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Inability to access google account

I went to sleep last night awaiting my first day at sixth form. My G1 was going to be there for internet browsing whilst looking for information (school intranet is very unreliable) but I woke up with a slightly different issue. An ! mark. Turns out somebody had hacked my google account overnight and changed my password. i can now no longer access any google features, including any synced things on the phone, all because of some pesky hacker (of course not aimed at the wonderful 'hackers' on here such as drizzy, twisted, cyanogen, jac etc).
However, I only have one email address so I did not provide an alternate, and to reset my password requires me to know the date i started using my account, which I haven't got a clue. Does anybody know what I can do in this position? Thanks a lot
Tucka

tucka20 said:
I went to sleep last night awaiting my first day at sixth form. My G1 was going to be there for internet browsing whilst looking for information (school intranet is very unreliable) but I woke up with a slightly different issue. An ! mark. Turns out somebody had hacked my google account overnight and changed my password. i can now no longer access any google features, including any synced things on the phone, all because of some pesky hacker (of course not aimed at the wonderful 'hackers' on here such as drizzy, twisted, cyanogen, jac etc).
However, I only have one email address so I did not provide an alternate, and to reset my password requires me to know the date i started using my account, which I haven't got a clue. Does anybody know what I can do in this position? Thanks a lot
Tucka
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You can wipe your phone and create a new account. Then in the mean time just email google and see what they can do for you.

yep, thats an option. however I have purchased numerous apps (copilot being the most expensive) that are linked to the account and that I will lose.
Also, I emailed them and they said I didn't provide enough information on my account to get it back. How the hell am I supposed to know the dates I started using 1. the account 2. youtube 3. Google calendar?
Why not just provide me with a security question?

tucka20 said:
Why not just provide me with a security question?
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I'm wondering if you are interacting with a real Google password recovery page. From my account page the only password recovery options are:
- Secondary email (optional)
- SMS (optional)
- Security question
At no point does it ever indicate it would recover my password using something as arcane as the date I first started using Google services. By the way, I highly recommend the "Write my own question" option for the security question. Choose a question that describes a very particular characteristic of one of your heirloom or keepsake possessions.

https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1&hl=en&contact_type=ara&ctx=ara
Besides a secondary email account (which i don't have) it is not possible for me to do this! I am really pi*sed off with google at the minute, and am considering selling the G1 because of this. I am an ebay seller with items currently on and use my gmail address with confidence for that account, and unfortunately I can now no longer send/ receive emails to customers. THANKS A LOT GOOGLE

tucka20 said:
https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1&hl=en&contact_type=ara&ctx=ara
Besides a secondary email account (which i don't have) it is not possible for me to do this! I am really pi*sed off with google at the minute, and am considering selling the G1 because of this. I am an ebay seller with items currently on and use my gmail address with confidence for that account, and unfortunately I can now no longer send/ receive emails to customers. THANKS A LOT GOOGLE
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Any reason why you couldn't recover using the regular account recovery screen? It should use your security question.
I'm not sure why you're angry at Google, when your own computing practices are what probably caused your account to be exploited (probably weak password or trojan installed a keylogger)? Regardless, Google is just practicing normal due diligence for account recovery. Account recovery has to use information that only you know (and which you possibly might not even know yourself).
If you're concerned about your eBay sales, go into your eBay preferences and change your registered email.

I dont have another email address, and have no intention of creating a new one! My password is a mixture of numbers and letters (UPPER and lower case) and I have a separate laptop that handles ebay sales so the only thing that the laptop accesses is ebay website/paypal/gmail and its running linux.
The only other time i use my gmail account is on my g1.
The reason I am angry is because this is the only company I have ever seen with security measures this tight! Even when a friend lost his paypal password it was a simple DOB/ security question thing.
I go to recover password, and it asks for my email address. I then type it, and it tells me I don't have a secondary address to receive my security question and to fill in the form posted above. That is all I get, no security question!

tucka20 said:
I dont have another email address, and have no intention of creating a new one! My password is a mixture of numbers and letters (UPPER and lower case) and I have a separate laptop that handles ebay sales so the only thing that the laptop accesses is ebay website/paypal/gmail and its running linux.
The only other time i use my gmail account is on my g1.
The reason I am angry is because this is the only company I have ever seen with security measures this tight! Even when a friend lost his paypal password it was a simple DOB/ security question thing.
I go to recover password, and it asks for my email address. I then type it, and it tells me I don't have a secondary address to receive my security question and to fill in the form posted above. That is all I get, no security question!
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Looks like your stuck getting another email address and trying to work up the Cust. Serv. chain at google...

