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Change Google Account without factory reset!

You can change the google account used in G1 without factory reset, once you have done the setup, go to the setting option and then applications, in application go to Gmail and then clear the user data option, once you clear the Gmail data, and IM data from application you will see a notification/alert and that will require you to do the gmail setup again, use the other gmail account to register.
NOTE: the contacts and logs also got deleted in this process, so make sure you have a complete contact listed some where or better sycn it with previous gmail account and then export that from gmail. Once you setup the different account, import that contact and sync back to G1.
-Pramod

Nice! Thanks for the useful tip

I tried this and it still won't remove my account.

I am too suspicious as i tried but phone never asked me for newer User name and password

good work but anyone verify this will work, i hate losing all my contacts but still a very useful tip!
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hbguy

I just did it and it still re-connects to my mocked up acct

googcs said:
I just did it and it still re-connects to my mocked up acct
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I have tried it again and it works, try to clear the data of Google Application from the application, as you clear the data, android will have a notification to register again, use the new account to register.
Note:make sure you take care of contacts, else you may loose all that.
-Pramod

what do you mean:
"try to clear the data of Google Application from the application, as you clear the data"
so go to settings and manage applications then go to Google Apps and clear data?
sorry, i'm not the best reading comprehension kind of person as was seen when i take standardized exams
hbguy

I know there's probably a good reason for this, but what's the benefit of using a different account?

i figure just if you want to change email accounts or start somewhat fresh
hbguy

hbguy said:
what do you mean:
so go to settings and manage applications then go to Google Apps and clear data?
hbguy
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Yes
-Pramod

Like I said, I tried your steps and I still get the prompt to enter my password for the previous gmail. I just ended up doing a full restore.

googcs said:
Like I said, I tried your steps and I still get the prompt to enter my password for the previous gmail. I just ended up doing a full restore.
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not sure what's going on, I tried again and here are the steps go to setting then application management and the click gmail storage and clear data, do same with with google app storage and clear the data, wait for few minute and you get a reactive notification with a triangle and exclaimation.
Am I the only one able to do this again and again?
-Pramod

I can do that as well... but I rather not LOL

pramods said:
not sure what's going on, I tried again and here are the steps go to setting then application management and the click gmail storage and clear data, do same with with google app storage and clear the data, wait for few minute and you get a reactive notification with a triangle and exclaimation.
Am I the only one able to do this again and again?
-Pramod
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Works for me!! All i needed to do was to clear data of Google App in Application. Thanks

at last it worked for some other than me!!
-Pramod

jkiller122 said:
I know there's probably a good reason for this, but what's the benefit of using a different account?
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Two that come to mind immediately:
1) You want to use a different global default account.
2) You are getting rid of the phone.

The first thing you said was:
"You can change the google account used in G1 without factory reset, once you have done the setup, go to the setting option and then applications, in application go to Gmail and then clear the user data option"
The second thing you said was:
"I have tried it again and it works, try to clear the data of Google Application from the application, as you clear the data, android will have a notification to register again, use the new account to register."
Since the first thing you said (just the word "applications") was not very close to the ACTUAL NAME of the application you mean to be talking about, I suspect most ppl here tried clearing the data for the Gmail application.
I know I did, at any rate. Explanation FAIL.
Trying the suggestion with application: Google Apps now....
It works.
Get the effin names right, plz.
Here's an example of clear and correct steps:
Home -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Google Apps -> Clear data -> Notifications (top of screen) -> Tap "Your account must be updated" -> Enter new account info -> reboot* -> Get your contacts back somehow.
* I'm not certain that the reboot is required, but it seemed to take the Gmail application an ungodly amount of time to sync otherwise.
And lastly, note that the Call Log (tab in Contacts) is NOT deleted by this method.

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Go back to Home screen, tap on the new shortcut.

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[Q] removing T-Mobile sync

Anyone know how to remove the T-Mobile Sync option? When ever I add a new contact it adds it to T-Mobile sync and not to google.

