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Hi all.
I've recently bought my very first smartphone which is running Android 2.1. I'm absolutely loving it so far but I have a couple of questions regarding security.
Soon after setting up Android I configured the Google Mail app to sync with my Google Mail account, which is my primary email address.
I've noticed that whenever I open the Google Mail app it displays thousands of my emails, some of which contain very personal and sensitive information. My concern is that if somebody was to steal my phone and get passed the pretty basic key lock, they will have access to all of my emails over the past few years!
I've been told that it's not possible to password protect it or log out of the account; is that true?
I've tried to remove my Google Mail account from the app but it gives me the message:
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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Surely I don't have to do a factory reset just to remove my Google Mail account?
Any help would be appreciated.
Clear data for gmail in manage applications.
May I know why u want to delete ur gmail account ?
XperiaX10iUser said:
Clear data for gmail in manage applications.
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I've done that already but as soon as I reopen the Google Mail app all of my messages reappear.
I've now archived all of my emails in Gmail and removed them from my inbox so they have now stopped showing in the Google Mail app but any new messages will appear.
I just don't understand why it's not possible to remove my account from the application.
sanketprabhu said:
May I know why u want to delete ur gmail account ?
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I only want to remove it from the Google Mail application on Android so that if my phone was stolen or got into the wrong hands they don't have access to thousands of personal and sensitive emails.
I've had a GMail account for years, and never once had a problem. I recently got an Android phone, and started getting GMail delivery failures for emails about "acai berry" slimming, which obviously is spam I didnt send. As a developer, I can understand that servers can be hacked, and nothing is perfect.
Earlier in the week I couldn't check my GMail email from my Android phone. I then logged in from my PC & was told there was suspicious activity. I got an access code sent by SMS & reset my password. I then checked the suspicious activity & found 2 accesses to my account from Poland. Definately not me. I still thought someone had hacked the server.
But last night alarm bells started ringing. I was running some API example code in Eclipse through the debugger on the emulator, and saw in the LogCat window some messages about permissions being requested by the app. One of them being requested was "ACCESS_GMAIL_PASSWORD" (may not have been the exact wording - I forgot to make a note of it) but it definately said GMAIL & PASSWORD in the permission name.
Now it was only in the Emulator, which didnt have any personal info in it. But when installing apps from the Marketplace on my real phone, I always check the permissions very carefully & wouldnt have installed anything that requested my GMail password. I cant believe Google would have provided API methods to access my GMail password ? Is this right ? Is it possible for an app to do so without me knowing it has permission to do so ? If its possible, I may have to reconsider using GMail.
Thanks for any feedback.
Well some apps do actually require the Google login credentials. Like appbrain for example. And I've been using appvrain forever with no problem.
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Yeah, but shouldn't we be aware of these permissions when we are installing. I know I haven't installed any apps that explicitly said they would access my GMail account.
Well I've checked for the following applications I've got on my phone and that use Gmail password:
- Android Market
- Chrome to Phone
- Gmail
- Google Reader
- GTasks
- Google Maps
and for all of them in the Authorisations list it is clearly written "Use an account authentification information" (I've translated from what I read in French so it may not be the exact wording in English).
So IMO if you use at least Android Market and Gmail application you have inevitably given access to your Gmail password.
On that list I have
- Android Market
- GMail
- Google Maps
All were pre-installed on the phone. Also, I trust the authors of these pieces of software. The problem is my GMail account has been accessed by a spammer sending "Acai berry" slimming emails. I dont think Google would misuse my GMail password for this purpose.
I am more concerned that I have been downloading apps from the Marketplace & one of them got my GMail password. I realise that apps have "Full internet access" when they are ad sponsored, I suspect a rogue app accessed my GMail password & then used its internet access to send the password to a spammer.
I have several apps from sources I dont fully trust, with "Full Internet Access". But I dont have any that asked for Account Authorisation when installed.
Is there any way I can recheck what apps can access my GMail password ?
Thanks.
There is an app on the market called task identifier that should help you out.
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Looks exactly what I'm after. Thanks.
gungh0 said:
Looks exactly what I'm after. Thanks.
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No problem. Good luck with it all.
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Hi everybody,
I have a little problem with my Google Account. About 1 year ago, my account (alessio.buccoliero) has been disabled. I've created a new one (alessio.buccoliero.new), and it has been disabled too. At that point, I've created a new one, changing the name, and it worked for a while, until yesterday (disabled). I need a Google Account because I have an Android Phone but I don't want to create one every 3 months. If I try to contact Google, they don't reply to me and don't explain why they disabled the account.
I don't use Google services in any wrong way, AFAIK, but I noticed that the ban occurs when I try to upload photos on Picasa or use Google Drive (recently) or Google+.
Does anybody know if Google uses a sort of "blacklist" of users that have been banned once or more time in order to disable their account recursively?
Does anybody experienced the same problem?
Any help is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Alessio
Same thing happened to my friend today for no reason. Not sure how to fix it :-\
Mmmh, thank you. It's very strange...
Anyone else?
Alessio
What is the message that tells you it is disabled? And when do you get that message?