tucka20 said:
I dont have another email address, and have no intention of creating a new one! My password is a mixture of numbers and letters (UPPER and lower case) and I have a separate laptop that handles ebay sales so the only thing that the laptop accesses is ebay website/paypal/gmail and its running linux.
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That does sound like a pretty secure setup.
Well I guess the best you can do is just try filling out that password recovery form. It doesn't appear that dates for the times you first started using specific Google services is necessary. Worst case scenario you could just guess. Since you already don't have any access now, I reckon you have nothing to lose. Good luck!

Googlemail to Gmail

Google are giving the option for existing users change their address from *@googlemail.com to *@gmail.com and all new users will receive a gmail account instead.
I think It may be limited to the UK.
Welcome to Gmail! As of May 3, 2010, Google's email service is changing its name to Gmail in the United Kingdom. From now on, anybody who signs up for a new Gmail account in the UK will get an @gmail.com address instead of @googlemail.com. The good news is that "gmail" is 50% fewer characters than "googlemail," and with so much emailing going on these days, we estimate this name change will save something like 60 million keystrokes a day. At approximately 217 microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!
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While all emails are forwarded from googlemail to gmail I was wondering what would happen to my phone. As it turns out, it's completely messed up
My (google) apps don't work now, and there's no option to change my account setting individually. I get a sign-in error with google talk.
Would it be better for me to just hard reset my phone, or does adding my gmail (and deleting my googlemail) syncing account do the same thing? (in settings > accounts & sync)

You will unfortunately have to do a factory reset as you cannot remove your main google account. The 'backup settings' option should remember and download all your apps and remember wifi settings, but you will lose all sms\mms and call logs.
On the plus side Picasa sync will now work

ahh ok, there's probably an update for my ROM anyway
Thanks.

Or you can just go back to @googlemail.com for a while and see if Google sort something out.

Here's hoping we get a "Gmail" icon on the phone instead of an abridged "Google M..."

David Horn said:
Here's hoping we get a "Gmail" icon on the phone instead of an abridged "Google M..."
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You can change icon names with Any Cut from the market. It's free.

I'm kinda confused with this thread... Is this a UK only thing? I've had [email protected] for years now (since early beta) and on my nexus one the shortcut is named "Gmail".

Not just UK, some other parts of Europe too I believe.

ive just changed mine and i can still access the market ok.
i did get the google talk error tho.
once cyan 5.0.7 is rls'd ill do a full wipe and change my main account to @gmail.

SBS_ said:
I'm kinda confused with this thread... Is this a UK only thing? I've had [email protected] for years now (since early beta) and on my nexus one the shortcut is named "Gmail".
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They started with Gmail, but another company was using gmail also so they changed it to googlemail... or so I heard. (Existing Gmail users were allowed to keep Gmail but new users got a googlemail account.) I guess the company went bust or Google bought them out
That's what I heard anyway.
Maybe it's just a UK/Euro thing...

Evo Tip for New Users - Only one chance at google account

Ok,
Just going to through this up in a thread of its own. If this info needs to be added to a newbie's thread fine, but I have not seen one.
This is a lesson learned with the Evo that as a NEW android user I was completely unaware of:
--You MUST have a GMail account. An old Google account will not work.
--You only get ONE CHANCE at entering the correct account for your phone set up.
It seems that while other android phones have tricks to work around changing accounts...the Evo does NOT. You must do the factory reset from...Menu > Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset.
YES you will lose all the screen customizations you made, all the emails you have set up, all the settings you wanted.
NO you do not lose data as all my test pictures are still there.
The GMail account must be set up BEFORE you try to add it to the phone. (This seems to be the gist of lots of stuff on internet and this is way I did it. Set it up through my old Google account before adding to the phone during the set up process.)
There you go. Very important and frustrating tip for those of us that are new to android and especially to the Evo.

