Hi!
Being quite paranoid about my personal data, I installed CM7 onto my Atrix, with only the Market and the very basic Google framework with a dummy account set up so I can download apps. (Don't care if they know what Apps I look at.) But what happens when I turn on Location Based Services now? Is the message about Google being able to track me at all times even relevant with this much of the Gapps deinstalled, or what is it that would send data to Google? And can I somehow safely disable it by removing permissions through (e. g.) LBE Privacy Guard?
Ideally, I would just like to grant the rights to see my status to an Open Source navigation software and similar apps, as I never even use that Web 2.0 crap anyways.
Thanks,
David
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I think the title says it all.Btw,my phone isn't rooted.
even with root access I'm not aware of any way to do this without essentially factory resetting.
A quick google of "how to change primary google account on android" led to a few suggestions of wiping the data for all the google apps on the phone, but that would wipe all apps/emails/contacts with gmail/ etc. and many people are saying that it just factory resets after that anyway.
Isn't it just doing:-
1) Settings
2) Accounts and sync
3) Click on existing Google account under "Manage accounts"
4) Click "Remove Account" button
5) Add the new one you'd rather use.
I've not done this myself as I have the one on my phone that I use but it seems like the right place. Are there issues if this route is used?
that seems the best and fastest way but it wipes all your data.I saw another method of changing the primary email but it involves a so-called ,,google apps'' app found in manage applications and selecting ,,clear data'' but so far i couldn't find it and i believe this issue is general to all gingerbread phones
It worked for me
nice CarpathianUK I never even knew you could do that...
jokertt said:
that seems the best and fastest way but it wipes all your data.I saw another method of changing the primary email but it involves a so-called ,,google apps'' app found in manage applications and selecting ,,clear data'' but so far i couldn't find it and i believe this issue is general to all gingerbread phones
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??? What do you mean? It doesn't wipe ALL of your data. It wipes your contact/calendar info... because that stuff is tied to your google account. It doesn't wipe your installed apps. CarpathianUK's suggestion does exactly what you are asking about.
If you want to keep your contact info, you'll have to either copy them to your SIM card (they may be there already), or re-enter them in your contact list of the google account you want to use as your primary. I think for calendar info, you have to export your google calendar from the account you're using now, and import it to the account you want to use.
As far as the "so-called google apps" app - that isn't an app that shows up in "manage applications", per se. The Google apps is .apk that installs the market and other proprietary Google apps, like the gmail app. It exists because some ROMs (like CyanogenMod) cannot legally distribute the Google apps as part of their ROM, so they must link to the .apk externally to allow users to install them.
How to change primary account in android without resetting
Worked for android 4.2.2
1. Go to settings > Applications
2. Delete all data for Gmail.
3. Force stop Gmail.
4. Got settings > accounts
5. Uncheck all Sync options
6. Remove that account!
7. Sign in to google with new account.
You're done!
Hello,
When I initially set up my Captivate, I accidentally set my work email account as my primary account. Thus, all of my installs during that time have been associated with that account. I'd like to switch my apps to my personal account. I'm slowly working through my paid apps, buying and getting refunds to switch those over. Now, I want to fix up my free apps.
Today, I tried to uninstall/reinstall my free apps to make the switch but it didn't seem to work for many of the apps despite all of the effort involved to give it a try. I have Titanium Backup with a Pro key. Is there any way to use that or something else to relink my *free* apps to a different account without uninstall/reinstall?
Thanks,
Craig
Maybe the advice in this thread will help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909864
Unfortunately, I don't think that will help. I tried to relink with Titanium yesterday through the obvious options, but it never prompted me for which market account to use. I don't know if it is maybe using the default Google account?
Don't know if this will work but I read it here.
1. Download Root Explorer from Android Market
2. Explore to /data/system/ and find this file : accounts.db
3. Delete that file (accounts.db)
4. Reboot your Android device.
5. Walla…you can register another account
I actually found another way to handle this. It turns out that the mapping is held in a SQLite database at:
/dbdata/databases/com.android.vending/market_assets.db
There is a column there that maps to the Google account. I was able to pull that file off my phone, alter it with a bit of SQL and put it back in place on the device. This fixed most of the applications. There are still some that I'm having trouble getting control over (a couple Google apps and one paid app that I have paid for on both accounts). However, that cleaned up pretty much everything.
After I did all of this, I did find a setting in Titanium to control the market account. It *may* have been possible to use that to do the same thing. I didn't try it, so I can't say.
Craig
Hello,
I am sure there are numerous applications for GPS tracking and remote controlling/wiping all the data and settings pattern/numeric access codes for your mobiles.
Problem is that executing these safety measures are somehow dependent on certain other factors and can have successful or unsuccessful consequences.
