My phone is frozen on the home screen, won't let me do anything. How can I get past this?

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Help! Phone is frozen on home screen, won't let me do anything

I just restored my LG G3 to Android 4.4 after finally figuring out how to get rid of the awful new 5.0, and it was working fine. I just used LG Backup to restore a backup I made while it was on 5.0, and it said it successfully restored my data, minus a few items. I restarted it, and now Smart Notice has a loading icon going on it and my home buttons aren't showing up. I can turn the screen on and off with the lock button, but I can touch anything on the screen.
I tried restarting it and then I took out the battery and put it back and it's still doing it. Is there a way I can fix this without losing my data?
 
Re: Help! Phone is frozen on home screen, won't let me do anything

Ended up just resetting it again. Didn't get to recover anything.
 
Can't you have a second go at restoring from the LG backup? Also, did you not get Google account personal data restored?

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Re: Help! Phone is frozen on home screen, won't let me do anything

Can't you have a second go at restoring from the LG backup? Also, did you not get Google account personal data restored?

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I did retrieve all of my data from Google and from Verizon Cloud. I'll double check, but when do a factory reset, LG Backup removes any backup files. You would have to transfer the backup file to an SD card or computer.
 
Re: Help! Phone is frozen on home screen, won't let me do anything

Oh. I'd assumed LG Backup would be to the Cloud.