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are you sure?
you can't just got Accounts and Sync and change it there?
I can't imagine why not

You can't go to menu>settings>accounts and sync>google and remove your Google account?

if your rooted you can easily change google accounts
i found this goodie back in the hero days messing around with accounts.db
adb shell
sqlite3 /data/system/accounts.db "delete from accounts where type = 'com.google';"
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Either he doesn't know any better, or hes a troll

BAleR said:
Either he doesn't know any better, or hes a troll
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Luv you too.
No, you cannot just go Accounts and Sync...tried it. When you go into the google account you have a button below that says...'Remove Account'. When you try you get two pop-ups. First says you will lose account information. Second says you must do the factory reset.
So...anyone else want to call me a troll before they actually TRY what they are suggesting? 'Cause I tried three different approaches I found when searching. None worked.

TrevE said:
if your rooted you can easily change google accounts
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Yeah, phone only about 4 days old and still figuring out if she will be moving in with me or returned to the pound. So no rooting yet.

sablesurfer said:
Luv you too.
No, you cannot just go Accounts and Sync...tried it. When you go into the google account you have a button below that says...'Remove Account'. When you try you get two pop-ups. First says you will lose account information. Second says you must do the factory reset.
So...anyone else want to call me a troll before they actually TRY what they are suggesting? 'Cause I tried three different approaches I found when searching. None worked.
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Or maybe I just don't know any better, I don't have this problem with my phone, I've accidentally entered my Google account incorrectly and I always just re-entered it and it worked just fine.
My first post wasn't directed in any way negative. I just didn't know any better

Well, I'm pretty sure I've had my gmail account for about 3 years and it synced right up; worked on my mom's as well and then I made a new one for the dad.

Hrshycro said:
Well, I'm pretty sure I've had my gmail account for about 3 years and it synced right up; worked on my mom's as well and then I made a new one for the dad.
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Not being rude, but this has nothing to do with what I said in my tip. <shrug>

sablesurfer said:
Not being rude, but this has nothing to do with what I said in my tip. <shrug>
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Then you aren't being entirely clear on what your point is. I have no idea what you are talking about given that I know for a fact that:
A> I am usually drunk when I try roms, which usually require a full wipe and account info on 1st boot...which I usually screw up.
and most importantly,
B> That the day I got my phone I forgot my password for a good 5 minutes at radio shack and tried wrong passwords repeatedly until I got it right.
Not to mention
C> I have changed gmail accounts multiple times, even in those brief hours while I was still 100% stock.
...and I have no idea what a "google account" is otherwise. It very may well be 'a thing', but I have no idea what it is.
If I managed to evade your point, please--for the sake of the forum and your own well being--articulate it a little better.

daneurysm said:
Then you aren't being entirely clear on what your point is. I have no idea what you are talking about given that I know for a fact that:
A> I am usually drunk when I try roms, which usually require a full wipe and account info on 1st boot...which I usually screw up.
and most importantly,
B> That the day I got my phone I forgot my password for a good 5 minutes at radio shack and tried wrong passwords repeatedly until I got it right.
Not to mention
C> I have changed gmail accounts multiple times, even in those brief hours while I was still 100% stock.
...and I have no idea what a "google account" is otherwise. It very may well be 'a thing', but I have no idea what it is.
If I managed to evade your point, please--for the sake of the forum and your own well being--articulate it a little better.
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Your Google account is basically your Gmail account. All though I do believe it is a seperat account. It also allows you to link youtube, latitude and a few other Google tools or services.

Hmmm, Home screen, menu, settings, applications, gmail and or market, then clear data, and or clear cache ... worked for me... then I had to re-enter my password and user name, ill be damned if i didn't screw it up. Not even drunk, course i didn't forget it for 10 minutes, just about 30 seconds.

BAleR said:
Your Google account is basically your Gmail account. All though I do believe it is a seperat account. It also allows you to link youtube, latitude and a few other Google tools or services.
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That's what I assumed, but, you never know. Google is a little to smart to go for anything less than a unified ID. Having a handful of disparate and overlapping accounts (and their associated 'sign up process') seems like an annoying waste of time, storage and bandwidth.
Btw, I'm not trying to be a ****. If you are in fact having these issues it may be an isolated incident.

