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Does anybody here know where the android browser bookmarks are stored on the file system? I'm hoping to keep a backup of my bookmarks so I don't need to go thru the hassle of entering all my favorite sites each time I have to wipe my phone!
thanks in advance
They're stored in a database in the browser's data directory. Check http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3223060&postcount=199 -- it gives you the command to use to retrieve them from the database, i.e.
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db "SELECT * FROM bookmarks;"
You can also use the My Backup app (available from the Market) to back them up.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I'm not really familiar with sqlite, more of a mysql guy personally
The bookmarks table holds the browser history as well.
Bookmarks backup
You should check out MyBackup on the Market. It's a free app that will backup your bookmarks (plus a lot of other things) to your SD card. It works quite well. The restore feature is also very simple.
There is also my bookmarks as well that allows you to import your bookmarks to your phone from your desktop browser.
speoples20 said:
There is also my bookmarks as well that allows you to import your bookmarks to your phone from your desktop browser.
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What I'd like to see (and I can't believe wasn't included in the OS) is automatic syncing of your Android bookmarks with Google Bookmarks. (or ones labeled as mobile in Google Bookmarks)
I had this frustration as well (not being able to sync or backup my bookmarks) so I finally just found a simple website where I could save all of my bookmarks, then I set it as the browser home page. There are tons of websites out there that allow you to store your bookmarks, but the one that I chose was murl.com.
Since I use Firefox I use foxmarks. Which is one of the best programs I have ever used. It sycs all of your bookmarks through firefox on as many computers as you want. They have a mobile site you can bookmark in your browser or steel bookmarks and access all of them. Not perfect but better then nothing.
I use Foxmarks too, and I love it! Every time I use a different computer, I just sync my bookmarks, and everything stays the same on each machine!
Now when I use my phone, I can also just go to Foxmarks and click on any bookmark there to go to a website.
No FireFox here. (Work doesn't allow it for some reason.)
I use the Google Toolbar on both my desktop and notebook pcs at home and at the office to keep track of my bookmarks. I'm still surprised that it doesn't doesn't sync with android though. Seems like about the only Google thing that doesn't at this point.
I just wish someone would write a utility that automatically alphabetized the bookmarks, why this isn't an option by default is annoying. I'm thinking about making it my first Android project.
grokdesigns said:
I just wish someone would write a utility that automatically alphabetized the bookmarks, why this isn't an option by default is annoying. I'm thinking about making it my first Android project.
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I don't think it would be hard to sort the list and dump out all the history entries as well. You can do this all with some SQL commands.
Is there anyway to create a shortcut to list all the Bookmarks? I am using Dwang 1.12 Rom.
I have been searching and can not find anything on how to do it. I love the ability to push an icon, it will list all the bookmarks like the bookmark widget in the Hero Rom.
Thanks
i use the live bookmarks app from the market it lets you make an icon that opens a folder with all your bookmarks. Also bookmarkBR from the market backs up and restores bookmarks.
foxtrickle said:
You should check out MyBackup on the Market. It's a free app that will backup your bookmarks (plus a lot of other things) to your SD card. It works quite well. The restore feature is also very simple.
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Seems it is pay ware now. Any alternative?
manually changing bookmarks
short/y said:
They're stored in a database in the browser's data directory. Check http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3223060&postcount=199 -- it gives you the command to use to retrieve them from the database, i.e.
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db "SELECT * FROM bookmarks;"
You can also use the My Backup app (available from the Market) to back them up.
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Thanks for the info.
I used this to bookmark a url that was a google maps redirect. I used the adb shell to get on my rooted EVO and ran these commands:
Code:
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db
update bookmarks set bookmark = 1 where url = ''http://goo.gl/maps/XXXX';
This url was already in my bookmarks because I had visited it. but I couldn't bookmark it because I was immediately redirected to google maps.
To list all of your urls:
Code:
select url from bookmarks;
If you have not rooted and you don't mind, can you please give me a list of stock apps? I'd like to unroot but I need to download the apps I deleted and can't remember all of the apps I deleted (really didn't delete a alot).
I'd be VERY appreciative if anyone has the time to do this. Thanks
apps list please
This would be helpful. I did the samething I have a backup but I don't want to re-root my bionic again. I have downloaded many of the apps including all the vcast apps.
