Official Motorola method

Motorola Support - Remove and Replace Google Account

They recommend putting the phone is airplane mode first.

Change or reset your main Gmail account - Method One

If you have multiple e-mail accounts and decide you want a different account to be the 'main' account. That is, the one checked by the gmail app on the phone. You can change it by following these steps:

• tap Menu
• tap Settings
• tap Applications
• tap Manage Applications

and then clear data on the Google Apps entry in the applications list. This will delete the locked gmail account you set up the phone with.

Then open the messaging app (the one that came on the phone) and set up the gmail account you want associated with the phone.

Thanks for Method One

Thanks to dgrbovic of the Motorola Owners Forum for pointing this out to me in this thread.

Change or reset your main Gmail account - Method Two

This method also works:

1. Go into the gmail account and turn off in this order: AutoSync then Background sync

2. Go into manage applications and delete data for gmail, gmail storage, and Google Apps (you have to click on each one, and click clear data) - you should see the data line read 0.00B

3. Go back to accounts - you will still see Google with a lock, but clicking it causes it to disappear and starts the gmail wizard.

You can then enter the settings for the account you want to change to.

Tip Credit - Method Two

This tip is from the Motorola Owners Forums in the Cliq section as posted by user fletch33.

Potential Problems

The gmail account associated with the phone is the one used for market purchases. There is no way, right now, to change the e-mail address associated with your google market account. Make sure the main account for the phone is the one you want to use to purchase apps with. Changing to a gmail account associated with a different market account will cause you to lose the ability to DL your paid applications.

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