I am experiencing Google auto-fill issues when I'm registering to a new service (creating an account). New random password gets generated, but it is not saved and not automatically filled into the password fields. Did anyone face this and how did you solve it?
Example:
1. install this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beurer.healthmanager
2. go to register new user, let Google fill to generate the password and click save
3. on Mi 10T lite nothing happens, on another phone Mi A3 with stock Android, Google auto-fill fills in both password fields and password is saved, so it can be used for later login
Note: Google fill works fine when I'm logging to apps or web pages (although sometimes I have to pick up saved login details manually), also it saves the password if I type/paste it manually during login. I can't make Google fill work properly for new account creation only. It's very annoying so any suggestion will be much welcomed.
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A slightly lengthy attempt to summarise the (often contradictory) advice on this issue.
The problem: Google is allowing UK users to change from @googlemail addresses to @gmail. Many users report persistent messages that google talk authentication has failed and downloads from the market are freezing.
How to make the change (READ the rest of this before you do!): Login to your Google mail account and go to settings/account. You will see a small link offering the option. Some users report a need to do this twice before it 'sticks'. (Baed on my experience, I suspect the change takes some time to propagate - see final note here). You can reverse this change in the same way.
Solutions (or not!)
1. There is no 100% reliable way to change the gmail account details on your phone without a factory reset.
Some users recommend clearing the Google Apps data from within Apps Manager which then prompts you to set up the account details again. This option is grayed out for many
Some have recommended changing your account password. For me this did not allow me to change all the account details on the phone
2. You can set up a second gmail account on the phone with the @gmail details. However this may not allow you to delete the @googlemail account although some have suggested it does. You will recieve copies of all emails on both accounts!
3. Do a factory reset. Back up all your data, take a deep breath and go for it! Seriously, this did not actually result in a lot of work for me as I don't have a truckload of apps on the phone. You have the choice of reverting to the @googlemail account (which is what I did) or setting up with the new @gmail details. From what I can gather the latter approach does not result in problems with re-installing paid for apps - but no promises!
NOTE: You will receive email sent to either @googlemail or @gmail on your old @googlemail account so you could just start using @gmail as your address and forget about the problem!
...and finally. Having gone through all of the work associated with a factory reset to @googlemail, I discover that Google has reset my account to @gmail anyway and everything seems to be working OK! I do wonder if changes to accounts are propagating very slowly. (I also wonder if Google knows what it is doing, but that's another story)
Hope this is some help
I had this problem and corrected it by reverting back to @googlemail.
But what gets me is that considering how widespread this problem is, is the overwhelming silence from Google.
NineToTheSky said:
I had this problem and corrected it by reverting back to @googlemail.
But what gets me is that considering how widespread this problem is, is the overwhelming silence from Google.
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Probably because most UK Desire owners have phones from Orange, and they've removed Google Talk (although they've handily left the service running!), so this isn't going to be a problem for them. Also, a lot of people have always known that you could always ignore the `googlemail` thing and use gmail.
Why bother?
Any email sent to [email protected] is received by [email protected] anyway..
Fon22
Why bother? Because, as the OP says, if, in the UK, you change you address from googlemail to gmail, you won't be able to download anything from the App Market.
is there anywhere we can ask google to provide android switchover instructions?
You know you don't have to put the @ when setting up an account.
When I set up both my G1 and my Desire I just signed in with the Google user name.
Just to add my bit, I'm a Google apps account owner, my domain is not gmail or googlemail its simply hosted by Google and even though I've done nothing its stopped working for me also on my desire. I get the same googletalk auth error and can't download anything from the apps store either.
Interestingly, even from my pc, if I goto googletalk it won't let me in either, yet email and other Google apps like docs and calendar work no bother. Selecting Google talk gives a 404 unauthorized.
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Picasa web albums now sync
Just to add my bit, I'm a Google apps account owner, my domain is not gmail or googlemail its simply hosted by Google and even though I've done nothing its stopped working for me also on my desire. I get the same googletalk auth error and can't download anything from the apps store either.
Interestingly, even from my pc, if I goto googletalk it won't let me in either, yet email and other Google apps like docs and calendar work no bother. Selecting Google talk gives a 404 unauthorized.
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I got exactly the same as this, after everything working brilliantly for 3 days!! I have now setup a gmail account to sign the phone up with and the turn all sync off for it, thrn setup my Google for domains and setup the calendar through exchange and everything is working fine...its a big faff, but it will works well: )
I did do a lot of reading and apparently Google for domains doesn't work with Google talk full stop... BUT why work for days with no problems!! Stupid!!
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i've searched this forum for this issue, and found nothing.
my issue is, for some reason, i've changed my google account password from pc. after changing the password, my desire won't sync with all my google mail, calendar, etc.. is there any way to change the google account setting on my desire to match the new password?
Hi,
Remove and add new. Its 1 minute job.
i've try to remove the account. then there's a pop up 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".
i don't want to loose all my data and apps. is there any way to change the password on my phone without resetting the phone?
Whenever I swap SIM cards in my phone, it always asks for the passwords for my Google accounts again (for security purposes).
I wonder if doing this will help you out with your issue.
Regards,
Dave
thanks for the idea.. i'll borrow my friend sim card to test whether it works...
I thought I'd better change my facebook password since it had been the same for a while.
Now, for the Facebook app, it started erroring, so I just had to use menu->logout and then I was asked for the user/pass where I could put the new details in.
However, for Facebook for HTC Sense, there doesn't appear to be a way of updating the password, you have to remove the account under Settings->Accounts & Sync and then add it again with the new details.
This means that my contact links between Google and Facebook get lost (well, some anyway).
Is there a better way? Have I missed something and there is a way to change the password for HTC Sense? Or is my method the only way?
Strangely enough, I too also changed my facebook password yesterday and noticed the same.
The only way is to remove the account and re-add, however google should remember the links, if it hasn't then some sort of error must have occurred. I have had no problems with this, the account remains the same just a new password.
If you log into your Gmail account and look at a contact you should some random bit in the notes field - this is the link between the contact and Fabebook...if it's not there it's not been saved/sync'd correctly
EddyOS said:
If you log into your Gmail account and look at a contact you should some random bit in the notes field - this is the link between the contact and Fabebook...if it's not there it's not been saved/sync'd correctly
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or direct at www.google.com/contacts
Wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this ?:
I added an additional google account to my phone to access some google drive files. i then deleted the account in the normal way and it does not show it as you would expect. However today i used my PC to change the password of that account and I got a notification of this password change on my phone.
I rechecked and the account is not listed.
This is my 2nd XZ2 Compact and I'm generally very satisfied with this device. However I've encountered an issue with the preinstalled Mail app. Last week it stopped syncing and I was unable to find out why, as it worked fine on my Z4 Tablet. It just kept saying that it couldn't connect to the server. After several attempts to enter the incoming mailserver name, password etc to make sure that this was not causing the problem, I decided to just remove the account and then re-enter the account details.
Now here's the problem as it keeps telling me that the account that I'm trying to enter is already there?? And if I do long-press on the icon it shows the account but when i select it, it shows the guide to enter a new account??
What to do? I've cleared cache but I'm not able to delete user data (greyed out).
I'd like to avoid resetting the phone, but if that's my last chance, then...