I had the same issue as the original poster. I believe what is being said is that the "google" account you enter the very first time, is the one used for your identity on the phone, and to change it requires a factory reset on the Evo.
Personally I have 3 google accounts, one is gmail and the other two are google apps. All of my contacts are under a google apps account.
Well, turns out, if you enter your gmail account not knowing the difference when you originally setup the phone, it stays stuck in there and won't let you change it without doing a full factory reset. I realized I needed to use my google apps account instead and had to factory reset to change it.
This is of course before I attempted any rooting fun, I had just came from WinMo on a Touch Diamond previously and hadn't read up on how any of that worked at the time.
Hope this helps clarify things.

Can't you just go to setup and redo your setup??
Nvm just tried nogo me =stupid
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sablesurfer said:
Not being rude, but this has nothing to do with what I said in my tip. <shrug>
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sablesurfer said:
--You MUST have a GMail account. An old Google account will not work.
--You only get ONE CHANCE at entering the correct account for your phone set up.
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Well, condiering I've had my gmail account for over 3 years and used it to set my evo up with, it's not new - it was 3 years ago but it sure wasn't new when I got my evo. Therefore, an old gmail/google account works just fine.
And, I just added me other gmail account without any problems. Gave me the options to sync mail, contacts, ect., too.
I think were missing your point here...or something.

total fail dude...

daneurysm said:
That's what I assumed, but, you never know. Google is a little to smart to go for anything less than a unified ID. Having a handful of disparate and overlapping accounts (and their associated 'sign up process') seems like an annoying waste of time, storage and bandwidth.
Btw, I'm not trying to be a ****. If you are in fact having these issues it may be an isolated incident.
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I know what you mean, in a way. I guess it just depends on the person and the what your needs are. iGoogle for instance, you can set up your own home page, you can add all kinds of different widgets like latitude, translate, local search, wiki, tv guide. You can be updated when concerts and such are appear in your town. I love latitude, I just link it to my phone, if anyone ever stole my phone I could just go to my google page on my pc and id automatically know the location and I'm pretty sure theres a free service for this same thing that adds the ability to send messages, not texts, to the phone and wipe it if you want. Pretty dang useful if you ask me. I love it, I just open mozilla and everything is there, mail, rss feeds and news, weather everything

larrybiggs said:
I had the same issue as the original poster. I believe what is being said is that the "google" account you enter the very first time, is the one used for your identity on the phone, and to change it requires a factory reset on the Evo.
Personally I have 3 google accounts, one is gmail and the other two are google apps. All of my contacts are under a google apps account.
Well, turns out, if you enter your gmail account not knowing the difference when you originally setup the phone, it stays stuck in there and won't let you change it without doing a full factory reset. I realized I needed to use my google apps account instead and had to factory reset to change it.
This is of course before I attempted any rooting fun, I had just came from WinMo on a Touch Diamond previously and hadn't read up on how any of that worked at the time.
Hope this helps clarify things.
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Ok, this makes since, I guess I never noticed because I have one account. I KNOW that if you enter in an incorrect user/pass it will just promt so. then just re-enter

my hotmail account has been spamming people

Long story short i have my hotmail, along with other accounts setup in my evos email client, awhile back I noticed I sent myself an email about diet crap that I personaly did not send and so I dismissed it.
Well tonight I had over a hundred mailer daemon unable to reach address blah blah in my email inbox I check my sent box and sure enough my account has been mailing random people crap about diet stuff.
Anyways i heard Android has some exploits that could be leading to our phones being related in a exploit.
I changed my email password and it stopped doing this temporarily but it started right back up again after a while.
Can this be Related to my phone at all?
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It's probably not your phone.
It's far more likely that you (or someone else in your household) clicked something you shouldn't have on a website, and have a keylogger on your computer now.
Or if you're... Uneducated enough to be running an open WiFi network (or, even more facepalm-worthy, connected to one that doesn't belong to you, and mooching off it), then someone could be picking up your plaintext passwords.
But really, biggest chance is you've got some malware on your computer. Congrats!

Your biggest issue is that you are still using hotmail...