You are talking about two different things:
1. saving new contacts to t-mobile account is default, you cannot change that. But before you save your contact you can choose from a pull down menu to save it in your google account. Next time you add another contact it defaults to t-mobile again. It sucks and is the only things that really bothers me.
2.syncing with t-mobile account...your t-mobile contacts are synced with the t-mobile server....you can stop the syncing by going to the account and sync menu. you can stop the syncing but you cannot remove the t-mobile account completely.

ahh I was hoping to uninstall it but that will do... thank you!

Daguse said:
ahh I was hoping to uninstall it but that will do... thank you!
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as am i, hopefully someone finds the service or .apk name for that because if someone who rooted the phone and wants to use it on a diff carrier doesnt need that sync account in there.

###As usual backup all your data and I'm in no way responsible if you brick your phone. It shouldn't because I just finished this on mine and it works fine.###
Now I found a way and just did it on my MT4G. Grab root explorer or similar if you don't have it. Open it and use the search for "nab" anything that comes up I.E. that says tmobile.nabservice blah blah blah. There was like 4-5 files for me one zip, obex, and a few others delete em all then your done. The Tmobile sync account is gone and the default contact save is the first account you set up for in sync.

How do you know it automatically saves it to your "tmobile" account? because i have auto sync unchecked for tmobile, and when i go into the settings for my contacts i have everything unchecked except google contacts...but under tmobile contacts it says ZERO

shaun-steelers said:
How do you know it automatically saves it to your "tmobile" account? because i have auto sync unchecked for tmobile, and when i go into the settings for my contacts i have everything unchecked except google contacts...but under tmobile contacts it says ZERO
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You know it's adding to T-Mobile, because when you go to add a new contact, T-Mobile is the default...
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This is true regardless of if you have T-Mobile syncing or not (I have mine disabled 'cause who the heck needs T-Mobile contacts?)
I posted in the thread that led me here, but I wanted to ask Keldarr or anyone who has done the removal of all-things-Nab - does Phone show up as the default Contact Type? Instead of deleting anything to do with Nab, I just froze the NabService via Titanium...
This gets T-Mobile out of the list of Contact Types, but now Phone is the default - not the Google account I wish to be the default. I wanted to see if those who have deleted all traces of Nab, have Phone as a Contact Type and if it is the default.

How strange, in my case it saves by default to my Google account every time I create a new contact. Check your display settings.
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shlongwoodian said:
You know it's adding to T-Mobile, because when you go to add a new contact, T-Mobile is the default...
This is true regardless of if you have T-Mobile syncing or not (I have mine disabled 'cause who the heck needs T-Mobile contacts?)
I posted in the thread that led me here, but I wanted to ask Keldarr or anyone who has done the removal of all-things-Nab - does Phone show up as the default Contact Type? Instead of deleting anything to do with Nab, I just froze the NabService via Titanium...
This gets T-Mobile out of the list of Contact Types, but now Phone is the default - not the Google account I wish to be the default. I wanted to see if those who have deleted all traces of Nab, have Phone as a Contact Type and if it is the default.
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Slow reply sorry for me my default contact save is the first gmail account i added. not sure what it would be if u didn't have a sync account besides t-mobiles sync but id assume it would be phone until u add a google account.

[Q] Anyway to change the default account to save contacts under? [Stock Rom]

I know it can be changed individually after each time, but I'd rather it go directly to Google and skip TMO setting.
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cnflct said:
I know it can be changed individually after each time, but I'd rather it go directly to Google and skip TMO setting.
[edit to fix typo in title]
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Disable the t mobile sync.

esincho said:
Disable the t mobile sync.
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that will change it to google by default? only disappointing part is to disable it you need to do a factory reset... theres gotta be another way

pack said:
that will change it to google by default? only disappointing part is to disable it you need to do a factory reset... theres gotta be another way
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No u don't. Just go to settings, sync, t mobile and uncheck sync.

