Migrating LG G5 to G7 Thinq, but... forgot my Google password! The password was newly updated less than two weeks ago, along with a bunch of other passwords and for the life of me I can't remember it (well, only part of it).
Password recovery failed, I realised afterwards probably because I tried recovery while we were on the road (and guessing because I guessed the creation date wrong... who remembers that?!) I have 2step verification activated. No security questions get asked (only push/text messages to confirm codes). I have no recovery email activated anymore, used to be a work address but don't have that address anymore and I removed it without replacing it with a new one - stupid!
It has been many years since I last dabbed in any kind of programming, I am beyond out of touch, would very much appreciate the experienced users' advice.
Apart from recovery process I also attempted: searched in Chrome (on my phone) to hopefully find the password in the browser history, but realised (and saw) it won't be there as I always use Incognito mode in Chrome from my home PC.
The G5 is still logged in to Gmail app (new password) and Gmail browser (I suspect the previous password, which I remember). I am convinced that this information can be manipulated to either get my password back, or change it?
Okay whatever you do don't log out of your gmail or browser on the phone because I think this is your lifeline.
If as you say you are logged in on the browser then you will be able to get into your google account settings by clicking on the 9 square dots icon in the top right if you go to www.google.com. From there get into your account settings and set up new recovery email you can access, would be one suggestion from me.
Do some research on this so that your certain you know what your doing and won't make things worse. I think if you request a recovery password your current one won't work anymore and you'll be logged out of your gmail and google account. So make sure you set up the recovery email without any mistakes.
https://www.google.ie/search?client...ll+logged+in&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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As the title says I am currently unable to setup and sign into my gmail account. I just flashed the mr2 radio and GINGERTH3ORY V4.2X Tweaked/God Complex rom and when i try to set up my gmail account i keep getting the "your username and password do not match. please try again." Idk if this makes a different but i do have my gmail set up to do the google authenticate thing were everytime i use one of googles services for the first time i have to input a certain code.
This is unfortunately one of the reasons I stopped using google authentication. If your near a computer you can go into your account setting and click on the two step verification link and it should take you to a page where you can create a password for an application. Once you have the password from the site go back to your phone and put the password in as your google account password.
The only downside is every time you change roms and you have to put your password in for your account you have to get a new password from the site. I decided to just make a much stronger password for my google account and stop using two step verification.
I hope this helps!
This fixed it! thank you so much, and here i kept thinking i did something wrong. and just raped my battery life flashing different roms trying to fix the problem. I was starting to get really frustrated
No problem, I went through the same thing but I was away from a computer so I had to get on my wife's iPhone just to get me a login password.
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Lol, you guys didn't figure out how 2step verification works before signing up?
Yes, you need to use two-step verification to log in via a web browser (or the browser on the phone...lolz), and then create a unique password for each individual app that wants access to your goog account.
I used it for a while, but decided it was too much of a PITA. There's other options for strong passwords, like a coded wallet card thing that I saw a while back...
Yeah this: http://www.passwordcard.org/en
O yea its a PITA at times. I'm sure it would work fine if you keep your phone stock and never have to wipe data but when flashing roms and radios that require a full wipe it sucks having to go back in a get the password just to log in to your google account again.
For starters, this is a stock maxx device, had it since the release.
I go to Ashland University in Ashland Ohio and we use @ashland.edu gmail accounts. Our 'oh so wonderful' IT department has deemed that incoming freshmen are too stupid to remember multiple passwords for various logins across campus so they set up this "Active Directory" system in which you create a master password and its changes all passwords across all logins. So I changed my password today using the AD system...
..only to find it also affected my gmail. Now, I am unable to sync my emails to my phone through the gmail app. I cannot download anything in the marketplace, and I get an annoying popup about google talk failing to authenticate.
I've read that you should get a popup that allows you to change the password on your device via the market or the gmail app.. I've had neither. Unfortunately this is my primary account as well so I can't just delete it and re add it.
Does anyone have any work around so I don't have to wipe my phone? I'd really hate to lose everything that I can't backup via my SD card and all of my custom made widgets and what not. I figured it might have to do with the fact my gmail was an @ashland.edu instead of a @gmail.com
Thanks.
Hello,
I'm always skeptical of folks asking for methods to bypass a locked tablet's lockscreen, so let me state that this post won't be one of those.
