Hi,
I want to change the password on my Google/Gmail account – that’s easy enough online, but where are the account details held on my Hero? Is it possible to trip the Google account set up screens again? Surely a factory reset is not required!
Thanks
There's a decent discussion about this topic
HERE.
Basically, there are two options.
1. One guy says to do this (which worked for me):
- Go to Menu->Settings->Applications->Manage Applications
- Click on GMail in the list and, if needed, "Force Stop" then "Clear data"
- Click on Google Apps in the list and, if needed, "Force Stop" it, but DO NOT clear data
- Click on "Clear Data" on GMail Storage
- Exit back to the phone's Home and open the GMail app
- Re-enter your Google account info
- If you don't see a notification that Google login has failed after a few minutes, turn the phone off and on to force a login attempt...that's what I needed to do to get the failed Google login notification (a triangle with an exclamation mark in it on the notification bar). Just click on the notification and it should prompt you to re-enter a Google password
2. Another guys says to do it more simply, like this (I didn't try this):
- Go to google.com/accounts on the phone browser
- Sign in
- "Change Password"
- Go back to the Home Screen on the phone
- Open the GMail app, clicked on Menu, then Refresh -- you will get a
sync error
- Wait for a notification to re-enter your password (a triangle with an exclamation point in the phone's notificaiton bar and/or something in the gmail screen)
- Enter the new password