Gmail address

[narnar1969]

When I setup my TB about a year ago I used my work g-mail address, I no longer work there is there a way to change e-mail afddresses with doing a factory reset and losing all my contacts and other stuff I have on the phone. I do have to shutdown and remove my old work adress from my phone,
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

 

[blackmannx#AC]

You can backup your contacts and the like and move them to another Gmail address. check out the link below for the steps.


Exporting Gmail contacts - Gmail Help

let us know if you have questions.

Panda

 

[anon(394005)]

When I setup my TB about a year ago I used my work g-mail address, I no longer work there is there a way to change e-mail afddresses with doing a factory reset and losing all my contacts and other stuff I have on the phone. I do have to shutdown and remove my old work adress from my phone,
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Unless you're rooted (required to manipulate system files; based on a cursory Internet search), I don't believe you can change the main gmail account without doing a factory reset. Sucks Google doesn't provide an easy way to transfer to another account. You can add another secondary account while leaving the first and then just stop syncing the old one. But that's not ideal. For a true switch over, your best bet is to make note of installed apps (they're tied to the existing gmail account), back up your contacts and if needed browser bookmarks to the SD card (see below), do a factory reset and set up the phone with the appropriate gmail account, then restore things and download needed apps (that will then get associated to the new gmail account).

To export contacts to SD card; in the People app, hit menu, Import/Export, and choose Export to SD card. It creates a file called pcsc_pcsc_00001.vcf (it will increment a number if a file already exists) on the root of the SD card. To restore them, hit menu, Import/Export, and choose Import from SD card. I also use the app Bookmark Sort & Backup by happydroid to backup/restore my Internet bookmarks to the SD card (app creates a folder called "BookmarkSB" on the SD card). Once in the app, hit the "Menu" button and choose "Backup" or "Restore" as needed.

 

[z71kris]

Panda to the rescue ...:thumbup:

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