Re: Unusable Android J5(6)

On 5/14/25 11:43 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-05-14 18:21, AJL wrote:

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 ?

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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.

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He uses a different identity on each phone? Normally, people use the same account when they buy a new phone.
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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.

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 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).
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(See: Home -> Devices -> select device (*if* still listed, because as I
mentioned, longtime unused devices are not listed) -> Sign out)

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I think this may be the same thing?
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https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity
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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...

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I hope it deletes personal information from the old account.

 There's no old account. The above info is for many devices using one Google
account. But any info stored in memory would remain and that's why I also
reset when I get rid of a device. I also sign out to get the toy off my
Google device list.
 BTW if any of my toys were stolen, I would just sign it out of Google. Then
if the perp somehow gets past my lockscreen pin, the then exposed unlocked
Google apps inside would no longer give out my info or work on my
account...