[Q] Need help resetting Windows Live ID? - Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all, is it possible to reset my Windows Live ID account details? When I go to Settings > Email > Windows Live, I can't seem to change the username on it? I imagine this auto links with my XBox Live account but I accidently entered on the wrong email and I don't know how to change it
I am tempted to do a hard reset as I tried to figure this out last night but failed I imagine if I change the Windows Live account my XBox account will resync too?
Thanks in advance, Onam.

OnamCh said:
Hi all, is it possible to reset my Windows Live ID account details? When I go to Settings > Email > Windows Live, I can't seem to change the username on it? I imagine this auto links with my XBox Live account but I accidently entered on the wrong email and I don't know how to change it
I am tempted to do a hard reset as I tried to figure this out last night but failed I imagine if I change the Windows Live account my XBox account will resync too?
Thanks in advance, Onam.
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sorry to say but the only way is to hardreset it

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Anyone know how to reset an Omnia 7?

Nooooooooo

Same as any WP7 phone -- the easiest way is Settings -> About -> reset your phone (at the bottom)

Thank you, I will be doing that tonight. Surprised you can't just change the username on the account argh Microsoft!

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Removing Messenger contacts from Contacts/All People Tab

Ok so I've been doing a lot of searching but can’t seem to find the answer.
When I set up Windows Live I accidently said yes to having my contacts list in my phone's contact list.
I didn't want this so I was going through the list manually and deleting them one by one. Little did I know I was also deleting them from my MSN My fault, I know, I'm an idiot! I have had the phone for about a month now and had it set so the MSN contacts were not in the contacts list. I flashed a new ROM and that was why I had to set it up again s I didn't realize that deleting these would have any effect on anything else.
So now I'm trying to remove the MSN contacts from the phone contacts but I can't seem to work out how. In the Windows Live "Options" I can see under #2 Sync options, there is an option to "Store Windows Live contacts in your mobile phones contact list" but I'm not able to select it to change the settings.
Anyone able to assist? I'm sure it's something simple that I’ve missed but I can't seem to work it out
Thanks in advance..
Delete your hotmail account from the phone. Go back and set up hotmail again and this time do not check "add my hotmail contacts to my adress book" option. It will not say it exactly like that but you will know what i am talking about. I had to hard reset mine to get rid of 100s of email adresses in my phone contact book. Little did i know
if you find that windows live mobile wont let you remove email contacts from your phone contacts list because the check box is greyed out, and you cant seem to delete your email account from your phone, go to windows live > menu > account options > switch windows live ID > Yes
now just re-setup with the same hotmail account details and dont check-the contacts sync boxes this time. Worked for me. so happy now.
NaveenR said:
if you find that windows live mobile wont let you remove email contacts from your phone contacts list because the check box is greyed out, and you cant seem to delete your email account from your phone, go to windows live > menu > account options > switch windows live ID > Yes
now just re-setup with the same hotmail account details and dont check-the contacts sync boxes this time. Worked for me. so happy now.
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Thanks man, I ended up working it out. I just cleared the Windows Live account and started over again. Something I should have realized to do before posting
Thanks for a tip, it helps me a lot
No need to re-install it again ​

