This might be a dumbb question but I just can't figure it out. I want to delete an email account for an online provider so I go to menu and then accounts and then options. When I press and hold on the account I want to delete nothing pops up that lets me delete it and I can't figure out how to delete it.
Solution:
Use the up/down arrows of the software keyboard to select the account and then you can use tap&hold to delete it.
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Alright, I just got my tilt, so if these are newbie questions sorry, I tried lookin around couldnt quite find the solutions to my problems... so here we go
#1 I got the HTC homescreen installed, and like it, but the icon for mail takes me to email sample, not my exchange account, how do i change that?
#2 I used to have a 8125, and I remember it had a program called terminal i believe that allowed me to do a remote desktop connection to a computer... Is this software available for the tilt?
#3 I had a T-Mobile dash for while, running the HTC s620 rom, in it, it had internet sharing i think it was called, where i could just hook my phone to my laptop and i could use its gprs connection for internet... Is the tilt able to do this?
Well gosh, higherbeing..... did you even search for these answers or did you at least bring a spoon so someone can feed you?
i tried... it gave me no results no matter what i entered
Let me take #2 for you...... I just drumed up a bunch of hits.
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=t.../forum.xda-developers.com&as_rights=&safe=off
See if that is a starting place for you
thanks grizzley, with that link i was actually able to answer #3 and many more questions i had stored up yet i cant find a solution yet to #1
OK, I think I've got #1 after playing around abit. Not sure if this is the correct way of doing it, but it works!
Press the Mail Icon
Go to Menu > Tools > Options
If you want it to automatically open on your exchange account, ensure "Display Account Picker when opening Messaging" is TICKED. Ticking it will enable the phone to ask you which account you want to go into when you press the Mail Button.
Press OK to close, and close all running apps to get back to today screen
Now press the Mail Button again
Select your Exchange from the list of accounts
Then press the X (close) to exit the account
Press your mail button again
It should have automatically highlighted your Exchange account (i.e. it should be green).
Select Menu > Options
UNTICK "Display Account Picker when opening Messaging".
Press OK
That's it. It should now automatically open your exchange when you press the mail button.
Using the standard HTC ROM.
Ok, I've set up an e-mail account on the phone that is working fine. If I need to, how do I delete this account? I can no way to do this and there's a distinct lack of info in the manual on how to delete this sort of thing - plenty on how to set it up!
Regards and thanks
Skier641
While in TouchFLO 3D move across to the EMAIL icon. Push the MENU option in the bottom right of the screen. Select ACCOUNTS and then ACCOUNTS. This will bring you to the MESSAGING screen which shows you SMS / MMS at the top, then any email accounts you have then SETUP EMAIL.
Move down using the dpad (hardware buttons) and when you have highlighted the account you wish to delete press the MENU option in the bottom right of the screen and choose DELETE.
Remember use the Dpad to highlight the email account you wish to delete. If you use your finger you will more than likely open the email account instead of just highlighting it.
Many thanks tomchap. The collective knowledge and experience on the www is amazing.
Skier641
What if the account does not exist?
Ok, but what happens if the account is not listed there? I used Sprite Backup to backup the data on my old TyTN then tried to restore it on the Raphael. On the Mail tab of the TouchFlow the email account is listed (it appears as "PDA - Email" - just as it was named on the TyTN) - but I can not open any message and I can not delete the account either - because it is not listed.
Any ideas?
Delete Email
Try this mate....I also search high low...until i found this...
Already had that issue myself and solved it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=415579
FINALLY! I've been looking too. Tried other non-working solutions. I am a very happy man,. Thankyouthankyouthankyou. (Bows)
Thanks a lot, had this problem as well!
I somehow managed to set up my Gmail account in Messaging, but I don't want to use it anymore. Now I can't figure out how to delete it. When I open Messaging, I see the "Select an Account" screen with three choices: Messages, Gmail, and New E-mail Account. If I select Gmail and tap Menu, I see Options and Delete. Delete does nothing, and Options takes me to a screen where I'm asked to "Tap an account to change settings." But Gmail isn't one of the choices. Back on the "Select an Account" screen, I tried tapping and holding on the Gmail account to bring up a menu that might have Delete in it, but nothing happens. I'd just like to read my Gmail through a browser and don't need it in Messaging, but I can't figure out how to delete it. Step-by-step answers, please, and don't assume I know anything. Thanks.
I might becoming dumb but with Topaz I can not find a way to delete an email account.
I was used to tap and hold the account in the Messaging / Options dialog and a small single option Delete menu appeared but with Topaz that is no more.
just choose delete from the messaging menu rather than options. I'm not sure if that just clears the inbox outbox etc (don't wanna risk trying it in case it deletes my account!) but I'd have thought that'll be what you're looking for.
EDIT: that might not have been very clear, from the Home screen go to mail then menu>accounts>accounts... to get to messaging screen, then menu>delete to delete an account
If it's the outlook account you're trying to get rid of read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=464566
I was trying to do the same.
jimbo987 said:
just choose delete from the messaging menu rather than options. I'm not sure if that just clears the inbox outbox etc (don't wanna risk trying it in case it deletes my account!) but I'd have thought that'll be what you're looking for.
EDIT: that might not have been very clear, from the Home screen go to mail then menu>accounts>accounts... to get to messaging screen, then menu>delete to delete an account
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You still haven't made it very clear , open programs then all programs and select messaging. Then its menu>delete to get rid of an account or menu options to change an account.
