t:saveState to save state of Managed Bean with RequestScope - State for Pagination System

Question

I am trying to work with tomahawk-saveState, but it is simply not working. I inserted the following code to my xhtml file (JSF2.0):

 <t:saveState value="#{managedBean1}"/>

Using a managed bean like this one:

 @ManagedBean
 @RequestScoped
 public class ManagedBean1 implements Serializable {...}

I am tying to use this with a pagination system, so it can keep the state of the page number during the navigation on that page. Now, when I open the page then the pagination system is null and creates itself (good), but then I refresh the page (F5) or click on next page and the pagination system is null again and the bean creates it again. So, as you can see the pagination does not work because it cannot keep the state, so what could I be doing wrong?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.