I bought a samsung vibrant and it is unlocked and rooted running bionx v. I'm tryin to delete the old google account so I can sign into the android market. Is there anyway to do this without having to restore the phone. I did manage to get my gmail on there and syncing . I can sign in my google maps .
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Menu - settings - accounts and sync: select account - click "remove account "
Tapa tapa tapa
Tried that and it does nothing at all.
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Please help I new to all this. Anyone else got any ideas please..
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Go to security and reset the phone
remove your google account and then go to settings -> applications -> manage apps -> all apps -> market -> clear data + force close
exit and go to your market app and it will ask you for your google acct.
Nope still hade the persons acc. Show up when I opend my market app I can't get his acc off the phone ..
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You cannot remove the primary (the first added Google account) without factory resetting the phone. It's like that with every Android phone.
If you just need the apps, install titanium backup from the market and backup your apps, factory reset then reload your app...
That's the only way to remove an account...
Can't get to the market its signed in the other owners with no pass word.
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How do u a factory rest on bionx v?
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hold the power button until the power menu comes up, then hit recovery. phone should shutdown and boot into recovery and then push on volume keys down to wipe data/factory reset and push power button to select. once done reboot
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You cannot remove the primary (the first added Google account) without factory resetting the phone. It's like that with every Android phone.
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I know! Pisses me off no end. I end up buying a lot of phones for friends and relatives who want me to set it up and send it to them and I have to get the gmail addresses and passwords to set it up. I don't know why Google does this. My sister bought an Android and before she could use it, my 10 year old niece had entered her Gmail address and by the time my sister realized it, she didn't want to mess with it not wanting to reinstall all the apps.
This is total bull****.
side load titanuim back up and back up apps. Side load means to install the app (apk) another way other than the market.
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For those who bought used Android phones that already had someone's Google account on it: I have been searching for months on how to delete original Google account... but nothing worked... until now. I got piece and piece of information, put them together and it worked! So, try it yourself! Remember to back up your data before doing this 2 steps. I actually copied Android folders from the original 16 GB SD card in the phone to a SD 2GB and played with it, to be safe. When it worked, I did the steps on the 16 GB and it worked, too.
Step 1. Root your phone. Use program like Root Explorer, go to root, open Data folder, then System folder. Delete the file "Accounts.db".
Step 2. Go to Settings --> SD & Phone Storage --> Factory Data Reset. Confirm delete all data. The phone will shutdown automatically. When you power it back on, all Google accounts will be gone. Therefore, BACK UP your email accounts before doing these steps.
Note: I am not 100% sure if step 2 is necessary, but I did both steps and it worked, so I never tried step 1 alone. You can try just step 1 and reboot the phone to see if it worked. If not, perform step 2. I think Google accounts reside in the phone's root and on the SD card both, so after I deleted Google accounts on the 2 GB, I put the 16 GB card in and the original Google accounts came back. Then I did these 2 steps again and it worked.
After the original Google account deleted, you can set up your own Google account and it will be link to the phone. Then you will be able to access the Market. Good Luck!
Delete accounts.db
Delete accounts.db and restart your phone. Simple as that. If you're geeky enough, edit accounts.db.
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Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
I am looking to reset all of my data and information that is synced with google.
Meaning, i want my google acct/mail to restore back to how it was when i created the acct in the first place. Is this possible; or would it mean i have to delete my acct and start a new one?
I suppose you have to create a new one . If you just delete the account on the phone and restart the process, you'll just get everything back when it syncs.
On the other had, you can erase everything on your current gmail account, but that's a bit tedious. But that's up to you.
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As far as i know, either you will have to manually erase the data in all aspects of your account (which, as above has indicated) is a bit tedious. Id probably erase the account (you can do this is Google Account settings) and add another one. But if you have, say a google voice account you want to transfer to the new one, first create the new one, then head on over to spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cljWRDFTWERkZEIxUzVjSmNsN0ExU1E6Ma. If that isnt correct, google "google voice account transfer" and click the second link.