My 4-yo. locked my TF201 today by entering the incorrect pattern several times, and when I tried to unlock the tablet by signing in with my Google account, the screen appears to turns off and it is rebooted. It only reboots when I enter the correct password. After searching transformerforums and here, I've concluded that this isn't the intended behaviour. Resetting to factory will be a nuisance but not really a big deal, but I would like to know if this problem has been encountered by anyone else and what I can do to avoid it next time.
The tablet is running Virutous Prime ROM with an unlocked bootloader.
The tablet is using a Google account that was created with an external email address (if this is not familiar, you can read about it by searching for "expand2web create-google-account-without-gmail"). I can log in to my Google account and external email account using a browser.
I didn't set the tablet to use the Google account when I first booted it; I set up the Google account about a week later.
The tablet doesn't synchronise anything with the Google account - contacts, calendar, etc.
The tablet is connected to my wireless network because it's been receiving emails while it is currently locked.
Does anyone have an idea what might be causing the problem? I suspect it's the Google account not being a "GMail" account, but I can't test that hypothesis.
I think that my Hotmail and/or S4 has been hacked. Last Monday I received word that a strange email was sent from my account with a link to skin care or something like that, so I changed my PW. On Friday, I received an email from Outlook that says my account has been compromised and I should change my PW, so I did, again. Sunday night, I'm told that another strange email was from my Hotmail account, so I change my PW again, 3rd time within a week. Each PW wasn't overly hard, but always contained both letters and numbers, so not super easy to crack I wouldn't think. So I started to try to track down the source, I removed email accounts from my phone on Monday (I have the stock email app set to check 2 accounts and have yet to have an issue with the second account). I also noticed in the Hotmail access log that my account was being accessed in 2 other states while all this was going on. So, all was going well and today I set up the email app with my Hotmail account info so I could check my email from my phone. Within 2 hours, my account was accessed from out of state again, but as far as I can tell nothing was sent.
I've read that its pretty simple to send out an email using an account that you don't have access too directly, just set up to use as a sent address, nothing shows up in my sent items so that would support this possibility. It's the account access log that has me worried, they still seem to be accessing my account. I've had AVG on my phone for quite some time now and that doesn't pick up anything, tonight I DL'd Lookout and that also came back as a clear scan.
My phone is still stock, would a factory reset fix the issue? I'd question whether or not a reset would get rid of the keylogger/spyware/malware or whatever is creating this problem. What about rooting and flashing a rom? What else could be causing the issue? I'm afraid that if I close the Hotmail account that there would still be something on my phone that's giving others access to my accounts.
Sorry for the book, T.I.A.
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I think that my Hotmail and/or S4 has been hacked. Last Monday I received word that a strange email was sent from my account with a link to skin care or something like that, so I changed my PW. On Friday, I received an email from Outlook that says my account has been compromised and I should change my PW, so I did, again. Sunday night, I'm told that another strange email was from my Hotmail account, so I change my PW again, 3rd time within a week. Each PW wasn't overly hard, but always contained both letters and numbers, so not super easy to crack I wouldn't think. So I started to try to track down the source, I removed email accounts from my phone on Monday (I have the stock email app set to check 2 accounts and have yet to have an issue with the second account). I also noticed in the Hotmail access log that my account was being accessed in 2 other states while all this was going on. So, all was going well and today I set up the email app with my Hotmail account info so I could check my email from my phone. Within 2 hours, my account was accessed from out of state again, but as far as I can tell nothing was sent.
I've read that its pretty simple to send out an email using an account that you don't have access too directly, just set up to use as a sent address, nothing shows up in my sent items so that would support this possibility. It's the account access log that has me worried, they still seem to be accessing my account. I've had AVG on my phone for quite some time now and that doesn't pick up anything, tonight I DL'd Lookout and that also came back as a clear scan.
My phone is still stock, would a factory reset fix the issue? I'd question whether or not a reset would get rid of the keylogger/spyware/malware or whatever is creating this problem. What about rooting and flashing a rom? What else could be causing the issue? I'm afraid that if I close the Hotmail account that there would still be something on my phone that's giving others access to my accounts.
Sorry for the book, T.I.A.
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I'm not familiar with Hotmail, but many email providers allow 2-factor authentication. I would definitely suggest using that if it is available to you.