[Q] Switching Xbox Live ID email adress

My current Xbox live gamertag is under a yahoo email account because at the time, I did not have a @live.com email.
I just reset my phone and signed in with my @live.com email and it created a new Xbox live account.
Thru the xbox console itself I tried changing the email from my yahoo to my live, but it won't let me since the live email is already associated with the new xbox live account it created.
Called xbox live support and they said they can't delete accounts and to try and log out of xbox live on my phone (which it won't let me)..
Any tips?
This is basically what I need to do, but can't
http://support.xbox.com/en-ca/pages...ount-management/manage-live-id.aspx#section-4
I went through something similar. My xbox live account was linked to a slush hotmail account, not my main one (my full name). When I knew I was getting a wp7, I went about trying to switch it, however there was already an xbox live account associated with my full-name one (I had made one but switched to my slush account).
This is what I did:
-create new email ([email protected])
-go to xbox console, and recover gamertag for my fullname hotmail (it's somewhere in account settings or something)
-switched the gamertag associated with my fullname to [email protected]
-so my [email protected] now has no gamertag associated with it
-switched my main xbox live account to my fullname hotmail email
And voila, I now had my xbox account linked to my fullname hotmail
I hope this answers your question, and if it doesn't, my apologies and good luck, gamertag associations are a ***** to deal with.
Thanks, i'm thinking that's what i'm gonna have to do. Create a new @live email account, change my xbox live account email to the new @live email, AND reset my phone and use the new @live email.
Right now that seems like the only thing that will work, unless anyone else has any other ideas...
Your're right, they are a ***** to deal with. I'm kind of ticked off it automatically created a new xbox live account when I put in my @live email on my phone. Didn't even give me a chance to log in with my xbox live account.
No, do what he said, you don't need to reset your phone I believe. What he said to do was log into the Xbox and sign in to your PHONES email, which will sign into your 'new' account and switch THAT email to a new one, a temporary one you'll need to make. Once that account is off that email, you'll be able to switch your real xbox live ID to your phones email...
FiyaFleye said:
No, do what he said, you don't need to reset your phone I believe. What he said to do was log into the Xbox and sign in to your PHONES email, which will sign into your 'new' account and switch THAT email to a new one, a temporary one you'll need to make. Once that account is off that email, you'll be able to switch your real xbox live ID to your phones email...
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Correct. What I outlined was how to switch your xbox live account to be associated with the email that is on your phone
Thanks dudes, I misunderstood the first time...got it now. Gonna do that right now
t0nnn said:
Thanks dudes, I misunderstood the first time...got it now. Gonna do that right now
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No problem.
Let us know how it goes
sure haven't said:
Correct. What I outlined was how to switch your xbox live account to be associated with the email that is on your phone
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Lol yeah, when I read it the second time I figured he misunderstood it, I would have never thought of that though, great idea.
t0nnn said:
Thanks dudes, I misunderstood the first time...got it now. Gonna do that right now
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Not a problem man, let us know if you get it resolved.
hahaa, just did it and everything's good to go. What a pain in the ass that was...thanks again
lost my app purchase history when I changed my GamerTag?
sure haven't said:
I went through something similar. My xbox live account was linked to a slush hotmail account, not my main one (my full name). When I knew I was getting a wp7, I went about trying to switch it, however there was already an xbox live account associated with my full-name one (I had made one but switched to my slush account).
This is what I did:
-create new email ([email protected])
-go to xbox console, and recover gamertag for my fullname hotmail (it's somewhere in account settings or something)
-switched the gamertag associated with my fullname to [email protected]
-so my [email protected] now has no gamertag associated with it
-switched my main xbox live account to my fullname hotmail email
And voila, I now had my xbox account linked to my fullname hotmail
I hope this answers your question, and if it doesn't, my apologies and good luck, gamertag associations are a ***** to deal with.
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I just had to do the above, but when I did it, it wouldn't remove the automatically created player######## xbox live gamertag from my phone, even though it was now associated with a different email address than my live ID account and my correct gamertag was associated with the correct live ID email. After several soft resets, no change, still player####### in my game hub. I did a hard reset and it fixed that problem, when went to reload the apps that I'd purchased previously, they are longer showing up as previously purchased. In ZUNE, I have no apps in my purchases history. It's as if the app purchases were linked to my gamertag!?!?!? WTF.
Maybe it wouldn't remove the Player###### gamertag ID because of the achievements associated with the installed apps? Maybe that's why removing that gamertag ID removed the app purchase history? Maybe my being on Mango Beta has something to do with this? At no point in time did I change the LIVE ID email account associated with my phone.
I think I might have to restore to an old backup...

