I am the Primary account on my family Prime account. My wife is the secondary user. We have a $39.99 full plan after upgrading from my Student plan.
My wife has a Kindle Fire and would like to use the lending library and the free Prime videos, but can't as the "secondary" user. I don't have a Kindle and don't really need anything but the free shipping.
Is there anyway for her to easily add my Prime account as a second account on her Kindle so that she can just sign into it for books and videos? She has her own Amazon account and downloads apps and whatnot, so doesn't really want to use my account exclusively. And we can't cancel my account and subscribe on her, cause then we wouldn't get Prime for $39.99.
Is there an app or walkthrough to switch accounts?
You should actually be able to just share Prime access with her. That's what my girlfriend and I did with my account (similar set up that you had, I still had to invite her). I sent her an invite to share prime and it just asked her for my name and d.o.b. I believe...
Log into your Amazon account go to account settings, manage settings, Prime settings.
Put your wifes email addresses that matches her Amazon account email in the invitation form and send the invite.
Have her confirm the invite on a computer, if I remember correctly the invited person needs to confirm it after logging into their account.
Unless you've done all that at which point IGNORE ME!
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lennathi said:
You should actually be able to just share Prime access with her. That's what my girlfriend and I did with my account (similar set up that you had, I still had to invite her). I sent her an invite to share prime and it just asked her for my name and d.o.b. I believe...
Log into your Amazon account go to account settings, manage settings, Prime settings.
Put your wifes email addresses that matches her Amazon account email in the invitation form and send the invite.
Have her confirm the invite on a computer, if I remember correctly the invited person needs to confirm it after logging into their account.
Unless you've done all that at which point IGNORE ME!
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Well, even if you share Prime... you are only sharing the free shipping. You can't share the things like lending library and free Prime videos.
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So, I know someone that just bought an Epic, used to have a Hero. He didn't know his gmail address when he went in to buy the Epic yesterday, and so the guy at the Sprint store set him up with a new gmail address. Now of course he can't access any of his sync backups or purchased apps. I told him I thought there was a way to figure out the gmail acct attached to the phone, but I wasn't sure how, so I thought I'd ask you guys.
I tried looking in getprop with connectbot, but that only shows the @sprintpcs email address. I can't think of another way off the top of my head that it would work. Apparently the gmail address is no longer listed in a conspicuous location on the phone, such as under settings/accounts and sync/manage accounts. Wouldn't this be able to be discovered on the phone through some method? Maybe the dialer codes, such as ##3282# (though I know that one wouldn't do the job)?
Gmail automatically has the email address of the phone after you stick it in the first time
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Gmail automatically has the email address of the phone after you stick it in the first time
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You mean in the gmail app? As far as I'm aware it's not listed in there currently, but I will double-check with him again. He said the Sprint guy looked for the gmail address on the phone and couldn't find it, but I suppose that doesn't really mean much, since Sprint sales tech knowledge tends to be a hit and miss luck of the draw kind of thing. I was hoping there was another way I could find it buried in code or whatnot.
Maybe there's a data file for the Market that I could open in xml and spot the associated gmail address?
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Hmmm.
If I go to Menu -> Settings -> Accounts and sync I see my account listed under "Manage accounts".
I believe there should be something similar on the Hero. I just checked a Droid 2 and I had to look under "Accounts" instead of "Accounts and sync".
If what you are saying is that your friend can't remember the gmail address that he had on his Hero...Try going to the gmail login page on a computer..click the "can't access my account link". The next page it takes you to will have a "Forgot my Username" link.... Have your friend try putting in his primary email account that he may have associated it with when creating the first gmail account. They will then email all gmail usernames associated with that email address.
Put the hero on WiFi and have him email his new address from it.
Recover your gmail account via your phone number.
Send an email from your phone?
Sorry. I forgot getting an email address from your phone was rocket science.
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Thanks for the ideas. I'll forward them on to the person with the issues.
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My x-Box gamertag was not associated with my primary email address.
