Cannot set up hotmail account "setup could not finish, error in login, invalid credentials"

Two weeks ago I started getting messages to log back into one of my hotmail accounts that I had set up on my droid charge at the 'email icon'( I had 3 hotmail accounts and 1 gmail account setup there)
once I logged the password back in it worked again, but it began requesting that I log back into the account more and more frequently
Customer service recommended that I remove the account and then set it up again, I did this and it would not allow me to set it up again-"setup could not finish, error in login, invalid credentials"
I tried removing all acounts and then setting them up again, still could not set up the one hotmail account (same message)
Verizon store decided that I needed to 'wipe' my phone completely, after they wiped it two of my hotmail accounts refused to be set up (same error message)
I tried changing the passwords going to the accounts online on my computer (I can access all the accounts online)
Customer service stated that it must be the phone and sent me a refurbished phone, the refurbished phone is doing the exact same thing with the exact same error message
Any ideas?

matthewclaxton wrote:
Two weeks ago I started getting messages to log back into one of my hotmail accounts that I had set up on my droid charge at the 'email icon'( I had 3 hotmail accounts and 1 gmail account setup there)
once I logged the password back in it worked again, but it began requesting that I log back into the account more and more frequently
Customer service recommended that I remove the account and then set it up again, I did this and it would not allow me to set it up again-"setup could not finish, error in login, invalid credentials"
I tried removing all acounts and then setting them up again, still could not set up the one hotmail account (same message)
Verizon store decided that I needed to 'wipe' my phone completely, after they wiped it two of my hotmail accounts refused to be set up (same error message)
I tried changing the passwords going to the accounts online on my computer (I can access all the accounts online)
Customer service stated that it must be the phone and sent me a refurbished phone, the refurbished phone is doing the exact same thing with the exact same error message
Any ideas?
When you setup the accounts, are you using the automatic or manual method to set them up?

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