Any way to backup Home screen configuration ?

[Guest zeroprobe]

Hi,

When upgrading to a new rom etc, is their anyway to keep or backup your home screen configuration and widgets ? also applications

Just rooted my device too if this helps.

Thanks

Edited April 30, 2010 by zeroprobe

[Guest TSpark]

Hi,

When upgrading to a new rom etc, is their anyway to keep or backup your home screen configuration and widgets ? also applications

Just rooted my device too if this helps.

Thanks

Hi,

Take a look at "Titanium Backup". If you have root this app should do the trick.

Titanium Backup (root)

Greetings,

TSpark

[Guest zeroprobe]

Hi,

Take a look at "Titanium Backup". If you have root this app should do the trick.

Titanium Backup (root)

Greetings,

TSpark

Thanks, so I'm guessing this will allow me to restore my config after a rom upgrade.

[Guest froobra]

Titanium backup doesnt seem to work on my rooted desire. Error message saying the device isnt rooted! Anyone else experience this?

Edited April 30, 2010 by froobra

[Guest aherbjornsen]

Titanium backup doesnt seem to work on my rooted desire. Error message saying the device isnt rooted! Anyone else experience this?

Mine did say the same, then it suggested it might be caused by a wrong busybox and suggested an upgrade. I did OK this and it automatically performed the download and install of the new busybox. After that everything worked fine.

[Guest froobra]

Mine did say the same, then it suggested it might be caused by a wrong busybox and suggested an upgrade. I did OK this and it automatically performed the download and install of the new busybox. After that everything worked fine.

That did the trick! Thanks :huh:

[Guest zeroprobe]

Titaniumbackup doesn't seem to save the layout and widgets.

Any other options, or is the location known where the data for this gets saved.

[Guest zeroprobe]

I created a new home screen at 10:40.

This file stores all of the homescreen config

./data/data/com.htc.launcher/databases:

-rw-rw---- nobody nobody 84992 2010-05-01 10:40 launcher.db

I reset my phone and replaced my backup launcher.db , My home screens were now correctly restored :huh:.

When I restored the file I did a chmod 660 to set the correct permissions and changed the owner using chown nobody

However I couldn't replace the group owner from root to nobody. This didn't seem to be a problem though. Anyone know how to change a file to nogroup?, keeps saying no user called nogroup.

These files were also saved at 10:40. I think for every new homescreen that is saved another home_wallpaper is created.

./data/data/com.htc.launcher/files:

-rw------- nobody nobody 147721 2010-05-01 10:23 home_wallpaper_7

-rw------- nobody nobody 200136 2010-05-01 00:06 home_wallpaper_3

-rw------- nobody nobody 153062 2010-05-01 00:06 home_wallpaper_6

-rw------- nobody nobody 161994 2010-05-01 00:06 home_wallpaper_5

-rw------- nobody nobody 147721 2010-05-01 00:06 home_wallpaper_1

-rw------- nobody nobody 147721 2010-05-01 00:06 home_wallpaper_

-rw------- nobody nobody 236371 2010-05-01 00:06 home_wallpaper_4

-rw------- nobody nobody 144837 2010-05-01 00:06 home_wallpaper_2

Edited May 1, 2010 by zeroprobe

[Guest zeroprobe]

Updated above.