If I install an app and create an account, and then uninstall the app, and so happen to reinstall it, the app remembers all my information. What about my phone, like a specific id, does the app remeber? And if possible how to change it or something to that effect. Sorry if you got lost.
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Hows does an app recognize my phone?
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Harry2
Extreme Android User
Your account remembers your apps.
I have three different Android phones. With the download at a new phone, no app remembers of settings of the other phones.
New phone = new app settings
Harry
VZWSupport
Lurker
The account that remembers your participation with any app is a reference to the Android App Market. Remember, you have to have a membership in order to download apps to your phone. Account settings can be managed through the Android Market admin. Select Help in the Android app and then Contact Us.
DionM_VZW
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Applications leave local data stored on your phone even when they're uninstalled. In addition to the Market remembering that you had that app, the app, when you reinstall, looks to see if it's local settings files are still there. In your case they are.
Go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications. Select that app from the list. Click "Clear data". That should make it forget everything it knows about you.
Go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications. Select that app from the list. Click "Clear data". That should make it forget everything it knows about you.
AndroidSPCS
Android Expert
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Depends on the app. Not all apps are identical.
Unless it's a VZW app that uses your VZW account your VZW account has nothing to do with your apps.
Try clearing data for the app as suggested above.