I have 3 Google accounts.
1 personal, which is my main account for apps and email. The others are official and education Google accounts.
The personal account was used to set up my phone (Moto X 2014 on Lollipop), before the other two Google accounts were added.
Here is the issue that apps (both Google and non-Google) seem to be picking one of the other accounts as the default account. E.g. when signing up for a new service like Twitter, it would assume that my official account is the main, whilst it is actually the personal. I know that the account can easily be changed by selecting the other, but it does not work for all apps as mentioned below.
The same issue has been described here:
Now when I receive a contact via WhatsApp and I click on it to save, it would automatically save it to the wrong Google account, since the phone considers that to be the main account even though it was not used to set up the phone.
Does anybody have an idea where to change this? I have experienced this on Lollipop on both the Nexus 5 and Moto X 2014. The problem did not occur on Kitkat.
Anybody?
This ****ing sucks. I have the same problem. Some apps just randomly chose an account instead of the first added one.
Why is there no default option?
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Ok, here's some explaination for my issue, as it's not exactly a simple situation, I do apologize for the reading that's involved...
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Recently I've added google+ to one of my google accounts. This re-enabled a previously disabled gmail account, which then proceeded to force itself as the primary login for that google account.
I already had a primary google account on my phone, which is the only account which I want to use gmail with.
When adding my account to my phone, I used the original email address (that was downgraded to secondary) as the login, but upon login, this was magically changed to be the gmail account that I did not want. After *much* searching, I found a way to delete this gmail account entirely, which seems to have worked out flawlessly as far as my online accounts work, from a browser at least. My previous login is now the primary, and my unwanted gmail account has been destroyed.
My issue now, is that this account did not get updated on my phone magically, as it did elsewhere. My phone is still showing the gmail account for that google account, rather than the email that it should be. Additionally, I still have 2 inboxes in gmail, although my secondary google account no longer has gmail associated as a product.
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So on to my question... Is there some way which I can either edit the google account on my phone to update the login (and clear the gmail association), force the phone to refresh all of that google account data (updating the login name in the process), or perhaps even delete that secondary google account from my phone so that i could re-add it fresh?
If the answer is, that i need to wipe my phone... then that is the answer, but if that could be avoided, it would save me the pain in the butt that would cause.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Figured I'd give this just one bump just in case the right person didn't see it... I'm pretty close to just resigning myself to having to wipe my phone.
Yay for google, always knowing what's best for others...
Do you have the Google+ App on your phone. Is that maybe confusing the Google sync?
If you do perhaps try deleting the app and try syncing the original account?
do google sync again
I have 2 gmail accounts. All apps I use are associated with my old gmail account due to the inability of being able to transfer app purchases to a new gmail account. I sync all calendars, contact and everything else Google with my new account. On KitKat, the default account was whichever you set up first. On lollipop it seems as though the default account is whichever come first alphabetically which is a problem for apps such as CSR racing to which syncs data to your default google account (does not sync to google play as confirmed by app developer). So when I switch to any lollipop ROM, I cannot play CSR racing with my saved data unless I delete my new google account completely from the phone. Is this a bug in lollipop Roms or is there some way to specify which account is default for single users with multiple google accounts?
Unfortunately in my experience which is similar to yours, I have two Google accounts and play csr and CSR classics. It seems to reset after reboots on lollipop, so after reboots I log out of both my Google accounts then log into both [my main personal gaming account first] then it works until my next reboot.
So the only thing we can do now is not turn off our phone anymore?! Well that sucks... First thing i have come to hate about lollipop...
Its a problem with CSR, i reported the same problem and they fixed it for me in CSR Racing, they always told me to log off my accounts and log in again and i told them to fix it because nobody wants to do that everyday, right now they are still fixing my CSR Classics profile too, but CSR Racing is fixed for me...
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So the only thing we can do now is not turn off our phone anymore?! Well that sucks... First thing i have come to hate about lollipop...
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So, I bought a Sprint Note 5. First day of owning it, I rooted and flashed one of the deoxed roms listed on the site (sorry, can't recall which at the moment). Everything had been perfect with exception of one tiny thing. My contacts don't have photos assigned to them. I started to investigate my settings as to why Facebook hadn't syncd with them and noticed some users have an extra setting in their Facebook app than others. Mainly the sync contacts option. So, I went on over to my accounts tab under settings and noticed my Facebook account wasnt listed. When I clicked add account then clicked on Facebook, one of two things would happen. A. If I didn't have Facebook opened already, the screen would act as of it were about to load sobering then kick me back to the original accounts page under the note 5s system settings. Or, B. It would open my prelaunched facebook app. I think this maybe part of my problem, as it won't allow me to add my account and this sync my contacts with it. I'm not sure if this is due to removed features from the rom, a modified accounts.apk [if one exists. Was only able to locate the account and sigs for note 2] or possibly some missing services that were removed. What I was hoping for was if the accounts portion is actually an apk, if someone could attach a copy of it. Or, if someone knows why this would be happening, to fill me in. Thanks in advance.
I've had this issue too. Seems to be a feature that Facebook removed in one of the latest updates. My supervisor did not update his app in a while and he had the option in the app to sync contacts. I always update mine on all my devices and it was gone. Hopefully it is just an error and they bring back the option.
hi
I have 2 User profiles in my phone for various reasons...
Both profiles use the same gmail account..
When I do that on the Google Find My Device portal 2 devices show up with the exact same name, for each profile..
Is there a way to control the "name" of the profile, so I can differentiate between the two or just have it show only the admin profile, on FMD.
I think this problem will also occur on the web version on the Google Playstore...
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FWIW: I am on Lineage 18.1 with the latest opengapps.
ghatothkach said:
hi
I have 2 User profiles in my phone for various reasons...
Both profiles use the same gmail account..
When I do that on the Google Find My Device portal 2 devices show up with the exact same name, for each profile..
Is there a way to control the "name" of the profile, so I can differentiate between the two or just have it show only the admin profile, on FMD.
I think this problem will also occur on the web version on the Google Playstore...
G
FWIW: I am on Lineage 18.1 with the latest opengapps.
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As far as I know, Find My Device is associated to the Google account that is signed in on the device, not to user accounts on the device. If you want to have separate accounts on the device and have Find My Device be able to differentiate between the two accounts, you will need to create a separate Google account and have both Google accounts signed in on the device with one user account associated to your original Google account and the secondary Google account associated to your other user account. Then, when you use Find My Device, it will be able to find each account separately but will probably only show whichever account you are actually logged into at the time, you'd probably have to switch to the other account in order for Find My Device to show that device. In other words, when using Find My Device, you will only be able to see the account that you are currently signed into the device with at that time but not the other account unless you log into that account and then it probably won't be able to see the other account that you just signed out of.
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
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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?