[Q] Backup/Restore apps order/layout - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
What is the best method to backup the order of apps and widgets in (home screen + apps drawer) after a clean rom installation
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Please don't tell me use Titanium backup!
for more info about my device, down below in my signature
Thanks in advance...

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dark-shadow93 said:
Hi
What is the best method to backup the order of apps and widgets in (home screen + apps drawer) after a clean installation
Please don't tell me use Titanium backup!
for more info about my device, down below in my signature
Thanks in advance...
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Do a nandroid backup of your current settings using the recovery of your choice and whenever you bork something up, just restore back
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jdsingle76 said:
Do a nandroid backup of your current settings using the recovery of your choice and whenever you bork something up, just restore back
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Thanks my friend, but that's not my problem!
I want to restore a backup of apps order after doing a full wipe installation.

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dark-shadow93 said:
Thanks my friend, but that's not my problem!
I want to restore a backup of apps order after doing a full wipe installation.
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Are you trying to remember the order you put your apps in the app drawer?
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jdsingle76 said:
Are you trying to remember the order you put your apps in the app drawer?
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My friend it's easy to remember by taking a screenshot, but It makes no sense to reorder them every new ROM!!!

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dark-shadow93 said:
My friend it's easy to remember by taking a screenshot, but It makes no sense to reorder them every new ROM!!!
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Lol, that's what I'm trying to figure out, what exactly you're trying to do. If you don't like TB, then you could always go into your system/app folder and copy the apks and save them to your SD card one by one.
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TB can't do it! Not that I don't like it... I see that you didn't get my question
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dark-shadow93 said:
TB can't do it! Not that I don't like it... I see that you didn't get my question
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I guess I don't understand what it is you are asking exactly. My interpretation is that you want to have a way to install your current apps AFTER you do a full wipe install(which would delete said apps), without having to order them all again. If that's the case, my advice, pull the apk from system/app, system/data/app, or system/preload/app and save them to a folder on your SD card. Then just install them from there after the fresh install. If that's not what you meant, my apologies.
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Thanks my friend... My request is to backup the order of the apps not the apk file, how are they sorted in the menus
As same as my home layout, want to have backup if what it's looked like without re-ordering them all over again
Thanks in advance
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Still no solution found
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dark-shadow93 said:
Still no solution found
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No solution 2 month later? I'm searching for this too cause every full whipe later my sort is gone, i want my folders back as i created them

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i get your question,, but afaik, with new TB, you can restore the apps order. but dont ask me how to in TB setting, i dont know buddy. i just backup,, then after restore,, all apps go back into their place, plus settings, plus the order in every pages.