Windows Live messenger Secondary live ID

Just like most of the people I created a US dummy account to access the marketplace.
I noticed I can only use windows live messenger(messaging hub) with my primary "dummy" account. I was able to connect facebook to that account, but what I really want is my own Windows Live ID in de messaging hub.
My own Live ID is set as a secondary account on my phone, is it possible to login with that account?
There read somewhere a hard reset and setting your own ID as primary will solve this problem. But I want to avoid that because I can't backup my sms.
I know microsoft will release the markerplace in the Netherlands but there are only 40 apps. That is why I don't want to hard reset my device.
tbk21 said:
Just like most of the people I created a US dummy account to access the marketplace.
I noticed I can only use windows live messenger(messaging hub) with my primary "dummy" account. I was able to connect facebook to that account, but what I really want is my own Windows Live ID in de messaging hub.
My own Live ID is set as a secondary account on my phone, is it possible to login with that account?
There read somewhere a hard reset and setting your own ID as primary will solve this problem. But I want to avoid that because I can't backup my sms.
I know microsoft will release the markerplace in the Netherlands but there are only 40 apps. That is why I don't want to hard reset my device.
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No. As of right now Messenger can only use your primary Windows Live ID. The only way to change your primary Windows Live ID is a hard reset.
A quick search would have provided you with the answers you needed already.
tbk21 said:
Just like most of the people I created a US dummy account to access the marketplace.
I noticed I can only use windows live messenger(messaging hub) with my primary "dummy" account. I was able to connect facebook to that account, but what I really want is my own Windows Live ID in de messaging hub.
My own Live ID is set as a secondary account on my phone, is it possible to login with that account?
There read somewhere a hard reset and setting your own ID as primary will solve this problem. But I want to avoid that because I can't backup my sms.
I know microsoft will release the markerplace in the Netherlands but there are only 40 apps. That is why I don't want to hard reset my device.
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I got this problem too. It's really bad that I need to reset my phone. So the choice is either using the marketplace or messenger. Hope they will let us connect to live messenger with our secondary account.

[Q] How can I change country of my zune/XboxLive.. account?

Hello, I don´t know where to ask this, so here it goes.
I have my main hotmail account which is listed as an unsupported country (for wp7 marketplace), I managed to change my address and region in hotmail so in that way I was able to access the marketplace in my WP7 ... but the problem is, that in the past I created an Xbox live account with this account, so my hotmail account appears as USA (which is the country I want now) and my xbox live account shows something else.
Now, when I wanted to create a zune account it appears as a different country, giving me overpriced items in the marketplace, so my zune ID and my Xbox Live ID are both showing the wrong country but my hotmail account is showing correct ... do you guys know how to change this?? I really dont care losing my xbox live account or my zune ID, but I do want to keep my hotmail address.
thank you.
Hi,
My brother had the same kind of problem, and Microsoft tell him that they cant do anything. He had to make another account.
Sorry for your accound.....
Yeah, unfortunately you can't do anything about it. The best way is to create a U.S. account.
So please help:
I have Hotmail for 13 years.
Now Zune starts to support my country (Poland).
So when I want to login to Zune on my PC, Zune says my country region of my PC and Hotmail are not the same so I cannot be logged in.
Apparently 13 years ago Hotmail didn't even exist for Poland so I couldn't even locate my account for Poland.
So what can I do? I don't want to change my account of course and it is already attached to my phone. I can't login to Zune.
You try on that site: www.xbox.com
Change location and display language in Regional Settings to US. Worked for me.
Although i love WP7, this pisses me off. It is f**ked up beyond beliefs.

[Q] Recover password from Yahoo (account set on my HD7)

Hello everybody,
I have setted multiple e-mail account on my HD7.
One of the accounts, that I don't use very often, it's a Yahoo Mail.
I was trying today to log on this account from my laptop and i realized that i tottaly forgot the password.
On my HD7 the accounts works fine.
It's there any way to look in the registry to find my forgotten password ???
Thanks !
Bump. Trying to find an answer for this myself.
Why can't you go with easy way?? Reset your password from your laptop and then update the new password in your device..
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