Hi all,
I need to remove the Google account from a mt3g running cm6.1
I have been digging for info for days. I'm now dizzy
I bought this phone used, already rooted, & running CM6.1
I just sold the phone and would like to delete all the account info.
settings- acc & sync- remove account, brings up that this account is required by some apps, and must reset phone to factory default under the privacy settings to remove. Tried that.
No joy. account is still there.
When I do the factory data reset, I start with a full charge, and plugged in, but the charge indicator light goes out. The phone hangs on the green my touch screen for 2-3 hours then shuts off. I think the battery just goes dead. I wanted to give it every chance to succeed. When I power up, same 'ol same 'ol. The account is still there and locked in.
The reset did however clear out the contacts and gmail's.
I have uninstalled all downloaded apps. Cleared data in all google apps, and market.
I have added an additional account and then try to remove the original it's still a no go. However I can remove the added account.
I like the cm6 rom and so does the phones new owner so I'd like to keep it.
I'm tempted to try to install the Ginger Yoshi rom, but If I'm going to take the time to figure out the process I'll do it on my current mt3.5jack
If I give up the phone to it's new owner like it is, Tell them to just not sync my personal account, I still have to give them My password for the Market to work.
Feeling pretty vulnerable with that deal
I have bought 2 used my touch's. One rooted and one stock. Neither had any account info on them. Surely this is possible?
If you have read this far, Thanks !
Any help would be appreciated
Boot into recovery and wipe data from there. Hold home + power to do that
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wipe data in recovery,everything gone
Thanks all for the fast reply's.
I just tried to boot into recovery by holding down the home and power button to turn on the phone.
This took me to the splash screen that is the green "my touch"
screen.
The phone just hangs there. I had to pull the battery to free up the phone.
I waited 10-15 min before pulling the battery. How long should it take?
I also have the option to reboot into recovery from the shutdown menu.
This also just hangs up on the splash screen when it turns back on.
I just tried to power on while pressing the "down" volume button.
From there I had the option to "reset phone".
Just booted ... and no change. The account is still there and I cannot remove it?
Any additional advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 15 year old girl calling me every 2 hours, excited to get her new toy
Flash recovery again then
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Thanks again for the replies.
I've tried getting the phone to boot into recovery for a few hours.
All I can do is get it stuck on the flash screen or normal boot.
I waited 5 min each time I tried to boot into recovery, while stuck on the splash screen.
Do I need to have a sim card in the phone for this ?
I assume there is some glitch in the code causing this? I've been reading up about flashing rom's. I'm worried this glitch may cause a problem with that. I'm a noob, and If Flashing a rom hangs something up, I will end up being a real nuisance here
Loading a zip file from the sd card is no big deal but the radio kernel's and such are bit intimidating. Most of what I have read here seems to be focused towards advanced users.
I really like the cm6.1 rom. I will learn how to load on my personal phone next!
I just need to get this phone to it's new owner.
What is the down side of leaving the google account on this phone, and giving the owner the password. I can create a new google account for myself.
I assume that the new user can just have 2 accounts live on the phone.
They can still use their own account for their contacts and whatnot?
Just my password to get to the market. Will their purchases end up on my bill?
A bit more info here,
I have the ginger Yoshi rom sitting on the sd on the phone in question.
If I just execute the zip file, would I be swinging? I'm worried without access to recovery mode I may be jacked if something goes wrong.
Right now the phone has a radio that is fast compared to stock.
Will that be lost?
The phone has titanium backup, Rom Manager, super user, and super manager loaded on it.
Thanks again for the help.
8-up said:
A bit more info here,
I have the ginger Yoshi rom sitting on the sd on the phone in question.
If I just execute the zip file, would I be swinging? I'm worried without access to recovery mode I may be jacked if something goes wrong.
Right now the phone has a radio that is fast compared to stock.
Will that be lost?
The phone has titanium backup, Rom Manager, super user, and super manager loaded on it.
Thanks again for the help.
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If the recovery is hosed you wouldn't be able to flash Yoshi. Don't leave the account on the phone. Just do what the other Guy said. Reflash the recovery using the ROM Manager app and then wipe data from the recovery menu. No need to overcomplicate everything.
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Thanks again for the reply.
I used rom manager. I selected to "reboot into recovery"
the phone starts to reboot, but get's stuck on the splash screen. Like always.
