Android Tablet Google Account 2-Step Verification Complications Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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so if anyone gets confused about this while they're setting up their Android
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tablet now as you guys know one of or all a couple of my Google accounts were
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recently hijacked and this is because I was not using two-step verification so
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two-step verification allows you whenever you're signing in from any new
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device into your Google account to have it prompt you by sending you an SMS code
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so you can actually see this SMS code if you want this isn't the right one but
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see so it'll send you a little text message that looks just like that so I'm
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setting up a few different tablets actually here you can just pan over there have a look at some of the tablets
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that I'm working on so I'm setting all of these up so that I can do some comparative testing which means I got to
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sign into my Google accounts took me about 15 minutes to get signed into the
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first one because here's what I did I entered my email address I entered my
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password I clicked sign in and I go oh Google account sign in failure and this
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is the the problem is the error it gives you the error it gives you is wrong your
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username and passwords do not match please try again okay so I entered it
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again I was like oh maybe I forget my password so I went over to the computer I tried signing in there oh it works so
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what's going on here so here's what you have to do if you're if you are signing
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up on a new tablet with your Google account is you go up into the top corner
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here go to browser signin and sign in using the browser so
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this one will work properly and then it'll send you your verification SMS and
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there will be no problem so there's a little Tech tip for you and now I'm
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going to get on with my tablet testing thanks for checking it out don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips from
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