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RE: Broke my phone screen, can't access 2fa for some accounts like bittrex
I thought it would all transfer over onto new phone. Even made a back up of the app, but alas... all gone.
I thought it would all transfer over onto new phone. Even made a back up of the app, but alas... all gone.
This is bad news. All this while I too had thought that's how we do it: log in to our Google account on a new phone, download Google Authenticator, and we'd be up and running again. Apparently it doesn't work like that!
I'll bet many others aren't aware of the hassle they'd go through should they have any sort of issue with Google Authenticator. This post should have more visibility so as to ensure they'd know about this.
Now, once you sort all this out, use authenticator +. It allows encrypted backups to Google drive and drop box so you can easily restore if something goes wrong. You can import Google authenticator accounts too if you have rooted device.