EDIT: Ah! you were being clear after all, I had thought you meant to open the mail app, not just select menu on the mail tab of the homescreen. Nevermind, always nice to find out there's an easier way of doing something.
jimbo987 said:
just choose delete from the messaging menu rather than options. I'm not sure if that just clears the inbox outbox etc (don't wanna risk trying it in case it deletes my account!) but I'd have thought that'll be what you're looking for.
EDIT: that might not have been very clear, from the Home screen go to mail then menu>accounts>accounts... to get to messaging screen, then menu>delete to delete an account
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I was becoming dumb indeed :-(
Thank you very much.
no problem
I am trying to delete the Hotmail account on my Pure. I followed the steps above but the "Delete" option is grayed out. Is there any other to delete the Hotmail account?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4391549
Thanks for the link! Great tool. Took care of my Hotmail account.
How do I remove a gmail account?
I'd be interested in this to. I rooted an NC using my gmail account...but now I'd like to remove that one and just use a different one.
I have successfully added that other gmail, so how do I remove the original?
Thanks!
Go into the settings/accounts menu in Gmail. Create another account (it can even be a duplicate of this account if you like). Once this is done a long press down on the other account will give you the option to remove it.
Thanks! I'll give that a shot.
Kokanee483 said:
Go into the settings/accounts menu in Gmail. Create another account (it can even be a duplicate of this account if you like). Once this is done a long press down on the other account will give you the option to remove it.
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Didn't work for me. I created another account, so now 2 are listed. Tapping the menu button at the bottom, I get a 2 rows of 3 options (Refresh, Compose, Accounts, View labels, Search, Settings).
I tap "Accounts" and the screen displays the 2 accounts that are now on the NC, with an option to "Add account" down at the bottom. If I press the Menu button here, that bottom tab changes to "Account Settings" but when I press that, the NC appears to do a soft reset.
Am I missing something? Or should I restore and root again?
Thanks!
I get the same thing here.
I have two GMail accounts listed and cannot remove either.
If I press and hold on an account on the "Add Accounts" page, nothing happens. Actually, no matter how long I "hold", when I release, I end up going to the inbox for the selected account.
Further, just like madman390, if I press the Menu button and bring up the bar that only has "Account Settings", if I select "Account Settings", my NC does a reboot of sorts (it doesn't crash back to the home screen and it doesn't go all the way back to a power-up screen, it goes to the "Nook Color" animation part of start-up).
I have the same issues as everyone here. I am giving the nook as a gift to someone else and i need to remove the accounts i used to get the market working. Could someone figure this out? Thx
hungry4cheese said:
I have the same issues as everyone here. I am giving the nook as a gift to someone else and i need to remove the accounts i used to get the market working. Could someone figure this out? Thx
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Ok so I did a little messing around in the /data/ folder and I found the way to do it. You should leave one Gmail account at the end so you don't screw up the market. What you do is go into /data/system/ and edit accounts.db with an editor of your choice. You can even do it straight on the device through root explorer and the sqlite editor it requires. Open the file and delete the accounts you want to delete and then close it. I did a reboot after and the accounts disappeared from Gmail and YouTube and Gtalk. Gtalk now won't launch if you deleted the main account so you need to go into youtube, sign in again, then re-add the account in gmail and possibly Gtalk if it asks again. I had to do that a couple of times to get it to work, but now everything works. I also updated to the new market after thanks to another post
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hungry4cheese said:
Ok so I did a little messing around in the /data/ folder and I found the way to do it. You should leave one Gmail account at the end so you don't screw up the market. What you do is go into /data/system/ and edit accounts.db with an editor of your choice. You can even do it straight on the device through root explorer and the sqlite editor it requires. Open the file and delete the accounts you want to delete and then close it. I did a reboot after and the accounts disappeared from Gmail and YouTube and Gtalk. Gtalk now won't launch if you deleted the main account so you need to go into youtube, sign in again, then re-add the account in gmail and possibly Gtalk if it asks again. I had to do that a couple of times to get it to work, but now everything works. I also updated to the new market after thanks to another post
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Well, I tried to follow your suggestion and it screwed up my NC where it would loop on the NOOK COLOR boot screen (Autonooter'd). I had to do the 8 reboots to get back to a useable state.
zeroh said:
Well, I tried to follow your suggestion and it screwed up my NC where it would loop on the NOOK COLOR boot screen (Autonooter'd). I had to do the 8 reboots to get back to a useable state.
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Thats interesting it worked for me without any trouble. The only problem that resulted that I see now is that it did remove all accounts and the everything worked again, but the market now refuses to download anything. I'm sorry it messed your nook up, maybe it only works if you used an older version of autonooter. Does anyone know how to make the market start downloads instead of be eternally stuck on "Starting download"? It is possible that you might need to look around your /data/ folder for xml files and more databases and change everything to the email you would like to use as a main email or maybe you just edited your db file incorrectly.
I always wonder about these posts, and if they are the people selling rooted nooks on ebay, for a profit. There seems to be more and more people selling them on there these days.
any update on this? I'd like to backup a ROM and replicate my setup, do a basic root to a friends nook, then restore with my backup, then setup his gmail. Kinda strange we are bound to the whole thing by an email address..
If not.. then people making ROMs could maybe make like: 1.1FW/1.1OC/Zeam/Gaaps/ROM manager/Astro/Titanium/NC Tools/XDA. you know.. all the stuff we are going to do anyway.ROMs
ops. double post.
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Has anyone found a solution to this...an easy one?