Help Help: Remove Yahoo! Mail email account

[Deleted User]

In the My Accounts app on the Droid X, I added a Yahoo! Mail email account to show someone as an example how easily it was to add a Yahoo! Mail account. Afterwards, I went to Remove account, but was met repeatedly with "Error Removing Account: An error has occurred. Please try again."

I want to get rid of this Yahoo! Mail account without having to bloody reset the whole device.

1.) Model Number: Droid X
2.) Firmware Version: 2.1-update 1
3.) Baseband Version: BC_C_01.09.04P
4.) Kernel Version: 2.6.29
5.) Build Number: VZW

 

[Deleted User]

Solved
I plugged the phone into my computer, and removed the Yahoo! folder and subfolders from the phone's SD card. I unmounted and unplugged the phone, and then went to the Accounts settings on the phone and tried the delete account, and voila, the account deleted as desired.

 

[dprk]

What if you don't have the Yahoo folder on the SD card but are receiving this error? It's really annoying that I can't delete this account!

 

[dprk]

SOLVED

What if you don't have the Yahoo folder on the SD card but are receiving this error? It's really annoying that I can't delete this account!

So since I could not manually delete the folder, I found a different way to remove the account.

Settings > Accounts > Yahoo! > then I unchecked all services (Contacts, Email). Once I did that a notification came up saying "All services have been removed, the account will be deleted".

Hope this helps.

 

[Martimus]

Moving thread to the Droid X Support forum...