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[Desire General] moorsey:
I had to change mine twice too!!

Glad there is already a thread on this, previous ways of changing the Google account on Android don't seem to work on the Desire

Stuff that has been suggested which doesn't work:

Go to manage applications, find "Google Apps" and clear the data

Doesn't work, clear data button is greyed out

Go to manage applications and clear the data for everything Google related

Doesn't work, have cleared data for Google Talk, Google Mail, Google Mail Storage, reboot phone, just carries on as normal

Change Google password online

Doesn't work, just prompts for new password, not user account

On mine, all Google mail, Calendar and Contacts seem to be syncing fine without me changing anything, need to confirm all of that. But sending mail from my phone DOES send as gmail.com.

The only thing that is affected is Google Talk. For a start, I dis-abled this and signed out of it, but it obviously likes to stay signed in anyway, because it keeps coming up with a prompt in the notification bar that it failed to sign in, no option to change anything

Why the hell is it still trying to sign in? Might just remove it!!
[Desire General] Raul Duke:
I just rebooted and now my gmail doesn't work at all. It just says no connection when I go to the gmail app.

Wish I never changed to gmail.com now lol

It seems to all sync OK but I just get this "No connection" error in the gmail app.
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
Wow i think I will hang fire on this until we have a proper process. Cant believe google didnt send out instructions for android users.

Really good news about the Picasa albums though - that was really annoying me.
[Desire General] TheOriginalKi:
You can change it back untill you get something sorted.
[Desire General] Raul Duke:
I still seem to receive email. The gmail app only seems to load half my inbox though and shows a "No Connection" error half way down the screen with a 'Retry' button on it. I click that, it tries to connect but doesn't.

So to sum up. It works but I have an annoying thing half way down my inbox.
[Desire General] Raul Duke:
Yep, that's sorted it.

Don't think I'll be changing it again any time soon!
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I just did a hard reset and started using gmail.com address...
[Desire General] Rusty!:
They would probably just read "factory reset then sign in with @gmail.com ID" anyway.

Holding off doing it , I must admit. It's a hassle I can't be arsed with at the moment.
[Desire General] bradavon:
I'm going to hold off too. I don't want to Hard Reset, just for this.

People can e-mail to @gmail.com and it goes to @googlemail.com anyway. I've always given out @gmail.com to friends/family. I tend to use @googlemail.com for accounts etc... as I don't need to re-enter it often anyway.

I don't think that will work for Google Talk (and maybe Market Place too) as that will still be looking for the @googlemail.com.

And there is no longer an account with this, just an alias that points to @gmail.com.
[Desire General] Nekromantik:
Yeah your right, Market did not let me download anything so changed back :(

Will need to do a backup using titanium and then change and reset fone.
[Desire General] bradavon:
Hopefully someone will find an easier solution, there must be one! It may be worth e-mailing HTC.

Is it known why the Market Place relies on Google Talk? It's not as if, they're similar Apps. On the surface anyway.
[Desire General] fridgeman:
Wow, am i glad i have always had an @gmail account :D
[Desire General] chandalf:
gmail change - now can't access Market Apps

I ended up doing a Factory Reset to change to gmail.com but now I can't re-install some of the Apps I had before (I got all the paid ones thankfully). Specifically I can't find the XDA Tapatalk App and a UK Railways one (UK Rail) - both seem to be missing form the Market?

Anyone any ideas why? Is the Market now seeing me as being somewhere else that can't have these apps?
[Desire General] bradavon:
Do you mean "TrainTimes UK"? If so, pm your e-mail address and I can e-mail you the APK file. You can install it using ASTRO.
[Desire General] alexbush:
Having gone through all of this I stongly advise people who are unprepared to do a factory reset to wait a bit in anticipation of a reliable fix. I had to go back to @googlemail and reset in order to get my phone back to where it was.

And yes, Google talk is inextricably tied to the market it appears. Many reports elsewhere of the market freezing at 'starting download' which is what happened to me
[Desire General] chandalf:
Thanks, but I can get that App. The one I'm looking for is UK Rail and even the link on the Dev website brings up nothing...?

