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What worked for me was to try it again from an IP I had logged in with before. For some reason it causes Gmail to not ask for a phone number verification. Onc
by refurb 4y ago
What worked for me was to try it again from an IP I had logged in with before. For some reason it causes Gmail to not ask for a phone number verification.
Once logged in I could change the phone number.
Really stupid way to do it. No reason to lock someone out with the right password.
A better alternative would be to show partial digits of an old number and ask you to complete it.
- nicolas_t 4y agoYes, I solved it the same way (I no longer had access to my old phone number) and promptly setup google authenticator (well actually stored the totp string in 1password) and got backup codes. I'm lucky that I have a server in the US that I regularly use as a VPN so I could try again from a known ip.
- refurb 4y agoIn my case, it wasn't from the exact same IP, but rather the same city. Apparently google uses IP location as a risk-factor as well.