Launcher and keyboard reset every reboot

[JasW]

Yeah, I didn't mean to sound harsh about it

Sent from my Note 2

No, you didn't sound harsh. At first I chafed at the idea of spending a quarter of the price of SwiftKey itself to get something that's not even a fix. But given the bug, and that it's not going to be fixed until whenever it is that Samsung/AT&T roll out 4.2.2, I figured 99 cents is 99 cents. Couch money. (And beer money for the developer guy who came up with the idea and exploited the situation.)

 

[GuccizBud]

For the record this is nearly 3 years after that last post up there ⇈ and on a rooted Note® 4 with the stock launcher at the moment I've been having keyboard and background wallpaper "resets" at some point during the night lately. Wallpaper just goes back to the stock one that's there when you get the phone, and keyboard goes back to the stock Samsung one ( I use Swype®). This is something that used to happen _once in a while_ with my previous device ( Note® II ) but has just happened 3 nights in a row with this one. Don't think the carrier matters too much, but I'm with Rogers ( CAD version ).

Don't have a solution yet, actually just started searching. Search results don't look too promising though … can't seem to nail down results with exactly the same problem.


***** EDIT : SOLVED *****
( see post below ⇊)

 

[GuccizBud]

This is how I resolved this issue, and is a continuation/conclusion to my post right above this one.

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The culprit is Titanium Backup, believe it or not. I have it set to do backups every night, and it's in the process of doing them that the funny stuff happens.

First, if you _don't_ have the Pro version, this isn't going to help you.

If you _do_ have the Pro, go to Preferences, then scroll down to the bottom of the "Backup settings" section, just before the "Restoration settings" section. You'll see "☆ Advanced app settings". It's not a section, it's just one single setting … make sure its checkbox is checked. What it does is ensure that any apps that are running at the moment Titanium tries backing them up are paused first, then backed yup, then resumed. This effectively prevents the little "resets" we're seeing with keyboard, wallpaper, etc.

In my case the problem wasn't that I didn't have it checked (it's actually checked by default), it was that for some reason I didn't have the Pro key I had purchased on my system, so I was running backups with the free version … and the free version doesn't have that setting. Installing the Pro key fixed it, I tested it before posting this and there were no surprise resets.

Obviously if you don't run Titanium backups in the first place, your problem is elsewhere. But I'm willing to bet this'll settle the issue for quite a few people.