Deleting GMail

[Guest herbz100]

Is there a way of deleting a GMail account without doing a factory reset?

Ive brought a second hand san francisco phone and it has the buyers gmail account. Its been rooted and want to keep some of the apps and games on there however they are on the SD card.

If i do a factory reset it will rid everything i guess?

Is there another way around this?

Thanks

[Guest Lew247]

Go on your computer change your gmail password

after doing that click gmail on your phone and it will ask for the new password, simply put the new username/password in

No idea if it will work or not but worth a try

[Guest wbaw]

try adding your own gmail account & then removing the old one

[Guest cacoe]

You won't be able to remove the other account, I tried a similar thing and android states that certain apps need that account, then advises to do a factory reset which deletes all those apps anyway.

[Guest herbz100]

would it delete them even if they are loaded on the SD card?

[Guest The Soup Thief]

Try this

(only possible if you're running cyanogenmod 7)

Go into titanium backup and Defrost Market Apps Installer

It will ask you to register your gmail account details

Give it your new account details

Bingo (probably - I haven't actually tried inputting another account as I only use the one, but this is the only time I've seen my phone asking for these again after initial install, so it looks like it will work)

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

The Market is tied to the Account for good reasons - this prevents people from running apps that they have not paid for.

It is mode difficult/impossible for that reason.

I would just factory reset (IN CLOCKWORK) not on the device.

[Guest vermat17]

Wouldn't the easiest way just be to back up all your apps with Titanium except market and g-mail, then do a wipe and restore all your apps?