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Everytime I hard reset my phone, my applications redownload on their own. I do not want this. I uncheck the back up my data option under privacy and it still happens. How can I stop this?
Uncheck under privacy, force a sync, and try again.
If that doesnt work, then when you hard reset and after you do the INITIAL login to your account, you should see an option that says "backup my apps" or whatever........uncheck that. It wont download them but I'm not sure if you will see all of your apps in the market list.
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Uncheck under privacy, force a sync, and try again.
If that doesnt work, then when you hard reset and after you do the INITIAL login to your account, you should see an option that says "backup my apps" or whatever........uncheck that. It wont download them but I'm not sure if you will see all of your apps in the market list.
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I have done both of those and still. I get the same results. I am pretty sure I have tried to do this every way possible.
Skip your gmail account log in until you turn off mobile data, then turn off sync and uncheck it in privacy setting then go log in. See if that works
Get a new gmail account or simply don't log in
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I skipped the setup process then went in and did it, that seemed to work. Thanks guys
Another way is when you click set up Google account and are at the page where you type in your email and password just press the menu button and hit disable restore.
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Skip your gmail account log in until you turn off mobile data, then turn off sync and uncheck it in privacy setting then go log in. See if that works
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I decided I wanted to turn off the auto-restore as I'm going to be using titanium backup from now on and I came around the same problem as the OP. Every way I tried to leave it off, didn't work. I used all different ways of wiping, factory reset and such.
^^^that is THE ONLY way it seems to work. The only apps you will see in the market are the ones you purchased, and those will not download. Thanks for the tip
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Another way is when you click set up Google account and are at the page where you type in your email and password just press the menu button and hit disable restore.
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I am so surprised that I have never seen this. Thanks
Also it seems that if you skip the process, add your account and disable the auto-restore, and then you re-wipe and and still uncheck backup data, it will restore your apps again. So you have to skip everytime.
I've searched and searched and nothing has worked. I can't wipe.
I don't know how u mean, but if you'd like to unbind your phone from your account you have to go to Settings->Acc & sync->[Choose your account]->Remove. The other thing is to completely delete your account, to do this go to https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount, click Edit and select Close account and delete all services and info associated with it, comfirm it and you deleted your account
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I don't know how u mean, but if you'd like to unbind your phone from your account you have to go to Settings->Acc & sync->[Choose your account]->Remove. The other thing is to completely delete your account, to do this go to https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount, click Edit and select Close account and delete all services and info associated with it, comfirm it and you deleted your account
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i looked in my google voice account and theres no such options as to the first method that you suggested....
Could you be a little more specific on what you are trying to do? Do you not want to have any google account on your phone? Are you wanting to switch to a different google account? Are you trying to delete your gmail account completely?
i know what you are trying to do. You are trying to remove the google account you associated your phone with right? Well, unfortunately you cannot do that. You would need to reflash the ROM to be able to do so.
Refpashing is a bit brutal. A hard reset should be enough.
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Or you goto manage applications and reset defaults for all google apps...
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Woops, i somehow thought this was about google voice
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You could also grab Android ID changer and change your ID (Google account associated with your current ROM). Then, you could switch back and forth. *shrugs*...
Factory Reset is the safest way. Changing ID can invalidate all your apps and bugger it up, plus you can't use ID changer if your phone is NANDLOCKED.
I spent a lot of research on this, there is just too much data that needs to be changed to simply switch your primary Google authentication account. Make your backups then Factory Reset, just as the Sync settings suggests.
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Factory Reset is the safest way. Changing ID can invalidate all your apps and bugger it up, plus you can't use ID changer if your phone is NANDLOCKED.
I spent a lot of research on this, there is just too much data that needs to be changed to simply switch your primary Google authentication account. Make your backups then Factory Reset, just as the Sync settings suggests.
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But its faster just to reset the accounts and not have to redownload all the apps, resync facebook and whatever else is going on...
Uhuh... and how exactly does one get around the message saying you cannot delete the default Google account? Once you sign in to Google on firstboot for market, the phone is locked to that Market account.