- Changed your hotmail password from a virus-free computer or your EVO's browser.
- Run AntiMalware and an antivirus on your computer.
- Switch to Gmail
Problem solved.

well, i know about wlan encryption and i use wpa2 personal, i also know how to crack wep
i also know about keystroke loggers, i do use them and know how to detect software versions of them
somehow my girlfriend somehow gets a copy forwarded to her of email i reply to, even though there is no trace of a setting for this anywhere that i can find, which i always found suspicious and it doesn't happen all the time. she could be spying or maybe its from when we tried to link our outlook calendars and something broke
i use hot-mail because until recently i have had zero problems and i created this hotmail account back in 2001 on my dream cast before i even knew how to turn on a pc, and now i run a computer repair shop, so it kinda has sentimental value, so i want to fix this, not throw it away. also i have many other email address for work and school purposes so email isn't nothing new to me.
last night i had my gf change my password on my hotmail account because i was on my evo and hotmail.com kept sending me to their mobile site and i couldn't see any settings for change password and she had her laptop in her lap. maybe her laptop is the culpti but i doubt it, i will check into it though.
today i changed my password to my hotmail on my work computer. i will allow my evo access to the new password for the sake of tying to figure out where the culprit is and only changing one thing at a time.
thanks for the replies i really was hoping to hear that someone has less then public information about hotmail email servers them selves being hacked. because i have friends with hotmail accounts that started spamming me not too long before my account starting spamming others.
i guess i'll use this thread to keep notes on this situation, but thanks for the replies

zeuzinn said:
- Changed your hotmail password from a virus-free computer or your EVO's browser.
- Run AntiMalware and an antivirus on your computer.
- Switch to Gmail
Problem solved.
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yep all I had to do was change my email on another SAFE PC and then I was good to go. But dont discount adware programes and all.
DL and run/update
Malware bytes, Super antispyware and update and load spyware blaster. You'll be good to go.

spybot/teatimer ftw

drmacinyasha said:
It's probably not your phone.
It's far more likely that you (or someone else in your household) clicked something you shouldn't have on a website, and have a keylogger on your computer now.
Or if you're... Uneducated enough to be running an open WiFi network (or, even more facepalm-worthy, connected to one that doesn't belong to you, and mooching off it), then someone could be picking up your plaintext passwords.
But really, biggest chance is you've got some malware on your computer. Congrats!
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Please don't be politically correct. :|
Stupid not uneducated. He says he knows all this, so uneducated wouldn't apply.
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Sorry, I'm very blunt. :|

Well my hotmail accounts were still spamming people, also my yahoo account started to join in on the fun.
I changed passwords on both accounts to something very lone Qiu no dictionary words and used numbers and symbols. And about a day later low and behold I am spamming people again.
Focusing in on my hotmail account, I can see the sent folder, in my web based GUI, I can see all these emails that my account has been sending.
I have probably have questionable apps on my phone so I thought I'd wipe my phone. Well, its been 4 days since I have had any problems.
While I can't confirm my suspecion, I can suggest as a possibility that my phone had something that was pulling my passwords and sending them out to someone or something that would inturn log into my accounts and spam away.
I don't have time to really look into this any more thoroughly but I thought I'd document my observations.
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potna said:
well my hotmail accounts were still spamming people, also my yahoo account started to join in on the fun.
I changed passwords on both accounts to something very lone qiu no dictionary words and used numbers and symbols. And about a day later low and behold i am spamming people again.
Focusing in on my hotmail account, i can see the sent folder, in my web based gui, i can see all these emails that my account has been sending.
I have probably have questionable apps on my phone so i thought i'd wipe my phone. Well, its been 4 days since i have had any problems.
While i can't confirm my suspecion, i can suggest as a possibility that my phone had something that was pulling my passwords and sending them out to someone or something that would inturn log into my accounts and spam away.
I don't have time to really look into this any more thoroughly but i thought i'd document my observations.
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STOP using pirated apps. That's my guess.

It was most likely an app that requests permissions to your contacts and email. There are a lot of shady apps out there and google needs to step up with this crap.
I always avoid them but it's ridiculous how many apps (themes and stupid stuff) request information.

Well surprise surprise, it was most likely an app I got from the market that was stealing my info. Not that I can confirm it, but most of the replies implied I was an idiot and that it couldn't possible be my phone. I eventualy got an email from Google saying I had installed something from the mArket that was infected.
So it was not that I'm stoopid ignorant, it wasnt that i was using hotmail, it wasnt that my pc was infected.
It was my phone all along.
Maybe there is a thread about this already, but I bet my topic.was created first and I thought I'd bring this thread to a conclusion.
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I hate to say it but if you downloaded an app that infected your device with malware you still are pretty stupid. Not trying to be an a**hole here but if you actually researched the app before downloading it you could have advoided it altogether. Common sense is still the best antivirus.
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This isn't malware on your phone. It's been a huge issue with hotmail for the past couple of weeks. People who use the same pass across multiple sites usually are the most vuln. Also happens when you get phished.

