Hi all. I've been looking to post for a while but haven't exactly found the right place to post. Since this is the "watercooler" of Android, I thought I'd post here.
Now, first and foremost, my experiences with Android have been positive. Although slow starting, Android is slowly coming into its own and I think people are starting to realise that. However, it hasn't been without its problems. I'm talking about Google Apps (for domains). This is such a grey area for the G1, surprisingly, and this is where most of my problems lie. I'll start with the experiences I've had. 1. When first using the phone you are asked to sign into your Google Account. "Fine", I tell myself. I'll use my Google Apps account. This works, flawlessly. I'm ecstatic. I login and my contacts, calendar and email are synced. Straight away. Amazing. 2. Let's check out the Market. Hang on, my Google Account isn't supported. I've just logged in with my Google apps account and that's fine but the Market refuses. After a few tries I end up going to my computer and creating a Gmail account, specifically for the Market. Fine, this is just for apps. Consider it a security feature, protecting your apps. Brilliant, I'm buying and downloading apps to my hearts content. 5 flashlights, 4 soundboards, 3 weather apps, 2 social networking apps and 1 video player later and I'm happy. I've been Youtube for a while now and had an old youtube account. I was given the option to link the account with a Google account so I used my Google Apps address. Doesn't work. Interesting. I've kind of figured out by now that a Google apps account != Google account. So I go off, create an actual google account with my Google apps email address. That's fine. Created. Done. I have access to webmaster tools, analytics etc. I go back to Youtube and link the accounts. All done. My favourites can be access by logging in with my Google Apps email address. Huzzah. 3. Time to checkout Youtube on the phone. It's all fine. I'm browsing, I'm watching, I'm laughing. However, my favourites have disappeared. Hmm. Not sure what's happening here. I press My Account and I'm greeted with a login box again. "Some applications can't be access with your [email protected] account". I'm confused. I've created an actual Google account with my hosted email, no different than using a hotmail address, but it's not being accepted despite having the same credentials. Okay, just login again. Not accepted. Okay, I'll use my Youtube account. Not accepted. I get frustrated and exit the app. Suddenly, a notification appears. Apparently there is now a Sign-in/ Sync error. "Your password isn't valid". There is no username box, instead there is my Market email account. It's waiting for a password. At this point I'm really confused, I haven't tried anything with my Market account. I haven't changed the password, so why should it have changed? I enter the password, it disappears. I assume this is for my Youtube app. I re-enter the app and go to My Account. Once again, it asks for a login. Basically, I now can't use the account that I normally use to login to the web based youtube. All my favourites, subscriptions, friends are gone. I have to create a brand new account, which is highly annoying. I've now given up. Some parts of the phone sync (admittedly, the important parts). However, to this day, I'm still confused. Why does Android accept a Google Apps account for some function but not for others? Surely they all go through the same login procedure by now. I've actually though about dumping Google Apps jsut so I can have a fully integrated experience with my phone. Then again, I could just go and get an iPhone. I don't want to, I have faith in Android for the future, but at the moment it annoys the crap out of me. Is this likely to be resolved in future? Or do I have to accept the fact that Google account != Google apps account even though I have used my Google apps account to CREATE a Google account. I think this is more of a rant then a question but, to try and neatly round it all up, what's going on? Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