How long should I wait?
Any thing that I've tried that causes a non-conventional reboot, freezes the phone. I wait 10 min to one hour sometimes. I pull the battery then restart normally, and I'm back to same 'ol same 'ol ?
I just tried rom manager "flash clockworkmod recovery". It gave me a successful pop up.
I then shut down the phone. I held the home button then pressed the red power on button. Now stuck on the splash screen again.
I generally assume the problem is me, however I'm not so sure right now?
If this phone doesn't transform into a brick it will transform into a frisbee
Thanks Again for spending energy on this.
Hurray !!!
I had to use rom manager to flash recovery. When doing this I was selecting
HTC magic. I started going through every variable.
Yep it was me. One option for recovery was "ION/MyTouch GSM" I was glazing past that one 'cause I saw "ION" and didn't recognize that.
I finally saw the elusive recovery menu
Thanks all for keeping me motivated
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I'm rooted but have never ran anything but stock on my phone. Only having experience with flashing WinMo devices, what exactly do I need to know before flashing a custom ROM?
If I flash, do I lose the data on my phone now (does it do a factory wipe)?
Most times toy will need to do a wipe of the data and cache to get a full rom working correctly.
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Yeah, thanks.. Just downloaded ROM manager and Clockworkmod Recovery ($2), kinda following the instructions from Gummys post.
How long does this process take? I installed from SD and did the reboot.. I must of waited a good fifteen minutes before pulling the battery assuming it was stuck. Now it's sitting on the Gummy Screen with the 4 rotating colored android pics.
Got into recovery but it's not allowing me to apply the update.zip (e:can't open/cache/recovery/command)?
Dang it! I was in the middle of posting the following instructions when I got interrupted (at work)
Code:
Flashing will wipe your phone. The nice thing with android is -anything you have purchased or installed from the market will automatically be restored to your phone after you log in using your gmail account.
Let me qualify my statement though - I have flashed a few roms and my free apps were not automatically installed for whatever reason. My purchased apps were not installed either - but they were available for installation at no charge.
Here is another important thing to remember - this will only happen if you chose the correct settings in -uh well- settings. There are some options in there to back up your data to google. If you did that then 95% chance it will all be good.
I recently switched from the DX to the D1 (gave my wife the DX bc I wanted to try some D1 roms) and all my apps were installed and somehow google even migrated my current wallpaper over! I was blown away by that.
Also -make sure your contacts are set up to sync with google. if they are just being added to your phone and not in sync with your google account you are going to loose them all.
Flashing roms:
1. You need to get the droidx bootstrapper app from the market (or I think you can get it for free if you search clockwork mod on google and go to Koush's website. I just bought it to help the developer.).
2. Open the app.
3. Press the "Bootstrap recovery button"
4. You should get a dialog box saying success (or something and then press ok).
5. Press "reboot recovery".
6. Your phone will reboot into clockwork recovery (not the stock phone recovery). It will be a black screen with old school green letters and a menu.
a. In recovery you do not have a touch screen.
b. The volume rocker is up/down.
c. The camera button is "Enter".
d. The physical back button will take you back one menu (also I believe the power button but I always used the power button.
7. The first thing you want to do before you do anything is make a nandroid (backup) of your phone.
8. The opening screen of recovery has the option to create a nandroid. do that.
9. It takes around 5 minutes then choose to reboot your phone when it says, ""complete".
10. To flash a rom put ti...
Wish I would have just posted what I had. Maybe you would have had a nandroid to revert to.
Dang.
Yea. It shouldn't take that long. Sounds like something got hosed. I am getting interrupter again. I will try and get back with some info.
Awesome info, thanks for this. Did a factory wipe and now it's booting up normally (or so it appears into Gummy), will definitely bookmark that info though, thanks again man!
Were you installing Gummy. And did you follow the instructions exactly?
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looks like you got it. glad to hear that.
Used ROM Manager and downloaded Leedriod 3.0, ran Terminal Emulator and did everything by the book. Went into ClockWork Recovery mode and everything looked okay. Then went to HTC boot animation screen and that's where it has been ever since. Every five minutes or so I get the delightful sound of HTC and a permanently on HTC, Quietly Brilliant Boot screen. It's been going like that for about 25 minutes now.
Any help would be appreciated.
No its not bricked, its in bootloop.