I am thinking of anything more basic and hassle free way of ensuring that even in worst condition I can have certain peace of mind that my critical gmail account data would not be accessed for unauthorized use. For example when it was unlocked for use and meanwhile it was lost or snatched how can I be sure that my google account information specifically gmail/maps are safe. I know I can change the password by reaching to a nearby PC, but that is not always a possibility.
I have got my Samsung Galaxy S2 for more than a month and just figuring out a safe way before putting it in active use.
An idea which I am thinking of is to have another Gmail account specifically for use with Android Phone, and import/export the actual "Contacts" only to this new email account. Since contacts are the most frequently used item, they would be in sync with the new email account, any delta changes would have to be replicated to your original gmail account as well.
I dont use Picasa, so it is of no importance to me to sync the pictures with picasa account.
For access to my actual gmail and other emails (like work email) I can use an add on email android applications like K9-Mail to configure the gmail as IMAP. To get access to this email program I can install any application which can password protect the access to applications and can reactivate the password after any time of inactivity. I dont know whether in such case would I get popup in the notification bar for new emails or not.
The only two most used applications now left are
- Maps and Latitude
- Google Plus
Now both of them need to be used with my actual gmail account, since all contacts and connection are related to my actual identity on google.
So i need to know that is it possible to use one gmail (fake/secondary) account on android phone just for syncing contacts and use another actual (primary/original) account for logging in the official google maps and google plus applications. I know even in this case the password needs to be changed in case of a mishap, however I can be a bit satisfied that all critical data in the email storage is safe.
I just need your opinions and suggestion on the mentioned procedure, or is there any other good and recommended practice for getting multiple accounts configured on Android Phone and selectively use the google accounts for different applications.
Thanks for your inputs.
Hmm...seems like everyone is so sure of the safety of their handset, no one even gives a s*** to think about the worst-case scenario of losing a device.
Cheers...hope everyone retains the droid for life..
Hey everyone,
I have searched Google I have searched the forums here, and the most I can find is on Browsers signing people out, but this is not an Android Browser problem, it is the main Google account on my phone!
I don't get any errors, nothing force closes. I have wiped all data and started again etc etc. There doesn't seem to be any real reason or cause for this? I don't have any notification emails from Google or Playstore? Log cat detects nothing really abnormal? Every few days I have to re-sign in and re-sync my data which can be a real paint when I need a phone number urgently
I am running an I9305 International Galaxy S3, Android 4.3 stock deodexed, v6 supercharger scripts, Xposed framework, Wanam's mods. That is all. It does it regardless of v6 supercharger or Wanam's being installed? I can go anywhere between a few days to 1 week before I realise that contacts are missing and my account is disconnected without warning?
Notes: I uncheck the box to backup my apps data and settings always! If I clear dalvik cache in recovery it instantly signs me out of my Google account; upon re-booting everything else is retained except the main Google account? Something I really find quite annoying is that all boxes are checked by default in the account settings for sync and I have to manually un-select everything except my contacts and calendar......isn't there some sort of law against this sh!t? Like isn't Google steeling my information without my consent? It seems like it? I explicitly uncheck not to backup anything and they go ahead and take my stuff anyway including my photos which I don't want! Is there some edit or hack that I can do to the settings apk to make sure that this NEVER happens unless I specify? How should I contact Google to go about making a complaint?
I have a Note 2 running OctOS M, which is based on CyanogenMod.
I don't want my contacts sync'd to Google, and I have had contacts drop out during backups and restores over the past year or so. While mentally berating software devs during my troubleshooting process, I have disabled Google Contacts ability to read to my contacts (thanks to Android M's permission system). I have also disable the sync-to-Google feature within the contacts app. Well, at least I thought I had. See, anytime I edit or create a contact, I will get a popup message saying "Google Contacts Sync has failed", and the only option is to click "OK".
I don't want Google to have any more of my contacts than they already do, so how should I go about setting that up? Hacks? Tweaks? Apps? Settings in certain apps? I would also like robust backup/restore and possibly management, which I thought were available in the default apps (apparently not, since it failed).
Did you ever figure out a solution to this problem? I'm having basically the same issue. On LineageOS I disabled all permissions for Google Contacts Sync in the Privacy Guard settings and I use a firewall that doesn't permit it to connect to the internet. But I frequently get a pop up window that says Google Contacts Sync has stopped. I'm wondering if I can just uinstall it using Titanium or if that will cause weirdness.
No, I did not find a solution. I wound up doing a factory reset for other reasons, and apparently never got around to sandboxing google calendar sync, because I don't get that error anymore. However, the contacts I backed up and tried to restore were all jacked up. I lost all the relatively new ones and a random smattering of old ones. I looked around on the software recommendation stack exchange, and it appears that all contacts apps are now cloud and/or ad enabled, which means they are most likely scraping and stealing your contacts.
It would be nice for a local-only contact manager.