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[Desire General] bradavon:
I cannot see that one. Searching for "UK Rail" gives me:

National Rail - Apparently the official App but it's £4.99. Screenshots suggest it's better than TravelTimes UK but I'm not paying a fiver. £3.50 maybe.

Travel News

Is it better than "TravelTimes UK"?

I cannot also find the official PayPal, eBay or Amazon Apps. Apparently it's because Android needs to approve each ROM and the Desire ROM hasn't been approved yet. I use "Pkt Auctions eBay" instead, which is excellent. I'd never use a PayPal app but the Amazon/eBay ones would be useful. I also wonder what else is missing.

If you manage to find it again, I suggest you save the APK file somewhere.

I've e-mailed HTC Support about this issue. Hopefully they'll get back to me soon.

Having to hard reset isn't a suitable fix.
[Desire General] Deepdp:
Hi, I am new to this forum. But well, may I know what is the problme you are exactly facing
[Desire General] bradavon:
If you change your Gmail address, Google Talk and therefore the Android Market Place stop working. The only current fix is to hard reset (i.e - back to factory defaults) the phone and enter the new address from the get go.

There are backup solutions that should get you back to where you were but it's still drastic.

For people in the UK, we can now opt to change our xxx@googlemail.com accounts to xxx@gmail.com (like the rest of the world). Due to legal problems originally, people who created a Gmail account in The UK got a xxx@googlemail.com account.

For now I'm sticking with my xxx@googlemail.com account, especially when all mail sent to xxx@gmail.com gets forwarded automatically to xxx@googlemail.com anyway. It's largely an aesthetic change.
[Desire General] chandalf:
The UK Rail App was just a simple two station 'departures board' which suited me. But I did get it from the Market before I had to Factory Reset.

The stock answer to this 'missing Apps' question is indeed that Google have to approve ROMs, but I haven't changed the ROM! I only changed my email address, at their suggestion, to what it should have been from the start, and now I - and clearly you - can't find Apps we used to have. What on earth are they playing at? :(
[Desire General] bradavon:
Good question!

I've never been able to find the official PayPal, eBay or Amazon Apps. I've not changed my @googlemail.com account or hard reset. I don't know if I've ever been able to find UK Rail. Like you say, if you've not changed your ROM though, it should still be there!

Is UK Rail a free App? I'm wondering if it "some how" is connected to your e-mail address? Which is now obviously different.

It adds weight to my point, we should be able to backup ALL APK files: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=678620
[Desire General] moorsey:
So, I am wanting to do a factory reset to get all of this sorted, phone is quite new, so would rather do it now than further down the line.

Is there any procedure to backing everything up, any particular method recommended by forum goers??

How about settings for individual applications, do they all stick their info on the SD card? So re-install the app and it will just pick up existing settings? Something tells me it isn't as easy as that

Cheers

EDIT: Found this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=677575. No clear cut solution though, guess I'll just have to give it a go! Any experiences here?
[Desire General] bradavon:
I e-mailed HTC Support about this problem and their response is as follows:

"I am afraid that the correct way to change over is a hard reset. As you have seen, to do otherwise causes issues with other apps. Once you have changed your google address to a @gmail.com address, you will need to reset the phone and sign back in. we are hoping that now this has been such a problem on all android phones, google might work on a solution that we can then implement in our phones, but at present, it's a hard reset I'm afraid."

I'm not going to bother. A hard reset is quite drastic, just for this.
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
Where can we raise it to google?

Surely this (changing to gmail.com) is the solution to the picassa nightmare they invented - surely they should provide instructions or an app to change over.
[Desire General] Rusty!:
Googles instructions are to factory reset.
[Desire General] bradavon:
What's the picassa problem?

Is there a link saying Google's instructions are to factory reset? Given that it's actually only Google Talk (for the most part) that falls over, surely it's a simple fix to a add an option to change what it's credentials are!
[Desire General] Rusty!:
If you have an @googlemail.com account, Picasa wont sync.

