Fragment saves instance state, but never reloads it

Question

I am having trouble reloading my fragments state.

The architecture is like this:

I am having an Activity A with a Fragment F. With the options menu Activity A opens the SettingsActivity with its SettingsFragment (with startActivity()). During this time the Fragment F does his usual thing, calls onSaveInstanceState, onPause, onStop. All good here.

As soon as the user hits the back button the SettingsActivity closes and the Fragment F should be re-initialized. Here the problem starts. The Fragment F does not call onCreateView again. It also does not call onActivityCreated. The first method that is called is onStart.

So where can I catch my savedInstanceState Bundle in order to reinitialize my custom member variables?

And why are the Fragment F member variables (that point to some Views in the fragment) still (or again?) initialized.

Thanks for any help!

Here are some code snippets:

Fragment F

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    Log.d(this, "onCreateView");
    return Butterknife.bind(this, inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_video_mockup, container, false));
}
@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    Log.d(this, "onActivityCreated");
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
    if(savedInstanceState != null)
    {
        Log.d(this, "... loading from saved instance");
        this.initFromArgument(savedInstanceState.getBundle(ARG_SAVED_STATE));
    }
    else if(this.getArguments() != null)
    {
        Log.d(this, "... loading from external arguments");
        this.initFromArgument(this.getArguments());
    }
}
@Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState)
{
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
    Log.d(this, "... saving");
    outState.putBundle(ARG_SAVED_STATE, createArgument(this.waveform, this.sequencer, this.paths));
}

Activity A

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
    Log.d(this, "options menu selected (" + item.getTitle() + ")");
    switch(item.getItemId())
    {
        case R.id.action_settings:
            this.startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, SettingsActivity.class));
            break;
        case R.id.action_feedback:
            this.onFeedbackClick();
            break;
        default:
            throw new AssertionError("wrong option item selected");
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}