Rev’s Thought Dump

I’m getting this occasionally.  Where I can’t log into my gmail in the mail client on the iphone or into google chat with pidgin.  Though, oddly enough I’m still perfectly capable of logging into my gmail account via the browser. I believe it most often occurs when I have something set incorrectly and it repeatedly tries the incorrect password for an account.

In this case I had just restored my iPhone backup to the new phone I got over the weekend ( had dust behind the screen so they gave me a new one). When it restores it doesn’t fill in your passwords for you and apprently this can result in several failed attempts to connect.  I don’t know why it didn’t prompt me for the correct password, even though my Exchange account at work popped up an invalid password notice.

Anywho, like I said I’ve had this happen a few times now and it’s always really annoying and I tend to forget how to clear the issue. But since, like I said, this just happened.  I’m going to go ahead and post the solution here. For you. And for myself.

Simply go to https://www.google.com/accounts and log into your account.  It should prompt you again to login but this time present you with a captcha.  Login one more time, filling in the captcha, and tada!  All done!

In a time of phising attacks and the like, I wouldn’t blame you for not wanting to just follow my link.  So here is the link to the Google knowledge base article.

And if that doesn’t make you feel secure, just google for “How do I unlock my Google Account”

Good, now let’s hope I remember to look here first next time.