Friday, January 6, 2012

Gmail CAPTCHA Issues?

Have you ever tried to set up a gmail email address on android and once you are all done it won’t sync and it keeps giving you a CAPTCHA that will not accept anything to unlock it?  Well here is the solution (Thanks drlove89:)

  1. Go to this website (on a computer): https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha
  2. Enter your email address, password, and the shown CAPTCHA.
  3. Click Unlock.
That’s it. You may have to power cycle your phone to get it to work, but it clears that error.

For those of you that are wondering what a CAPTCHA is:

A CAPTCHA (/ˈkæptʃə/) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person.

Example:

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