Rev’s Thought Dump

Okay, I posted earlier about having issues logging into your gmail account on the iPhone or via Pidgin for google chat.  I started running into this problem again only on the iPhone and only when I was on edge/3G. Here’s how I got it working again.

Recently I got my phone replaced and synched with my computer.  For what ever reason the accounts that synched back were faulty.  So what I did was to delete each account from the phone and then recreate it.  But first, for each gmail account I went to this link: https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha and unlocked it.

You might recall in the previous post I had a link to a similar page on google’s site that could prompt with a captcha if locked.  But this takes you right there and get’s the job done.  Again, just search Google’s site for UnlockCaptcha.

After unlocking and recreating the accounts everything seems to be working perfectly again.  Go figure.