Here ya go, this is a full list of everything in my app tab (excluding stuff I've installed since purchase) on my un-rooted stock bionic.
Alarm & Timer
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Browser
Calculator
Calendar
Camcorder
Camera
Citrix
City ID
Contacts
Device Setup
Dialer
DLNA
Downloads
Email
Files
Gallery
Gmail
Google Search
GoToMeeting
Guided Tours
Help Center
IM
Latitude
Let's Golf 2
Maps
Market
Messaging
Mobile Hotspot
MOTOPRINT
Music
My Accounts
My Verizon Mobile
Navigation
News
NFL Mobile
Places
Quickoffice
Settings
Slacker
Social Location
Social Networking
Talk
Task Manager
Tasks
Text Messaging
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
Videosurf
Voice Commands
Voice Search
Voicemail
VZ Navigator
YouTube
ZumoCast
That's the lot, hope this helps!
thank you this should help me out.
Wow, I just looked over my list, MAN that's a lot of junk... I may have to take the leap to root, didn't realize quite how much bloatware this thing had until right now...
soul777toast said:
Here ya go, this is a full list of everything in my app tab (excluding stuff I've installed since purchase) on my un-rooted stock bionic.
Alarm & Timer
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Browser
Calculator
Calendar
Camcorder
Camera
Citrix
City ID
Contacts
Device Setup
Dialer
DLNA
Downloads
Email
Files
Gallery
Gmail
Google Search
GoToMeeting
Guided Tours
Help Center
IM
Latitude
Let's Golf 2
Maps
Market
Messaging
Mobile Hotspot
MOTOPRINT
Music
My Accounts
My Verizon Mobile
Navigation
News
NFL Mobile
Places
Quickoffice
Settings
Slacker
Social Location
Social Networking
Talk
Task Manager
Tasks
Text Messaging
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
Videosurf
Voice Commands
Voice Search
Voicemail
VZ Navigator
YouTube
ZumoCast
That's the lot, hope this helps!
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You rock!!!! Thank you SO, SO much!!
****! That's a boatload of bloat!
F#ck you Verzion!
Of course Titanium will show a LOT more.
If you root and freeze do not freeze any of the other authenticators like picasa, yahoo, etc. even if you don't use the apps.
It will cause your contacts to force close upon opening.
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Of course Titanium will show a LOT more.
If you root and freeze do not freeze any of the other authenticators like picasa, yahoo, etc. even if you don't use the apps.
It will cause your contacts to force close upon opening.
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Yahoo Authenticator is the only one that will mess up contacts.
Are there any apps that would potentially mess up your front facing camera?
Abradax said:
Of course Titanium will show a LOT more.
If you root and freeze do not freeze any of the other authenticators like picasa, yahoo, etc. even if you don't use the apps.
It will cause your contacts to force close upon opening.
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Yes, sorry I just realized I should have probably given the disclaimer that I don't have titanium on yet and so I can't tell you what other junk may be on here, what I listed were just the apps that are visible in the app tab, hope that didn't mess anyone up
UGH - I had deleted Guided Tours and News. Any ideas for putting these back on my phone in case I should ever have to return my Bionic?
Just a suggestion if you are rooted and are removing some of that bloatware, don't delete it. Use something like Root Explorer to rename the .apk file to something like .apk.old. This way you can easily recover it. Root Explorer also gives you the ability to change the system\app directory from read only to read/write so that you can rename them.
I have also heard of people taking the .apk renamed fike and moving it to the sdcard to free up space.
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Anybody know how to edit the system settings that set the default pre-installed bookmarks in the stock browser? I am using Dolphin for Pad and Dolphin HD but neither of them seems to want to play nice on my 8.9 LTE. So I have to use the stock browser a lot of the time and I absolutely hate that they will not allow you to remove the pre-installed bookmarks. What a bunch of morons forcing that kind of stuff on us. Anyway what file or system setting would possibly eradicate these annoying bookmarks?
If i setup sync with google crome, it offers to delete all locally stored bookmarks.
poisike said:
If i setup sync with google crome, it offers to delete all locally stored bookmarks.
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This apparently does not work anymore, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=63eebdb9d371658d&hl=en&start=40
Is there any way to get rid of these crappy stock bookmarks?
Longpress the bookmark and click delete
I don´t know if it´s a difference in the rom between the LTE version and mine. I have a 3g tab
jai134 said:
Longpress the bookmark and click delete
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These are bookmarks that cannot be removed that way, they are carrier forced and protected bookmarks.
