Re: Unusable Android J5(6)

On 5/15/25 5:32 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:

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

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

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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.

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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)

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

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 Yes, that's the list.
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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).

 *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).

On my Galaxy S10+ it's Settings > General management > reset > factory data
 reset.
But it's been 5+ years since I gave a phone away (current phone's age) so I
 don't remember the exact reset routine I used. But I do remember that the
 grandkid I gave it to used it with no problems on his family account.
I recently reset an iPhone (wife's old one, she upgraded) and put it on my
 extra Apple account. I play with it on WiFi only as an added toy. I used my
 extra Google account (account name has initials AJL, don't tell anyone) on
 it for the Google stuff if that counts as a semi reset/reuse...

 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).

I suspect that the reset/reuse routine depends on the particular phone and
 the difficulties likely vary...

    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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 Exactly (on all counts).