How to delete the Google account in Samsung Vibrant

How to delete the Google account in Samsung Vibrant

If you want to delete the Google account from a Vibrant 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 Vibrant we deactivate the FRP (Factory Reset Protection) of the operating system Android 2.1 (Eclair)| upgradable to 2.2 (Froyo), this is a protection that links the Samsung Vibrant 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.

Settings icon Android

2- Second step:

Go down through the Vibrant settings and look for the section called “Accounts” or “Accounts and backup”, click to access this section.

Settings accounts Samsung

3- Third step:

Once inside “Accounts and backup” click on “Accounts” to continue unlinking the Google account on the Samsung Vibrant.

Accounts Samsung

4- Fourth step:

All accounts linked to this Samsung Vibrant 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.

List accounts Samsung

5- Fifth step:

The data linked from this Google account (or the one you have selected) to the Samsung Vibrant will appear. Press “Remove account” to continue.

Remove account Samsung

6- Sixth step:

A confirmation message will appear to avoid removing an account from the Samsung Vibrant by mistake, click on “Remove account” again to confirm. All data on this account will be deleted from the device.

Confirm remove account Samsung

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After deleting Google account

After you delete the account, you may want to reset the Vibrant 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 Vibrant and erase all your data from the system settings.

Another more drastic method to erase the Google account in a Samsung Vibrant 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.

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About the device:

Samsung Vibrant is a mobile/cell phone with dimensions of 122.4 x 64.5 x 9.9 mm (4.82 x 2.54 x 0.39 in), a screen size of 4.0 inches (~57.7% screen-to-body ratio) and a screen resolution of 480 x 800 pixels (~233 ppi pixel density).

It has a processor 1.0 GHz Cortex-A8, a graphics card PowerVR SGX540, a RAM memory 512 MB RAM and an internal memory of 16 GB.

The Samsung Vibrant comes from the factory with the Android 2.1 (Eclair)| upgradable to 2.2 (Froyo) operating system.

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