That way nothing that is done to it can't be reversed. Second what actually happens when you reboot the phone?
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I am rooted and can do a nandroid backup from cwm...When I boot up the phone it loads everything then force closes constantly when launcher pro tries to load...I can cheat past to make calls if i press the home button quickly and tap the phone icon. I'll do the backup now.
Backup successful...Am i wrong to assume if I do a clean install and reinstall my ACS rom all succesful then restore my nandroid backup that my notes will be restored? If not then I'll do that and thanks. Otherwise, I'm still trying to save my notes. Bumpsky
You can try. Asking as you have back your now in a position that you can experiment. When you boot the phone does it immediately crash. Can you get to the app drawer. Then to market. Then titanium backup. Backup notes app and data. Reflash then restore notrs
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You can try. Asking as you have back your now in a position that you can experiment. When you boot the phone does it immediately crash. Can you get to the app drawer. Then to market. Then titanium backup. Backup notes app and data. Reflash then restore notrs
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It crashes immediately upon boot...Can't get into my app drawer. I would have done a tit backup and restore if could.
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It crashes immediately upon boot...Can't get into my app drawer. I would have done a tit backup and restore if could.
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Just spitballing here but can't you download another home launcher like zeam from a computer... it'll push it to your phone and when its done downloading press home key and set that one as your main launcher.... then delete the faulty one and reinstall it?
You could try reflashing your rom clean and doing an advanced data restore in cwm. Not sure if that would work but it's worth a shot.
Edit: also i believe there is a way to restore apps from a nandroid in titanium if you flash clean. I've never done it, but I've read about people doing that.
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Just spitballing here but can't you download another home launcher like zeam from a computer... it'll push it to your phone and when its done downloading press home key and set that one as your main launcher.... then delete the faulty one and reinstall it?
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You my friend are a genius...I did that and it worked brilliantly now that I have my notes I can restore without worry. THANK THANK THANK YOU!

[Q] Widgets Dissapearing after reboot, regular launcher, no root

I am completely stock and I have never rooted my phone or done anything other than use Go Launcher Ex up until a month ago. I recently discovered that I don't have to use the TWLauncher but that I can in fact use the regular Launcher on my Epic 4g Touch. So I uninstalled Go Launcher and started using the regular launcher (I'm on FI27 by the way).
The problem is all of my widgets dissapear off of my home screen after each and every reboot (and yes, I wait for Media scanning to complete. Still nothing). This is true for stock widgets and 3rd party widgets. The only issue I've found like this in my Google searches are people that had their apps/widgets moved to their SD card. Mine are not. I'm completely stumped. I really don't want to use the TW launcher and as much as I like the flexibility of Go Launcher EX I really really like the smoothnes and simplicity of the standard launcher and would hate to have to go back either of the other ones.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to do a wipe simply because I am really lazy and don't want to have to reinstall my apps again, but if you think that is necassary please recommend the best way to make the app download and reinstallation as quick as possible for my lazy behind.
Thanks!
App Backup & Restore from play store will backup the apps but not data. There are similar apps for backing up sms and call logs too.
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App Backup & Restore from play store will backup the apps but not data. There are similar apps for backing up sms and call logs too.
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So I'm guessing from your reply that you either A: Have not heard of this issue and therefore do not know of a fix or B: You have heard of it and the fix is to restore my device.
I'll give it another day or two to see if anyone else has come across this and found a fix but I guess I'm gonna have to try a wipe. I just hope that works.
Thank you for your suggestions sir and I will start researching further to try and make my restore as fast as possible.

