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Main account password - can't even access Market

I have the Nexus S and recently, I came under the suspicion that my Gmail was hacked. So I went on my computer and changed my Gmail password. But now, my phone has become a wreck. It cannot sync with my gmail, I can't even access the Market. I cannot seem to find a way to change the password on the phone to my current password for Gmail. Is there any way to do this without deleting the main account on the phone? I really do not want to reset my phone for simply needing to change my password...

Not to be a fun sponge but since its your primary device account you may be out of luck.
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I would recommend using mybackup root to backup your call log, mms, sms (texts) and titanium backup root to backup your apps. Makes the reset hurt way less
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contradude said:
I would recommend using mybackup root to backup your call log, mms, sms (texts) and titanium backup root to backup your apps. Makes the reset hurt way less
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I guess that's my only option. Can't believe Google has made it this much of a hassle for a simple password change. Thanks man.

No no dont hard reset for such an easy stuff!
Just pop in another sim card and for privacy the password will be removed, then insert the right one
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If your phone is cdma and you cannot switch the sim card, you can just delete the gmail account settings from the application manager (i dont remember the english name), anyway, wiping for something like that, is like throwing an atomic bomb to kill mosquitoes
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It won't let you delete the primary device account even if you have another gmail account attached. :-(
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I am not sure in gingerbread, but in previous version was possible to let the system forget the account by just removing user data for something like "gmail archive" (not sure about english name)
And if you change the sim card, you have to reinsert the password, happened many times to me, annoying
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How to stop the Tf700 from syncing all my apps

Just got my infinity and set it up and it's downloading all the apps I have on my phone, how do I stop it?
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It asked you if you wanted to sync and you pressed yes. Just start over. I don't have it in front of me but go to system,security and look for factory reset.

I thought it meant sync calendar and stuff. What do you mean start over?
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In the setting.

I looked I settings, I can't find it, that's why I posted here
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If im not mistaken Go to setting then privacy then hit factory reset.
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It's there just keep looking. Good luck. Enjoy the infinity.

Wait why do I have to factory reset? I just want stop syncing with apps, I still want to sync with calendar and mail
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He meant to go for a factory reset and deselect the option for syncing from your Google account presented during install. Your mail and contacts are ALWAYS synced for the first account you enter on an Android device (you can disable the sync afterwards, but it will still have synced at least once) -- and you can't delete that account even if you add (an)other account(s) afterwards)
If you're happy with the results so far, there'd be no urgent need to factory reset at all and I'd just disable the account syncing from Settings >> Backup & Reset instead.
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It will start from scratch. It only takes couple of minutes. It better if you start over and leave no traces of the apps you didn't want or you can delete them one by one. It's just easier. You can still keep the calendar and gmail syncing.

mozzarella72 said:
Wait why do I have to factory reset? I just want stop syncing with apps, I still want to sync with calendar and mail
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This is a different setting. Your Google accounts sync settings can be found under Account & Sync, and have nothing to do with the app restore done by Backup & Restore. You can freely disable one or the other, or both, if so desired. As I said, you do not have to factory reset if you're happy worth the apps restored thus far. It's the fastest way to get rid of apps you'd rather not have installed on your tablet, though.
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If I delete the apps one by one will they redownload with sync still on?
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MartyHulskemper said:
This is a different setting. Your Google accounts sync settings can be found under Account & Sync, and have nothing to do with the app restore done by Backup & Restore. You can freely disable one or the other, or both, if so desired. As I said, you do not have to factory reset if you're happy worth the apps restored thus far. It's the fastest way to get rid of apps you'd rather not have installed on your tablet, though.
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So the backup and restore syncs the apps, and the account sync syncs calendar and stuff?
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Whenever I go through the setup of android (whether due to new ROM or new device), I always skip the account stuff until after I have a running system. Then I turn off sync under the Accounts and then finally add my account. It adds a bit more flexibility as to what to sync. For your case, under the Accounts category, you have your list of accounts. Click on the account entry (and not the circular arrows) and you will see a list of all the data types that are available to sync. I don't really see any individual settings for applications, but I do see "Calendar" and "Contacts". Maybe you should try disabling all the items that you don't want and see if it stops the issue.
Otherwise, you can do like was already suggested before and factory reset then do as I mentioned to get control of what you want to sync before everything gets transferred.

