Robin forgot her pass word on the gmail account in her
Asus android tablet and now she cannot get in to her email.

She also has gmail on her mac but that was easy to fix
by going on to the gmail web site. The same approach did
not work on the tablet with the same new password did not
work on the tablet.

Any ideas on what could be wrong.

I use earthlink and have several computers with the same email pass word.

Since Linux is underneath android and I can access the command
line where in android is this password stored?
Send me private email if necessary.

I also notice that I do not have root privileges so apparently
the same pass word is used for that.

If I type sudo it does not give the option of entering
a password. In Ubuntu Linux it ask for a password and you put
in the log in password. So how do you get root privileges do do
programming?

Robin did not have to enter a password other than
for the gmail account when she first got it.

This site talks about it but does not solve the problem for me.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809


Paul Lamar

To get super user privileges on android requires you to "root" it.
Basically hack it. Google your exact unit and you can get instructions.
Beware, one mis-step and you can make it impossible to boot up. They call
it bricking, because after this its basically only good as a doorstop.

I plan to root mine shortly to install Linux. I will let you know how it
goes.

Kevin Alderman.

Oh great! Bricking you say. Even Asus cannot fix it?

What do you mean by exact unit? Is that the build unit number
under settings?

I called Asus in india and they said it was a goggle problem.
Hardware verses software finger pointing is back :)

So far I have not gotten in the google account as they are asking
things that only robin will know. She is elsewhere right at the moment.

More later as I go through this involved process.

As I understand it from the web site above the pass word is stored
someplace in plain text. Ypu would no happen to know where would you?
of course I might be denied access not being root :)

BTW Linux is in there is it not? Are using saying you are going
to install the Ubuntu 10.04 or some other gui? If so which one will
you install?

Paul Lamar