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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Unusable Android J5(6)
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On 2025-05-14 22:24, AJL wrote:
> On 5/14/25 11:43 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-05-14 18:21, AJL wrote:
>>> On 5/14/25 8:36 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>> Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-05-14 10:48, R.Wieser wrote:
>>>>> > Jorg,
>>>>> > >>> Recovery of what please ?  And how would I do that (see the 
>>>>> above) ?
>>>>> >>> Also,
>>>>> >>> how would that make the phone forget my friend, accepting me as 
>>>>> its new
>>>>> >>> owner ?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Remove the Google-account of your friend
>>>>> > > "Remove the Google-account of your friend"
>>>>> > > Thats the whole thing : *how* ?  My friend doesn't remember 
>>>>> anything about
>>>>> > his erstwhile, years old identity.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> I use this to sign out my Google toys when I give them away to grandkids
>>> (and also reset them of course). 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...
>>
>> I hope it deletes personal information from the old account.
> 
> There's no old account. The above info is for many devices using one Google
> account. But any info stored in memory would remain and that's why I also
> reset when I get rid of a device. I also sign out to get the toy off my
> Google device list.
> 
> BTW if any of my toys were stolen, I would just sign it out of Google. Then
> if the perp somehow gets past my lockscreen pin, the then exposed unlocked
> Google apps inside would no longer give out my info or work on my
> account...

That's what I called "old account" :-)

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.