If you want to delete the Google account from a Galaxy Tab Active either to sell your terminal, give it to a relative or friend, recycle it or if you have decided to switch to another Google account, you can do so by following the steps indicated below.
In the following sections, we will provide you with detailed, easy-to-follow instructions to perform this process safely and effectively. You'll learn how to unlink your Google account and how to make sure your personal data is protected during the process.
When delete the Google account from Galaxy Tab Active we deactivate the FRP (Factory Reset Protection) of the operating system Android 4.4.2 (KitKat), this is a protection that links the Samsung Galaxy Tab Active to a Google account so that when it is rebooted or blocked due to loss or theft, ask for the Google account username and password.
Table of Contents:
Estimated time: 5 minutes.
1- First step:
To delete the Google account go to the settings of your Samsung, it is the icon of the gear wheel, the settings icon should be on the home screen or in the phone menu, you can access the main menu by dragging your finger from the bottom to the top of the screen.
2- Second step:
Go down through the Galaxy Tab Active settings and look for the section called “Accounts” or “Accounts and backup”, click to access this section.
3- Third step:
Once inside “Accounts and backup” click on “Accounts” to continue unlinking the Google account on the Samsung Galaxy Tab Active.
4- Fourth step:
All accounts linked to this Samsung Galaxy Tab Active will appear, including in addition to Google accounts the rest of social media accounts such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, etc. Click on the account you want to unlink from this device.
5- Fifth step:
The data linked from this Google account (or the one you have selected) to the Samsung Galaxy Tab Active will appear. Press “Remove account” to continue.
6- Sixth step:
A confirmation message will appear to avoid removing an account from the Samsung Galaxy Tab Active by mistake, click on “Remove account” again to confirm. All data on this account will be deleted from the device.
After you delete the account, you may want to reset the Galaxy Tab Active to its factory state and thus eliminate all data from the Samsung, to do this from “Settings” click on “System”, then “Reset settings”, then “Factory data reset” and finally “Delete all”.
This is the method for unlink Google account from Samsung Galaxy Tab Active and erase all your data from the system settings.
Another more drastic method to erase the Google account in a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active would be doing a hard reset or factory reset, you can check the instructions from the following link. It is a drastic method because in addition to deleting the Google account it resets the Samsung to its factory state and has to re-optimize all applications which takes more time than a simple deletion of Google account.
About the device:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Active is a tablet with dimensions of 213.1 x 126.2 x 9.7 mm (8.39 x 4.97 x 0.38 in), a weight of 393 grams, , a screen size of 8.0 inches (~69.0% screen-to-body ratio) and a screen resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels (~189 ppi pixel density).
It has a processor Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7, a graphics card Adreno 305, a RAM memory 1.5 GB RAM and an internal memory of 16 GB.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active comes from the factory with the Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) operating system.
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