Tried just disablinh sync, still automatically select tmobile as the default when creating new, any other ideas
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Did u do this? Mine always show google as default.
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Aye, looks the same, and mine still wants me to makes all new as tmobile
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cnflct said:
Aye, looks the same, and mine still wants me to makes all new as tmobile
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my mt4g still defaults back to t-mobile account even though I unchecked the t-mobile sync.

mgymnop said:
my mt4g still defaults back to t-mobile account even though I unchecked the t-mobile sync.
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That probably means you still have T-Mobile contacts linked to some of your Google ones. Try this:
1) On the web, make sure ALL your contacts are in your Google.com contacts.
2) On your phone, make sure sync with T-Mobile is UNCHECKED and that ONLY Google sync IS checked.
3) Go to Settings/Applications/Manage Applications and choose the Running tab.
4) Scroll and choose Contacts Storage.
5) Select Clear Data - WARNING- THIS WILL ERASE ALL CONTACTS DATA FROM YOUR PHONE. DON'T WORRY. IT WILL SYNC BACK.
6) Go into Contacts. Hit Menu/View. Make sure that T-mobile (and any other accounts you don't want to display) is UNCHECKED.
7) Go back to Accounts & Sync and make sure Google is syncing ant that T-Mobile remains deselected.
You should be good to go when it comes to Google being the default contact entry. If you had contacts linked with Facebook, Twitter or otherwise, you will have to now let those sync and auto-link again. It's worth the trouble, though. Good luck.

XfooYen said:
That probably means you still have T-Mobile contacts linked to some of your Google ones. Try this:
1) On the web, make sure ALL your contacts are in your Google.com contacts.
2) On your phone, make sure sync with T-Mobile is UNCHECKED and that ONLY Google sync IS checked.
3) Go to Settings/Applications/Manage Applications and choose the Running tab.
4) Scroll and choose Contacts Storage.
5) Select Clear Data - WARNING- THIS WILL ERASE ALL CONTACTS DATA FROM YOUR PHONE. DON'T WORRY. IT WILL SYNC BACK.
6) Go into Contacts. Hit Menu/View. Make sure that T-mobile (and any other accounts you don't want to display) is UNCHECKED.
7) Go back to Accounts & Sync and make sure Google is syncing ant that T-Mobile remains deselected.
You should be good to go when it comes to Google being the default contact entry. If you had contacts linked with Facebook, Twitter or otherwise, you will have to now let those sync and auto-link again. It's worth the trouble, though. Good luck.
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OMG you saved my life. It annoyed me very much that I had to change the account each time I added a new contact. Thanks so much!!!!!

mgymnop said:
OMG you saved my life. It annoyed me very much that I had to change the account each time I added a new contact. Thanks so much!!!!!
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No problemo. I feel your pain. The HTC Phone and Contacts app are counter-intuitive.

XfooYen said:
That probably means you still have T-Mobile contacts linked to some of your Google ones. Try this:
1) On the web, make sure ALL your contacts are in your Google.com contacts.
2) On your phone, make sure sync with T-Mobile is UNCHECKED and that ONLY Google sync IS checked.
3) Go to Settings/Applications/Manage Applications and choose the Running tab.
4) Scroll and choose Contacts Storage.
5) Select Clear Data - WARNING- THIS WILL ERASE ALL CONTACTS DATA FROM YOUR PHONE. DON'T WORRY. IT WILL SYNC BACK.
6) Go into Contacts. Hit Menu/View. Make sure that T-mobile (and any other accounts you don't want to display) is UNCHECKED.
7) Go back to Accounts & Sync and make sure Google is syncing ant that T-Mobile remains deselected.
You should be good to go when it comes to Google being the default contact entry. If you had contacts linked with Facebook, Twitter or otherwise, you will have to now let those sync and auto-link again. It's worth the trouble, though. Good luck.
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Followed this guide to the T, no fix
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cnflct said:
Followed this guide to the T, no fix
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Worked for me. Make sure your T-Mobile contacts are empty. Try clearing defaults in contacts before clearing data in contact storage. Dunno otherwise.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G

cnflct said:
Followed this guide to the T, no fix
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I first only deactivated the t-mobile account but left the others active (secondary google account, Qik, etc). It didn't work. I deactivated then the syncing for everythingexcept my main google account. Then it worked.

