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[Q] New Market

So did anyone else notice that the new Market has an account setting? Allows me to select different accounts. Does this finally mean that I can merge two accounts worth of apps? Family style?

dlang123 said:
So did anyone else notice that the new Market has an account setting? Allows me to select different accounts. Does this finally mean that I can merge two accounts worth of apps? Family style?
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Im not sure if you can merge 2 accounts, They have to have a way of preventing people from signing into a family members account and downloading apps that were bought thru said account. If not then it poses a serious problem for app developers and devs getting paid correctly. Unfortunately I dont have another account to test it on..
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"Your application purchases are tied to your Google Account and can be installed an unlimited amount of times on any device." See:
http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=113410
It works for watching movies rented on another account, too:
http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1283330
Keep in mind you do still have to add the additional Google account(s) to the phone, meaning the device will have access to all other Google services including Gmail.

so lets say I added my gmail account to my wifes phone and downloaded all the apps I have paid for to her phone..couldnt I just delete my gmail from her phone after and her phone would still have all my apps on it?

The documentation doesn't say, but most likely yes, and it'd be real easy to test it. Just add your account, download an app, remove the account, and see what happens.
Keep in mind, though, that without the associated Google account you won't be able to update those apps -- which is an enormous downside in the long run.

chiahead52 said:
so lets say I added my gmail account to my wifes phone and downloaded all the apps I have paid for to her phone..couldnt I just delete my gmail from her phone after and her phone would still have all my apps on it?
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I plan on just having a family account to buy apps on, and then add that to all the phones. But it use to be that it had to be the main account.. I haven't purchased any apps yet, recent iphone switcher, but now it appears to not have to be the main account... which is awesome cause google talk only worked with the main.

[Q] Can you change the main google account on an Andriod phone?

Installed CM7 on a mytouch 4G.
Used my google account to access the Market.
Installed a bunch of apps on it and configured them too.
Now I want to give this phone to a family member.
Can I replace my google account on this phone, without loosing all the apps and the respective configuration settings?

It's been a while since I have used CM. but I don't recall a way to replace the main Google account however you should be able to 'detach' the application from the market. Downloading Titanium Backup Root will allow you to detach the application from the android market where your account is linked to. (I suggest using the same application to do an apps backup first) Then switch the main account and attempt to reattach them. If you lose your settings or lose the apps, you have the backup to revert to.
Hope this help, and if there is an easier way out there use that, but this way is pretty straight forward (and you get a back up )
Cheers,
Java

Cant you just go to settings, select the google account and press remove?

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Hello yes you can delete your google account from that phone the apps you have on that phone will have to be deleted as google will not let you delete your main gmail account and keep the apps it will give you error google needs this account for so and so apps delete your account do a factory reset and give the phone to whomever and one your new android phone register your google account and all your apps will be on your new phone.
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android_29 said:
Hello yes you can delete your google account from that phone the apps you have on that phone will have to be deleted as google will not let you delete your main gmail account and keep the apps it will give you error google needs this account for so and so apps delete your account do a factory reset and give the phone to whomever and one your new android phone register your google account and all your apps will be on your new phone.
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What?
No app will be deleted if you remove the active google account from settings.
You will most likely not be able to use google apps like gmail until you add a new account (that from your family member), but nothing gets deleted.
Non google apps will most likely work too, except you can't update from market until a google acount is added again and some paid apps employing the google licensing serve might refuse to work as there is no account attached, or the one attached, did not buy the app.
Just try it.

Dark3n said:
Cant you just go to settings, select the google account and press remove?
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No, it will not let me do that. When I hit the "Remove account" button it says ...
"Do you really want to remove this account? Removing it will also delete all of its messages, contacts, and other data from the phone. Proceed?"
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So I hit the next "Remove Account" button and it says ...
"This account is required by some applications. You can only remove it by resetting the phone to factory defaults (which deletes all your personal data). You do that in the Settings application, under Privacy."
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The only thing relevant under the Settings -> Privacy is the "Factory data reset". Which is what I want to avoid.
There are only a bunch of free apps installed on this phone. I want to keep those apps as-is and just swap the google accounts.

If you backup with titanium, assuming you are rooted, wipe data, flash ROM, then when setting up the phone just enter the new gmail and restore apps with titanium and bam. Kind of a pain, but it will get you where you need.
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You can use multiply accounts with all apps usable. Open Market go to Settings/Accounts. Make sure you have the account you would like to use set up in Sync Settings
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cmyers.lbs said:
You can use multiply accounts with all apps usable. Open Market go to Settings/Accounts. Make sure you have the account you would like to use set up in Sync Settings
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So if I have 2 google accounts setup under Settings -> Accounts then can I remove the first google account?
(Assuming that the second google account would then become the main google account for this phone.)

