Topic: Lost both seed and my google authenticator to my electrum wallet:( (Read 4167 times)

Quote from: Olewedel123 on June 19, 2015, 12:59:35 AM

I had the google authenticator on my phone, but me or my son by fault deleted the app on my phone and when I reinstalled the app it was not linked
to my wallet anymore... In hindsight, I should never have linked the authenticator to my wallet, but that is too late now.

but the google auth is bound to your account. use google, you can even print paper codes - if you got access to your google account.

edit: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en

What the shit do you mean? 2FA Google authenticator aren't google account OTPs

OP: how can you have $10k of Bitcoin without a backup of your TOTP base32 code / mnemonic seed etc? You say don't ask you how it happened: that's because you know what the answer is, nothing can be done

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When you really reinstalled 2fa on your phone and it shows your 2fa code for electrum then it should be impossible that its wrong when your phone has the correct time. Since the code it recreated should be the same.

Does the other 2FA or dont they work too?

And yes, back of secret key and backup of the backup. As well as backup of the password in keepass and backup of keepass. On top make a backup of electrum on different places. Next time...

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Do you have any backups of your phone from after you had the Google authenticator token loaded onto your phone? If so then you might be able to restore from a backup.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on June 19, 2015, 11:30:21 AM

Quote from: escrow.ms on June 19, 2015, 10:44:57 AM

No there's no backup option, that's why people use authy these days.

That's why, it is highly recommend to store the secret key safely. Authy is good but as it is backups to cloud, I don't like it much.

+1 IMO....

I believe that the upcoming "Android M" will be fairly aggressive (for better or worse) in what it automatically backs up to the Google cloud, but as of today app data is not backed up by default.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on June 19, 2015, 11:30:21 AM

Quote from: escrow.ms on June 19, 2015, 10:44:57 AM

Quote from: Olewedel123 on June 19, 2015, 12:59:35 AM

I had the google authenticator on my phone, but me or my son by fault deleted the app on my phone and when I reinstalled the app it was not linked
to my wallet anymore... In hindsight, I should never have linked the authenticator to my wallet, but that is too late now.

but the google auth is bound to your account. use google, you can even print paper codes - if you got access to your google account.

edit: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en

Paper codes only work for specific services, they will not work with Electrum / TrustedCoin 2fa.

If you've lost both your 2fa app (and have no backup of it) and your seed, you very likely out of luck, sorry... Cry

but shouldn't you be able to just download the 2fa app under your google account? always thought that would be the backup function...

No there's no backup option, that's why people use authy these days.

That's why, it is highly recommend to store the secret key safely. Authy is good but as it is backups to cloud, I don't like it much.

yeah, for other apps. my electrum is backupped in keepass2, no need for 2fa

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Quote from: escrow.ms on June 19, 2015, 10:44:57 AM

Quote from: Olewedel123 on June 19, 2015, 12:59:35 AM

I had the google authenticator on my phone, but me or my son by fault deleted the app on my phone and when I reinstalled the app it was not linked
to my wallet anymore... In hindsight, I should never have linked the authenticator to my wallet, but that is too late now.

but the google auth is bound to your account. use google, you can even print paper codes - if you got access to your google account.

edit: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en

Paper codes only work for specific services, they will not work with Electrum / TrustedCoin 2fa.

If you've lost both your 2fa app (and have no backup of it) and your seed, you very likely out of luck, sorry... Cry

but shouldn't you be able to just download the 2fa app under your google account? always thought that would be the backup function...

No there's no backup option, that's why people use authy these days.

That's why, it is highly recommend to store the secret key safely. Authy is good but as it backups to cloud, I don't like it much.

* Edited.

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Quote from: escrow.ms on June 19, 2015, 10:44:57 AM

Quote from: Olewedel123 on June 19, 2015, 12:59:35 AM

I had the google authenticator on my phone, but me or my son by fault deleted the app on my phone and when I reinstalled the app it was not linked
to my wallet anymore... In hindsight, I should never have linked the authenticator to my wallet, but that is too late now.

but the google auth is bound to your account. use google, you can even print paper codes - if you got access to your google account.

edit: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en

Paper codes only work for specific services, they will not work with Electrum / TrustedCoin 2fa.

If you've lost both your 2fa app (and have no backup of it) and your seed, you very likely out of luck, sorry... Cry

but shouldn't you be able to just download the 2fa app under your google account? always thought that would be the backup function...

No there's no backup option, that's why people use authy these days.

oh really? thanks for the heads up... moving to authy then

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Quote from: Olewedel123 on June 19, 2015, 12:59:35 AM

I had the google authenticator on my phone, but me or my son by fault deleted the app on my phone and when I reinstalled the app it was not linked
to my wallet anymore... In hindsight, I should never have linked the authenticator to my wallet, but that is too late now.

but the google auth is bound to your account. use google, you can even print paper codes - if you got access to your google account.

edit: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en

Paper codes only work for specific services, they will not work with Electrum / TrustedCoin 2fa.

If you've lost both your 2fa app (and have no backup of it) and your seed, you very likely out of luck, sorry... Cry

but shouldn't you be able to just download the 2fa app under your google account? always thought that would be the backup function...

No there's no backup option, that's why people use authy these days.

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Quote from: Olewedel123 on June 19, 2015, 12:59:35 AM

I had the google authenticator on my phone, but me or my son by fault deleted the app on my phone and when I reinstalled the app it was not linked
to my wallet anymore... In hindsight, I should never have linked the authenticator to my wallet, but that is too late now.

but the google auth is bound to your account. use google, you can even print paper codes - if you got access to your google account.

edit: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en

Paper codes only work for specific services, they will not work with Electrum / TrustedCoin 2fa.

If you've lost both your 2fa app (and have no backup of it) and your seed, you very likely out of luck, sorry... Cry

but shouldn't you be able to just download the 2fa app under your google account? always thought that would be the backup function...

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