So, weird question. I went to rename some devices on my google play account because there has to be like 100+ of them on there that say unnamed device. I'm trying to get all my Note 3's on the account updated with what phone it is.
Is there a way to delete old devices from that list completely?
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Hi everybody,
just recently I've lost access to some parts and apps on Google Play Store. So it means I can't buy apps (whole paid apps section just vanished) and many many other apps I find lest say thru Drippler, show that they're unavailable in my country.
This Google account I use is probably one of the oldest (I made it when Gmail was invite only (so hipster, I know ) ).
All in all, this bugs me pretty much. Any way to "unlock" my market, or I need to mess with Gmail?
Was not sure were to post this, but thought I may ask if anyone has ever ran into getting a Google account disabled. I have several Gmail accounts only really use just 1 but the rest are for different devices over the years, or sites I do not want to give out my personal email etc.
But I thought I'd give my old LG G Pro some new life by flashing Blisspop CM rom. I decided since this device may be used as a remote for my TV box, throwing around, dash cam, etc I'd just have it its own Google account which I created on the phone. Downloaded some apps, and about 2 hours later pick up the phone and it says I need to sign back up, which did NOT work. So I tried on the computer which stated the account was disabled.
Anyone know what may cause this? Running Blisspop and creating the account with it? since its not stock android? something I may not know about? (downloaded Gapps from a reputable source)
I rely on some Google services heavily on my main account I do not want that comprised by the accounts getting linked.
Very secure password was used. But just found it strange.
Thanks!
I have a big problem I am hoping some other fellow flashing know how to deal with. I recently had to contact Google support because I had too many authorized devices in my Google Play Music. They did a 1 time courtesy removal of all devices. Not something I want to have to do again and being a 1 time courtesy I don't know that they will do it again....
As many of you may know you can only authorize 10 devices per account and only DE-authorize 4 per year...WTF?
The problem I have is I only actually have 3 devices but everytime I flash a ROM Google Play Music marks it as a new device. So my account had my Mac, 7 OnePlus Ones and 2 Oneplus3T's authorized.
I'm trying to figure out a way to avoid this problem again. After having them remove all devices just a few weeks ago I already have 4 new authorized devices. Not cool.
For a while I was using Titanium backup to restore app/data of JUST the Play Music app. I absolutely hate restoring system data so this is not ideal and depending on the ROM the restore often fails . So I created an update.zip that I can flash in recovery but then it often boots with Play Music still not installed.
How do you guys deal with this problem? It has become very aggravating and I pay $15.92 a month for our Google Play Music family subscription and I would really like to retain the ability to actually use it.
Any ideas?
GrandMasterB said:
I have a big problem I am hoping some other fellow flashing know how to deal with. I recently had to contact Google support because I had too many authorized devices in my Google Play Music. They did a 1 time courtesy removal of all devices. Not something I want to have to do again and being a 1 time courtesy I don't know that they will do it again....
As many of you may know you can only authorize 10 devices per account and only DE-authorize 4 per year...WTF?
The problem I have is I only actually have 3 devices but everytime I flash a ROM Google Play Music marks it as a new device. So my account had my Mac, 7 OnePlus Ones and 2 Oneplus3T's authorized.
I'm trying to figure out a way to avoid this problem again. After having them remove all devices just a few weeks ago I already have 4 new authorized devices. Not cool.
For a while I was using Titanium backup to restore app/data of JUST the Play Music app. I absolutely hate restoring system data so this is not ideal and depending on the ROM the restore often fails . So I created an update.zip that I can flash in recovery but then it often boots with Play Music still not installed.
How do you guys deal with this problem? It has become very aggravating and I pay $15.92 a month for our Google Play Music family subscription and I would really like to retain the ability to actually use it.
Any ideas?
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You go into Google play music and go to settings scroll down and click on manage devices. It will only manage your linked email.
cameljockey1 said:
You go into Google play music and go to settings scroll down and click on manage devices. It will only manage your linked email.
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Thank you for the reply.... but you lost me. I know how to deauthorize devices. The problem is Googles hard limit on only being able to deauthorize 4 per year.