XbirthofaheroX said:
If you backup with titanium, assuming you are rooted, wipe data, flash ROM, then when setting up the phone just enter the new gmail and restore apps with titanium and bam. Kind of a pain, but it will get you where you need.
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After doing a titanium backup, do you need to do the the Settings -> Privacy -> Factory data reset to reset the phone?

To answer the origninal question
In short-yes, you can change the primary google account by looking through the settings.

Without removing the first google account, I added the second google account.
But still it will not allow me to remove the first google account unless I do factory reset. Because I installed apps with the first google account.
However, it did allow me to remove the second google account right away. Because I have not done anything else after adding it.

[Q] Downloading own non-free app

It's very irritating that Google Play Store won't let you download an app that you wrote & published to it. So (on my only Android device), I added another existing Gmail account (after clearing Gmail's data) and added another actual Debit card: both in my wife's name. Google Play Store still comes up with "Error: Your order could not be processed". I noticed that (even though I select my wife's Debit card, it still shows my email address against the 'Pay with' screen text. What should I do?
PS I wanted to post this on the PaidApps sub-forum (as it seemed more appropriate) but I'm not allowed to do that due to my lowly status!

Go in the application settings & clear the data. There are 3, Google Play, Google Service Framework, & Google somethingelse (can't remember).
Also, might be because it's sending your IMSI/IMEI. You can install LBE Security (you should have it anyway), & block Play Store from accessing IMSI/IMEI.
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I think you can install the app with adb if you still have a copy.

Open Google Play, press menu, accounts, where it will give you an option to switch the account you are using for Google Play.
You didn't need to clear data in Gmail either. Android supports having multiple Google accounts on a single phone.
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[Q] Android Device manager and multiple accounts

So I have 3 different Google accounts on my phone. Personal, work, and one that is shared with multiple people in the office for testing. I would like to block the phone from showing up in Android Device Manager for the shared account so as not to publicize my whereabouts to people that I work with. I would like to keep it enabled though for my personal account so I can actually use it if need be.
I already tried turning off location reporting for the shared account. No dice. Also from the "My Devices" page I can uncheck "Show in menus" which does make it not show in the Android Device Manager map dropdown list. Obviously this is a problem though since someone can just go check that box again and it shows my phone location.
The phone is rooted so I have access to be able to do whatever I need to so I can block it if possible. Any ideas?

diggitydogg said:
So I have 3 different Google accounts on my phone. Personal, work, and one that is shared with multiple people in the office for testing. I would like to block the phone from showing up in Android Device Manager for the shared account so as not to publicize my whereabouts to people that I work with. I would like to keep it enabled though for my personal account so I can actually use it if need be.
I already tried turning off location reporting for the shared account. No dice. Also from the "My Devices" page I can uncheck "Show in menus" which does make it not show in the Android Device Manager map dropdown list. Obviously this is a problem though since someone can just go check that box again and it shows my phone location.
The phone is rooted so I have access to be able to do whatever I need to so I can block it if possible. Any ideas?
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there should be a option to activate or deactivate each phone im trying to find more info hang in im doing the research for you
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try this out \
You can sort of do this - rename it, (I changed mine to "OLD") and turn off the "visibility in menu" so that it doesn't show up any more in the Android Device Manager. You can do this in the Google Play Store when you click on the gear cog on the right (setting)

Deltax82 said:
there should be a option to activate or deactivate each phone im trying to find more info hang in im doing the research for you
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try this out \
You can sort of do this - rename it, (I changed mine to "OLD") and turn off the "visibility in menu" so that it doesn't show up any more in the Android Device Manager. You can do this in the Google Play Store when you click on the gear cog on the right (setting)
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Yeah that is the thing I already tried. It does remove it from being visible in device manager, but anyone from work can log into the play store on their computer and just check the box back off to be able to track the phone. I feel like this would have to be a device level change to stop it from reporting on that account or else a co-worker could just reactivate it.

diggitydogg said:
Yeah that is the thing I already tried. It does remove it from being visible in device manager, but anyone from work can log into the play store on their computer and just check the box back off to be able to track the phone. I feel like this would have to be a device level change to stop it from reporting on that account or else a co-worker could just reactivate it.
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is that phone on a company phone plan? if not then they will need you google account email and password to change that

There are 3 accounts on the phone. The one in question is a shared account to use for App Testing from the play store. That shared account, everyone has the username and password for.

diggitydogg said:
There are 3 accounts on the phone. The one in question is a shared account to use for App Testing from the play store. That shared account, everyone has the username and password for.
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you could turn the location history and all gps features off or before logging out of the account delete your traces off the phone

Deltax82 said:
you could turn the location history and all gps features off or before logging out of the account delete your traces off the phone
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Based on what I have found the only way to do it is to remove the phone from the account. There is no work around at the device level that will allow me to keep the phone linked to the account, but block ADM while still using ADM with my personal account.
Looks like Cerebus will be the answer to this question. I might look into XPrivacy or something like that with Xposed to try and block it.