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What is your banned Message ?
There is a high relevance to the actual email or notification or email address you set as your original email address when creating gmail account
now your secondary email should have a mail from google telling you why you were banned
When I try to login with my credentials I'm redirected to a page that contains this message.
Account has been disabled
If you've been redirected to this page from the sign-in page, it means that access to your Google Account has been disabled.
In most cases, accounts are disabled if we believe you have violated either the Google Terms of Service , product-specific Terms of Service (available on the product page), or product-specific policies. Your account has not been deleted, your data is still intact, and it might be possible to regain access to your account.
Why Google disables accounts
Google wants to ensure that everyone has a chance to safely and securely connect and communicate. To help preserve this environment, Google reserves the right to:
Suspend a Google Account from using a particular product or the entire Google Accounts system if there is a violation of the Google Terms of Service , product-specific Terms of Service (available on the product page), or product-specific policies.
Terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.
Next steps for disabled accounts
Please start by reviewing the relevant Terms of Service. Then, if you think your account should not have been disabled, please contact us.
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I tried to send them emails and messages but they don't reply to me and I have no messages from google in my secondary mailbox (the one I've provided when set up the account).
Really, don't know what is happening...
I have two Gmail accounts on my phone: a personal one and a business one (we subscribe to Google Apps at work). I use all the goodies like calendar and talk on both accounts, so it's important to have both. I put the personal account on the phone first (haven't determined if this matters).
Regardless of which account I make active in the play store, my work account is always selected when I try to make an in app purchase (such as touch recovery from Rom manager or 'unlock full' from Plague Inc and other games).
Are others experiencing this? Anyone know a fix? I just tried on stock jellybean via the following steps:
1. Add personal account
2. Install an app with in app purchase ability
3. Add work account
4. Open play, verify personal account is selected.
5. Try to purchase something 'in app's
6. It shows my work account. Open play store, work account now selected.
I don't do in app purchases much, but they seem to be getting more common, and it's annoying to remove the work account before every purchase.
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I have this same problem and have not figured out a solution for it. If you've figured out how to fix this, posting the solution would be awesome.
divinemyth99 said:
I have two Gmail accounts on my phone: a personal one and a business one (we subscribe to Google Apps at work). I use all the goodies like calendar and talk on both accounts, so it's important to have both. I put the personal account on the phone first (haven't determined if this matters).
Regardless of which account I make active in the play store, my work account is always selected when I try to make an in app purchase (such as touch recovery from Rom manager or 'unlock full' from Plague Inc and other games).
Are others experiencing this? Anyone know a fix? I just tried on stock jellybean via the following steps:
1. Add personal account
2. Install an app with in app purchase ability
3. Add work account
4. Open play, verify personal account is selected.
5. Try to purchase something 'in app's
6. It shows my work account. Open play store, work account now selected.
I don't do in app purchases much, but they seem to be getting more common, and it's annoying to remove the work account before every purchase.
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same here
same problem - please post solution!
Just ran into this problem too. My google apps account is automatically coming up for in-app upgrades, even though I don't have any play content (or credit cards or ...) associated with that account. Seems like a major flaw in google play. Can't select the other account, so I can't make any in-app purchases. Only solution (for one upgrade I had to buy) was to delete gapps account, make purchase, then re-add the other account.
Stupid. Please fix this google.
Same problem. I Can't test my own in app purchase for my own app. It keeps on selecting the first account on my phone that's also my developer account. Looks like some sort of bug.
Any progress?
Hi guys, I've noticed the same problem - did anyone get anywhere with it?
I thought it might be related to the order in which the accounts were added so I deleted both my accounts and added just the one that should be used for in app purchases. I then installed Microsoft OneNote mobile and went to its in app upgrade screen. It showed the correct account with payment details for upgrading. When I added the second google account though, the OneNote payment screen refreshed, even without me doing anything or having existed the app or even the payment screen, to show the newly added, wrong account!
So in order to make it work you'd have to remove one account, make the purchase with just one account set up, then add the second account. What a pain!
P3450 said:
Hi guys, I've noticed the same problem - did anyone get anywhere with it?
I thought it might be related to the order in which the accounts were added so I deleted both my accounts and added just the one that should be used for in app purchases. I then installed Microsoft OneNote mobile and went to its in app upgrade screen. It showed the correct account with payment details for upgrading. When I added the second google account though, the OneNote payment screen refreshed, even without me doing anything or having existed the app or even the payment screen, to show the newly added, wrong account!
So in order to make it work you'd have to remove one account, make the purchase with just one account set up, then add the second account. What a pain!
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what happened when you delete your primary account? I got this warning: "Removing this account will delete all of its messages, contacts, and other data from the phone." and i afraid to lose my data
Did you guys figure out a better way yet?
edw1nyang said:
what happened when you delete your primary account? I got this warning: "Removing this account will delete all of its messages, contacts, and other data from the phone." and i afraid to lose my data
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Data that was stored in the account is removed from your phone and gets back when you add it again
Still the same. Google is a horrible company when it comes to certain things. A bug like this at Apple would be squashed within a week.
