need help with Gmail
 

So the other day I hear Google Gmail had " some " accounts hacked. So to be safe I decided to change my password. No problem my Gmail account works fine on my laptop computer. But now I can't get it to work on my phone. Gmail sent/sends me a text each time I try to log on with my phone with an activation code. So I put in my password, then the activation code but it says I'm still locked out. Before I try to contact Google just wondering if anyone has run into this situation ?

The only way I could make this work was to
delete gmail account from the phone and then
add it back to the phone with new password.

What is the exact message?

There is a known problem with gmail and IMAP.

Been going on for a couple of years now.

Deleting / recreating the account works in most instances.

I get a message stating my log in or password are incorrect but those work fine on the computer. How do you remove the gmail from the phone ? I looked in gmail and in apps and didn't see a clear path for removal.

Go to Settings. Scroll down to Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Click on it. Your accounts will be listed. Go to your Gmail account and click on it. At the bottom of the screen you will see in red "Delete Account." Click on it.

Hmmmm I go to settings and it opens up a bunch of items but none of them say " mail , contacts , calendars " . It shouldn't matter but my phone is a LG Optimus Pro.

All fixed I just needed to go to someone younger than me :D On my phone just needed to hold/drag the email Icon to the trash bin symbol then an option to delete popped up. It turns out I had two Gmail accounts on the phone both theoretically the same. Deleted the one and the other works fine. Thanks to all that chimed in. SmileWavy