[Q] Unrooted HTC pico: SIM contacts deleted while trying to delete phone contacts

Hi to all, I have a strange problem with my htc pico.
As I'm running a non-root phone, obviously I was out of memory to install much apps after 1+months of using. At manage applications, I saw that contacts was eating 23MB space. I went to contacts and saw there was 1000+ contacts from my Facebook and Google account and I had around 200 (real) contacts in my SIM. It was clear to me that the email, pictures, facebook status etc of those online contacts eating up that much space and I needed to clear those. Those online linked contacts are of no use to me in my phone.
I force stopped contacts and deleted the data from manage applications and gained the free space it was blocking. I was happy to gain space.
Now when I came back to contacts, I see all those Facebook and Google contacts are there, just they lost their associated avatar, facebook status, etc.
Surprised and shocked to see that all the sim contacts are deleted.
WT* how SIM contacts be deleted if I'm clearing phone memory??
Is there any app(free) that can undelete SIM contacts.
I have contacts backup in the microSD which I backed up using my last samsung phone. I opened the backup folder and there is 230 <contact_name>.vcf files. Can I somehow select all and import back to the SIMcard by any app(free).
In the worst case it can't be solved by android, I have to ask some friend for samsung phone and insert my SIM and microSD there and restore contacts and then shout out loud "Android Sucks" .
TIA.

U have backup in a sd-card so just restore
Remember the format of backup should be in vcf format....
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kunal_tatiya said:
U have backup in a sd-card so just restore
Remember the format of backup should be in vcf format....
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I have format in vcf. But if I click it in file manager, the popup shows reading "reading vcard file...". But doesn't gives me option to save the contact to phone or sim. After reading, popup vanishes and in contacts I cannot see any new contact in phone or SIM.
Somehow I need to restore all those contacts to my SIM card and not in phone(who knows when phone deads).
Meantime I have manually saved few contacts to phone. Now where's the option like this "contacts settings"->"move contacts from phone to sim"-->"select all " as we see in Nokia/Samsung non-android phones.
It's great fun but also hard to be in android after years of using Nokia-1600 category phones.

Well in cm9 there's no option of importing contacts to sim u need to go back to sense based rom
And regarding vcf error use some contact application from playstore
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kunal_tatiya said:
Well in cm9 there's no option of importing contacts to sim u need to go back to sense based rom
And regarding vcf error use some contact application from playstore
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Thanks for the tip. I should have searched for contacts app from playstore.
My software isn't cm9. It's software number 1.31.720.3 with htc sense version 3.5 and android 2.3.5 . By unrooted phone I meant I didn't root it and I've planned to root and install roms after warranty expires.
I found a move option in contacts, but that's for moving phone contacts to google account.
Fortunately my problem resolved after I restarted the phone. Now contacts got 229 from SIM and 0 from phone, facebook,google. I think some cache problem was causing me all these trouble which got washed off on reboot. The call history is also empty now, I guess I've deleted that too.
I've stopped sync contacts in sync settings for facebook and gogole.

Backup and restore of wifi passwords

I know that wifi passwords and some app data are supposed to be backed up to your Google account but I'm wondering if this depends on the rom that you are using. I recently got a new Nexus 7 2013 and after signing in with the same Google account I use on my one xl all of my wifi passwords were there and app data was restored when apps were installed. However after flashing a new rom on my one xl and signing in to my account no wifi passwords are there and I believe some app data is there but I'm not 100% sure. Anyone know much about this?

[Q] How to backup google accounts?

Sooo,
I have like 10 gmail accounts logged in to my phone. And i dont like to keep entering the details everytime i change roms (which is quite often).
Is their a way backup that data using an app or backing up some files which are present in the root of the phone (if any).
I tried going through some forums but they are old and not solved.
Thanks!