Alright. Sorry. Didn´t know. You can see my edit.
modestone said:
These are bookmarks that cannot be removed that way, they are carrier forced and protected bookmarks.
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Except, of course, that that guy complaining to Google is full of ****. It works. Was working on mine from day 1. And I just factory reset my Tab this morning and set it all up again and it still nukes the AT&T bookmarks just fine when doing a Chrome sync.
Of course, you need to actually have Chrome bookmarks to sync. If you're using Firesux, Suxfari or Exploder, that ain't gonna help.
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Except, of course, that that guy complaining to Google is full of ****. It works. Was working on mine from day 1. And I just factory reset my Tab this morning and set it all up again and it still nukes the AT&T bookmarks just fine when doing a Chrome sync.
Of course, you need to actually have Chrome bookmarks to sync. If you're using Firesux, Suxfari or Exploder, that ain't gonna help.
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At that link I provided to a google forum its not one guy, its many many many people.
I have still yet to get bookmarks to sync properly between chrome and my 8.9 LTE.
Bookmark sync works for me, on 4 devices. Some time ago i had problems on GT10.1 but i believe this was a problem with Samsung firmware.
Well I finally managed to get rid of those damn ATT bookmarks.
Tried everything, kies sync, chrome sync, all the other things I found on the web.
The only way I was able to get rid of them was to manually edit the browsers sqlite database with SQLite Editor.
Using that I was able to fully nuke those links!
Yay!
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Well I finally managed to get rid of those damn ATT bookmarks.
Tried everything, kies sync, chrome sync, all the other things I found on the web.
The only way I was able to get rid of them was to manually edit the browsers sqlite database with SQLite Editor.
Using that I was able to fully nuke those links!
Yay!
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Would you mind outlining the steps you took to edit the db file and where you found it in would love to do the same thing.
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My google bookmarks don't sync correctly. It only syncs some of the bookmarks.
okay so I was posting the other day asking about uninstalling system apps and unrooting, thanks guys I was able to unroot my phone and return it back to verizon and get a new one.
The reason I had to return it was I was having a contacts glitch. I could dial out just fine, but if I went to my contacts and clicked a name, my phone would force close.
so I get my new phone, sync my account, root it, and check the contact list, it works ! sweet so now its time to get to work. under your advice instead of un-installing like I did the last time I went to titanium backup to FREEZE all the bloatware. Im pretty sure I tried my contacts again and it works fine. then I spend the rest of last night installing my launchers, games, tools, got rom toolbox changed my lcd density to 280, change my boot animation, and disable some apps from starting on boot,then went to the applications tab and disabled further autostart functions. I didn't try using my contacts because this was around 2am . but I woke up today and I now have the same problem. I can dial out fine, but if I open the contacts and try to choose one, or if I type in a number and even try to add to contacts , contacts FC's. Oh I should add, when I want to send a text message it is no problem I open the text message home, click the + icon and type a contacts name and I can stat a conversation no problem. anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
here's the list of apps I froze
Ad Service
Amazon Kindle
Android Live Wallpapers
Apps
Backup Assistant Plus
Backup Assistant+
Backup Assistant+ Contacts
Backup Assistant+ Media
Bookmarks
Browser
CarDock
Device Setup
Email
Email Accounts
Email Authenticator
Email Engine
Facebook Authenticator
Forest Wallpaper
Guided Tours
Help Center
Home screen tips
Homescreen (I replaced it with launcher pro its not an issue, Also this glitch happened last time and I hadn't uninstalled or froze this)
IM
IM Presence
LastFM Authenticator
Linkedin Authenticator
Live Wallpaper Picker
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Mobile Hotspot
Mog Music
MOTOACTIV
MotoCast
Motocast ID
MOTOPRING
Motorola Dock Service
MotoSignatureApp
MusicStore
My Music
My Uploads
My Verizon Mobile
Netflix
NFL Mobile
Orkut Authenticator
Photobucket Authenticator
Picasa Authenticator
Skyrock Authenticator
Slacker
Slingbox
Social Loctaion
social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Netowrking
Social Sharing
Social Status
Twitter Authenticator
V CAST Tones
Verizon Location Agent
Verizon Video
VideoSurf
VZ Navigator
Webtop Connector
Yahoo Contacts
Yahoo Mail Authenticator
I am absolutely perplexed! anyone think they know what could be causing it?