I used my primary email address on my phone as it is my Live Account sign in. When I did so, it created a generic player12345677 gamertag in the Xbox live tile.
I've had it this way for the six months or so since I've had my phone.
Recently I decided to transplant my actual Xbox gamertag over onto my phone. In order to do so, I had to "recover" the generic player1234456 onto my Xbox console and associate it with a slush email account to free up my primary email address and live account login to be associated with my actual Xbox gamertag. When I did this, The generic player 1234566 gamertag wouldn't remove from my phone. I tried several soft resets, but player12345667 stuck around.
I went ahead and hard reset the phone and my actual gamertag finally showed up, whew. But all was not well, as when I went to reinstall the apps, I was asked to pay for apps I already paid for. I checked in ZUNE and my entire purchase history was gone. UGH!!!
I did a backup restore of an old 7008 of my phone and my actual gamertag showed up and the apps are still lost in cyberspace...
I never changed the LIVE ID on my phone or the email address associated with it. All I can figure is that marketplace associated my purchases with my gamertage email address?!?! Wtf is up with that?
Any thoughts from the collective minds here on XDA?
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No one here can help you with billing issues, best to give Microsoft a call and explain what happened. I don't think your purchases are tied to your gamer tag, they should be tied to your Windows Live ID. So this is odd that simply changing your gamer tag would nullify all your purchases on the same Windows Live ID the purchases were made on.
http://www.zune.net/en-US/support/contactsupport.htm
Your purchases ARE associated only to your gamer tag (and what WLID your gamer tag is associated to). If you use your XBox to switch the gamer tag to another WLID, your new game tag on the old WLID *WILL NOT* have any of your history, as the history will migrate with your gamer tag to the new WLID.
After buying three more WP7 phones for my family, I created a new WLID and moved my gamer tag from my main WLID to a new one that all phones would use as their primary WLID. This worked great and all four phones (had to reset the original one to the new WLID) had access to purchased apps, my Zune Pass, etc, that was associated to my original WLID.
What I didn't realize is that by performing the above (which incidentally was what my App Hub account was using) completely hosed my App Hub account. I had to wait 30 days to switch my gamer tag back to my original WLID to access App Hub again and no-one (App Hub Support, XBoz Support, etc) could help me. For your App Hub account to work, the Game Tage and WLID must match the original combo, or it will error and your are toast.
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XDA app is crap.. I cant believe I paid for it..
actually, this is how Live IDs work:
Your *actual* Live ID is a long text string of seemingly random letters and numbers. This is what makes your Live ID and this is what your content actually belongs to.
Your email adress and Gamertag are connected to that Live ID, in the background Live always uses your Live ID to identify you. When you change your gamertag or email, the Live ID string stays untouched.
Changing Gamertags costs money (800 Microsoft Points), changing email adress doesn't (IIRC).
What you did is change the email to both of your live accounts.
Now your "new" Live ID with your "good" Gamertag is associated to your proper email adress, when you connect your phone with that, you'll use your "new" Live ID. Your content is licensed to your "old" Live ID with the player12345 gamertag and now your slush email account.
AFAIK, MS can not or will not transfer licenses from one ID to another, but you can try calling their billing support if you want.
Alternatively, this is what you can do: revert your email adresses back, so your player12345677 GT now has your proper email adress. Buy 800 MSP to change your GT to a non-generic one (can't use your old one, though) and "start fresh". You should be able to re-download your content using this Live ID without problems.
I just spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what turned out to be a simple answer. Not having found the answer anywhere online, I'll post it here in case someone else is going through the same thing.
I rooted my son's Kindle Fire with KFU (thanks to everyone who has contributed scripts & helpful postings on that topic), launched Google Play and made a mistake by logging in under his older google account. Although the Google help claimed I should be able to switch to any account currently in use on the device simply by going to menu | accounts under Google Play, it was failing to recognize his other account, which was in use for email, and Google Play wouldn't let me configure an additional account.
The key: The account must be in use in another *Google* application (seems obvious in hindsight). If email is only set up with the original Kindle email app, the google system doesn't see it, and only some of the google apps have the "add account" function.
