Fixing Android Market Website
Some devices are having problems showing up in the Android Market website, this is happening with rooted and non-rooted devices, updated and non updated ones.
If you only see a “There are no Android devices associated with this account.” follow these instructions.
Warning
Use these instructions at your own risk. I’m not responsible for any damage they might cause.
Also, only use these instructions on your own machines or get permissions before you do anything.
These instructions require physical access to the machine.
First the obvious, you need a Gmail account (not Google Apps) to use Market and this has to be your primary account.
If you do have this and it’s still not working, these steps will work for rooted devices, if you don’t have a rooted device, you must restore factory settings.
- Log out of web market
- Kill running Market on your device (Settings->Applications->Manage applications->All->Market->Force stop and Clear cache)
- Put your device to offline mode
- Remove /data/system/accounts.db and /data/data/com.android.vending/shared_prefs/vending_preferences.xml (to be safe, just move them to /sdcard/)
- To do this, the easiest way is to use adb, so run the following commands: adb remount; adb shell
- And in the shell: mv /data/system/accounts.db /sdcard/
- Then: mv /data/data/com.android.vending/shared_prefs/vending_preferences.xml /sdcard/
- And: reboot
- When your phone boots up, put it back to online and go to the Market, it will ask for you to sign in to your Google account (do this with a gmail account, not apps) and then to agree to the terms, do this and leave it in the “Loading…” screen and just wait
- After a few minutes go to the Android Market website and log in
- You should now see your device listed
- Let me know in the comments how it turned out
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