EDIT: Okay so I did some researching and this appears to be a fairly prominent problem with moto Blur going back to the droid X etc...the fix was to go into /system/app and rename BlurContactSync.apk to BlurContactSync.bak ...now everything works perfect. credit goes to
droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/153062-contacts-wont-display-droid-x-w-gingerbread.html
The app that was most likely causing the crashing was the Yahoo Mail Authenticator. Droidforums had a few posts about it. Renaming the sync probably bypasses the authenticator.
droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-hacks/198081-bloatware-apps-safe-remove-droid-4-a-4.html#post2015606 (can't post links apparently)
Freeze
Are you experiencing the contact force close only when all apps are frozen? I had issues with the Verizon Backup Assistant goofing with my contact list.
kasouti said:
The app that was most likely causing the crashing was the Yahoo Mail Authenticator. Droidforums had a few posts about it. Renaming the sync probably bypasses the authenticator.
droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-hacks/198081-bloatware-apps-safe-remove-droid-4-a-4.html#post2015606 (can't post links apparently)
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I had the same issue until I unfroze Yahoo Mail Authenticator.
I am not sure I want to go renaming files yet until a recovery is available so I will just leave that one item unfroze.
blpw said:
I had the same issue until I unfroze Yahoo Mail Authenticator.
I am not sure I want to go renaming files yet until a recovery is available so I will just leave that one item unfroze.
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well the good thing about renaming the file is I am able to rename it back just as easy as un freezing . so I actually just renamed my blurcontactssync back to apk from .bak and unfroze yahoo mail authenticator and it is working great thanks for the tip!
In my opinion, stay away from Backup-Assistant. I've had nothing but trouble with it, everything from not backing up correctly, to poor restores that rendered my data useless. There is another program out there I use for this. Super Manager. It works for my application, and I would recommend it if you are still having trouble.
Hey guys, I have a couple of problems with chrome on One that you might be able to help with.
Before I go into that, does anyone know how to transfer my bookmarks from chrome (google) to the stock Android browser?
Chrome problems. Firstly, sometimes when browsing forums, some of the posts come in normal text and some in tiny! That is very frustrating, could it be a bug? Secondly, when I touch the address bar, sometimes it selects all of it (which allows me to go directly into searching something on Google and is awesome) but other times it doesn't, which is annoying. Can this be remedied?
Hulabaloo said:
Hey guys, I have a couple of problems with chrome on One that you might be able to help with.
Before I go into that, does anyone know how to transfer my bookmarks from chrome (google) to the stock Android browser?
Chrome problems. Firstly, sometimes when browsing forums, some of the posts come in normal text and some in tiny! That is very frustrating, could it be a bug? Secondly, when I touch the address bar, sometimes it selects all of it (which allows me to go directly into searching something on Google and is awesome) but other times it doesn't, which is annoying. Can this be remedied?
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Through the HTC sync app there should be a setting to transfer your bookmarks from the desktop but I think the only way to transfer bookmarks on the device is copy/paste them from chromes internal folder over to the stock browsers internal folder. It's worked for me on past devices so hopefully they didn't change it and a quick search should give you the directories for both.
The forum text size is usually due to settings on that forum, it'll happen in almost any lightweight browser.
The address bar highlight always works for me unless I touch where there isn't text or move my finger during a long press, maybe reinstall chrome to make sure it's the latest version without any bugs?
Thank you for the comprehensive and helpful reply! Do you know a way to automatically sync my bookmarks on the computer (chrome) to the One stock browser? You know, for those 'I'll bookmark to read it later' moments
If you go into Chrome settings on the phone, then click your Google account and just turn everything on.
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If you go into Chrome settings on the phone, then click your Google account and just turn everything on.
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Thanks for the reply, but I'm looking to sync my bookmarks at home (Chrome on the laptop) to the HTC One stock browser. Any idea how that could be done guys?
Hulabaloo said:
Thanks for the reply, but I'm looking to sync my bookmarks at home (Chrome on the laptop) to the HTC One stock browser. Any idea how that could be done guys?
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Oh, sorry. Umm... I never tried! If you're signed into Google with Chrome (desktop) is it not in the list of bookmarks somewhere?