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Originally Posted by davidfor
Are you telling me that if you logged out of whatever account identifies you to the Android device, it wouldn't remove all the "stuff" from the device? I would have expected it to remove all the apps that had been bought for that account plus all the data associated with the account. If that doesn't happen, there is a big chance of data being leaked to someone if all that is left when a new use logs in.
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I'd say yes to that, I am sure I have messed with changing google accounts on my tablet & I have yet to see any apps , photos, videos etc. disappear, OK, some paid ones might refuse to run I guess, if not longer correctly signed in, but certainly they are not zapped.
The Kindle app will delete its bought-from-amazon books, yes, if you log out of that . I have not tested what it does with any sideloaded books. I think in Kindle for PC they stay as-is though
with apps, consider the scenario where parent buys phone or tablet for child, Parent then conencts to google play & buys. installs apps via parent's account.. Then parent reregisters with childs' google account ( that has no associated credit card or wallet), to prevent future accidental purchases. you would not want apps to get zapped by Google in that scenario
I can also confirm an instance whrere we cleaned up a Samsung smartphone in order to give it away to a friend. I did the factory reset thing , expecting that to wipe everything. It wiped the logon-to-google details but it left all the old address book entries still on the phone within the contacts tab! ( On the phone, not on the sim card! )