As for Google's response: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=1fbb1eb21f4ebc02&hl=en
[Desire General] moorsey:
It isn't just google talk/marketplace for me, phone also stopped receiving emails, unless I do a manual refresh
[Desire General] bradavon:
That's ridiculous! Thankfully I don't use it but even so.

What sort of professional answer is that? :mad:. Thanks btw.
[Desire General] JTHM:
How about...

Settings -> Accounts & sync -> tap on "Google" -> Remove account.

Then...

Accounts & sync, again -> Add account -> etc...

I don't need to try it myself 'cos I work at a US owned company with a US proxy so when I signed up for Google through their proxy I was given a @gmail.com address from the outset! :D
[Desire General] moorsey:
JTHM, tried that I'm afraid:)

the desire does not allow you to remove your existing Google account, comes up with an error saying you must do a factory reset.

You also cannot add another Google account and remove the old one

not sure if this is the case for all Android phones!
[Desire General] JTHM:
That's odd. When I start to delete the account I get the following:

Remove account

Do you really want to delete this account? Deleting this account will also delete all of its messages, contacts, and other data from the phone.

Proceed?

Remove | Cancel

I'm not going to proceed 'cos my phone's working just fine but why would it go this far of it was then going to flick the bird at you and tell you to factory reset?
[Desire General] moorsey:
quite agree!

After that is says:

This account is required by some applications. You can only delete it by resetting the phone to factory defaults (which deletes all your personal data). You do that in the Settings application, under About phone
[Desire General] JTHM:
That's utterly daft! Anyhow, I've since come across other sites that say the ONLY way to change your Google account on the Desire is to factory reset, which is PANTS ...but less of a problem on Android than most other phones admittedly.

It actually also states that the Google account cannot be deleted in the user manual (P.80).

This sounds like a job for an appwriter type, to come up with an app to do it for us.

(Acronym PANTS - "Poor and Not To Specification")
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
So did anyone ever find a clever way round this then? Or an app (surely its just a find and replace job? :-) )

If not what will i lose if I do the factory reset? What does the built in backup actually do?
[Desire General] Rusty!:
Backs up backgound, wifi passwords, bookmarks, apps, contacts

You'll lose your messages (unless you back them up) and your home screen layouts. It's really not to bad to be honest.
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
OK sounds amazing how do i run this backup program? (Does it really backup apps and the marketplace remembers i installed them?) How do i restore?

Another question i had was about my contacts. I currently have my gmail contacts (basically my entire phonebook) linked to facebook contacts etc. I notice in the gmail contacts it has added some info under each one with the link to FB. Does this mean when it syncs the contacts again afterwards it will already pick up on the link or will i have to go through them all again?
[Desire General] Rusty!:
It's all automatic, as is the restore. If you want to double check it's enabled, just look in the privacy settings.

The only one you have to do automatically is the messages, which is why SMS Backup & Restore exists.
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
hmm sounds amazing! So its already backed up now and the only think I will loose is SMS (dont care as its on bluebook) and homescreen icons?

Could someone confirm about the contact linking though and does it definately re-install all my apps?

Thanks!

This is almost sounding do-able!
[Desire General] Rusty!:
Defiantly reinstalls your apps.

Just leave the phone for a bit after you've set it up, and they just start appearing.

My contacts were still linked as well.
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
OK i bit the bullet and heres what happened:

What it did recover:

- SMS messages - no need to backup?!

- Contact links to FB

- WIFI points (not WEP keys)

What did not recover:

- WEP Passwords

- Home screen layout

- Downloaded Apps (so far nothing but all the ones I had are in the downloads section of Marketplace showing not downloaded, maybe when the daily update runs it will fetch and install them?)

- Custom keyboard install

- Gallery (installed from APK) anyway

- Text input dictionary words

Gallery now sync's picassa - BOOM!