Android Device Manager Shared Account Fix
I was having this same problem myself with a shared account. Here is how I disabled Android Device Manager (ADM) on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S4) for the shared account.
1. Open settings
2. Go to the Accounts Tab
3. Click Google
4. Click the account that you don't want ADM running on
5. Disable "Sync Google Play services" and "Sync Location Reporting and Location History"
6. Jump up and down for joy that no one can track you on the shared account :victory:

RedRoosterFarm said:
I was having this same problem myself with a shared account. Here is how I disabled Android Device Manager (ADM) on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S4) for the shared account.
1. Open settings
2. Go to the Accounts Tab
3. Click Google
4. Click the account that you don't want ADM running on
5. Disable "Sync Google Play services" and "Sync Location Reporting and Location History"
6. Jump up and down for joy that no one can track you on the shared account :victory:
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Hi RedRoosterFarm. Both options are not available on my device. Running android marshmellow 6.0. Could you help double check if it's still available on yours?
I think i'm in the same boat as everyone here. I don't want my personal device to be lockable/erasable/trackable from my work google account. Even if the account is not shared, the google apps administrator still has the option of resetting your password with a new one etc. Not that i'm doing anything nefarious. I'm just a paranoid rabbit

jcoob said:
Hi RedRoosterFarm. Both options are not available on my device. Running android marshmellow 6.0. Could you help double check if it's still available on yours?
I think i'm in the same boat as everyone here. I don't want my personal device to be lockable/erasable/trackable from my work google account. Even if the account is not shared, the google apps administrator still has the option of resetting your password with a new one etc. Not that i'm doing anything nefarious. I'm just a paranoid rabbit
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I am still running android KitKat 4.2.2 (that might be the reason I have those options) and yes those options are still on my phone.

thanks

RedRoosterFarm said:
I was having this same problem myself with a shared account. Here is how I disabled Android Device Manager (ADM) on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S4) for the shared account.
1. Open settings
2. Go to the Accounts Tab
3. Click Google
4. Click the account that you don't want ADM running on
5. Disable "Sync Google Play services" and "Sync Location Reporting and Location History"
6. Jump up and down for joy that no one can track you on the shared account :victory:
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Those options are gone in Android M and N. So is removing the account the only solution? I need mail, calendar, contacts, hangouts from work account but don't want them to track, block or erase my personal phone.

Is there a solution to detect the correct Google account when multiple Google accounts are present?

This is a very old problem, and Google isn't fixing it for reasons best known to them.
I have multiple Google accounts in my device, each for a specific purpose. I buy apps using one account, while I use another account for backups, adding devices like earphones, speakers, etc.
The problems experienced are as follows:
1. Some of the apps where I have in-app purchases fail to verify the account. For some apps, uninstalling and reinstalling using the right account on Google Play Store resolves this problem, while for others, the solution is to remove the other accounts one by one, until the app successfully verifies the account used to make the in-app purchases.
2. I bought a new pair of earphones that support Fast Pair. When trying to set it up, it was not showing the account that I wanted to add the device to. The only way was to remove the accounts from the device one by one until the account I wanted to use showed up on the Fast Pair screen.
3. Purchases on Google Play Store: Same problem when Google Play Store shows the wrong account for making a purchase. Only way is to remove other accounts one by one until the one you want is selected.
Google isn't offering a way to simply change the account that the user wants to use for any of the above scenarios.
As far as I have seen, the account used during 1st setup (which is usually used for Backup and Restore) is given priority or used as a Default account. And Google doesn't offer a way to simply change the account when a particular scenario demands it.
Is there a solution to this problem.
Thanks.

If your phone's Android supports multi-user-accounts then create per each user a related account

xXx yYy said:
If your phone's Android supports multi-user-accounts then create per each user a related account
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That's far from a solution. And my phone doesn't have the multi user feature either.
Does it mean one can't use multiple Google accounts on a device and get things to work as desired?