[Q] Same google account on multiple android tablets - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi i need some help. we have used for a school 50 same tablets with same configuration. We have setup the same google account to all tablets. the last days we realised that in 4-5 tablets asks to enter again the password and also it finds it difficult to accept it. The courses start this week and i'm afraid the possibility the account lock or continuously password requests. i have used the same google account to be able to install a paid once app to all tablets, students use drive to download text files i upload and for convenience in account management.

looserguy said:
Hi i need some help. we have used for a school 50 same tablets with same configuration. We have setup the same google account to all tablets. the last days we realised that in 4-5 tablets asks to enter again the password and also it finds it difficult to accept it. The courses start this week and i'm afraid the possibility the account lock or continuously password requests. i have used the same google account to be able to install a paid once app to all tablets, students use drive to download text files i upload and for convenience in account management.
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You are not gonna be able to pull this off. It will see the account logged in from multiple places and think it was hacked. Your best bet is to set up a different email address for each tablet.

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Vulberable to open WIFI?

I was at a hotel on the weekend. I connected to the room specific wifi, and when I went to a webpage I had to put a password in. When I got back home today, I noticed I had sent viruses to all my contacts through my hotmail email.
Is there anything I should change on my gtab or bank accounts?
At a Minimum
Did you log into Hotmail while you were there?
I would suggest changing the password on your hotmail account at a minimum, and doing the same for your banks would probably be a good idea too.
Sounds like someone at/near the hotel may have used firesheep or a similar application to sniff your traffic. There are other possibilities, but I think that's the most likely.
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I was at a hotel on the weekend. I connected to the room specific wifi, and when I went to a webpage I had to put a password in. When I got back home today, I noticed I had sent viruses to all my contacts through my hotmail email.
Is there anything I should change on my gtab or bank accounts?
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Yeah. I would change all my passwords.
And keep an eye on your credit card statements.
And, don't log in to anything you care about via open wifi. On any device. Frankly, I don't trust Android, or even iOS (or Windows, for that matter) as a platform for doing financial transactions, but then I am both paranoid and nearly always within easy reach of more secure desktop environments...
Failing that, be sure to hand your wallet to the next random person you pass on the street

How does the GT & an Android phone mesh with one gmail account?

So I am wondering how my new GT will work with my one google account and my Evo.
For example, when I fist started up the GT it asked if I wanted to sync my google account, which I did. I then noticed that it put a bunch of my existing apps from my Evo onto my GT. So I now assume that any app that I have purchased on Evo in my Google account can be installed on my GT & Evo, is this correct?
Are there any disadvantages to using the same google/gmail account on both my GT and Evo? I would hope that using one account on both devices would mesh well and not cause any issues.
I was then also wondering if I should setup a new google/gmail account and leave my gmail account off just in case I let my wife/daughter use the GT. At first I liked the idea of using one account on both but now maybe not, but then I would have to buy all new apps again?
Guess I am just looking for some opinions/ideas on a good way to use both my Evo and GT together.
Thanks
Using one google account between both of your devices won't cause any problem whatsoever. I've been using the same google account on my phone and my tab (first 7" and now 10.1") for about 6 months without issue.
The Android Market (and Amazon App Store) track by both account and by device. I've managed my Evo and two Tabs under the same Gmail account without any issues.
Its the best way to do it. I have a personal email address "****@zakeen.com" that I send through gmail account and I use the gmail program on all my devices.
I was at the airport waiting for someone to come out and I had my phone there, I was writing an email to someone and the person I was waiting for came out, I just turned my phone off. It saves it automatically in the draft folder and later arriving at the hotel I turned my Tablet on and the email I half wrote was on the top of the Gmail account and I just had to finish the last sentence and send it. Did not have to go back to the same device.
Also I think for the future it will be better, like renting movies and that. I dont know much about it but I am sure it will be linked to account then rather device. So you have access to all your things related to your account for easy syncing.
Its all in the cloud. You could have your singular google account synced across as many devices as you'd like I think. If you go to market.android.com you can choose which device you install apps on.
Thanks for the responses everyone, it def seems best to just use one google account. Unless of course you don't want your significant other to see your emails and gtalk messages. Not that I have anything to hide!
Oh yeah, what about GTalk? Will IMs go to both the phone and GT or is that only one login at a time?
You could definitely have IMs go to both devices simultaneously if you're logged in on both.

Android Phone safety against theft/snatch/loss

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..

[Q] Google Apps Device Policy?

Hi everyone,
I'm curious if anyone here has had any success or issues with the Google Apps Device Policy app. Has anyone had trouble with getting the Device Policy activated (for a protected corporate Google Account, for instance) on any custom ROMs? If so, which?
I flashed Th3Bill's CM10 the other day, and we had hiccups trying to get Device Policy to approve my work's Google Account. I wasn't sure if the trouble was on our IT department's side, and our IT department isn't the most user-friendly with trial and error to see if the issue was on the ROM's side or on theirs...
Not sure if this helps but I had no issues getting two university Google accounts to sync.
I had to set up a seperate password for one place. They use a single signon method where the university is the middleman and there was no direct way to use your single signon password for just the Google account. Just added a seperate password for just the Google portion and all is well.
atroph said:
Not sure if this helps but I had no issues getting two university Google accounts to sync.
I had to set up a seperate password for one place. They use a single signon method where the university is the middleman and there was no direct way to use your single signon password for just the Google account. Just added a seperate password for just the Google portion and all is well.
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Yeah, this is a different configuration - in essence, my IT department requires the ability to remote wipe that specific Google account from all of its devices, so it uses this app as a way of gaining permissions to that account. In essence, I can add the Google account to my phone, but no data will load (it will read "sync error") until the Device Policy App is approved.
Ahh ok. Like a goodlink account. Didn't know Google supported such a thing.

Intune company portal for email and work calender

Has anyone had to use intune company portal on their android devices?
My work is requiring that we download this program to our phones in order to read email and see our calendar.
I really don't care about the email but I want to can be able to read my schedule/calendar.
This program encrypts the phone, and I am told that I won't be able to take screen shots, they have access to all of my files and they can wipe my phone whenever they want.
I also have to use a digital password which is a pain because I want to use my thumbprint.
Does anyone know how I can get my calendar without having to download this cumbersome program? Thanks!
Mike
The digital passwords aspect is not accurate. We had this rolled out, and I can still use my fingerprint. Calendar though is a pain. For a short while, the Samsung Email app worked with the corporate email outside of the Company Portal space, but it has now stopped working. This is very frustrating.

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