I'm looking for a way to stop Google Play Music from thinking its a new device every time I flash a new ROM.
GrandMasterB said:
Thank you for the reply.... but you lost me. I know how to deauthorize devices. The problem is Googles hard limit on only being able to deauthorize 4 per year.
I'm looking for a way to stop Google Play Music from thinking its a new device every time I flash a new ROM.
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Well every time I flash a ROM I never restore the data of the music app. I haven't had your issue before. I just deauthorize when I get a new phone. Never had to do it for each ROM.
Restoring the app used to.solve this issue for me. But lately it always gets recognised as a new device
Anyone found a solution?
Like restoring device ID etc?
candiesdoodle said:
Restoring the app used to.solve this issue for me. But lately it always gets recognised as a new device
Anyone found a solution?
Like restoring device ID etc?
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As of Oreo, you can no longer change or restore the Android ID. See https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/changes-to-device-identifiers-in.html
Sent from my OnePlus3T using XDA Labs
BillGoss said:
As of Oreo, you can no longer change or restore the Android ID. See https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/changes-to-device-identifiers-in.html
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Wow this is helpful
So Android ID is different for each app. So how does play music app keep track of the device? Because even though the serial number is same, it still gets recognised as a new device? I tried keeping ro.buid.fingerprint same as well.
Could it be the GSF id?
A little backstory: As most of you probably know, you are/were able to run up to 4 instances of most apps on your phone. One download from Play Store, one from Galaxy Store, then repeat inside Secure Folder. Obviously with apps like Facebook, you could also use the Dual Messenger feature to run yet another instance.
I'm assuming the October update broke that feature, as I was prompted to update Pokemon Go today (I manage four accounts on one device) and it wouldn't let me update because it's already installed. At the time the issue store, I could access 3 instances that were already up-to-date (both Play Stores and one Galaxy Store). Thinking it was just a glitch, I uninstalled the working Galaxy Store version and tried to reinstall. Would not install, citing that it's already installed. So I uninstalled one Play Store download. Same thing.
In conclusion, I went from four working versions to three, and finally two (one from each store).
So my question is: has anyone else come across this issue AND does anyone have a workaround/solution?
My first thought would be to just downloads the updated APKs via a mirror, but I don't know the phone decides whether to overwrite or install a second instance (that is, how does it install the second instance and is there a way to force it to do that instead of overwriting?) I've also considered downgrading, but I'm on a Snapdragon phone and I /do/ want to stay as updated as I can.
I know it seems like such a minor thing, but it's pretty important to me to be able to manage my accounts on the fly without extra devices or constant logging in/out.
I am used to having my phone auto-install all the apps that I am using whenever I add my account on a new device. Of course it has to be the same account, but it has worked seamlessly for more than 10 years.
Today I got a shiny new S21 Ultra and added my Google account and unfortunately it is not auto-installing my apps.
Is there a button somewhere I can use to prompt it to start doing this or am I going to have to manually add each and every app back one by one from the play store?
Thank you!
It's Samsung trying to forces us to use there apps and ecosystem.
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I am used to having my phone auto-install all the apps that I am using whenever I add my account on a new device. Of course it has to be the same account, but it has worked seamlessly for more than 10 years.
Today I got a shiny new S21 Ultra and added my Google account and unfortunately it is not auto-installing my apps.
Is there a button somewhere I can use to prompt it to start doing this or am I going to have to manually add each and every app back one by one from the play store?
Thank you!
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If you made a backup of your last phone and included apps, you could restore it... If not, one by one...
I think I know what is different.
In the past, I used to remove my account from my old phone before I added it to my new phone.
This time since I keep the old phone, my account is still on it. I think Google is trying to be clever and not automatically transfering all my apps because the old device is still active.
You have to restore a device (device a to device b) for the restore to install the current apps. Nothing to do with signing into the phone, only does it on a restore of a backup. I have hundreds of "installed apps" across devices from current to destroyed. Thankfully google play store does not try to reinstall them, that would be a nightmare deleting them all.