Thursday, 30 July 2015

If I don't have my Gmail username and password and Gmail isn't recognising my recovery email address how can I recover my Gmail details (at the least my Gmail username).

Is there a contact or a way I can get the people at Google to search for it by submitting my phone number given and / or DOB. The account recovery form keeps being mentioned but I can't find where I submit that from ?
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30/08/2012

nickowen said:

SOLUTION FOUND

To summarise the problem. Huwaei Ascend G300 Android phone - Forgotten pattern security code locked the phone and the original Gmail username and password were required to unlock it. No record of these details were kept and the recovery email address didnt work.

Solution. Attach the phone to a PC with a USB cable. The phone prompts to ask whether you want to use it in storage mode - click yes. You can then browse to some folders on the phone. Find the Android folder and drill down. Within there there will be many folders and working on the assumption apps have been downloaded on the phone (surely everyone will have on a new smartphone) you will find the gmail email address incorporated in to one of the folders names. Once we had the username / email address it was just a case of remembering the password...got that on about the tenth attempt...

If you can't remember the password don't reset it using the password recovery option on the web as the phone will need the original password to unlock it.

NB. Not sure on whether this will work on on other makes and models of phones but worth a go..

Phone now unlocked, email address noted for future and all is well in the household again...
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Prashant said:

 hi nickowen, until and unless you don't know about your user id you can't request your username. Have a look on this help article. http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185710&topic=1669055&ctx=topic
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icantchooseone said:

 click here select forgot username , enter your recovery address , a list of any usernames associated with that recovery email address will be sent to the address you provided. or ask a friend who you emailed from that address or locate your
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nickowen said:

 So to summarise, if you have forgotten your gmail username, password and gmail doesnt recognise your recovery email address given at the time gmail account creation you're stuffed.. I created this post on behalf of my wife who is having the
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icantchooseone said:

 why dont you ask a friend who you emailed from that address
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The C Man ((mobile laureate) elder advisor) said:

 Nick, If your wife never emailed you and you don't have her address in your contacts so you could email her or even chat to her you really do have a problem unless you are never apart. Did you fill in the account recovery form to test the
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nickowen said:

 A bit more info to fill the gaps.. She bought an Huwaei Ascend G300 Android phone and needed the Gmail account to set it up. Once the phone was set up she had no reason to use Gmail, she just used her existing hotmail account, got carried away
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nickowen said:

 oh, and just forgot to say, the phone is now locked up as she just changed her security pattern and has fogotten that too... the gmail details are now the only thing that will unlock the phone else it's a factory reset jobbie... This isn't
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The C Man ((mobile laureate) elder advisor) said:

 Luckily I have a wife who is more than computer savvy. If the account was set up by a shop assistant he/she may have written the details down on the sales receipt. Try ringing the phone as this may break the security and open it to receive the
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nickowen said:

 She set up the phone herself unfortunately and I've tried the calling it trick with no success... the factory reset is looming... she will learn by her mistakes I think...Hindsight and all that...
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phillyringy said:

 me three
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nickowen said:

SOLUTION FOUND

To summarise the problem. Huwaei Ascend G300 Android phone - Forgotten pattern security code locked the phone and the original Gmail username and password were required to unlock it. No record of these details were kept and the recovery email address didnt work.

Solution. Attach the phone to a PC with a USB cable. The phone prompts to ask whether you want to use it in storage mode - click yes. You can then browse to some folders on the phone. Find the Android folder and drill down. Within there there will be many folders and working on the assumption apps have been downloaded on the phone (surely everyone will have on a new smartphone) you will find the gmail email address incorporated in to one of the folders names. Once we had the username / email address it was just a case of remembering the password...got that on about the tenth attempt...

If you can't remember the password don't reset it using the password recovery option on the web as the phone will need the original password to unlock it.

NB. Not sure on whether this will work on on other makes and models of phones but worth a go..

Phone now unlocked, email address noted for future and all is well in the household again...
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The C Man ((mobile laureate) elder advisor) said:

 Nick, Absolutely brilliant and I'm passing this onto the Android team. If you would care to post it in the Android forum (there is another one) it would be appreciated. Marking this as a Best Answer and deservedly so. Thank you so much. Manny
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The C Man ((mobile laureate) elder advisor) said:

 The Android forum address is https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/mobile/android-devices
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ahoban said:

Hi
Surely the whole reason for them sending confirmation email to your associated email account when setting up a new account is so you have the "Verification Code", which they say may be needed in the future, so please keep safe.
Where can you put this verification code so as to gain details of account you just set up, i.e. username and password??
Andrea

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