android push notifications

ok, so we've had push notifications for quite some time now, since 2.2
does anyone know the reason why SO many apps(big ones, too) seem to refuse to implement push notifications?
facebook says they have them, but they've never worked for me ever. and there's no settings for them. only for polling
official twitter app still polls
words with friends polls
etc
do these devs just not want to add in support for 2 sets of phones? 2.2+ and everyone below 2.2?
i can't think of any reason why this happens, but its a huge issue in my eyes. android phones get bad enough battery life as is.

if you go into facebook and enable notifications but set poll time to never you get push notifications

Tried it. It's never worked on my n1, and I know I'm not the only one.
My gf gets them on her sensation though

Don't use Facebook as an example. Their app is pure garbage. Lots of apps use Push. Trillian, Skype, Talk, eBuddy, etc...

Yes but my point is lots of apps also don't use push still. Apps that are updated regularly. It makes no sense to me that devs are seemingly ignoring it.

My thoughts exactly. Does it cost more to implement push notification?

Twitter app is updated. Says they added push, yet, just like the facebook app, there are 0 settings for push and only options for polling
I don't ****ing get it. These companies must put their A and B teams on iphone apps and their H teams on android

mattpannella said:
Twitter app is updated. Says they added push, yet, just like the facebook app, there are 0 settings for push and only options for polling
I don't ****ing get it. These companies must put their A and B teams on iphone apps and their H teams on android
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There are options for Twitter. They're just buried under each account.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/13/tw...upports-multiple-profiles-push-notifications/
Also, you must be running your own H team since the term is pull, not poll.

Erigion said:
Also, you must be running your own H team since the term is pull, not poll.
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Both terms are correct, but polling is more common.

pfmiller said:
Both terms are correct, but polling is more common.
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Google search must be incredibly wrong then

The only options under the profile are for polling (the correct term. it periodically polls the server for updates). Just like the facebook one there's no sign of any push options anywhere

Your question was already answered. It is under the account settings.

Clarkster said:
Your question was already answered. It is under the account settings.
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yeah, except it's not
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ok, so apparently "automatic refresh" means push notifications? thats so misleading. it's not refreshing anything, then
yet there is still an option to set how often it polls the server, with no option for never
ugh
either way, this still backs up my point that they have ****ty devs making these apps

I'm pretty sure this is a feature for people who follow hundreds, if not thousands, of people who don't want to be pushed a notification every second of every day. They must figure that people with a lot of followers would rather see a big chunk of updates at once rather than being notified to death.
And yes, "Automatic Refresh" doesn't sound like push notification at all but that's just part of the crummy UI of the official twitter app.

mattpannella said:
Tried it. It's never worked on my n1, and I know I'm not the only one.
My gf gets them on her sensation though
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Trust me i've tryed and it works for me and a lot of my friends, to enable Facebook push notifications:
1 kill the application in "application manager" and erase data and cache.
2 Go to facebook.com with pc and deactivate your account (don't worry you won't lose anything)
3 after a minute log in again with the pc
4 and now log in with you phone
Now it should work.
Try and tell me if it works. i've set the update period to 4 hours.
i apologize for my english :\

AnthonyTex said:
Trust me i've tryed and it works for me and a lot of my friends, to enable Facebook push notifications:
1 kill the application in "application manager" and erase data and cache.
2 Go to facebook.com with pc and deactivate your account (don't worry you won't lose anything)
3 after a minute log in again with the pc
4 and now log in with you phone
Now it should work.
Try and tell me if it works. i've set the update period to 4 hours.
i apologize for my english :\
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That's what I did to get mine working too. Just deactivate your account on the Facebook website, and then activate it again. Push starts working right after you log back in on the web and your phone.

mattpannella said:
yeah, except it's not
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I have the latest version of twitter, 2.1.2, and there is no "automatic refresh" above the sync contacts setting. Cool?

