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Phone not appearing in Android Device Manager

March 23, 2018April 11, 2018 Warped HeroLeave a comment

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So I had this problem. I’m posting this on the off-chance anyone searches for a solution and comes across this.

Symptoms:

  • My bloody Android device, a Pixel 2 phone to be precise, would not be recognised properly by my Google account.
  • It wouldn’t show up on Android Device Manager or ‘Find my device’
  • It wouldn’t show up as one of my devices on the Google Play Store, and couldn’t remote download apps
  • It couldn’t be remotely reset, or locked by ‘Find my device’
  • Clearing caches of Google Play apps wouldn’t have any effect.

I tried the following solution first:

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/51753/phone-not-appearing-in-android-device-manager

And I found a few others that involved a factory reset, which I was not about to do.

Want to know the solution that worked?

MFW my phone was listed as a device owned by a secondary Google account on my phone for whatever reason. I went to accounts settings and removed that MF second account from my phone, and then suddenly I could find my phone listed on my main account, on device manager and everything. I SPENT DAYS TRYING TO FIX IT. Before I did this, I had also cleared the data of Google Play Store and Google Play services, restarting my phone before removing the second account. As a precaution, you could also sign out of both your main and second account, and then only add your main account back.

Hope this helps.

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