Solution: Use Google Play under the "wrong" account to download the free GMail app. Setup GMail with the "right" account. Return to Google Play. Menu | Accounts | select the newly set up account and you're good to go.
You should have been able to add another account under settings / accounts & sync / add account / Google.
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brizey said:
You should have been able to add another account under settings / accounts & sync / add account / Google.
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Probably on stock.
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Probably on stock.
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on stock there shoudl be an app called "Account and Sync Settings" or something to that effect, you'll need to add the new Account.
then when you log into the market you can go to settings and account and select the other as the default account..
BUT: This isn't always 100% I've had issues where where it occasionally reverts back to the initial account.
Google really makes it a PITA when this happens.. I wiped my phone and did this exact thing, and it felt like it was pretty much a pain.
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I just spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what turned out to be a simple answer. Not having found the answer anywhere online, I'll post it here in case someone else is going through the same thing.
I rooted my son's Kindle Fire with KFU (thanks to everyone who has contributed scripts & helpful postings on that topic), launched Google Play and made a mistake by logging in under his older google account. Although the Google help claimed I should be able to switch to any account currently in use on the device simply by going to menu | accounts under Google Play, it was failing to recognize his other account, which was in use for email, and Google Play wouldn't let me configure an additional account.
The key: The account must be in use in another *Google* application (seems obvious in hindsight). If email is only set up with the original Kindle email app, the google system doesn't see it, and only some of the google apps have the "add account" function.
Solution: Use Google Play under the "wrong" account to download the free GMail app. Setup GMail with the "right" account. Return to Google Play. Menu | Accounts | select the newly set up account and you're good to go.
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Thanks a lot for the solution. Gmail was the key to adding another account. Once I created the Gmail account for the new corrected account, I was able to choose that profile in other parts of Google (like Play Games) on the Fire.
Then, how do you delete the wrong account ?
Thank you so much !
I am using a Fire HD 10 (2017) and my wife accidentely added her Google account below my profile. Since the stock version does not provide "Account and Sync" below settings: how can I remove a Google account from my profile? Removing the account from the device using another device does now work since the device always tries to re-authenticate the removed account. This is driving me insane. As a bonus the Gmail app crashes since then...
Short story: I need to know if there is a way to find the transaction id number from the apps that i've purchased in play store. I do have root.
Long Story: I setup my Google login using the main email i was using at that time. That email address happened to be provided to me by my ISP. Last month i switched my ISP to another ISP and lost access to the original email address that i set up with my Google account since that service was cancelled effectively today. Today i also logged into Google and clicked the "change" link next to my primary email address under accounts. I was sent a verification email to the "new" email address that i put in. I followed the instruction in the email which had me click a link verifying my "new" address. I now have no apps nor contacts linked to my Google login when i login. I can no longer use my previous login either. I've contacted GooglePlay help and have started a complaint. They say there is no record of my original email address or my purchases (100's of $$$). For a company to forfeit all my purchases because i changed my email and furthermore never warn me is ridiculous.
This should be a lesson that you should use gmail instead of An isp's email.
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This should be a lesson that you should use gmail instead of An isp's email.
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yea exactly I've never once used an isp provided email address cause its just a bad idea. Lesson learned the hard way I guess
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I understand that it was a bad idea but the option to switch emails associated with the account is still there. Soo even if it wasn't an isp email it still would have done the same thing because it was the action of updating the email not the actuals isps fault.
Salt has been poured into the wounds already. Does anybody have any constructive advise on how to get or if there actually is any transaction record for paid apps stored on my phone?
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Howdy, I am wondering is there any setting that I wanted allow 2nd account access the app. I mean Owner and 2nd account under multi-user which is I wanted the Owner account allows 2nd account access my app to run.
E.g. I work for Amazon and the app installed under Owner account when I created 2nd account then it seems cannot see (Owner account) Amazon app on 2nd account. How do I allow Owner's Amazon app to 2nd account access. Similar App Share something.
Anyone know how fix this issue?