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Does everyone need to have a Gmail account to download/buy apps from Google Play, or can one use any email address they like?

appfactory said:
Does everyone need to have a Gmail account to download/buy apps from Google Play, or can one use any email address they like?
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https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2521798?hl=en

Thanks!
Will you give me a thanks too, for giving you a Thanks?

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How to sign into Google....?

Actually, my question isn't that simple.Andmaybe I should be asking this question to google, but maybe someone on this forum knows the answer.
I have a Google account. I do not have a G-mail account.
Now when i try to sign in using my Google account on the X10 it automatically takes me to create a new gmail page. I don't want to do this, I would like to use my pre-existing Google account.
It won't recognize my current Google account for some reason. I am thinking this is an eclair specific problem because I am not having this issue on my gingerbread tablet.
[Q] Can someone suggest a solution or maybe a workaround?
Edit: This happens when I open the market
maybe you want to post your question with Google, not here.
cheers
mmmaybe someone Else had the same problem and found a solution?
Why not take the 15 seconds it takes to create the account....and instead take the 25 seconds to a minute to create a thread online?
Under your google account, what is your primary email address?
Use that if you want to try.
beau420 said:
Why not take the 15 seconds it takes to create the account....and instead take the 25 seconds to a minute to create a thread online?
Under your google account, what is your primary email address?
Use that if you want to try.
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Because I dont want a litter of email accounts - one for every service I use. That's mad.
And because my primary email account already works as a Google account... Ofcourse you would know that if you'd taken the 15 seconds to read my question instead of taking 25 seconds to write an unnecessary reply
You said you would like to use your pre-existing google account.
I said:
Under your google account, what is your primary email address?
Having just 1 email address is also never a good idea.
And under your google account management page, you can add multiple email addresses.
You also, you do understand that you can forward nearly every email address to another address.
You must have a g-mail address if you not have it you can't log in to google in your phone.
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Xperia84 said:
You must have a g-mail address if you not have it you can't log in to google in your phone.
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Yup. Seems to be the only way. Thanks
Log onto your Google account and maybe try changing your password? While you're at it, conact Google directly.
keijames said:
maybe you want to post your question with Google, not here.
cheers
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,yeah,m8!

Google Play Store account issue

when I can go to Playstore it uses gmail account I don't want to, i don't have that account chosen, I don't have it in Sync either.
Playstore one time takes 1 account and sometimes 2nd account, totally unpredictible...
Any ideas what to do ?
Without a Gmail account you will not be able to access the Play Store.
prboy1969 said:
Without a Gmail account you will not be able to access the Play Store.
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I'm using gmail account, I have several of them setup on my phone(Galaxy S3), but the problem is that it uses randomly those accounts and won't use the one that is chosen as default.
nixtip said:
I'm using gmail account, I have several of them setup on my phone(Galaxy S3), but the problem is that it uses randomly those accounts and won't use the one that is chosen as default.
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U can set which account to use under play store settings.
Lifehacker7 said:
U can set which account to use under play store settings.
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Yes I did that, but then why when I want to install app in that window shows different gmail account ? and not the one selected in settings ?
Have you tried removing the other accounts from the Play Store completely ?
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11
I don't see option to remove accounts from the Play Store, I know it works if I remove the from Android>Google Gmail settings, but from Play store no. I see only Add feature, but no remove.
nixtip said:
I don't see option to remove accounts from the Play Store, I know it works if I remove the from Android>Google Gmail settings, but from Play store no. I see only Add feature, but no remove.
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You have to do it from the PC / Desktop.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

Can Themer see other mail accounts than just my gmail?

