Re: Unusable Android J5(6)

On 5/14/25 8:36 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-05-14 10:48, R.Wieser wrote:

Jorg,
 

Recovery of what please ?  And how would I do that (see the above) ?
Also,
how would that make the phone forget my friend, accepting me as its new
owner ?

>
Remove the Google-account of your friend

 "Remove the Google-account of your friend"
 Thats the whole thing : *how* ?  My friend doesn't remember anything about
his erstwhile, years old identity.

 He uses a different identity on each phone? Normally, people use the same account when they buy a new phone.
 He could login into google in a computer, and there find the list of devices, and drop the one. The old phone should accept this, if it gets internet.

>
 Do you know how to actually "drop" the old phone? The only thing I
see, is a 'Sign out', but AFAIK if a device is signed out, it is still
linked to the Google Account, because you can just sign back in).
>
(See: Home -> Devices -> select device (*if* still listed, because as I
mentioned, longtime unused devices are not listed) -> Sign out)

I think this may be the same thing?
https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity
I use this to sign out my Google toys when I give them away to grandkids
 (and also reset them of course). But I don't see anywhere on that site to
 sign them back in. That apparently has to be done on the device. Likewise I
 don't think that move does anything to the device itself other than require
 a new sign in the next time it's used...