2.1 Update Caution for Family Share Users

I have 4 phones on my family share plan, 2 moto droid, one Eris, and one run of the mill phone. I have the primary number on my Moto Droid. The family share member with the Eris updated her phone with the software update this morning and to Our suprise a couple really bad things happened.

1st: All of her contacts were deleted.
2nd: And the Reason for me writting, is that "My" gmail  account configuration was added to her phone. Yes, Thats right! We were eating breakfast when she did the update, and she said wow...I have 212 Emails? Well, they were not hers, but mine.  We went down to Verizon after breakfast and they ended up having to reset her phone to factory defaults. Once the phone was tied to my email address, there was nothing that could be done other then that I guess.  It still had her email listed as a secondary address, but failed each time it would try to sync. My Email, and thus her access to my email could not be removed from the phone without resetting it. This was not a big deal for us, other then her loosing all her phone contacts and having to re-enter them, but the privacy issue could be a HUGE deal for some. Thought it worth sharing. I am not certain, but I believe the problem may be rooted to the fact that her primary gmail address that the phone was linked to was not an @gmail.com address. The phone is configured to a gmail address through google apps where for business reasons we linked it to a a separate domain. So rather then being jane.doe@gmail.com it is jane.doe@herbusines.com but all managed through google. But that is just a guess of course.

Thanks for the reply. We tried to get rid of the email via the delete route at first, but on actually trying to do so, it states that you can not without reseting the phone. I don't recall the exact message, but it wouldn't let you continue after you actually hit delete. The store stated the same when we took it in, if there was or is another way around it, I can not say.

For the contacts, Yes I suspect you are correct. Verizon offered to import the contracts from a different phone if we had one available, but we were not lucky enough to have one handy.