I have been searching and cannot find a solution to this. Can Themer give a unread mail count for mail accounts other than just the gmail account?
Dont think so sadly =(
fubacca said:
I have been searching and cannot find a solution to this. Can Themer give a unread mail count for mail accounts other than just the gmail account?
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Unfortunately not, we are working on this feature though. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Ditto on this request, but I have another question that's similar (same?)... I have Gmail and Corporate email accounts I have to monitor. It seems just about every theme has just one email, one sms, and so on. I love the themes and the application overall, but the rigidity of icon placements and selections in the themes makes it hard to replace my stocker for work use.
Is there an ETA for when this will work? I don't use gmail and yet, I'm forced to see "0" for email. Also, shouldn't have to be logged in just to use a theming program. Let me go online to "see" new themes but requiring that I'm online is a waste of bandwidth and battery.
ThemerSupport said:
Unfortunately not, we are working on this feature though. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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the application is great, but I only use that email exchange, you have a date for a version that would display the number of e-mail ?
If you associate your other accounts with gmail though,shouldn't this solve the issue partly ?
sanjsrik said:
Is there an ETA for when this will work? I don't use gmail and yet, I'm forced to see "0" for email. Also, shouldn't have to be logged in just to use a theming program. Let me go online to "see" new themes but requiring that I'm online is a waste of bandwidth and battery.
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Hi,
We can't give an exact ETA, but it won't be anytime soon. The amount of resources required to integrate accounts other than Gmail would require a large of time from the developers which would put everything on hold - which is something we just can't afford at this moment in time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Regarding the login box, this is for security reasons on our side, in the event that someone breaches our servers.
Thanks for the hard work, can't wait for other email accounts to be integrated :good:

Gmail Feature: Gmailify

Gmail Feature: Gmailify​
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail​
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
Well, more years ago than I can remember I pretty much linked all of my emails to Gmail, so I've had this functionality across all platforms since then.
For as long as I can remember the android app has also let me choose which of these addresses to send from.
I'd recommend that approach tbh.
Can be done from the site. This app-feature lead me to it so that was useful. But I can read all the email accounts by anything accessing the gmail, Android and desktop applications.
Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
ozaghloul said:
Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
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Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
>Tap add account
DrGreenway said:
Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
>Tap add account
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That's not gmailfying, thats just adding an account to the gmail app (which has been around for years). Gmailifying means gmail completely takes over, when you open gmail (from any device) you will have the mail from the gmailified account alongside your gmail. Adding an account the way you describe is just local on the app. What you need to do is "link" an account, not just add an account. To do this, after you add an account, go into the setting and chose link to gmail. However, if you already have 1 account linked it will tell you that you can't have another one linked. I hope this makes sense.
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Bumpy bump
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OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
-woczarder- said:
OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
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Nope. Doesn't work. ?
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ozaghloul said:
Nope. Doesn't work.
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Awww, sorry ಥ_ಥ
DrGreenway said:
Gmail Feature: Gmailify
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
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Well there's a 0% chance that I ve ever used the gmail app on my devices. I'm playing with CloudMagic email app now, it does what I want it to with all my email addys across the spectrum (course the stock Samsung email app did most of that, but wasn't installed on this custom rom)
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Which app for email?

Hello,
I wanted to know which email App you use. Because the original one I don't like it and Gmail on quick app is very awful :/
So if you can answer to this it would be great!
I use Gmail. Yeah Gookill is just evil.
Use a cloud based only app like Gmail.
That eliminates malware completely unless you chose to download it.
Gmail is excellent with spam and I have never gotten malware through it except if not mindful of downloaded files.
My Yahoo email got locally wifi hacked once, I don't trust it's encryption now.
Outlook is malware central
Yahoo mail, with Gmail and Yahoo account.
I have no notifications, but I check it anyway, several times a day.
Aquamail, the best.
Nine -> Just get it from Petal Search. If you paid for it on playstore you can add your subscription on the Huawei without issue, you just need to paste the order or something in the app.
Blue Mail
Shymmy said:
Yahoo mail, with Gmail and Yahoo account.
I have no notifications, but I check it anyway, several times a day.
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Thanks to MicroG settings, now I have notifications too.
Hi, I've been using Spark, I tried also BlueMail but didn't like it at all, what made me convince about Spark is that it syncs also your gmail folders, so everything keeps as if you were using gmail app, also your signatures, contacts an many more features that makes me forget about gmail native app.
It's available in app gallery, good luck!
Another cool app imo -> "Re:Work". https://rework.so/
I was using "Nine" previously so this is their new app and even had promotion for "Nine" users.
It's not available in the app gallery but it can be downloaded.
Dear Nikolay,
We decided to support Huawei users. So we put a link to download the APK (v1.2.27 released in Google Play Store) in the following site. You can download it here.
Re:Work for Android v1.2.27
https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/com.ninefolders.release/rework/GooglePlay/rework-GooglePlay-v1.2.27.apk
Release note:
https://re-work.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4545384599823-Re-Work-Android-v-1-2-27
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