This is what i do when it happens to me:
Pull out the battery. If the phone is off, turn it back on with volume down + power on button. Wait till you get the bootloader screen. Now select recovery. In ClockWork Recovery you can set your backup back. (if you had made one before).
I hope its helps you. Goodluck.
Or just copy another rom file to the sd card and flash again.
Unfortunately I made the classic error of not backing up first, was trying to do this while in work (not good) so I presume at this point I'm screwed
joooe said:
Or just copy another rom file to the sd card and flash again.
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Thanks, will try that tonight.
It doesn't hurt to try to flash the rom you already have once again.
Just what joooe said. Use super wipe to clear data. just for sure.
Good luck.
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Just a quick thanks to you guys, did Super Wipe and installed Android Revolution 6.20 last night and all went well. It was worth the screw up to have the small learning curve in the end
I did this one of the first times i flashed roms
i did have abackup first but its a scary experience lol
Guys please I know this is the wrong forum but no one is answering help. At all. Alright, I went to flash the ICS Sense alpha, and needed to restore a backup. I went into hboot, and restored the PD98IMG.zip. Afterwards it said "Press power to reboot" so i did. The phone turned off, and now nothing. After a LONG time the phone turned on to the White HTC Splash and vibrated CONSTANTLY, until the battery was pulled. I tried volume down + power but nothing. Except for the occasional white screen, nothing. Please, anyone/.
You're bricked
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I think your phone had a bootloop. Did you already installed custom recovery? Can you enter it through fastboot menu (vol down + power)?
I doubt he's bricked,why are you restoring that zip? You restore your back up....from clockwork?
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It won't enter into fastboot. Occasionally the white HTC screen comes on with a constant vibrate and the only way to stop that is to pull the battery. No fastboot, no recovery, nothing.
It wouldnt enter into recovery so I had to take the long way, by using the PD98IMG
HTC_Phone said:
It won't enter into fastboot. Occasionally the white HTC screen comes on with a constant vibrate and the only way to stop that is to pull the battery. No fastboot, no recovery, nothing.
It wouldnt enter into recovery so I had to take the long way, by using the PD98IMG
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I am confused. So what exactly happens when doing this:
remove or rename the PD98IMG on the sd card
pull the battery from the DHD
re-enter it and hold volume down and power until the hboot starts
navigate by volume down/up to Recovery and press POWER
If you had to restore back to factory, why bother flashing ICS?
You should get away by installing one of the RUU using PC. here is a guide on how to install RUU and you'll have to search this section to find a RUU or google it.
Though firstly i would ask you if you can go into the recovery mode anyhow since you're saying that your phone can get the HTC logo. For that, hold down POWER + volume DOWN key to get you into hboot (IF YOU CAN) and choose recovery from there, once in recovery, go to option where you wipe your data + cache, wipe both of em and try restarting again...If you can't even get into recovery then do the RUU way of getting the rom working.
EDIT:
I'm not sure what in the world happened, but it booted into the ATT stock ROM. After 30 minutes of vibration and idk what else, it finally booted.
Lol least its on
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HTC_Phone said:
EDIT:
I'm not sure what in the world happened, but it booted into the ATT stock ROM. After 30 minutes of vibration and idk what else, it finally booted.
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Gratz, suppose this thread's unnecessary now?
Anyway take care of what you do: always do a nandroid backup prior to flashing everything. Better spend 5min for backup than 5 days without a phone.
I think know what happens. If I remember correctly you had your phone replaced. And it came with gb. The pd98 you flashed was the froyo one. Hence the crazy vibration and long boot time. If Im right thisvwill happen each time you reboot Until you get the gb bootloader back on
Also spamming the threads is a pretty good way of getting banned. Maybe zel or Andy will be nice about it
marsdta said:
I think know what happens. If I remember correctly you had your phone replaced. And it came with gb. The pd98 you flashed was the froyo one. Hence the crazy vibration and long boot time. If Im right thisvwill happen each time you reboot Until you get the gb bootloader back on
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That sounds somewhat correct. I DID get it replaced, but had a GB PD98 on the SD card. Anyway, it vibrated for quite some time, and eventually the vibration stopped. So I let the phone sit as I figured out some way to salvage the phone. And the the next HTC splash booted, and the phone proceeded into the stock ROM. Idk what happened, but I'm not complaining.
Dear Lord, it just turned off and is doing it again. But, I'm praying for the best again. Thanks guys.
