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Hadron said:

Possibly the "user profile" takes its name from the account, and removing the account does not remove the profile. That's my best guess.

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mikedt said:

No jokes or errors I think. And it does clear when the phone is fully factory reset, as it should. My S7 belonged to someone else before I had it, I factory reset it, set it to my Samsung and Google accounts, and it's only my account stuff that's on there now.

And my friend also deleted the S7 from his Google account online, and I definitely made sure there was no problem with FRP.

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Hadron said:

The name it shows for mine is the name I have in the "System > Multiple Users" settings for my primary user (a Samsung may have that setting in a different place). And if I change the name there the name in the Webview settings also changes (but nothing in my Google account does). I expect that even if I removed the Google account that name would persist.

But if you prefer to think it's a joke (albeit one I cannot see the humour in) then go ahead. I don't understand why you'd think this, but I don't think it really matters.

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Hadron said:

The name it shows for mine is the name I have in the "System > Multiple Users" settings for my primary user (a Samsung may have that setting in a different place). And if I change the name there the name in the Webview settings also changes (but nothing in my Google account does). I expect that it originally took the name when I set my Google account up, but since I can edit it independently of the Google account I also expect it would remain even if I removed the Google account from the phone.

But if you prefer to think it's a joke (albeit one I cannot see the humour in) then go ahead. I don't understand why you'd think this, but I don't think it really matters much.

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Hadron said:

The name it shows for mine is the name I have in the "System > Multiple Users" settings for my primary user (a Samsung may have that setting in a different place). And if I change the name there the name in the Webview settings also changes (but nothing in my Google account does). I expect that it originally took the name when I set my Google account up, but since I can edit it independently of the Google account I also expect it would remain even if I removed the Google account from the phone.

But if you prefer to think it's a joke (albeit one I cannot see the humour in) then go ahead. I don't understand why you'd think this, but I don't think it really matters much.

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Hadron said:

It's the settings for different users on the same phone. On my Pixel it is in Settings > System > Advanced > Multiple Users (i.e. open Settings, then select System, then select Advanced then Multiple Users). But you are using a Samsung, and Samsung rearrange the settings in their own way, so I cannot guarantee that the settings for different user profiles are in the same place or called the same thing on your phone.

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Hadron said:

A couple of threads I found over at XDA-developers suggest that Samsung hide this function on their phones. So although the phone OS supports it it is turned-off and you don't have any access to the settings (it can be activated if you root the device and edit the build.prop, but it's really not worth doing that just to change the name in one place in the settings).

So my guess is that the name is set in the user profile when you set up the account, as with other manufacturers. But because you don't have access to the user profile settings you cannot see that there is a user profile of that name, and cannot change the name or create additional users.

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