AnthonyTex said:
Trust me i've tryed and it works for me and a lot of my friends, to enable Facebook push notifications:
1 kill the application in "application manager" and erase data and cache.
2 Go to facebook.com with pc and deactivate your account (don't worry you won't lose anything)
3 after a minute log in again with the pc
4 and now log in with you phone
Now it should work.
Try and tell me if it works. i've set the update period to 4 hours.
i apologize for my english :\
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Dang... I was really, really hoping this would work. I deleted the data for the app on my phone and deactivated my facebook account. I then reactivated my account and then logged in in my phone. I have since had 2 facebook notifications show on the web browser, but I have yet to have any sort of notification on my phone.
This has been especially bad since the gmail app no longer allows other apps to see the email, which knocked out my "push" notifications for facebook from Friendcaster Pro. Grr... I just want push notifications.

bassmadrigal said:
Dang... I was really, really hoping this would work. I deleted the data for the app on my phone and deactivated my facebook account. I then reactivated my account and then logged in in my phone. I have since had 2 facebook notifications show on the web browser, but I have yet to have any sort of notification on my phone.
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I hoped it would work to. No such luck. I did the deactivate thing and don't see any change.

need help w/contacts

alright, I've searched and can't find a solution... hopefully one of you guys can help.
I've got a MT4G running 2.3.4, Virtuous Unity v2.39.0 and for some reason, my contacts are out of control... I've got my SIM contacts, phone, exchange, gmail, and facebook, and they all link correctly, etc... but on the ones that I've had on previous devices, or have been there when I've synced, they don't skip or replace them, they just keep piling up... like, 38 entries per contact, with the same number... if I go in and manually remove the #'s, hit save, and re-open it, there are 37 blank fields for "phone" w/the one saved entry... is there any way to either save one per contact, delete all of them, and start over? this is a pain in the ass...

kevo817 said:
alright, I've searched and can't find a solution... hopefully one of you guys can help.
I've got a MT4G running 2.3.4, Virtuous Unity v2.39.0 and for some reason, my contacts are out of control... I've got my SIM contacts, phone, exchange, gmail, and facebook, and they all link correctly, etc... but on the ones that I've had on previous devices, or have been there when I've synced, they don't skip or replace them, they just keep piling up... like, 38 entries per contact, with the same number... if I go in and manually remove the #'s, hit save, and re-open it, there are 37 blank fields for "phone" w/the one saved entry... is there any way to either save one per contact, delete all of them, and start over? this is a pain in the ass...
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There are 2 ways to do this either go to your gmail account online and open contacts and delete all the duplicate contacts and log out from your phone g mail and re log in and your set
The other way is the phone will tell u that u have duplicate contacts and if you want to sync them together
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they're all linked together, say if I go to "MULTISTATE TRANS" there is only one entry in my contacts, but when I open THE contact, there are 38 entries w/the same phone number, and if I type in "MU-" to send a text/call the entire predictive list all says "MULTISTATE TRANS"
here's a screenshot of when I try to edit the contact, and one when I go to send a text...
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Bump... Still looking for help... I'm guessing this could have a little to do with taking up some memory too...
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reflash rom
try reflashing the rom.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.accaci

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.accaci
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Google contacts has a built In contact finder

Thanks... I tried that app, it deleted contacts that weren't duplicates... I ended up exporting all contacts to my SD, uploading the vcards to my gmail on my computer, then used it to sort and delete the dupes... Then I saved it as a new vcard, erased allllllll contacts, then imported... Pain in the ass, but it was the only thing that worked...
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kevo817 said:
Thanks... I tried that app, it deleted contacts that weren't duplicates... I ended up exporting all contacts to my SD, uploading the vcards to my gmail on my computer, then used it to sort and delete the dupes... Then I saved it as a new vcard, erased allllllll contacts, then imported... Pain in the ass, but it was the only thing that worked...
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I hope you emailed the developer of the app and told him about the problems you had with it. Sorry it didn't work out. I'm glad you got it fixed, and thanks for lettimg us know what worked.

estallings15 said:
I hope you emailed the developer of the app and told him about the problems you had with it. Sorry it didn't work out. I'm glad you got it fixed, and thanks for lettimg us know what worked.
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I haven't yet, but I'll be sure to email them. By the time all of the vcard's had uploaded to gmail and such, there were 5800+ contacts on there, and when I got rid of allllllll of the duplicates, I took it down to about 300 actual contacts. I still have no idea why/how it kept importing the existing vcard's from the SD/SIM/phone or w/e, but it was crazy.