HTC_Phone said:
Dear Lord, it just turned off and is doing it again. But, I'm praying for the best again. Thanks guys.
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When you succesfuly back in your phone, just root it with AAHK and install some custom ROM and you should be fine.
motherninja said:
When you succesfuly back in your phone, just root it with AAHK and install some custom ROM and you should be fine.
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The phone itself is already rooted, but I tried booting into CWM, and it did the same thing as it did before. So I have to run the RUU, and then S on the phone, and run the hack kit again. I already ran the RUU once, and nothing.
Probably best just to start over and do everything again,even if you've already done it,maybe the root didnt work?
Your phones a nightmare mate
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So you intentionally created a thread in the wrong section?
I guess the rules don't apply to you then.
Oh crap, here goes:
I loaded up the Energy Rom from NRGZ28 in my kindle and booted into recovery. I hit the "Wipe Data" option and noticed after a couple of minutes that the application froze (it wans't doing anything) and would not respond to anything I did. So figuiring it was only data and not a system wipe I held the power button down for the 10 second reboot expecting it reboot into the current rom since all it was missing was data and I would just sign in and set up like I always do. How wrong was I, it is now off and will not turn on no matter what I do. Crap, after flashing roms for the last 3 years on phones and my Kindle since roms were available for it I think I made my first brick
I did not get to flash the new ROM so I know it wasn't that and Iv'e been using this recovery since Hash put it out for us so not sure what went wrong.
Anybody able to bring theirs back to life, I'll be trying the fire_fix tonight to see if that might help via USB.
did firekit sort it for you?
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Jdom58 said:
Oh crap, here goes:
I loaded up the Energy Rom from NRGZ28 in my kindle and booted into recovery. I hit the "Wipe Data" option and noticed after a couple of minutes that the application froze (it wans't doing anything) and would not respond to anything I did. So figuiring it was only data and not a system wipe I held the power button down for the 10 second reboot expecting it reboot into the current rom since all it was missing was data and I would just sign in and set up like I always do. How wrong was I, it is now off and will not turn on no matter what I do. Crap, after flashing roms for the last 3 years on phones and my Kindle since roms were available for it I think I made my first brick
I did not get to flash the new ROM so I know it wasn't that and Iv'e been using this recovery since Hash put it out for us so not sure what went wrong.
Anybody able to bring theirs back to life, I'll be trying the fire_fix tonight to see if that might help via USB.
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What recovery did you use-TWRP or CWMR 5.5.0.4? See herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1651413
Please someone help me or tell me who I can PM to help please.
Yesterday my razR M was just randomly rebooting, it stop doing this after about 5 reboots. I then proceeded to fully charge my phone twice to do the radiocomm edit and root, using DROID RAZR M Utility 1.20 since i'm on 4.1.2 *I did not factory reset*, the phone so that the battery wouldn't die while doing either and mess up the phone. I was trying to do the entitlement edit with all free file managers with root permissions which didn't work and I realized my phone was freezing while doing simple tasks (during boot animation, inputting password to unlock phone, switching between homescreens and opening app drawer) and rebooting.
It wasn't turning on or showing any indication of being plugged in, but while I was writing this it just magically went to the battery percentage indicator and I was able to turn it on and after about 20 seconds of being booted the led indicator is flashing green again.
I can't have this happen next week when I'm on my trip, I won't have the time and my access to computers and internet will be limited. If anyone knows what could be causing this and or how to fix it PLEASE TELL ME
Update (3:25 AM): IT HAPPENED AGAIN, ready to cry want to try to flash back to stock but don't know how
Update #2 (4:13AM): So after a lot of button pressing I got it stuck on the red m then eventually into the bootloader; saw that the random reboots is not unusual for razr hd/maxx hd users on 4.1.2 with the only way to fix being to flash to CM10. Also realized that i'm not the only one whose phone requires a soft reset to charge/boot, no longer contemplating flashing back to stock seeing as i'll probably still have the reboots
ccdsatt said:
Please someone help me or tell me who I can PM to help please.
Yesterday my razR M was just randomly rebooting, it stop doing this after about 5 reboots. I then proceeded to fully charge my phone twice to do the radiocomm edit and root, using DROID RAZR M Utility 1.20 since i'm on 4.1.2 *I did not factory reset*, the phone so that the battery wouldn't die while doing either and mess up the phone. I was trying to do the entitlement edit with all free file managers with root permissions which didn't work and I realized my phone was freezing while doing simple tasks (during boot animation, inputting password to unlock phone, switching between homescreens and opening app drawer) and rebooting.
