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submitted 1 month ago by loaExMachina@hexbear.net to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

I have an Honor phone (not rooted) and I dislike the default launcher, so I installed a new one. It worked, but even after switching the default in the settings, the settings kept changing themselves after a while to return to the default launcher. This happened with both Foss-ify's Launcher and Kiss Launcher, so it doesn't seem to be due to a failure of the selected launcher.

Next thing I intended to try was force stop Honor Home, but I'm a bit worried about doing that, because what if the phone still starts refusing to launch the installed launcher but can't find the old one either and doesn't launch anything? Will I find myself unable to open any apps (including the settings to revert this) if that happens?

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

You can boot into safe mode. That ought to give you a working environment to fix problems.

Usually if Android doesn't have a default launcher it'll ask you to pick one when you hit the home button.

[-] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe start with removing permission to change settings of the honor home app?

That way it can't reset the launcher

this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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