is there any way to factory reset and get rid of the google account that you enter when you first login.
i tried resetting countless times though the default and CWM recovery.
the only thing it clears is my numbers and text, leaving the gmail account and applications.
i've also tried deleting /data/systems/accounts.db
but to no avail, i can't get rid of this account.
nvm solved.
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I need help deleting a google account that is attached to my rooted mtg4. I have tried to delete the account but it says that I will have to do a reset which will delete my downloaded programs.
Yep, you are screwed. If you purchased apps under that account, it's now your primary account. I went through this. I ended up resetting my phone to factory, used my new account, and then contacted every developer for my purchased apps to get them to refund my old purchase after they saw a new one come through. It was only 3 apps... If you have a lot of them, then that's gonna be a problem.
There are a couple of ways out there to change the primary account on the phone without wiping, but neither one of them worked for me. It also involves hand editing sqlite databases. You can google for them, but I doubt they will help you.
Reset.
Will a factory reset on a rooted phone cause any problems?
HiPakeMan said:
Will a factory reset on a rooted phone cause any problems?
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Just doing settings->wipe/reset will not, no. Re-flashing a factory PD15IMG will undo your root. You may just have to reinstall SU/SuperUser permissions app.
okay so i had a HD2 running Nand installed Cyanogen Mod7 and i sold it to a random person on craigslist, No matter what i did to clear the personal info and restore it to factory setting(including going into privacy and hitting factory restore) it would just reboot and come back up with my background and all my google information. it wont let me remove the account saying many apps require that account to work right and i should delete all personal info. he has his own account installed on the phone using the google accounts & sync under settings but i cant find a way to make it the primary account for apps. I deleted all the apps that i thought would use my old account but now it wont let him access the marketplace, anyone have any ideas short of just Nuking and starting over?
therian12 said:
okay so i had a HD2 running Nand installed Cyanogen Mod7 and i sold it to a random person on craigslist, No matter what i did to clear the personal info and restore it to factory setting(including going into privacy and hitting factory restore) it would just reboot and come back up with my background and all my google information. it wont let me remove the account saying many apps require that account to work right and i should delete all personal info. he has his own account installed on the phone using the google accounts & sync under settings but i cant find a way to make it the primary account for apps. I deleted all the apps that i thought would use my old account but now it wont let him access the marketplace, anyone have any ideas short of just Nuking and starting over?
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Just boot into CWM and do a factory reset, simple!
Once done it will be like you have just installed the rom, All you need to do is enter his info not yours.
EPIC WIN
thank you muchly sir, though another question and you will be my bestest friend for the help( and thanks alot for the fast reply) how do i enter that menu? i hold the power button till it pops up right? it has been MONTHS sence i made that a custom OS phone and i cant remember a damned thing on how i did it (though props to this site because thats how i did it originaly)
- hold power button down to enter magldr
- ad recovery
- wipe data/factory reset
So for the past few months I've been messing with different roms and accidentally setup one of my roms with a different email and bought the app chandroid. When I reverted to the main Rom I use chandroid wanted me to update so I tried but since I bought it under a different account it wanted me to buy it again. I found that the new market let's you switch between emails so I installed it but was unable to download or update any app.
This is where all the trouble started. I went to Google for answers and someone suggested clearing the data in the market. After doing this market would just say an error has occurred and shuts down. I then tried a factory reset. When I go to setup the account it says can't establish a reliable data connection. I understand this is a known problem but its different from my problem because even factory reset won't fix it. I've tried the YouTube method as well to no avail. One of my roms didn't come with the YouTube app and when I tried downloading it it said I already had it but it was no where to be found under app management.
The only luck I have had is with the muiu Rom. I was able to setup the account but that Rom looks too much like the iPhone and I prefer cyanogen 7 mod. I have factory reset, wiped cache, reinstalled rom. The only way market works is when I reinstall backed up roms.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
So basically you have a problem with the market app? or your google account?
because if you have paid fopr an app on a different email account, you can just save the apk and reinstall it.
isinisterx said:
So basically you have a problem with the market app? or your google account?
because if you have paid fopr an app on a different email account, you can just save the apk and reinstall it.
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It was installed. The problem is that it uses Google to authenticate the app and I can't setup my Google account so it can't authenticate. When I factory reset I get the message can't establish data connection. My internet works perfectly fine. Right now I just want a clean install of cyan 7 with the new market. I installed gapps as well and still same problem.
I really don't care about the app anymore since I installed 4chon. I just want my market to work again.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? I've tried everything possible as far as I know.
Okay so I figured it out. What I had to do was unroot my phone. Just download the PC36IMG.zip online and put it on the root of your sdcard. Go into clockworkmod by powering the phone off and then holding the down vol. and pwr button at the same time untill the hboot screen shows up. It will automatically detect it and just say yes when it asks you to install it. When it's finished you have to either delete the PC36IMG.zip file or rename it otherwise everytime you reboot the phone it will reinstall it. That's not a very good fix but as I am the only person I know of who has had this problem I do not see a better fix anytime soon.
Hey,
my OnePlus 2 was driving me crazy so I had to factory reset it.
After that I was asked to log in to my old Google account, which I did, but it wasn't accepted. It said I have to use the account that was used before. I'm a 100% sure that I used the correct account, though.
I tried to bypass the authentication by using the keyboard settings method. I've also tried to flash a ROM via recovery and fast boot, but the bootloader wasn't unlocked, so that didn't work either.
Does anyone know what the problem is and how to solve it?
I'm using a OnePlus 2 A2001 with the newest OxygenOS version.
Thank you in advance!
/EDIT: Okay, the problem is fixed, but I don't really understand how. After rebooting the phone I was able to configure the settings, but after that I was asked to log in to my old Google account again. After I tapped the button to log in the same message popped up over and over again. I decided to reboot the phone again and got to the home screen immediately, everything works fine now.
Here's what I am trying to do. First, delete my Google account on this phone, then do a factory reset. Problem: Deleting the factory reset is grayed out so I am unable to delete it. So how am I going to sell it without deleting that account on the phone? Anyone have a easy answer if there is one?
claypoole said:
Here's what I am trying to do. First, delete my Google account on this phone, then do a factory reset. Problem: Deleting the factory reset is grayed out so I am unable to delete it. So how am I going to sell it without deleting that account on the phone? Anyone have a easy answer if there is one?
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Try readding your Google account or add another account (create one if needed). See if that reactivates the 'factory reset' option. If not there is probably a way to perform something similar from stock recovery.
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Try readding your Google account or add another account (create one if needed). See if that reactivates the 'factory reset' option. If not there is probably a way to perform something similar from stock recovery.
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I can do a factory reset but I cannot delete firstly my Google account on that phone as it is grayed out. I want to first delete that email account and then do the factory reset.
claypoole said:
I can do a factory reset but I cannot delete firstly my Google account on that phone as it is grayed out. I want to first delete that email account and then do the factory reset.
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Factory reset will remove any/all registered accounts on device. If that's not happening then something else is amiss.