It wasn't turning on or showing any indication of being plugged in, but while I was writing this it just magically went to the battery percentage indicator and I was able to turn it on and after about 20 seconds of being booted the led indicator is flashing green again.
I can't have this happen next week when I'm on my trip, I won't have the time and my access to computers and internet will be limited. If anyone knows what could be causing this and or how to fix it PLEASE TELL ME
Update (3:25 AM): IT HAPPENED AGAIN, ready to cry want to try to flash back to stock but don't know how
Update #2 (4:13AM): So after a lot of button pressing I got it stuck on the red m then eventually into the bootloader; saw that the random reboots is not unusual for razr hd/maxx hd users on 4.1.2 with the only way to fix being to flash to CM10. Also realized that i'm not the only one whose phone requires a soft reset to charge/boot, no longer contemplating flashing back to stock seeing as i'll probably still have the reboots
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not sure if your situation has been resolved, but it appears that the battery just drained all the down. from that point, you need to plug in your phone (into an outlet, not computer), and leave it alone for a good 30 minutes (don't even look at it).
from that point, you should be able to enter the Rom by powering up or recovery via volume up + volume down + power.
if you are still having troubles, you might be best to simply perform a hard reset (I think you can do that from the stock recovery menu).
after you are able to do that, I would suggest to root, unlock bootloader, install TWRP. then setup your phone settings to your liking, then go back into recovery and make a backup. i have soft-bricked my phone several times, and entering TWRP recovery and restoring my previous setup has helped every time.
Its OK now
jco23 said:
not sure if your situation has been resolved, but it appears that the battery just drained all the down. from that point, you need to plug in your phone (into an outlet, not computer), and leave it alone for a good 30 minutes (don't even look at it).
from that point, you should be able to enter the Rom by powering up or recovery via volume up + volume down + power.
if you are still having troubles, you might be best to simply perform a hard reset (I think you can do that from the stock recovery menu).
after you are able to do that, I would suggest to root, unlock bootloader, install TWRP. then setup your phone settings to your liking, then go back into recovery and make a backup. i have soft-bricked my phone several times, and entering TWRP recovery and restoring my previous setup has helped every time.
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My phone was always 100% percent charged as I wanted to do stuff with the utility. After getting it into safemode, where it still froze and rebooted twice each time I booted into the mode, I got to power off then turn off then back on the regular way and left it on and has been fine since then. I currently have safestrap and cm10 zip on the phone in the event it acts up again. I backed up using safestrap like suggested. I haven't unlocked the bootloader yet, I have the app installed though, as I saw something from one of the devs for my previous moto device that said that if your bootloader is unlocked and we get another OTA and install* it our phones could get messed up.
*I know I can just install a stock 4.2 ROM*
ccdsatt said:
My phone was always 100% percent charged as I wanted to do stuff with the utility. After getting it into safemode, where it still froze and rebooted twice each time I booted into the mode, I got to power off then turn off then back on the regular way and left it on and has been fine since then. I currently have safestrap and cm10 zip on the phone in the event it acts up again. I backed up using safestrap like suggested. I haven't unlocked the bootloader yet, I have the app installed though, as I saw something from one of the devs for my previous moto device that said that if your bootloader is unlocked and we get another OTA and install* it our phones could get messed up.
*I know I can just install a stock 4.2 ROM*
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well, most folks are going via the TWRP recovery route now (and I believe that all custom ROMs going forward will be flashable this way only, and not SS).
you will find that using TWRP is much easier than SS
jco23 said:
well, most folks are going via the TWRP recovery route now (and I believe that all custom ROMs going forward will be flashable this way only, and not SS).
you will find that using TWRP is much easier than SS
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I realized that while looking at roms this afternoon. Before I go down the custom route though do you know if it affects the usage of gsm there are no CDMA carriers in Jamaica so I can't flash to anything?
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ccdsatt said:
I realized that while looking at roms this afternoon. Before I go down the custom route though do you know if it affects the usage of gsm there are no CDMA carriers in Jamaica so I can't flash to anything?
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Most of the ROMs need a gsmfix zip flashed, but they'll work on GSM with that
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