Re: Unusable Android J5(6)

AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:

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

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

[...]

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

  Yes, that's the list.

I use this to sign out my Google toys when I give them away to grandkids
 (and also reset them of course).

  *How* do you 'reset' them? With a 'Hard reset' ('Wipe data/factory
reset') from the 'Android Recovery' boot menu as described before (see
for example <https://www.devicesfaq.com/en/hard-reset/samsung-galaxy-j5>
for the phone under discussion).

  If you indeed use that procedure, that would negate Jörg's comment
that after a 'Hard reset' the device would not be usable for *another*
user (than the previous owner/user).

    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...

  Exactly (on all counts).