topic Re: Help.fix! After system update my home screen layout is all gone, all my ic.. in Galaxy S22

After system update my home screen layout is all gone, all my icons and web link icons saved to homepage gone!

user7lFSVFP9Ty — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 04:15:54 GMT

Help! Has this happened to anyone else and how can I fix this?!

I've got a Samsung Galaxy S22 ultra phone which just did some system updates.

After the last one or so my whole home screen layout was completely gone as far as no app icons and the settings I had for it. The widgets, my folders of apps and icons, and even all the web browser pages I added as shortcuts icons to my home screen.

This has never happened before with any other update until now with the new UI 6.1 or something like that.

I've already tried to go into settings and under backup and restore to restore home screen but it did absolutely nothing at all!

I wouldn't be as frustrated as I know I could just manually put the app icons and my normal home screen settings back but I'm more frustrated because of what I can not get back which is all the important web pages I added to home screen.

Can someone please tell me this is a way to recover this and fill me in on how??! That would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance!!

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Andyung — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:04:36 GMT

I can not register to have the one Ui7 beta update. There is no banner or notification for the update. My phone is updated, and it is an s24. If you could tell me, that would be awesome.

Re: Help.fix! After system update my home screen layout is all gone, all my icons and web link icons saved to homepage gone!

user7lFSVFP9Ty — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:06:55 GMT

I just went under settings and system update and click update and install or something although now I wish I never have

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meself — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:14:15 GMT

I would submit feedback seen few other post having simular issues with update

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user7lFSVFP9Ty — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:32:44 GMT

How would I do that and what's that mean?

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meself — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:38:29 GMT

Bottom of page tab for support there's option to submit feedback in the middle of that page you type in what happened and submit the feedback

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MrGhoul — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:01:22 GMT

Go to device settings > home screen > home screen layout. change it to "home screen only" then back to "home and apps screens". See if that fixes it.

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user7lFSVFP9Ty — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:22:27 GMT

Thanks I tried it but it didn't.

Like I said I get it if I'm **bleep** and not a huge of a deal to have to manually put the apps back and fix my home screen layout again but if there were a way to get back and or even see a list of the web pages I added to home screen since those icons I cannot get back or figure out what they all were, even something to help just that would be great!

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MrGhoul — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:30:41 GMT

Yea, it's terrible that happened to you. Hope you figure it out.

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Robin621k — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:05:37 GMT

I am sorry to hear that an update has completely taken away your custom setup on your device.

You don't have a back up your device externally anywhere?

I have redundancy in place just for situations such as this. My device is backed up on a computer and a thumb drive that I carry with me. Once every 2 weeks, I perform a new backup !

Yes, I am a little **bleep** about this. It's better to be safe than sorry!

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realaud — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:10:57 GMT

Did you try cleaning your cache partition?

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user7lFSVFP9Ty — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:01:06 GMT

Yes I have backups and I tried cleaning the cache but I couldn't restore the backup....it didn't delete my apps just took them all off my home screen....which included a lot of web pages I hit "add to home screen" so when those icons that aren't apps were taken off I can't get them back. But even so with backing up my phone all the time and the fact that I did and do have backup I tried to restore it and settings and hit home screen under restore and nothing happened like it didn't put my apps back to where I had them or anything Just no change at all and I don't know how else to restore a backup of all your icons that are on your home screen pages and in certain spots and in certain folders etc

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user7lFSVFP9Ty — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:01:36 GMT

Do you know how?

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user7lFSVFP9Ty — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:02:18 GMT

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Robin621k — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:43:40 GMT

You would have to use Smart Switch that you download from the Galaxy Store, once Smart Switch is installed on phone, you put an external drive into your UBC port, open Smart Switch, at the top right corner there is icon, that looks like an SD card press that, press back up, it will ask what you want backed up, I press all, it will take a while depending of what is on your phone. It will back up everything, all of your settings, folders al of screens. Everything. Should you need to factory reset your device, when setting up your device again, you just open Smart Switch plug in the thump drive and tap on copy all.

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realaud — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:40:59 GMT

Did you, by any chance, install a custom launcher that may have changed your home screen? In any case, as far as the webpages you added to your home screen, when you did that it should also have created a bookmark in your favorites folder in whichever browser you used. You should be able to get them back that way.

At any time did you try actually doing a factory reset, and restoring your backup?

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user7lFSVFP9Ty — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:46:59 GMT

I thought factory reset gets rid of everything and makes your phone wiped of everything like you just got it?

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realaud — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:42:32 GMT

It does, and restoring a backup should put everything back the way you had it. The only time you would not want to restore your backup is if you suspected being hacked or were infected with malware. Most other times, resetting clears out system errors and the backups do not usually contain thise errors. You can also, I believe, selectively reinstall backed up items so you can start with a fresh OS, but still preserve your documents, photos, apps and settings so you don't have to reinstall them all and set up again. I do not believe the OS is contained in the backup.

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userozP4IOY6ws — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:00:53 GMT

Seems samsung knows about bricking many phones with the last update, try looking it up on reddit . I wonder if samsung had the brains to tell people not to patch their phones . You would think so but who knows, good luck. I updated a few weeks ago but only thing I noticed is phone stumbles now and then. Good luck. And I hope this isn't what happened to you