How is this a SMART phone if to change my Gtalk email address I have to backup all my data and do a complete reset? Can you imagine having to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows to change your email address? How stupid would Microsoft look if you had to do that?

I've been using Ebuddy and Nimbuzz and a few others and decided to log on with Talk tonight, but it has my old email address. So I hit settings sure in my mind I can just edit the account details. Nope.

I switched from a Windows phone to an Android phone thinking "Android does", but in reality it feels like "Android does half-assed and only a little better than iPhone". Is that the case? My Windows phone didn't have this issue and that was on a Samsung SCH-i760. Know when that came out? 2007. A phone from almost 5 years ago could change email addresses with no issues, but my Thunderbolt can't.

 

And I know someone will mention rooting the phone, but let me remind all of you that you don't have root access to Windows phones and they cooperate. I was really on the fence with Android. Topped with it being slower overall, not being able to disable apps from pre-loading etc, is really annoying. Like Angry Birds. Using it launches 44 other applications. There's nothing on my Windows 7 rig that calls up 44 other applications and used 93% of my memory till my system comes to a halt. One game on my Thunderbolt does, though. I have to reboot the phone to get it back to normal. And the reboots aren't gone like they promised. Never had that happen with a Windows phone. Not one single time. I seriously hope IF we get the Gingerbread update it fixes all this crap.

 

Nope, that makes ZERO sense to me. How does having someone's email address mean you have their password? And how would that change anything if someone has physical possession of your phone?

How have Windows, Blackberry, and Apple avoided that problem?

 

Yes, I already tried the 2nd account option and it didn't work. Have you tried that?

 

Is it you don't know how to be helpful or are you being paid by Android to suck up to their product?

 

So what you're saying is Android assumes you will keep your email account for life, and if you happen to change it you'd be more than happy to do what would be equivalent to formatting and reinstalling Windows? Really? I've been getting too much spam and I changed my email address. It really shouldn't be as difficult as rooting or resetting the phone to change my email address. It has nothing to do with wanting to use a Windows phone. It has everything to do with wanting to use a phone that DOES like the commercials hyped it up as doing.

One of my friends switched from Blackberry to the TB and she's getting pissed at all the things it doesn't compared to her old Storm. She also tried changing her email address on the phone and had the same problem, so contrary to what one previous poster wrote, I don't think it's an "I/O" error. That'd be strange since we got our phones in different cities.

 

I have two email addresses for gmail on my phone. Had I known it would associate Gtalk with the first one and never let me change it, something that is nowhere in any of the manuals, I would have picked the newer email address.

Once you start Gtalk, no, you cannot switch it to your other account. You can't do it in any setting on or off Gtalk. But the funny thing is: every single app NOT developed by Google lets you do it by default. Which is another reason I don;t get why some of you seem to think it's a security issue. It makes no sense it would be a security issue since your email address has a password, and you can change your email on Android market if you want. So how would blocking it on the phone solve anything? If someone stole your phone you have bigger issues to worry about than them getting access to any apps you may have paid for.