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Delete an e-mail account - how?

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!

Can't delete Gmail

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.

Stock email application and gmail application

When I bought the phone I remember plugging in my 2 gmail accounts and then days later noticing that some email was better formatted. Then i realized that the notification dropdown actually takes me to 2 different applications.
Why would it be set up so that I am managing the same email account through 2 different application? The gmail application does a better job of formatting the email so can I turn off the email application. Its a shame that the email application is stuck on the bottom of my home screen.
Also is there a way I can prevent deleted email from sounding an audible alert and placing itself in the notifications dropdown? For example I delete and email and then 30 minutes later when a sync occurs I get a notification that i have new email. Its new email to the trash bin.

jamespaulritter said:
When I bought the phone I remember plugging in my 2 gmail accounts and then days later noticing that some email was better formatted. Then i realized that the notification dropdown actually takes me to 2 different applications.
Why would it be set up so that I am managing the same email account through 2 different application? The gmail application does a better job of formatting the email so can I turn off the email application. Its a shame that the email application is stuck on the bottom of my home screen.
Also is there a way I can prevent deleted email from sounding an audible alert and placing itself in the notifications dropdown? For example I delete and email and then 30 minutes later when a sync occurs I get a notification that i have new email. Its new email to the trash bin.
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Its actually very easy to do this, First thing first, lets get that nasty e-mail icon off the bottom of your touchwiz. Check out the PMC (Pimp my Captivate) Guide in the General Section, for a better explanation (and i highly recommend you root, flash custom recovery, enable sideloading, and remove bloatware as per the guide), but essentially, open your applications drawer, hit menu, view type, custom, hit menu, hit arrange, then you can drag and drop out of the bottom row.
Next, open up that same e-mail client, hit menu -> account notifications -> uncheck email notifications .. done

I'm halfway done with your instructions. Thanks for the good info.

jamespaulritter said:
I'm halfway done with your instructions. Thanks for the good info.
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No problem, hope you enjoy your new lease on touchWiz (since you can completely customize the bottom buttons now )

[Q] remove gmail 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

messed up my NC
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?

Facebook account in system settings.

So, not sure what I did, but my Facebook account has disappeared from my list of accounts on my phone. When I go to add a new account, the Motorola Facebook icon is already checked. If I select it, it says I can only have one Facebook account. So, it both does and doesn't think i have a Facebook account. The icon in the list from the Facebook app does nothing, which i think is normal behavior. I do not get profile pics from Facebook in my contacts, so it is not syncing.
Truth be told, this is only an annoyance. I do not want to reset to factory (I have way too many apps to reinstall, which would be more annoying than this problem). But, if anyone can think of how I could manually convince the system to let me re-add the account, any suggestions would be appreciated.
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hi, I have exactly the same problem, so I will aslo grateful for help in this matter

I had the same problem, and I did a trick with SQlite Editor
Install it then,
In SQLite Editor you select: Accounts Storage -> serviceaccounts.db -> accounts -> then you delete the line which have "Facebook" in the column "account_pretty_name"
After a reboot I was able to re-enter a Facebook account in the blur app.
And now it works perfectly

Mathieu2k4 said:
I had the same problem, and I did a trick with SQlite Editor
Install it then,
In SQLite Editor you select: Accounts Storage -> serviceaccounts.db -> accounts -> then you delete the line which have "Facebook" in the column "account_pretty_name"
After a reboot I was able to re-enter a Facebook account in the blur app.
And now it works perfectly
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That did it. Much appreciated.
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Mathieu2k4 said:
I had the same problem, and I did a trick with SQlite Editor
Install it then,
In SQLite Editor you select: Accounts Storage -> serviceaccounts.db -> accounts -> then you delete the line which have "Facebook" in the column "account_pretty_name"
After a reboot I was able to re-enter a Facebook account in the blur app.
And now it works perfectly
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This is an older thread, but I'm having the same problem on my new RAZR MAXX (Verizon, unrooted, stock 2.3.6). I have 2 facebook icons under "My Accounts", one that allows me to put my log in info in and nothing else, the second that does nothing when I click it. I am not able to get my calendar or my contacts to sync with facebook and I'm at a loss.
What I've tried so far:
Rebooting
Deleting the FB account info and re-entering it within the My Accounts settings.
Uninstalling FB app (the unresponsive FB icon goes away in My Accounts), reinstalling and rebooting.
When that didn't work I ended up calling the new Google help and the person I talked too ran me through the steps I had already taken and suggested I contact FB as it appears that the issue is with the app. I am pulling the app straight from Google Play, but it would make sense as that is the culprit since it's not syncing with Calender or Contacts.