P.S. does anyone have a link to the custom voice to text keyboard which didnt mess up the pinch-2-zoom?
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
OK other things i discovered:

- Internet bookmarks are gone even though it says they backup - surely a way to sync these like with with CHrome?

- Newsfeeds have gone but you can export these before reseting it seems - shame you can import from google reader/listen

- My downloaded apps have still not reinstalled themselves after nearly 24hours and they have also dissappeared out of the My Downloads part of marketplace. Now the only record of which ones i had is in the Backup folder on the SD card. If these are backed up why cant i restore?

- I notice as well that whilst the homescreen layouts disappeared you can actually setup and save your own 'Scenes' - is there no way to export and import these after resetting?

THanks
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bashsnk:
my xperia x1 has stop connecting to usb so i can not connect to active sync also i have to turn my phone off to charge it all the time is there any way i can repair this
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lokatho:
This happens on all ROMs? Than it's a hardware failure...
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draken Korin:
as not confirmed to be rom related: thread moved to general

gl
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aquarixz:
hi there,

yesterday i was using Villain5.4 ROM and bought new 8GB MicroSD

i was trying to use app2SD so i partitioned the MicroSD to

- FAT32 6.8GB

- Ext2 512MB

- Swap the remained allocation

(all using Paragon Partition Manager)

and i've rebooted my HTC Hero so the App2SD was working!

but i couldn't mount my SD to my PC and couldn't reach any data in my SD

so i tried to format my SD and reallocated it into 8GB (using paragon partition too)

then rebooted my phone....

and i got stucked in bootscreen!!!

so i've tried to use my old 2GB MicroSD (without using App2SD)

got the same problem :mad::mad:

i've tried to

- Wipe data and flash the new Villain5.5: FAIL

- Flash the official rom: FAIL

now my phone still stuck at the bootscreen

what i can do??

plz somebody get me out of here !!!

thx a lot :o:o
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
can you give some more details, what exactly is the problem when mounting the card to the pc etc.

"FAIL" isn't an error message that we could evaluate here...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aquarixz:
Sorry I'm some kind of newbie here

when I mount the card to pc(through my htc hero) and chose "disk drive"

then, nothing happened

"FAIL" that I mean is "it didn't work"

ps. I think the App2sd function maybe not disabled yet, is that possible?

If that's possible, how can I disable it?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
"fail" and "don't work" are both equally useless. imagine your car breaks down, would you got to a car forum and ask "my car doesn't work, can you help me?"...

tell us what happens. if nothing happens then tell us that nothing happens. if you get an error message quote it here. and describe exactly what you did.

now take your phone, install the latest amon ra (1.6.2) if you haven't done already. use the recovery to partition your sdcard to fat only or fat and ext2, do not use ext3, ext4 or swap. then go through all the wipe options, then try to flash a rom.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rulyskull:
f your Apps are there, then in Recovery you can move apps to fat32 sdcard.

You can then format your sdcard, just repartition it using Recovery, just repeat the process, it erases everything of the card. So do Usb toggle in Recovery, move all your stuff and apps you just backed up to your computer and then after you format it, move all of it back and then do the Restore apps back to ext partition or whatever it says.

im confused with this internally what do i do because i am lost
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jus10o:
In recovery, go to (i think) other.. Move all apps to fat32, (backup ups to sdcard). Then go to Usb toggle in recovery and move everything to your computer once that is done.. Go to recovery, click partition sdcard, swap 0, ext 512, the rest fat32, once it finishes, click ext2 to ext3.. After thats done, go back to usb toggle, move everything back to the sdcard.. Then in recovery go back to Other (i think its where its at) and click restore apps to ext3.. It will move all the apps you moved to sdcard back to ext partition.. After that i would just run fix uid mismatches. Then reboot phone.