I have a friend thats has the same thing going on with his hotmail...hasn't been using it at all and all of a sudden I'm getting emails from him sending me links to increase my penis length...and god knows I don't need that..

I wouldnt dismiss it being non-phone related. I recently have been having it happen on my hotmail account as well and I have not logged into my hotmail account on a computer in years only have it on my phone to setup craigslist ads, Redbox rentals and small stuff like that and use gmail for important stuff. I dont have any Pirated apps or anything just normal stuff 12 or so games and 15 or so other market apps.

Same thing happened to my hotmail a while back. I changed my password and it solved the problem.
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alright guys stop calling the op stupid and learn ya something yourselves. Even legitimate apps were affected read the news every once in awhile and you would know. This is just one of the many articles on the topic.
http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml;jses...fVH2Mtw**?nid=20039881&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-83
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Last-Chance said:
This isn't malware on your phone. It's been a huge issue with hotmail for the past couple of weeks. People who use the same pass across multiple sites usually are the most vuln. Also happens when you get phished.
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Exactly, it happened with my hotmail account a few months ago, and I havent used my hotmail in months.
alright guys stop calling the op stupid and learn ya something yourselves. Even legitimate apps were affected read the news every once in awhile and you would know. This is just one of the many articles on the topic.
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Unless you login to hotmail from your phone's browser, there is no way one of these apps could get your hotmail info.

i swear, i dont know why i take peoples opinions so damn seriously around here...but for the sake of my sanity and the general level of competence of reading and having accurate postings with good conclusions here i go again.
there were a handful or legitimate applications on the market than were infected.
i already changed my email passwords and it ddint help
when i formatted/re flashed rom...it stopped
i later received some notification of some market tool that Google automatically installed and ran and "fixed the issue"
i received an email from Google telling me about a phone tied to my gmail account may have been infected, but i already solved my issue my self, so their fix didn't apply.
how the hell can you people some how twist this into "op is dumb, or stupid"?
now for a bit of my SPECULATION, and its only that, its not my opinion thrown at you as fact, as so many here love to do.
what are the odds that all of us android users just happen to have our email accounts hacked? whats the one thing all of us email user have in common on these boards....android. just saying
btw, more than just my hotmail account was hacked.
here are some urls that the idiots wont read, talking about what i have been trying to say
http://www.google.com/search?q=Droi...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

HELP! Forgot lock pattern and email/password! My post is gone!

I made a post a few days ago asking how I could reset my Xoom after I forgot the lock pattern and the google email/password.
But now it's gone, even under my profile it not showing the new post - could someone please please tell me how to do this again.

Well I solved it anyway, followed this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079504

Return it to the owner you stole it from. No way you could forget the pattern and your email address. You could simply go online to gmail.com and reset the password.
THEIF!!!

donniesd said:
Return it to the owner you stole it from. No way you could forget the pattern and your email address. You could simply go online to gmail.com and reset the password.
THEIF!!!
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I agree
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Well it does sound pretty fishy, and I know I would never forget my Gmail address, both my sister and brother-in-law both made Gmail accounts for their Android phone and never use them. They remain logged in to their phone, and are very basic users(so never need to allow permissions or type in their passwords), so I could see them getting into a similar situation. The real question is why the heck would anyone not be using Gmail as their main email (While I really think Gmail is superior to all others, I wasn't serious enough with that question to need hotmail/yahoo/whatever fans tell me all the great features about their email, how Google steals all their users info, or why hotmail isn't just and old 90's crapware that people are too lazy to switch from. Was just poking a little fun. To each their own. Even crappy hotmail users.).

did you forget your name too?

