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Topic: Android phone (for authenticator) (Read 636 times)

legendary
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April 24, 2013, 08:41:02 PM
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Or do these need to be reinstalled on the new phone?

Reinstalled.   Which means going to each site then disabling OTP (which requires the OTP from the old device) and enabling 2FA using the new device.

Some people store the secret for each OTP service in something like LastPass or in a document protected with GPG encyryption, for instance.  That way if the device is lost or reset to factory (e.g. before it gets sold) a new device can be prepped without having to go into each site to disable then re-enable the OTP.
full member
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April 24, 2013, 08:29:06 PM
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Hi
I have an android mobile phone (Samsung).
I recently started using google authenticator on it to secure my BTC accounts.
I d like to change my phone now.
Can my current phone's entire content (all softwares like google authenticator, barcode scanners including scanned details) be transfered to a new phone with some backup software? Or do these need to be reinstalled on the new phone?
Any help would be appreciated
Regards
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