As for redownloading all your apps, I take it you've never used Titanium Backup or MyBackup Pro. Note that if you buy something on Market, you cannot transfer that purchase to another Gmail account.
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Uhuh... and how exactly does one get around the message saying you cannot delete the default Google account? Once you sign in to Google on firstboot for market, the phone is locked to that Market account.
As for redownloading all your apps, I take it you've never used Titanium Backup or MyBackup Pro. Note that if you buy something on Market, you cannot transfer that purchase to another Gmail account.
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You're not deleting the account..you're just clearing data and defaults for the app..I've used TB and did forget to note that in my post..so thanks..as for MyBackup Pro I haven't..if you're rooted can't you still move purchased apks to the sdcard?
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You mean going to "Accounts and Sync" in TB > Wipe Data? I did that, but it resulted in FC's whenever trying to go back to add a new account. The Google Account ID assigned to the phone is a lot more tied-in than simple appdata, I even did a full find/replace on com.android.* databases and the best I got was annoying "Authentication failed" errors on startup, and Market, Gtalk, etc. All had FC's.
The .android_secure folder on SD cannot be hotswapped between phones, they need to be re-registered in the package registry... which TB handles mostly perfectly. Some paid apps do fail authentication checks after a TB restore though due to custom fingerprinting it seems, and have to be "revalidated" via Market install. One example that comes to mind is Flow (Facebook client) and Executive Assistant+.
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You mean going to "Accounts and Sync" in TB > Wipe Data? I did that, but it resulted in FC's whenever trying to go back to add a new account. The Google Account ID assigned to the phone is a lot more tied-in than simple appdata, I even did a full find/replace on com.android.* databases and the best I got was annoying "Authentication failed" errors on startup, and Market, Gtalk, etc. All had FC's.
The .android_secure folder on SD cannot be hotswapped between phones, they need to be re-registered in the package registry... which TB handles mostly perfectly. Some paid apps do fail authentication checks after a TB restore though due to custom fingerprinting it seems, and have to be "revalidated" via Market install. One example that comes to mind is Flow (Facebook client) and Executive Assistant+.
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see here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-454405.html
How old is that? I don't have "Gmail" nor "Google Apps" installed. The manual database method mentioned is what I did, resulting in corruption (the account was still there but I got 'Authentication Failed' from Market on startup). Risky. But good luck....
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Hi everybody howcome when I go in calendar and try to add a event it says you have no calendar? Can somebody help me. I download a calendar app from market gave me same message.
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Did you create one from Google Calendar? Log onto your gmail account and create a calendar then sync it to your phone.
Lol sounds confusing. What about contacts I saved 2 but its not on my contacts howcome?
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It happened to me when I first got my Nexus S. Even though I linked gmail and the calendar wouldn't allow me to add an event until a few days after using the phone while synced to Google account.
Sync Google account and do a soft reboot and if it doesn't work right away, let it run for a couple days. Give that a try. Good luck.
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You can manually sync from the sync menu.
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just go into accounts in the settings and re-sync your google account
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You can manually sync from the sync menu.
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I bought my wife the new Nexus S 4g today. The guy at the sprint store helper her set up the phone even thought I did not want him too. Oh well it is his job. Thing is she had never setup Google Calendar because she had a BlackBerry before that. So when I got home I setup her Google calendar but it is not syncing to her new phone. When I go to Setting > Accounts & Sync > her google account there is not a Calendar option. What do I need to do I don't want to have to reset her phone. Are there any other options? Thanks.
Odd. Calendar should be one of the defaults syncs. Have you tried running the calendar app and see if the gmail account shows up there?
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I had tried running the calendar app but nothing shows up I even enter an event online thinking may bring it down but nothing. If you try to add an event on the phone it just says "You have no calendars". It is almost like the phone did not sync all the way to her account. I really don't want to reset her phone to factory default and have her set everything up again. She would not want to do that. She has already change the wallpaper all the screens downloaded apps, and changed ring tones.