EDIT: READ MY POST 2 post down for THE REAL INSTRUCTIONS.. me skipped a step
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jus10o:
OHHHH JUST KIDDING

type this into command prompt while in recovery

adb shell

u

Just the letter u.. then do the last steps that i said

When you see what comes up im guessing you will know what to do. Its pretty simple
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rulyskull:
lol yeah i like your OHHHHH JUST KIDDING that made me laugh but like i said thanks for walking me all through this....literally
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shizs14:
Sorry wrong thread section.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
I just installed the N1 2.1 launcher on my HTC Incredible, but unable to use the sense UI.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] IncredibleDoes:
you can use both launcher2 or rosie, just clear the defaults...
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
How am I able to use the sense UI if im using the launcher?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] photonmedia:
You can also use Helix Launcher. But the only way you will get the SenseUI aka Rosie is if you use the original launcher that is included with the Incredible.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
Cool. Thanks
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jGroves:
Noob here - how do you get another launcher and still use Sense UI? Where can I find a link for something like that?

Sent from my ADR6300 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
You can download the HelixLauncher from the market, its free. Still trying to figure out how to use the sense UI on another launcher....
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] photonmedia:
SenseUI is part of the default Launcher (HTCSense aka Rosie). Technically it IS the default launcher. AFAIK there is no way to "Use Sense on another Launcher." You either use HTCSense or you use some other Launcher.

;)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] hexto:
I tried Advance Laucher and it forced closed over and over. Which N1 Laucher are you using. Does it support multi-touch? I tried Helix but it doesn't work with multi-touch so I got rid of it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] photonmedia:
What "multi-touch" function are you trying to use at the Launcher level? Most multi-touch is at an app level....browser, maps, gallery, etc....
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
The launcher I am using is from Nexus One - Cyanogen 5.0.6 rom. It support multi-touch for pic, browser, map, etc..... But the stock rom does the multi-touch already.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
That sucks. I was really hoping to use the sense UI on a n1 launcher. Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jGroves:
I mean, where do yall find all these launchers from? I'm sorry, I just don't know. Still trying to learn as much as possible about, Android. I need a mentor :-)

Sent from my ADR6300 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thess1:
Could you post a link for the launcher that you are using?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] photonmedia:
Not sure if you were asking me or the other poster. The Helix Launcher is available for free in the Market. Honestly, though, I am using the default HTCSense Launcher. I can't imagine why anyone would want anything else.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thess1:
I've used helix but it seems laggy to me so I was looking for the one he said he pulled from cyanogen.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jGroves:
Yeah, I mean I love the Sense UI. But one of the reasons I wanted to get into Android and get an Android phone was to do whatever I wanted and customize and try out anything and everything. Kind of sucks to have limited options when I was hoping to be able to do everything everyone else is doing with their phones.

I too would like to know how to get the Cyanogen Mod on the Incredible.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] photonmedia:
I'm guessing this is the one they are referring to. I is Launcher2.apk pulled from the Cyanogen Sholes/Droid ROM. You should be able to put it on the SDCARD and install with a file manager.

Credit to Cyanogen.

Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2ym2lm53qzz
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
Same here. I'm hoping the Incredible get rooted soon. Would like to OC my phone and install different roms. I luv the Cyanogen roms, been running it on my N1 for a while now with no issue and its blazing fast.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] hexto:
I like Leap
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thess1:
I tried installing the launcher apk... and it just force closes over and over... oh well guess well just have to wait for root... thanks for finding that
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
My launcher work with no issue but I'm using nexus one launcher for cyanogen rom.

Sent from my ADR6300 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thess1:
Could you post the apk that you are using... i tried the one posted in this thread and also one I pulled from cyanogen with no luck
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
Here you go. This is the one that work on my Incredible with no issue.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] cpbills:
thank you very much, now i just need the nexus one stock contacts list/dialer and sms 'app' and my de-senseui-ification will be nearly complete
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shizs14:
You welcome. Let me know when you get that completed. I would like to try that on my phone.:D
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Reddog80p:
Does sense still run and use resources after switching to the N1 Launcher or are you asked to choose a default?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jsanta11:
Need helped installed the first apk and now am FC over and over how can I uninstall or how do I solve this ...

Thanks in advance