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Help How to transfer home page links across devices

charles_s

charles_s

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I am finding this very frustrating; with all the hundreds of options and apps out there for sharing of data, apps, files, photos, music, etc, in every conceivable way, there does not seem to be any easy way to transfer or share a home page link. Any suggestions on this ?

The problem: I have a Galaxy Note 2, still in use, on which I have saved many Web site links as bookmarks on the home page and stored them within folders. There are maybe 100 or so links. Now I have upgraded to a Note 4 and would like to transfer all these. I can see no way to do this, not via app, wifi, USB, SBeam, NFC, backup / restore, you name it, nothing. Either I have to sit there and open each link on the Note 2, note the URL, type it into a browser on the Note 4 and then save it as a home page link, one by one. Or else (quickest option I can think of so far): open the link on the Note 2, copy the URL, paste into an SMS message and message myself on the Note 4, open the message on the Note 4, copy it, open the browser, paste into the address bar, go to the page, and then save the link onto the home screen. And that seems to be the BEST way. Just for a link ? And yet there are probably dozens of ways out there of transferring images, videos, everything. Surely there has got to be a better way. This is 2015. Any ideas ?

Would appreciate help.

Charles S
 
Thank you for the suggestions. Bookmarks Manager will not install on either Note 2 or Note 4. I have tried both of the other two; as the title / description would seem to indicate, they will work for bookmarks stored within browsers but not for home page bookmarks. So I am still left with a blank.

Is there nothing that will work for home page bookmarks ?

If someone could indicate where those things are stored in system memory, maybe some kind of file transfer would do it. Maybe some Android gurus out there would know. I have never been able to find that, not even by attaching to my computer and doing a global filename search across all directories on the device.
 
I would try adding a new bookmark and then connect the device to a PC to locate the most recent file changes. If nothing shows, the file may be stored at system level meaning you would need to root the device to locate and copy the folder. THen you are left with having to root the new device to transfer the copy folder
 
Pugs1957 said:
I would try adding a new bookmark and then connect the device to a PC to locate the most recent file changes. If nothing shows, the file may be stored at system level meaning you would need to root the device to locate and copy the folder. THen you are left with having to root the new device to transfer the copy folder
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Not a bad idea. I think I have already done a text search for text embedded in a bookmark title string, using both Android-based file managers I have installed and USB computer connection, but came up blank. My conclusion is this is probably in a system area ... but maybe there is something I have missed. I will try this if no one comes up with anything better. Neither device is rooted atm and I don't think I would want to do that.
 
Answering my own question ... since no one seems to have a better way. This one is still painstaking but it works. There is an app called ClipSync that will synchronized clipboards. Bizarre, but it does it. Need to install on a desktop on your LAN, as a server, and then on any number of Android devices connected to the LAN. Then you can copy on one, paste on the other. So: open the link in browser on Note 2, copy the URL, go to open browser on Note 4, paste, go to the page, then select Add Link to Home Page. Server must be at least Windows 7 and must allow access to Firewall.
 
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