I meant open the calendar app, press the menu button, press More then on Calendars and make sure the gmail account is listed there.
Also, this might be a stupid question but you're connected with Wifi or mobile network (3G, 2G, etc) right? Your phone signal bars should appear green if you're connected to Google's servers. If it's not green, you won't be able to sync.
I go to Calendar app > More > Calendars and there is nothing there, just have an Ok and cancel button. I have been on 3g, 4g, and wifi and nothing on any of them. Yes the the bars a green at the top.
I doubt you need to reset to factory so not to worry about that. Maybe you just have to wait a day or two. Either that or bring it back to the store and have them figure it out.
Might do that thanks. Hopefully it will work itself out.
You can also try rebooting the phone if you haven't already.
already tried that
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maybe you should try and get the stock calendar.apk and re-install it...???
Ok I talked to Sprint and they said that is easiest way was to make sure that the phone was backed up to Google and just do a Factory Wipe. Basically wipe the phone and start over. So I did and that fixed the problem. So anyone who gets a new google phone and does not have all the google apps setup do that before you get the phone activated. I hope someone finds a better way because that is a major oversight on googles part. But everything is working great now.
i deleted my account info and did factory reset on the nexus 4 phone itself. however, on my google account, it still shows that i have a nexus 4. is there any way to dissociate it with my google account just in case the new owner of the phone wants to try some social engineering to get my account? since buyer does have the phone, it's possible since my google accounts such as checkout and google play showed that the nexus 4 is mine and i've made purchases with it and i can't unregister it. i just want to be safe.
I believe you can call Google and have the imei and warranty moved under the buyer's name in their system. Would that be enough?
Try manage devices in account at play store ? I renamed my devices recently not sure about removing them
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Yeah, I think you are going to have to resort to calling them. According to the following page, it is not possible to delete it from your account, but you can hide it (which would be convenient, but doesn't address the issue you are concerned about).
support.google.com
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(I'm a new forum user and can't post links, so just join the above 2 lines)
It takes a looooong time for a phone to vanish from your Google Play account, but as long as you've wiped it they're no longer linked.
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It takes a looooong time for a phone to vanish from your Google Play account, but as long as you've wiped it they're no longer linked.
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i've wiped it but my music and videos still there....i wonder why. i thought factory reset deletes every file. someone told me it's cause i have clockwork recovery mod and CWM don't delete those files
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i've wiped it but my music and videos still there....i wonder why. i thought factory reset deletes every file. someone told me it's cause i have clockwork recovery mod and CWM don't delete those files
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Factory reset from the Settings, that wipes everything (internal storage).
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Rusty! said:
It takes a looooong time for a phone to vanish from your Google Play account, but as long as you've wiped it they're no longer linked.
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Factory reset from the Settings, that wipes everything (internal storage).
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nope....tried both from recovery mode and straight from settings....same results. app caches and everything still there...makes no sense to me.
Try deleting your phone from
http://www.google.com/cloudprint/#printers
That's what I do when I change phones
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Not the SD
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raul90 said:
Try deleting your phone from
http://www.google.com/cloudprint/#printers
That's what I do when I change phones
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Thanks for the info. Didn't realize this.
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Try deleting your phone from
http://www.google.com/cloudprint/#printers
That's what I do when I change phones
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that only delete your phone's profile the the cloudprint service, nothing else
This doesn't remove devices from Play Store list.
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i deleted my account info and did factory reset on the nexus 4 phone itself. however, on my google account, it still shows that i have a nexus 4. is there any way to dissociate it with my google account just in case the new owner of the phone wants to try some social engineering to get my account? since buyer does have the phone, it's possible since my google accounts such as checkout and google play showed that the nexus 4 is mine and i've made purchases with it and i can't unregister it. i just want to be safe.
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if you want to delete everything you have to reflash stock google build using fastboot, this will delete all user files and install the factory recovery(that's if you changed it).
Why are you worried about the phone showing up in your play store account? if the phone isnt set up using your gmail account it will not have access to any of your info and you will not be able to control anything on the phone from the play store website.