why does Google Play not recognize my old phone?

demonikal

demonikal

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When I did a factory reset on my old HTC One V, after that I couldn't connect to the Google Play Store. Before I did the factory reset, I had no problems downloading new apps and updating new apps. Would that be because my mobile phone still thought it was associated with a carrier even after I already upgraded my phone with the carrier :confused:

I tried rooting the phone. Not sure if it's worth it, considering it's on a CDMA network and my carrier is now on the GSM netowrk (Cricket Wireless now owned by AT&T), but I'd like to still use the phone [since it's in great condition] for other things. However, I had problems rooting the phone. Maybe the stuff I'm supposed to download for the phone is out-dated and/or anything that would have been used to root the Android phone in the past can not be used to root it now because like Microsoft with Windows XP, the support is no longer there.

When I tried to connect to the Google Play Store, it asked for my Google account. So I typed in my default Gmail address and password and it kept telling me it was the wrong Google email address and/or password. I must have typed it in like 10 times copied directly out of LastPass, since I use the LastPass Firefox add-on for most of the passwords I can't remember that are longer than 12 characters. Does anyone know why this might be happening :confused: Is it possibly because I already have a mobile phone associated with that Gmail address :confused: However....I tried connecting to the Google Play Store using my second Gmail account and still no dice.

One more thing is that when I try to upload or download or whatever apps to my HTC One V from my computer via the Google Play Store (apps that I already had, but that were deleted from the phone when I did a factory reset), it keeps telling me that those apps are already installed on that particular phone. Wouldn't everything sync :confused:

I'd prefer to root my phone manually versus giving some app company my MEID number or whatever and having them give me a code to do it, not because of paying a few bucks, but because it's more fun doing it on my own. But if there's no other way to root my phone [now] than to use an app to do it, then I'll use an app.
 
On older phones after doing a factory reset you need to update the Google Play Services, which stupidly is a download from the play store (maybe you can find an APK update?).
 
I was trying to root the phone, but either the procedure is outdated, the procedure I found is outdated, or I don't know what.
 
It seems I followed all the steps on the first link. The only thing is that I never got a screen with a padlock asking me if I wanted to unlock the device. I just assumed that it was unlocked because then I proceeded to flash the ROM and it did that successfully.

But when I tried to sign into my Google Play account after rebooting, it gave me the same answer, that my username and/or password didn't match :mad: I typed it in several times, having them memorized even as random as my password is with no discernible meaning, and kept getting that same response.

I also looked up my HTC One V phone on Android Device Manager on Google Play to locate the device. It couldn't locate it and it said the last time it was able to locate it was March 5th, 2015, which makes sense because that was when I did the Factory Reset.

Now I'm kicking myself for having ever done that Factory Reset :mad: All I wanted to do was be able to actually uninstall most of the bloatware I positively knew would have no ill-effect on other programs, without simply "force stopping" and then "disabling" them one-by-one :(

The phone is CDMA, when Cricket Wireless was only CDMA network. But I don't see why that would make it not work, especially if it was working fine even after I had upgraded to my current phone on their GSM network and stopped using the HTC One V on their network and simply used it on our Home WiFi.

I would just take the easy-route and give a company my MEID number (or whatever it's called) to unlock the phone and pay a small fee, but I don't know if that will give them administrator privileges on my phone or not :confused:
 
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