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Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

124 points · 131 comments · keymasta

  1. ticulatedspline · · focus · HN ↗
    Isn't there an SMS option? buy a new phone and have them send you an OTP via SMS.

    > once you're phone is gone, you are completely over with society?

    yes, I'm waiting for the Black-Mirror episode where someone drops their phone and basically dies, can't contact anyone, can't unlock or start their car, can't get an uber, can't pay for anything, can't navigate without gps, can't log into anything etc.

    1. ryanhecht · · focus · HN ↗
      Something I learned the hard way: it's a bad time if you are a Google Fi customer and your Android phone with an eSim becomes inoperable while traveling :)
      1. washadjeffmad · · focus · HN ↗
        Went through the same last month. I had to both buy a new phone and still have my old one repaired to be able to authenticate to set up the new one.

        I was a CyanogenMod user before switching to Pixel, and that experience was a monumental shove towards moving to Graphene.

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