Is there an official bug report somewhere for this to vote for?
divinemyth99 said:
I have two Gmail accounts on my phone: a personal one and a business one (we subscribe to Google Apps at work). I use all the goodies like calendar and talk on both accounts, so it's important to have both. I put the personal account on the phone first (haven't determined if this matters).
Regardless of which account I make active in the play store, my work account is always selected when I try to make an in app purchase (such as touch recovery from Rom manager or 'unlock full' from Plague Inc and other games).
Are others experiencing this? Anyone know a fix? I just tried on stock jellybean via the following steps:
1. Add personal account
2. Install an app with in app purchase ability
3. Add work account
4. Open play, verify personal account is selected.
5. Try to purchase something 'in app's
6. It shows my work account. Open play store, work account now selected.
I don't do in app purchases much, but they seem to be getting more common, and it's annoying to remove the work account before every purchase.
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Change the main account you want for in app purchases as Default by following steps below and u should do good
To change the default Google account when you are using the multiple sign-in, you need to Sign out of all accounts. Then log in to the Google account that you want to be the default first.
ive also attached an image if it helps:highfive:
shaik_u said:
Change the main account you want for in app purchases as Default by following steps below and u should do good
To change the default Google account when you are using the multiple sign-in, you need to Sign out of all accounts. Then log in to the Google account that you want to be the default first.
ive also attached an image if it helps:highfive:
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We said about in-app purchase cannot select account in Payment Options. Not on the web.
Solution that worked for me!
Hey Guys,
I had the same problem as you describe, what i did to make it work and not show my work account in app purchases.
1. Delete app
2. install the app from browser where you are logged in to you private account.
3. Enjoy.
Hope with works great for you guys
Roundabout, but it works
what you have to do (seems like last guy was saying this?)
1. is uninstall the app from your phone.
2. the only way to change it is to go from your PC browser (very important!) to play.google.com and log in with the specific account you're trying to use for IAP's on your particular app.
3. you should be able to install the app, then go back to your phone and use the IAP with the correct account.
hope this helps everyone!
solution:
1) uninstall the app
2) go to play store and switch to the account you want to use to pay from
3) find the app in play store and install again
4) make your in-app purchase
divinemyth99 said:
I have two Gmail accounts on my phone: a personal one and a business one (we subscribe to Google Apps at work). I use all the goodies like calendar and talk on both accounts, so it's important to have both. I put the personal account on the phone first (haven't determined if this matters).
Regardless of which account I make active in the play store, my work account is always selected when I try to make an in app purchase (such as touch recovery from Rom manager or 'unlock full' from Plague Inc and other games).
Are others experiencing this? Anyone know a fix? I just tried on stock jellybean via the following steps:
1. Add personal account
2. Install an app with in app purchase ability
3. Add work account
4. Open play, verify personal account is selected.
5. Try to purchase something 'in app's
6. It shows my work account. Open play store, work account now selected.
I don't do in app purchases much, but they seem to be getting more common, and it's annoying to remove the work account before every purchase.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
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YehoshuaL said:
solution:
1) uninstall the app
2) go to play store and switch to the account you want to use to pay from
3) find the app in play store and install again
4) make your in-app purchase
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Have you tried this yourself? or is this the solution that made the most sense? I ask because this actually doesn't work.
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robnez said:
what you have to do (seems like last guy was saying this?)
1. is uninstall the app from your phone.
2. the only way to change it is to go from your PC browser (very important!) to play.google.com and log in with the specific account you're trying to use for IAP's on your particular app.
3. you should be able to install the app, then go back to your phone and use the IAP with the correct account.
hope this helps everyone!
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This worked beautifully, thank you!
Know source of the problem, did not solve it though
Hello guys,
It's my first post here. And I hope this contributes something to solve this problem.
I think the problem lies within the 'all app' drawer of the playstore.
Simply the 'all app' drawer of the main account on which you installed the app first, will connect to the app as long as multiple accounts are available.
You can see it in the playstore in 'my apps' - > 'all apps'.
Usually all once installed apps show up there.
But if you've first installed an app connected to your 'secondary account' on some phone, then install it on a phone with another 'main account' and your 'secondary account', the app will show up only in the 'all apps' drawer of the 'secondary account'.
I hope that was understandable
One similar approach to the former workarounds.
-> You must have a backup of your accounts (titanium backup for example)
-> delete the secondary account
-> install the app (it will show up in the 'all apps' drawer)
-> restore your accounts (the app will remain in the 'all apps' drawer of the main account)
-> the app will connect to the right payment settings while in-app purchasing.
Now if there is any easier way to disable one account during the setup or to just connect the app to the right 'all apps' drawer , the problem should be fixed maybe
Best eazyRidor
vulcZ said:
Have you tried this yourself? or is this the solution that made the most sense? I ask because this actually doesn't work.
Yes. That's what worked for me.
Read the instructions CAREFULLY that I posted and it ought to work for you, too.
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Uninstall the app
Go to Play Store and switch to the account you want to use to pay from
Find the app and install again
Make your in-app purchase
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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.