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Paid apps on new Gmail account

I've searched a few times and can't really find much on this, but I'm about to root my G1 (the T-Mobile version) and that means fully wiping it. I've got a few apps including open home and SNesoid on there that are paid for and linked to a gmail account I'm wanting to get rid of. When I reinstall everything on the phone I want to use a fresh gmail account with a new user name but I'm not sure how I would get those paid apps transferred to that account. Anyone know of a way to do this?

danielelias said:
I've searched a few times and can't really find much on this, but I'm about to root my G1 (the T-Mobile version) and that means fully wiping it. I've got a few apps including open home and SNesoid on there that are paid for and linked to a gmail account I'm wanting to get rid of. When I reinstall everything on the phone I want to use a fresh gmail account with a new user name but I'm not sure how I would get those paid apps transferred to that account. Anyone know of a way to do this?
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Well there is no way you can get them from the market back because thats all linked to your account and with a new account you would have to buy them again. Make backups of all your apk's and for the protected ones pull them using adb.

If I am correct, all you have to do is "relink your market account to your "credit card" info and it should be there. :]

OK perfect. I will probably do both just to be safe. Thanks a lot.

There seems to be a method detailed in the thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4127574&postcount=5

Hi if i were to buy a app and then cancel the credit card for my gmail account would i still get updates for the app i purchased

M..N said:
Hi if i were to buy a app and then cancel the credit card for my gmail account would i still get updates for the app i purchased
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Technically the credit card is on your google checkout account, not your gmail account. And as long as you've paid for an app (and not refunded it) you should be able to get updates for it on that google account as long as the developer provides them.

ok thanks for that but would i still get the app updates if i cancel my google checkout account?

M..N said:
ok thanks for that but would i still get the app updates if i cancel my google checkout account?
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It's likely that when you attempt to redownload an app you had previously purchased but uninstalled that the market backend parses your google checkout account for a record of having purchased an app. Since there's no way currently to remove checkout from a Google account, there's probably no way you could get into a situation where your checkout history became unaccessible for the market backend.
Of course until someone has any actual experience in this matter, all I wrote above is just an educated guess.

I just flashed a new ROM and configurated it with my Google Apps Account.
Then I went to Market and searched for a app I had bought with my normal Google Account which is connected to Checkout.
Market asked me for a gmail Account because the Apps account does not work for buying at the Market and I entered the GMail account informations and still had to buy the app I still have bought before?!
How can I tell Market to show me the apps I still have bought? And yes, I bought it with the same credit card, I did not make any change at checkout

I would contact the developer of said app and explain the situation and provide your info and see if he will honor it. I don't see where a dev would have a problem sending you an apk providing you proved that you purchased it.

got it with with Tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4127574&postcount=5
Thanx @all

Multiple Google Accounts question

I signed out of a Google Account after adding another one, and it kept all my paid apps etc. Is there some downfall to this, or is this an easy way to share my apps with my family? Thanks!

Xygod said:
I signed out of a Google Account after adding another one, and it kept all my paid apps etc. Is there some downfall to this, or is this an easy way to share my apps with my family? Thanks!
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I have 4 Google accounts on mine I generally only use 1 for purchasing apps but occasionally accidentally use a different one. You don't 'lose' apps by changing account.
Once you've downloaded an app, it is possible to take the APK and install it on another device. Some apps phone home though and may call you out on this approach!

All apps you get from the play store are linked to the account and devices you were signed into when you got them. Many paid apps check for the linked account when they run out update to prevent you sharing them.
If you have the same account on multiple devices you can share, I do between my phone and my tablet, but my wife for example has her own accounts and own paid apps.
I don't want someone else with my Gmail account on their device. Mine is setup with 2 factor authentication anyway which requires a code which is sent via SMS to me to compete for extra security.
If you use your pc and log into the play store on the web you can see what apps are associated with that account and which devices they were loaded on.
Sent from my Nexus 7

Google Play Credit went to wrong google account?

Hi,
I did a search and didn't find anything matching this query so please forgive me if I missed anything. I got my Nexus 7 yesterday and was trying to set it up. I wanted to set up a new username for my google account and link my youtube account to it. I did all this on the nexus and at the same point during set up I entered a credit card number to get my play voucher.
Now somehow in all my messing about with account names trying to link up my youtube and prefered email as my "google account" the £15 voucher for the play store got applied to the wrong account. I want to delete that one and just have my main one now but if I do that will I loose my google voucher or will I be able to get it on my main account?
I could just used the voucher on that account to buy the apps I want and the delete the account but how would that work if I ever needed to redownload those apps again, would I need access to that account to do so?
If anyone knows of a way I can transfer my google play credit to my other account that would be brilliant!
Thank you in advance.
Update: I tried deleting the old account and then resetting my Nexus and entering all my details from scratch but it says the voucher has already been claimed except now it is on an account that no longer exists. I think my best bet now is to email google and ask them to fix it. Does anyone know of a contact point?

[Q] Google play issue

it's not neccesarily related to nexus 4 (it's just the phone i have)
My problem is this, i deleted myo ld google account, and added a new one, but at the "my apps" tab it doesnt show the apps i installed on the other account.. how can i make this appear or do i have to reinstall everything?..

Nobody knows a solution ?

Your purchases are all tied to your Google account. If you deleted it, it's all gone, sorry. ):
Edit: Did you mean you completely deleted your account from Google or just deleted your account from the phone? If the latter, you can just sign on to your old accounts to get your apps, but you can't migrate it to another account.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

denja12 said:
it's not neccesarily related to nexus 4 (it's just the phone i have)
My problem is this, i deleted myo ld google account, and added a new one, but at the "my apps" tab it doesnt show the apps i installed on the other account.. how can i make this appear or do i have to reinstall everything?..
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If you actually deleted your entire google account from google, the only way to get your apps back is to restore your google account
See here http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1212172
If you deleted it from just the phone, simply add it again to restore your apps.

[Q] messed with Framework to force 4.3 OTA, serious troubles with play store account!

So i was clearing frameworks service on my nexus 4 and nexus 10 to try to force the OTA update. I found out the hard way that this is stupid and can seriously harm stuff.
First of all, i got problems with play store. I got errors when downloading app updates from google play.
After searching for a solution i found that I had to remove my google account from my phone and then add it again. That worked.
However once I updated to 4.3(didnt get the OTA so i used the adb method) the problems came back - it would not sync my primary account.
So i deleted again the account, cleaned framework and google play data.
Now it looks like i seriosuly f* up things. I can log in to google play but all my installed apps are gone (under "my apps")
When i login to the web version, both my nexus 4 and nexus 10 have disappeared from my devices. It only lists my old ones, that i dont have anymore.
Under "all apps" i do still see my app history (incl purchases), so at least some data was saved.
Is there anyhting i can do to
1. link my devices
2. see my installed apps?
Thanks in advance.
-edit: SOLVED!
Here's what happened - by deleting my primary account, a secondary account became the primary one so all app data was linked to that one.
I deleted all other accounts except the primary one, and with that app data was again linked to the primary account.

Do a hard reset.

Sfkn2 said:
Do a hard reset.
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i really want to avoid clearing all my data.
-edit: SOLVED!
Here's what happened - by deleting my primary account, a secondary account became the primary one so all app data was linked to that one.
I deleted all other accounts except the primary one, and with that app data was again linked to the primary account.