andr0id23 said:
Well it does sound pretty fishy, and I know I would never forget my Gmail address, both my sister and brother-in-law both made Gmail accounts for their Android phone and never use them. They remain logged in to their phone, and are very basic users(so never need to allow permissions or type in their passwords), so I could see them getting into a similar situation. The real question is why the heck would anyone not be using Gmail as their main email (While I really think Gmail is superior to all others, I wasn't serious enough with that question to need hotmail/yahoo/whatever fans tell me all the great features about their email, how Google steals all their users info, or why hotmail isn't just and old 90's crapware that people are too lazy to switch from. Was just poking a little fun. To each their own. Even crappy hotmail users.).
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I'm a crappy hotmail user still!
I do know two people who 'forgot' their password to their gmail, and one who forgot their username as they too set them up only for their phone and never used them for anything.
silly, silly people...
although i imagine with a xoom in hand most people would know their gmail by then - or they'd have got themselves a iPad

My wife is on her third gmail address because she keeps forgetting what it is. She only uses it for her phone account and not email. I did explain that it would be easy to recover but she just said it was easier to make a new one...
Also, I work in IT Support and the number of people who forget basic things like username, password, email address, even phone extension if it's not written in front of them is astounding.

It's amazing how some people are so judgmental.

burden010 said:
My wife is on her third gmail address because she keeps forgetting what it is. She only uses it for her phone account and not email. I did explain that it would be easy to recover but she just said it was easier to make a new one...
Also, I work in IT Support and the number of people who forget basic things like username, password, email address, even phone extension if it's not written in front of them is astounding.
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Yeah working in IT slowing makes you lose hope in people. I get calls saying "My pc is dead" and it will be unplugged or "Everything is closing as i open it." and they will have something on top of the keyboard pushing the Esc key.

Just-in-time said:
Yeah working in IT slowing makes you lose hope in people. I get calls saying "My pc is dead" and it will be unplugged or "Everything is closing as i open it." and they will have something on top of the keyboard pushing the Esc key.
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I kid you not, I once had a homeworker call me to say that their laptop had died. Went through some troubleshooting with them for a few mins until I mentioned maybe plugging the power lead into a different socket. "Oh that won't help, we've had a black out all morning".
She'd been using the laptop on battery power.
Honestly, I do not find it hard to believe that someone would forget their gmail address when some people can't even remember that computers need electricity to work.

Those are examples of the general know nothings in the world. People who spent a good amount of money on a xoom instead of a ipad do not fall into this catorgory,
This is not some phone you can get for cheap or free on a contract from a carrier and just have to make a account to use it. He stole the thing. His story is bull****.
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yet he knew to come to xda of all places to ask for help instead of yahoo answers or something?

yes, i forgot my email address for my galaxy y... what do i do to reset it?
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i have a gmail account which i usually use for my moto defy. however, i used a new gmail add for my galaxy y. and sort of forgot it since i do not use it as my primary email. huhu. i must have misplaced the username and password for the galaxy y. do i have to restart or factory reset it? please help me how? thnaks guys

yeahbabyman said:
yes, i forgot my email address for my galaxy y... what do i do to reset it?
thanks
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i have a gmail account which i usually use for my moto defy. however, i used a new gmail add for my galaxy y. and sort of forgot it since i do not use it as my primary email. huhu. i must have misplaced the username and password for the galaxy y. do i have to restart or factory reset it? please help me how? thnaks guys
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a) totally wrong forum, this is for motorola xoom
b) storys like this sound fishy. We can't tell if it is true or if you just found the phone somewhere. Thus I don't think anyone is willing to help you.
c) why would you use different gmail accounts on your devices? I see only disadvantages, as you will have to buy apps twice if you want to use them on both devices, contacts dont sync, etc.
d) try to remember the gmail-account. Maybe you set up a secondary mail address when you set the gmail account up, maybe that sent a confirmation to one of your other accounts. Maybe you told somebody about your new gmail account...
e) maybe try to take it to the shop where you bought the phone, maybe they'll help if they are able to determine if your request is legit.
f) that's it for me in this thread.

rash.m2k said:
I made a post a few days ago asking how I could reset my Xoom after I forgot the lock pattern and the google email/password.
But now it's gone, even under my profile it not showing the new post - could someone please please tell me how to do this again.
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You'd have to be a completely idiot to think anyone would fall for this......

You've heard all your likely to hear on this subject.
If you can't "remember" your unlock pattern, or your Google account password, or the information needed to recovery the Google account password. Then its about 99.9% likely that its not your device, nor Google account.
In the 0.1% chance that your for real, then your only option is to contact Google. To do that, search Google.
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