Uninstalled System App And Now Screen Won't Turn Off

My screen won't turn off. when u turn it off it stays off for about 1-2 seconds and then turns back on. it must have been a particular system app I uninstalled. I was thinking It was because I unistalled the home system apps, which elsewhere are list as safe for removing as long as u replace it first. I was able to reinstall them, but not sure if they are reinstalled right. I did see another guy whom when he reinstalled certain system apps he had to rename them first. I can't find the post. So far that doesn't work.
1. does anybody know which system app I uninstalled or did to do this?
2. does anyone know the proper name to rename the home app apk for re-installation?
3. if this happens to anyone else I have found that using the "Redeye - Stay wake" app, Power on volume (button fix), and the "Desktop Visualizer (for creating customized shortcut) seemed to be a temporary fix until I find out what I did.
Anyone?
AC
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Attackcenter said:
My screen won't turn off. when u turn it off it stays off for about 1-2 seconds and then turns back on. it must have been a particular system app I uninstalled. I was thinking It was because I unistalled the home system apps, which elsewhere are list as safe for removing as long as u replace it first. I was able to reinstall them, but not sure if they are reinstalled right. I did see another guy whom when he reinstalled certain system apps he had to rename them first. I can't find the post. So far that doesn't work.
1. does anybody know which system app I uninstalled or did to do this?
2. does anyone know the proper name to rename the home app apk for re-installation?
3. if this happens to anyone else I have found that using the "Redeye - Stay wake" app, Power on volume (button fix), and the "Desktop Visualizer (for creating customized shortcut) seemed to be a temporary fix until I find out what I did.
Anyone?
AC
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If you deleted LG Home, that's your problem. That's the LG stock launcher. Your phone is technically booting, but it cannot get to the desktop without a launcher, basically. The thing is that you need both the app and the odex files to be properly installed for the LG Home launcher to function.
Do you have a backup? If not, you'll need to reflash the ROM. Do you have another launcher installed?
hey.
i had read that someone said that you can uninstall your native lg home apps as long as have an replacement launcher in place first. I already had nova prime launcher installed before I uninstalled the native lg home launcher apps? this wont work?
I did make an app backup of the native home launcher apps with "titanium backup" and "app master" (Uninstall master). is this sufficient?
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I did find that I already had the APKs backed up from what I previously mentioned. I checked my root/system/apps directory and the odex files are there too. what do I do now? or do I need to do anything since I already previously had nova prime installed before I uninstalled the native lg home apps and that should have be fine?
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I did find that I already had the APKs backed up from what I previously mentioned. I checked my root/system/apps directory and the odex files are there too. what do I do now? or do I need to do anything since I already previously had nova prime installed before I uninstalled the native lg home apps and that should have be fine?
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It won't use Nova unless it was set to use it, so it's not going to really matter.
It could be that the files were corrupted when you tried to reinstall them manually. I've had the same sort of issues with NFC and Bluetooth resources. I deleted then and then tried to reinstall them and produced the same sort of thing you described. I had no choice but to flash back to stock via the uber-crappy LG tools.
Let me try to understand. If you install Nova Prime while u still have a perfectly good working copy of LG home and then Uninstall LG home what is the problem? how would it not be set to use nova?
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Attackcenter said:
Let me try to understand. If you install Nova Prime while u still have a perfectly good working copy of LG home and then Uninstall LG home what is the problem? how would it not be set to use nova?
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There's a separate laucher/Home chooser component in the LG Home software that, unless it is set to use another launcher (which it can be in the settings) it will continue to look for LG Home and try to launch it. If it's been deleted, you'll have a mess.
Didn't you say that you tried to reinstall it also? I don't think it was perfect after reinstallation. It should be, but again, I used Titanium Backup to delete and reinstall some system components, and it did not work, even though the components seemed to be installed/restored correctly.
In reality, they weren't.
Fixed. Thanks donalgodon. That worked. my problem was that I had installed nova prime, but did not make it the default before Uninstalling the lg native home apps. So I found I had backups of lg home apk/data, lg selector apk/data, and of the lg optimus theme. the reason my previous restore did not work was because I was trying to restore the apk only with app master (master Uninstaller) which did not have the capability to restore data also for apps. I used titanium backup to restore my apk/data backup from last month of 1st the selector, then lg home, a d then the lg theme. it work perfectly. Then in made nova prime my default launcher. I tested the sleep awake functionality and it once again was working. I then uninstalled again the lg home selector, the lg home, and the Optimus theme. everything went perfectly.
AC
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Might wanna move Nova to /system/app and fix the permissions just as a precaution.. If you decide to do a factory reset, you'll be right back where you started lol.
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lol. thanks neroga. done. used the app system application manager by flaki.
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