Check the IP addresses on the accesses from other states - do they match your ISP? Sometimes ISPs give out addresses that show up as different states. If Hotmail doesn't show ISP, you can put the IPs into the search at http://bgp.he.net/ and it should show you the ISP.
It is indeed trivial to send email appearing to be 'from' any account without access/relation at all to the account. Unfortunately spammers often take advantage of that and there's not really anything you can do about it.
I did activate the 2 step authentication.
I did track the IP address and then Googled what came back from the search (Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless) and it appears that this is tied with VZ and the related towers. It just seems weird that at one point it says its being accessed in Minn and the next time in Colo but I'm in So Dak and haven't traveled far from home since all this started.
Regardless, last night another email was sent with my email being used as the sending address. I've decided to close my Hotmail account because of all the hassle. I'm still looking for some advise on whether or not I need to reset the phone or possibly root and flash my phone in order to get rid of anything that might be stored on my phone. Is it worth worrying about or should I just move on?
Noto_81 said:
I did activate the 2 step authentication.
I did track the IP address and then Googled what came back from the search (Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless) and it appears that this is tied with VZ and the related towers. It just seems weird that at one point it says its being accessed in Minn and the next time in Colo but I'm in So Dak and haven't traveled far from home since all this started.
Regardless, last night another email was sent with my email being used as the sending address. I've decided to close my Hotmail account because of all the hassle. I'm still looking for some advise on whether or not I need to reset the phone or possibly root and flash my phone in order to get rid of anything that might be stored on my phone. Is it worth worrying about or should I just move on?
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Can you PM me the full headers of the email that was sent? I should be able to see in them how it's being done -- whether through your actual account, hotmail's servers, or just forging your email as the 'from' address.
You'd have to get them from the person who received it... in gmail it's as simple as clicking the little arrow and then 'Show Original', but the method to show headers will vary by client/provider, should be easy to google though.
About the IPs, it's not unheard of to be assigned IPs from a state or two over. It's obviously not an ideal configuration, no idea why it happens, but it has happened to me several times in the past. But we can't say they were your phone unless you've been keeping track of what external IPs your phone has been getting...
It is a really good sign that they're not some weird server host in russia, etc... though.
It's very common for spammers to forge a sender's email address - they can easily send spam which is "from" you without having any access to your account whatsoever. Some of that spam will get bounced back to you based on the use of your address, not because it was actually sent from your account. The bounced spam should include the headers it was originally sent with, from which one can tell where it really originated.
Are you sure the "out of state" access isn't just legitimate access to the account from your phone? IP addresses are logical, not physical. The geoIP databases which try to map addresses to locations aren't perfect, and your cell carrier may in fact be associating your phone with an IP mapped to a different state.
My son has a Samsung S7. Several months back his Gmail account was closed and we have no idea how or why. I had 2-step verification turned on to my own phone, so if any changes were to be made, I should have got a text message about it. I don't know how long it was from the time it was closed to the time he told me about it. I had tried doing an account recovery but Google refused. I tried writing into Google, but they gave me a canned response about how to do an account recovery and never bothered responding any more after I had said I had tried that already, and written in many times over asking what was going on. All of his game accounts were connected to that email address, including Steam and others, which caused a lot of problems. Now we are facing an even bigger one. As I mentioned, he has a Samsung S7. It was also connected to this closed Gmail account and now we have no access to any of the settings or anything else with it. I tried to do a factory reset to try to clear this, but when it started it asked for the account again. This account does not exist, and it seems like it was closed by Google themselves. How do I fix this?
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My son has a Samsung S7. Several months back his Gmail account was closed and we have no idea how or why. I had 2-step verification turned on to my own phone, so if any changes were to be made, I should have got a text message about it. I don't know how long it was from the time it was closed to the time he told me about it. I had tried doing an account recovery but Google refused. I tried writing into Google, but they gave me a canned response about how to do an account recovery and never bothered responding any more after I had said I had tried that already, and written in many times over asking what was going on. All of his game accounts were connected to that email address, including Steam and others, which caused a lot of problems. Now we are facing an even bigger one. As I mentioned, he has a Samsung S7. It was also connected to this closed Gmail account and now we have no access to any of the settings or anything else with it. I tried to do a factory reset to try to clear this, but when it started it asked for the account again. This account does not exist, and it seems like it was closed by Google themselves. How do I fix this?
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try looking for S7 FRB bypass in
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7
or youtube
If the google account was closed I don't think there is any recovery
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